Ashley Rindsberg - How Wikipedia MANIPULATED the Truth During the Kyle Rittenhouse TRIAL

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Is Wikipedia a neutral encyclopedia—or a narrative machine that can tilt public opinion in real time? In this explosive conversation, journalist and author Ashley Rindsberg joins Andrew Gold to examine how Wikipedia’s coverage of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial was, in his view, shaped by activist editing, policy gamesmanship, and “consensus” built by a handful of determined users. If you’ve ever trusted a Google panel or a Wikipedia summary during a breaking court case, this interview will make you rethink everything.

Rindsberg lifts the lid on the platform’s hidden mechanics: talk-page pile-ons, rapid reverts, and strategic appeals to “reliable sources” and “undue weight” that can sideline inconvenient facts while elevating preferred narratives. He explains how contested details on biographies and event pages can be frozen behind bureaucratic walls, how source deprecation/whitelisting selects winners and losers in media, and why those decisions cascade into Google search results and AI training data—hard-coding a slant that outlives the news cycle.

What we dig into:

👉 How Wikipedia pages shifted during the trial, and why some edits stuck while others vanished.

👉 The role of noticeboards, admins, and “procedural” arguments in policing the storyline.

👉 Why attempts to rebalance articles get labelled OR/UNDUE, and how that shapes what the public sees first.

👉 The billion-dollar ecosystem of paid editing and PR laundering that orbits the platform.

👉 Practical tools to verify before you believe: read the Talk tab, compare diffs, check source lists, and triangulate beyond Wikipedia.

Andrew’s calm, forensic questioning keeps the focus on receipts, process, and accountability, not slogans. Whether you think Wikipedia is a vital public good in need of reform or a captured system in need of competition, Rindsberg’s analysis offers a rare, step-by-step map of how “the first draft of history” can be engineered—and how citizens can push back with transparency, documentation, and media literacy.

If you’ve ever relied on Wikipedia or Google, you need to see this.

Editorial note: This episode presents Ashley Rindsberg’s analysis and opinions for public-interest discussion.

Watch the full podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFrfxjb_Iw0&t=1949s

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