For centuries, the Shroud of Turin has been a major controversy. Imprinted by the body of a crucified man, the linen cloth is believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. Others, however, claim it is a forgery from medieval times.

How is such a mystery solved?

Experts have long gone back and forth on the garment’s authenticity, but today, thanks to scientific advancements and artificial intelligence, many researchers now believe that the garment’s authenticity can no longer be denied. They’ve even discovered evidence showing the exact moment Jesus was resurrected.

In his latest podcast episode, Glenn Beck met with one of the leading experts on the Shroud of Turin — New Testament scholar, pastor, and president of Christian Thinkers Society Dr. Jeremiah J. Johnston.

In this groundbreaking episode, Dr. Johnston covers the scientific, historic, and theological background of the Shroud of Turin and presents the latest research that likely proves the authenticity of one of the world’s most precious yet controversial artifacts.

While the name “Shroud of Turin” wasn’t used until the mid-16th century, the Gospels, other historical records, art, and metal coins predating the nomenclature all corroborate the authenticity of the garment.

“We see the exact same image of the face of Jesus in coins that corresponds with the face of Jesus on the Shroud of Turin,” says Dr. Johnston, adding that the same can be said of the earliest Jesus icons, including the one from Sinai.

Further, the majority of pollen samples found on the shroud originated in Jerusalem, specifically the varieties that bloom in the springtime, when Passover takes place.

“There are pints and pints and pints of blood all over the shroud” from “50 abrasions on the forehead” where the crown of thorns was placed, “372 lacerations from a Roman whip,” and the “lance wound in the side.”

When researchers tested the blood and the chromosomes, they found that it was human blood from a male. The blood type was AB, which is significant because “less than 3% of the world’s population has type AB blood, and it is found primarily in the land of Israel.”

The blood from the lance wound in Jesus’ side was found to be “postmortem blood,” which lines up with the scriptural account of his death.

All of this research debunks the idea that the shroud was forged in medieval days, Dr. Johnston argues.

“If you’re going to fake the shroud, you’ve got to kill a guy, his blood needs to be postmortem blood, and then you need to slap that on the spear wound,” he tells Glenn.

As for the moment of resurrection, Dr. Johnston explains that the shroud is a negative, meaning that light and dark values are reversed.

According to the research, a flash of light created the image on the linen.

“It took 34,000 trillion watts of energy emanating from the body in a flash of 1/40th of a billionth of a second to produce that image, so in other words God took the first selfie,” says Dr. Johnston.

What we see when we look at the image imprinted on the linen is “the moment of Jesus’ physical bodily resurrection Sunday morning, April 5, AD 33.”

To hear more about the Shroud of Turin and why Dr. Johnston says it’s “the most lied about artifact from antiquity,” watch the episode above.

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President Donald Trump said that he has left instructions on how the U.S. would respond if he were to be assassinated by the Iranian regime.

Trump made the comments while speaking Tuesday at a White House media briefing when a reporter asked him about the possibility of Iran assassinating him or members of his team.

‘If they do it, they get obliterated. There won’t be anything left.’

“Well, they haven’t done that, and that would be a terrible thing for them to do, not because of me. If they did that, they would be obliterated,” he responded.

“That would be the end. I’ve left instructions,” he added.

Trump has been criticized for ordering the removal of security protection for previous members of his administration that no longer support him, including former national security adviser John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, former secretary of state.

“If they do it, they get obliterated. There won’t be anything left,” Trump continued.

“And they shouldn’t be able to do it. And Biden should have said that but he didn’t, I don’t know why. Lack of intelligence, perhaps. But he never said it,” he added. “If that happens to a leader, or close to a leader, frankly, if you had other people involved also, you would call for total obliteration of the state that did it, that would include Iran.”

Trump signed an executive order meant to put pressure on Iran and prevent the regime from acquiring nuclear weapons.

