Ted Cruz doesn’t seem to understand Wikipedia, lawyer for Wikimedia says
date linked: 7 October 2025
source: link to article, from arstechnica.com
This is a good article; it would be easy to just roll eyes at Cruz, but this goes further in explaining how Wikipedia actually works.
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