Overview

• Oversight Chair James Comer and Rep. Nancy Mace sent an Aug. 27 letter to Wikimedia CEO Maryana Iskander seeking internal records on alleged coordinated manipulation of Wikipedia content.
• They requested Arbitration Committee files and identifying details for disciplined accounts, including names, IP addresses, registration dates, and user activity logs.
• The inquiry cites reports from the Anti-Defamation League on coordinated anti-Israel editing and from the Atlantic Council on a Kremlin‑linked network pushing pro‑Russia narratives across Wikipedia.
• The committee framed the probe as examining foreign operations and activity tied to academic institutions, noting Wikipedia’s influence on search and on AI systems trained on its content.
• The Wikimedia Foundation said it is reviewing the request and welcomed the opportunity to respond to questions about safeguarding information integrity on the platform.