“So this is one that I’m torn about, everybody wants me to sign it, I’ll do that. But it’s very tough on Iran,” he explained.

“I’m signing this, and I’m unhappy to do it,” he continued. “But I really have not so much choice because we have to be strong and firm. I hope it’s not going to have to be used in a great measure, at all. It would be great if we could have a Middle East, maybe a world at total peace.”

He went on to say he wanted to have a good relationship with the Iranian regime but that it could not be allowed to have nuclear weapons.

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Democratic lawmakers in Albany, New York, appear to be scheming to undermine democracy by delaying a special election for the soon-to-be-vacant seat of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R).

The Democrat-controlled state Assembly and Senate met virtually on Friday to discuss a bill that would amend election laws, allowing New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) to keep Stefanik’s seat empty until June or later.

‘Expose[s] Democrats’ hypocrisy when it comes to “protecting democracy.”‘

The discussion was held under the guise of consolidating elections into a single day to save taxpayers time and money. Nevertheless, the proposed election changes would likely be used to delay appointing a new representative.

President Donald Trump nominated Stefanik to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations. She is expected to resign in the coming days, although her confirmation vote has not yet been scheduled.

A special election for the red district’s vacancy is likely to favor another Republican to replace Stefanik.

However, House Republicans currently hold a narrow 218-215 majority, and keeping the seat vacant for an extended period could present challenges in pushing through Trump’s agenda.

Current law requires Hochul to declare a special election within 10 days of Stefanik’s official resignation, and the election must be held 80 to 90 days after her resignation.

Democratic lawmakers could introduce the bill as early as Friday and hold a vote on Monday, sources told Gothamist.

Stefanik is expected to be the third Republican member of Congress to resign from her seat to take a position in Trump’s Cabinet. Special elections in Florida, scheduled for April, will replace the two lawmakers who resigned previously.

New York state Rep. Latrice Walker (D) stated, “We’re always looking for cost-effective measures by which to exact democracy.”

“And as a voting rights advocate, I’m always looking for fairness, justice, and equity,” she added.

If the bill is adopted, it remains unclear exactly how much additional time it will allow the governor to schedule a special election. However, one option being considered is combining special elections with regularly scheduled primary or general elections. If this option is enacted, Stefanik’s seat could remain vacant until late June.

A spokesperson for Hochul told Gothamist that the governor “believes it’s critical to increase voter turnout and reduce the cost of election administration and she would support legislation that achieves that goal.”

New York Rep. Nick Langworthy (R) told the New York Post, “This is corruption, the corruption of absolute power.”

Rep. Mike Lawler (R) called the bill “an outrageous abuse of power,” noting that it “expose[s] Democrats’ hypocrisy when it comes to ‘protecting democracy.'”

“Kathy Hochul should make clear this will not happen,” Lawler declared.

Stefanik did not respond to requests for comment from Gothamist or the Post.

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A photo of President Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s young daughter — who has Down syndrome — has gone viral. The mother of the adorable girl declared that Trump is the “most pro-life president in U.S. history.”

Duffy and his family recently visited the White House and met with President Trump before Duffy was sworn in as the United States secretary of transportation.

‘What an honor to visit the most pro-life president in US history.’

Duffy’s wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, shared a photo of her daughter Valentina with Trump at the White House on Monday.

Campos-Duffy — host of “Fox Noticias” and co-host of “FOX & Friends Weekend” — proclaimed that Trump is the “most pro-life president in history.”

The photo shows the 5-year-old girl in a blue dress and Trump with big smiles as they pose in front of the Resolute desk in the Oval Office.

“Valentina in the Oval Office before her daddy’s ceremonial swearing in,” Campos-Duffy wrote in an Instagram post. “What an honor to visit the most pro-life president in U.S. history.”

Campos-Duffy continued, “90% of children diagnosed with #DownSyndrome are aborted. Thank you President Trump for being so warm & loving with our little Valentina & for protecting all the baby humans in the womb.”

