Who controls what you know? Ashley Rindsberg on the capture of Wikipedia and public knowledge

Ashley Rindsberg has uncovered how a small group of powerful online actors can twist the facts we trust, reshape public reality at global scale, and quietly influence what millions of people believe they know.Search engines, encyclopaedias, artificial intelligence models and social platforms now form the infrastructure of public knowledge. They shape what citizens believe, what institutions repeat, what journalists trust, and what political actors can smuggle into respectable discourse. The deepest battles of the internet age are fought through language, sourcing, rankings, edits and definitions. This is a full scale battle for your mind.In this conversation, Jonathan Sacerdoti speaks with Ashley Rindsberg about Wikipedia, propaganda, information warfare, and the collapsing distinction between knowledge and power. At stake is the machinery by which ideas acquire legitimacy.Donate to support these conversations.👁‍🗨 Watch if you want to understand how information warfare now operates through the institutions we trust most, and why the struggle over facts has become a struggle over political legitimacy, historical memory and civilisational confidence.💬 We Discuss:🧠 Why the internet has become the primary power centre for politics, culture, ideology and public belief📚 How Wikipedia’s claim to neutrality can become a vehicle for narrative control🌍 Why the battle over Israel, Palestinians and Jews on Wikipedia carries serious geopolitical consequences🕵️ How anonymous editors can influence material with profound political, economic and human significance🤖 Why artificial intelligence systems relying on Wikipedia may amplify contested narratives at scale🧾 How information laundering works when sources, citations and institutional trust reinforce one another⚖️ Why “neutral point of view” can fail when moral and political conflicts are embedded in the sources themselves🏛️ How trusted knowledge infrastructure affects journalism, education, policy and public memory🔥 Why modern propaganda often appears through respectable systems rather than crude slogans🧩 What this reveals about Western institutions, technological dependence and the fragility of shared reality🔔 Subscribe for more serious and unflinching conversations about information warfare, free speech, Israel, antisemitism, media power and the institutions shaping the West.📲 Follow JonathanOn XOn InstagramOn Substack👇 Comment below — who should be trusted to guard public knowledge when the platforms shaping reality are anonymous, ideological and structurally unaccountable?