Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by Trump-appointed US attorney, accusing it of "allowing foreign actors to manipulate information": https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/25/wikipedia-nonprofit-ed-martin-letter/, https://archive.is/UNXVy, via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799302

Well, yes. Wikipedia editing is not limited to US-based Trump-loyalist propagandists. That's a good thing. This should be a warning, though, that Wikipedia's ownership and internet hosting being based in the US has become a liability rather than a strength.

See also _The Verge_, "Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia", https://www.theverge.com/news/656720/ed-martin-dc-attorney-wikipedia-nonprofit-threat, _The Guardian_, "Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him", from October 2023, _Le Monde_, "Why Elon Musk is calling for a boycott of Wikipedia", https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2025/01/29/why-elon-musk-is-calling-for-a-boycott-of-wikipedia_6737574_13.html, from January, and _The New Yorker_, "Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia: Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives", https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/elon-musk-also-has-a-problem-with-wikipedia, from March.