Pro-life advocate Anna Lulis wrote on social media, “Pro-life secretary of transportation’s baby with Down syndrome, Valentina, visits Trump in the Oval Office. 67–90% of babies with the condition are aborted in the U.S. This child, with an extra chromosome, is valuable and worthy of life.”

Evita Duffy-Alfonso — one of Duffy’s daughters and a conservative podcast host — shared a video of President Trump interacting with Valentina.

“The Trump the corporate press doesn’t want you to see,” Duffy-Alfonso captioned the video on social media.

The photo and video of the little girl with Down syndrome and President Trump went viral — racking up more than five million views just on the X social media platform alone.

Duffy and Campos-Duffy have been married for 26 years and have nine children together. Duffy and Campos-Duffy were both reality TV stars in the late 1990s and first met on the “Road Rules: All Stars” TV series in 1998. Duffy would become a district attorney, a U.S. representative for Wisconsin’s 7th congressional district, a Fox News host, and most recently the U.S. transportation secretary.

Duffy has not been granted a honeymoon period after becoming the newest U.S. secretary of transportation as a rash of air travel emergencies and disasters have unfolded in his first days on the job.

A day after Duffy was sworn into office, a Black Hawk military helicopter collided with a passenger jet, American Eagle Flight 5342. All 62 passengers and two crew members of the doomed plane as well as the three soldiers on the Black Hawk helicopter are presumed dead.

As Blaze News previously reported, a small medical plane crashed into a popular shopping center in Philadelphia on Friday.

A United Airlines plane caught on fire during a high-speed takeoff and was forced to abort the flight in Texas on Sunday.

Duffy was officially sworn in as the 20th secretary of the United States Department of Transportation on Jan. 28 by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Campos-Duffy revealed that Justice Thomas gave her husband “invaluable” advice: “Go to daily Mass and pray this prayer every day: ‘Lord, give me the wisdom to know what to do and the courage to do it.'”

Duffy said of his new endeavor, “I am deeply honored by the trust placed in me by President Trump to lead this important department and for the Senate in swiftly confirming my nomination. We are already hard at work executing the president’s vision to usher in a golden age of transportation by taking immediate action to remove government overreach and lower costs for hardworking Americans. The memorandum signed today specifically reduces the burdensome and overly restrictive fuel standards that have needlessly driven up the cost of a car in order to push a radical Green New Deal agenda. The American people should not be forced to sacrifice choice and affordability when purchasing a new car.”

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The Texas National Guard will be granted authority to arrest illegal immigrants, according to a report from Breitbart News.

The report cited a memorandum of understanding between the state of Texas and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Under the terms of the agreement, National Guard members can arrest illegal immigrants as long as the officers are in contact with immigration officials at all times.

‘Effective immediately. This boosts man power for border security.’

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) confirmed the Breitbart report on his official social media account.

“In an agreement I signed between Texas and Trump’s Customs and Border Protection, the Texas National Guard is granted the power of immigration officials to make immigration arrests,” wrote Abbott. “Effective immediately. This boosts man power for border security.”

The MOU said that the preliminary ratio of National Guard soldiers to immigration officials was four to one. The report said 3,000 Texas Army National Guard soldiers would be added to the coalition enforcing immigration law.

A spokesperson for the American Immigration Council told the Texas Tribune that the policy would likely face challenges in court.

“It’s written in a way to encompass a very broad set of immigration authorities, which means you could imagine the Texas National Guard trying itself not just to make immigration arrests or put people into immigration proceedings but to actually effectuate the full removal from the country,” said police director Nayna Gupta. “This is absolutely an unprecedented invocation of authority.”

Abbott was one of the governors who bused illegal aliens from his state to self-declared “sanctuary cities” like New York City. The effort forced many Democratic governors and mayors to reverse course on their opposition to deportation efforts by federal immigration officials.

