We recently learnt that the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has meetings with the DHS as well. What really surprised me was when someone in a position to know mentio

We recently learnt that the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has meetings with the DHS as well. What really surprised me was when someone in a position to know mentioned in a related discussion on Wikipedia that "The WMF has also worked regarding disinformation regarding Indian and Iranian elections, and this work is not limited to the English Wikipedia (e.g. the main target of many disinformation actors relating to Iran is likely to be the Farsi Wikipedia) which is why they recruited people with knowledge of those languages." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#Meetings_about_misinformation_with_FBI,_CISA,_etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#M..... In related news, the Wikimedia Foundation recently banned about a quarter of all its Arabic Wikipedia admins for conflict-of-interest editing advancing the agendas of "external parties" (mostly related to the Saudi government, judging from a look at the accounts' contributions histories): https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/NJUOKYM2UTKFH53OKGIXW6OSEEDUI3AL/ https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@list...