Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit, distorted the descriptions of various Cabinet nominees after President Donald Trump named them “in an attempt to highlight damaging information,” according to the Media Research Center.

The changes were made to the entries of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, FBI Director Kash Patel and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought’s Wikipedia page was also impacted.

According to the MRC, changes made by Wikipedia were significant, including “manufacturing entirely new negative sections on the nominees’ pages, overhauling nominees’ “personal life” sections, changing the characterization of incidents described, and substantially increasing existing coverage of controversial material/events.”

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