More about the policy can be viewed on the news video report from Newsmax on YouTube.

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More time has passed since the plane crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that resulted in the tragic loss of 67 lives — but there are still more questions than answers.

“The more that we see, the more information that we get, it just leaves you scratching your head going, ‘What the hell is going on?’” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments.

In a video released of the collision, the Black Hawk helicopter flies through the clear skies and straight into the American Airlines flight.

“It just boggles the mind how this could happen on a clear night,” Gonzales says, noting that the helicopter “seemed to be barreling full speed ahead into the plane” and was flying “outside of its approved flight path.”

President Donald Trump also commented on the devastating crash, writing in a post on Truth Social that “The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high, by a lot.”

“It was far above the 200 foot limit. That’s not really too complicated to understand, is it???” He continued.

“I very much appreciate president Trump’s transparency here, because that is what the American people need, and he has been very transparent since the moment it happened in blasting this and saying ‘we have to get to the bottom of this,’” Gonzales comments.

“There’s human error, but half a mile on a clear night. I’m just saying, it’s not completely out of reach that some of the comments online are ‘Was this intentional?’” BlazeTV contributor Jaco Booyens chimes in.

“It doesn’t make any sense,” Eric July adds.

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The director of the popular “Terrifier” horror movie franchise released a statement defending the main actor of the movie after he posted some anti-Trump messages on social media.

David Thornton Howard, who portrays the serial killer Art the Clown, criticized supporters of President Donald Trump and faced some backlash online. Director Damien Leone then posted a long statement trying to stay out of the debate.

‘I’m all for freedom of speech and expression. … ‘Terrifier’ is NOT in any way shape or form a political franchise.’

“Hopefully I never have to bring up politics publicly ever again but this desperately needed to be said on behalf of the ‘Terrifier’ franchise,” he wrote on Monday.

“As most of you know, some of my cast and crew members have a very passionate political presence on social media with extreme and sometimes harsh opinions which is their right. I’m all for freedom of speech and expression. That being said, ‘Terrifier’ is NOT in any way shape or form a political franchise. I did not get into filmmaking to become a politician or promote any politcal [sic] agendas or ideologies, especially through a killer clown movie,” he continued.

Leone went on to say that he welcomed Democrats and Republicans to be a fan of his movies while rejecting “toxic rhetoric” in politics.

“Since ‘Terrifier 1,’ our cast and crew has and still consists of both republicans and democrats and anyone is welcome to be a part of it regardless of their political affiliations as long as they’re a decent human being,” he added.

Howard had said on his Threads account that Trump was going to push the U.S. into World War III and then criticized his ally Elon Musk.

“The same people that scream ‘They took our jerbs!’ have no problem with an unelected illegal immigrant Nazi oligarch taking their social security information and taking over the Treasury by force. Make it make sense,” he posted.

He also compared the situation in the U.S. to that of 1930s Germany.

The people behind the “Terrifier” movie series announced a fourth iteration in the series despite it being banned in some countries over graphic depictions of violence.

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On Saturday night, the Dallas Mavericks sent shockwaves through the basketball world when it traded its lead guard, 25-year-old Luka Dončić, for the Los Angeles Lakers’ 31-year-old Anthony Davis in a three-team deal.

While fans literally took to the streets in protest, sports news outlets tried to make sense of what is certainly one of the most scandalous trades in the history of the league.

Why would the Mavericks trade its generational talent who was anticipated to be the face of the team for the next decade? Why give up a five-time All-NBA Team superstar who helped lead the Mavs back to the NBA finals for the first time since 2011, was a triple-double threat every game, and led numerous statistical categories during the 2024 playoffs?

According to reports, Luka did not request a trade and was blindsided by the news.

Mavs General Manager Nico Harrison justified the move by saying “defense wins championships” and argued that acquiring Davis — “an All-NBA player who’s also a first-team All-Defensive player” — will help the team where it “[needs] it the most — on the defensive end.”

