Wikimedia bans admin of Wikipedia Croatia for pushing radical right agendas

The Wikimedia Foundation has banned the administrator of the Croatian version of Wikipedia after an investigation revealed that together with other admins, they edited and distorted content on the site with radical right views.

This group had de-facto control of the website between 2011 and 2020, the Wikimedia Foundation said in a report published earlier this month.

“It appears that this group consisted of real-life friends, ideological sympathisers, and political allies,” the organization said.

The Wikimedia Foundation said it found that this group “systematically produced and edited articles containing unencyclopaedic content and overt historical revisionism,” often using questionable online sources to portray fringe views as political or historical facts.

“Many articles created and edited by the members of this group present the views that match political and socio-cultural positions advocated by a loosely connected group of Croatian radical right political parties and ultra-conservative populist movements,” the organization said.

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