ADL Says 91% of Banned Editors' Wikipedia Changes Remain Live After 2025 Crackdown
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Updated · Fox News · Oct 15
ADL Says 91% of Banned Editors' Wikipedia Changes Remain Live After 2025 Crackdown
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 15
Summary
A 2026 ADL report says Wikipedia still had 91% of a banned editor’s changes live across seven reviewed articles, more than a year after sanctions followed the group’s 2025 findings.
The ADL argues bans were not matched by systematic cleanup of past edits, leaving allegedly biased or antisemitic framing in high-traffic pages on Israel, Hamas, the Gaza war, Zionism and Jews.
One case study, Iskandar323, made 485 edits across six articles; the ADL says the account stripped or relocated material on Hamas and removed about 24,400 characters from the Gaza war page in November 2023.
The group says overt coordination among the original 30 editors fell after scrutiny, but a July 2026 review found 19 active accounts still reshaping Israel-Palestine coverage through subtler tactics, with 11 newly documented editors driving recent changes.
ADL warned the issue extends beyond Wikipedia because search engines and AI systems often rely on it, and urged Wikimedia, policymakers and AI developers to tighten oversight, verify editors and disclose Wikipedia-based sourcing.