Some analysts say that the Mavericks had concerns about Dončić’s physical conditioning. Others speculate that the Mavs didn’t want to commit to the $345 million super max contract extension, which Dončić would have been eligible for this summer.

Jason Whitlock, however, has an answer that you won’t hear anywhere else.

“You cannot justify this from a basketball standpoint,” he says.

You can perhaps justify the trade from a business perspective, though.

Jason reads from a tweet thread posted by Texas lawyer Christopher Kratovil that offers the only logical explanation for the Dončić-Davis trade:

“It makes more sense than anything else,” says Jason.

To hear more of his commentary on Kratovil’s theory, watch the clip above.

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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey (D) unveiled her $62 billion fiscal year 2026 budget proposal, which contains numerous tax increases, including on candy and tobacco.

Healey’s proposed budget, introduced in January, amounts to a 7.4% increase in the state’s overall spending compared to the previous year.

‘Governor Healey’s priorities are clear: higher taxes and higher spending.’

A new tax on candy is expected to generate $25 million for the state.

Healey claimed that it “isn’t about a new tax,” arguing that “the purchase of candy does not align with our public health goals, especially for our youth.”

“What this is doing is simply saying, when you go to the grocery store, instead of having candy treated like a purchase of bread and eggs and milk, you know, essential groceries, that candy is now going to be treated in the same way as when you go to the bakery, the back of the grocery store, and pick up cupcakes for your kids,” the governor stated. “We think that makes sense.”

Healey is also seeking to raise tobacco taxes and expand them to include synthetic nicotine products such as Zyn pouches.

Additionally, Healey’s proposed budget includes a limit on charitable donation deductions: a cap of $10,000 for joint filers and $5,000 for individual filers. The state estimates that the new limits could generate another $164 million.

On Friday, Healey filed legislation allowing cities and towns to raise local taxes from 6% to 7% on hotel stays in “most communities” and .75% to 1% on meals. Municipalities could also implement a 5% surcharge on motor vehicle excise bills.

Healey claimed that her Municipal Empowerment Act would allow elected officials to “avoid raising property taxes” on Massachusetts residents “who are already struggling with the high cost of housing.”

“Importantly, the ideas in this bill come directly from engagement with local officials across the state. They asked for improved fiscal stability, operational efficiency, and flexibility,” the governor wrote.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (D) approved of Healey’s local tax increase options.

“Cities and towns depend on support from the commonwealth to diversify our revenues, build schools, and cut the red tape on buying goods and services from local businesses. Thank you to Gov. Healey and Lt. Gov. Driscoll for your ongoing partnership with the City of Boston and all our municipal governments,” Wu stated.

Paul Craney with the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance told Blaze News that Healey is “relying on new taxes to fund her dramatic increase in state spending.”

“Essentially, the governor has a slew of tax hikes that will act like Healey tariffs for the taxpayers,” Craney stated. “Among her targets are candy, charities, and local taxes.”

“Right before Valentine’s Day, Healey wants to impose a 6.25% sales tax on all candies, which will cost Massachusetts taxpayers $25 million dollars every year,” he continued. “The governor also wants to add a backdoor tax hike by capping deductions taxpayers can take when they give to Massachusetts charities. This backdoor tax hike will cost the taxpayers $164 million dollars a year. The governor’s appetite for higher taxes doesn’t stop there. She is also proposing allowing local towns and cities the ability to raise taxes on hotels and take-out food and a 5% increase on the annual vehicle tax.”

“Governor Healey’s priorities are clear: higher taxes and higher spending,” Craney declared.

Anything else?

On Monday, Healey torched a memo from President Donald Trump’s U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy that directed the agency to prioritize programs in communities that have marriage and birth rates that exceed the national average.

Healey stated, “I got to be honest, I’ve really tried here, but I do not see a connection.”

