Wikipedia permanently blocked co-founder Larry Sanger after he launched WikiProject Intellectual Diversity, an effort to restore what he called the site’s original commitment to neutrality. Sanger, who coined the name “Wikipedia,” drafted its original rules, and co-launched it with Jimmy Wales in 2001, was banned indefinitely within days of urging underrepresented groups—including Hindus and American conservatives—to become more involved. Sanger described the process as a “kangaroo court” run by a “mob or a blob,” with no formal charges, no designated prosecutor, and no real opportunity to defend himself. The ban was pushed primarily by an anonymous editor known as TarnishedPath, who had engineered a year-long freeze on Wikipedia’s “Zionism” article and campaigned to label J.K. Rowling as anti-trans. Sanger identified the site’s real power structure as a small circle of 62 administrator accounts belonging to leadership groups, 85% of whom operate anonymously. A June 2025 analysis by Profound found that Wikipedia accounts for nearly 48% of ChatGPT’s top citations, while Google AI Overviews and Perplexity draw heavily from the same source. A University of Stuttgart study published in 2025 found that major large language models consistently display mild to strong Left-leaning bias across politically sensitive topics.