DOJ Threatens Wikipedia’s Nonprofit Status With Critical Letter
April 25, 2025, 7:20 pm
Interim DC Attorney Ed Martin has sent a pointed letter to the Wikimedia Foundation questioning whether Wikipedia’s operations align with nonprofit requirements. The move, which raises eyebrows on the regulatory front, challenges longstanding practices at the online encyclopedia, leaving it scrambling to defend its status amid ongoing digital scrutiny.
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Interim DC attorney Ed Martin has written a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation — the organization behind Wikipedia — that calls into question its status as a nonprofit entity. In the letter, which was obtained by The Free Press, Martin claims he found that Wikipedia “is engaging in a series...
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