“We’re a state that’s very serious about ensuring that our residents and our businesses have access to the highest-quality public transit in the entire country,” she added.

“It’s concerning to governors around the country because people rely on transportation just like they rely on child care and infrastructure,” Healey continued. “I’m focused on fixing roads and bridges and building out the kind of transit system that we need, and we need a federal partner who’s rowing in that direction.”

According to 2022 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Massachusetts had a fertility rate of 48.7 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44. Only five states had a lower fertility rate. The national average was 54.4 births per 1,000 women.

From 2019 to 2022, Massachusetts had a marriage rate of 5.1 per 1,000 residents, matching New Jersey and Delaware. Only four other states reported lower marriage rates, while the national average was 6.2 marriages per 1,000 population.

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The Senate Intelligence Committee voted to advance Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to serve as director of national intelligence on Tuesday.

All nine Republicans on the committee voted to advance Gabbard’s nomination, while all eight Democrats voted against her. Although she eventually secured unanimous support from the GOP, some senators were holdouts following her heated confirmation hearings last week.

Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Todd Young of Indiana publicly committed to supporting Gabbard only in the 11th hour ahead of the committee vote.

Gabbard was not the only nominee to find her footing today.

“I appreciate Tulsi Gabbard’s engagement with me on a variety of issues to ensure that our intelligence professionals will be supported and policymakers will receive unbiased information under her leadership,” Young said in a Tuesday post on X. “I have done what the Framers envisioned for senators to do: use the consultative process to seek firm commitments, in this case commitments that will advance our national security, which is my top priority as a former Marine Corps intelligence officer.”

“Having now secured these commitments, I will support Tulsi’s nomination and look forward to working with her to protect our national security,” Young added.

Although Collins has acted as a roadblock to other nominees, most notably voting against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, she did endorse Gabbard on Monday ahead of the vote.

“After extensive consideration of her nomination, I will support Tulsi Gabbard to be the director of national intelligence,” said Collins in a statement. “As one of the principal authors of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 that established this coordinating position, I understand the critical role the DNI plays in the Intelligence Community. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, however, has become far larger than it was designed to be, and Ms. Gabbard shares my vision of returning the agency to its intended size.”

“In response to my questions during our discussion in my office and at the open hearing, as well as through her explanation at the closed hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Ms. Gabbard addressed my concerns regarding her views on Edward Snowden,” Collins added. “I look forward to working with Ms. Gabbard to strengthen our national security.”

Gabbard was not the only nominee to find her footing today. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, narrowly advanced through the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday morning in a 14-13 party-line vote.

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Wikipedia
maintains that articles on its site “should be based on reliable, published sources, making sure that all majority and significant minority views that have appeared in those sources are covered.”

A
new study by Media Research Center Free Speech America highlighted that Wikipedia has discounted right-leaning sources as reliable and prohibited their citation in articles, all but guaranteeing that the site is little more than a repository for liberal propaganda.

It’s no secret that Wikipedia’s volunteer editors are predominantly ideological myopes favorable to leftist causes, ideas, and personalities and antipathetic to conservatives of various stripes.

For instance, editors at Wikipedia, whose parent company
blew 29.2% of its 2023-2024 budget on race-obsessive DEI programs, tried to hide Vice President JD Vance’s military accomplishments in the lead-up to the 2024 election; strategically eliminated any mention of Kamala Harris’ appointment as border czar on the list of executive branch czars; advocated deleting the entry detailing the mass killings executed by communist regimes, citing an anti-communist bias; labeled Elon Musk’s temporary suspension of journalists who allegedly violated his platform’s terms of service as the “Thursday Night Massacre”; and gaslighted readers about the history, existence, and nature of cultural Marxism, characterizing the well-defined and well-chronicled offshoot of Marxism as a a “conspiracy theory.”

‘Even in cases where the source may be valid, it is usually better to find a more reliable source instead.’

