Cruz pressures Wikipedia after slamming FCC chair

Cruz sent out the letter about 2 weeks after slamming Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr for threatening ABC with station license cancellations over political material on Jimmy Kimmel’s program. Cruz stated that utilizing the federal government to determine what the media can state “will end up bad for conservatives” since when Democrats are back in power, “they will silence us, they will use this power, and they will use it ruthlessly.” Cruz stated that Carr threatening ABC resembled “a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘Nice bar you have here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it.'”

Cruz, who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee, does not mind utilizing his authority to pressure Wikipedia’s operator. “The Standing Rules of the Senate grant the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation jurisdiction over communications, including online information platforms,” he composed to the Wikimedia Foundation. “As the Chairman of the Committee, I request that you provide written responses to the questions below, as well as requested documents, no later than October 17, 2025, and in accordance with the attached instructions.”

We asked Cruz’s workplace to describe why a senator pushing Wikipedia is proper while an FCC chair pushing ABC is not and will upgrade this short article if we get an action.

To name a few demands, Cruz requested for “documents sufficient to show what supervision, oversight, or influence, if any, the Wikimedia Foundation has over the editing community,” and “documents sufficient to show how the Wikimedia Foundation addresses political or ideological bias.”

Cruz has actually individually been introducing examinations into the Biden administration for supposed censorship. He provided a report supposedly “revealing how the Biden administration transformed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) into an agent of censorship pressuring Big Tech to police speech,” and arranged a hearing for Wednesday entitled, “Shut Your App: How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans.”

Cruz’s letter to Wikimedia looks for proof that might figure into his continuous examinations into the Biden administration. “Provide any and all documents and communications—including emails, texts, or other digital messages—between any officer, employee, or agent of the Wikimedia Foundation and any officer, employee, or agent of the federal government since January 1, 2020,” the letter stated.