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MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs
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this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2025
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Yeah, they're after the Internet Archive too.
They were one example. As I said,
In my next paragraph I mentioned the international chapters of Wikimedia Foundation, they're another example.
Trump can't erase Wikipedia. He can disrupt the smooth functioning of Wikipedia, though, which is the thing I was pointing out is a bigger concern. That's not something that can be solved by randomly scattering yet more out-of-date database dumps in peoples' closets. That's something that the Wikimedia Foundation itself is best positioned to work on, they're best positioned to ensure there are fail-over options to keep en.wikipedia.org running in the event that the American government goes full authoritarian on them.