A
2024 study published in Online Information Review found that Wikipedia — now run by the former chief operating officer for Planned Parenthood Federation of America and previously run by a censorious alumna of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader program who stated that “our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that is getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done” — suffers a “significant liberal bias in the choice of news media sources.”

The Dutch researchers noted further that “this effect persists when accounting for the factual reliability of the news media.”

Wikipedia, which now deals primarily in “propaganda” and exists only to “give an establishment point of view”
according to co-founder Larry Sanger, has apparently leaned harder into its bias.

The new MRC study noted that Wikipedia editors are permitted to cite a variety of leftist publications that have a reputation for pushing false narratives and fake news, including Jacobin, Mother Jones, NPR, and
Rolling Stone, but are precluded from citing publications not similarly staffed by liberal activists.

Citing the
Wikipedia page on reliable and perennial sources, the study highlighted that numerous reputable right-leaning publications have been blacklisted.

Wikipedia states, for instance, that Blaze News, the Daily Wire, the Daily Caller, the Epoch Times, Fox News, ZeroHedge, the Washington Free Beacon, the Federalist, RedState, the Media Research Center, and the Alexander Hamilton-founded New York Post “should normally not be used” as sources and “should never be used for information about a living person.”

“Even in cases where the source may be valid, it is usually better to find a more reliable source instead. If no such source exists, that may suggest that the information is inaccurate,” added the Wikipedia entry on reliable sources.

‘It is now only reliable for pushing a radical narrative.’

Whereas most right-leaning publications were flagged as “generally unreliable,” Breitbart News appears to have been among the few singled out for a formal blacklisting. Wikipedia alleged that the “site has published a number of falsehoods, conspiracy theories, and intentionally misleading stories as fact” and complained that the publication had revealed the identity of multiple Wikipedia editors.

The New York Times qualifies as reliable despite
falsely accusing President Donald Trump of lying about Democrats’ abortion ambitions; characterizing the suggestion that COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan lab that conducted dangerous experiments on coronaviruses as a “fringe” “conspiracy theory lack[ing] evidence”; printing false Hamas propaganda; pushing the Russian collusion narrative; and misleading readers on various other issues.

Rolling Stone, which has
paid out millions in the past for false and defamatory reporting, appears not to have learned its lesson, lying, for instance, in recent years about an imagined Florida book ban and smearing Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire. It was also characterized as “generally reliable.”

Politico similarly received a reliable rating despite — or perhaps as a result of — its willingness to help a cabal of former intelligence officials interfere with the 2020 election by mischaracterizing the New York Post’s reliable Hunter Biden laptop story as “Russian disinfo,” and to mislead Americans about the working relationship between former President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for the benefit of the former vice president’s campaign.

According to the MRC study, only 16% of left-wing media sources were unable to secure Wikipedia’s stamp of approval. Meanwhile, 100% of right-leaning sources were effectively blacklisted.

The MRC study noted further that the predicable result is that “conservatives, Republicans, and Trump appointees are smeared, maligned, and slandered by the most popular online source for information about people.”

Christopher Bedford, senior editor for politics and Washington correspondent for Blaze Media, noted, “You’ve got to remember, none of this — none of it — is based in fact. We were right about COVID, right about Biden, right about immigration, right about trans. We were right about virtually every major contested issue impacting this country for the past 10 years, while over and over again outlets from the New York Times to PolitiFact were embarrassingly wrong.”

“They can’t handle that, and so the ideologues ban us,” continued Bedford. “It’s pathetic, but it’s also dangerous, and every penny you give to support this project is a penny given against speech and truth.”

Dan Schneider, MRC vice president, noted, “There used to be a joke about how Wikipedia could not be relied on by historians and academics. Wikipedia has now become the joke.”

“Its radical editors and staff reveal their contempt for conservatives in almost everything they inject into descriptions,” continued Schneider. “It was never something people could rely on for accurate information. It is now only reliable for pushing a radical narrative.”

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