Irans Wiki-Weaponized Info War, Twin-City Textbook Insurrection and other commentary

Web watch: Iran’s Wiki-Weaponized Info War“Iranian security forces have killed up to 20,000 protesters since December 2025,” notes Ashley Rindsberg at The Free Press, but “another battle is being fought in the digital realm” where “a yearslong, coordinated campaign to sanitize the Islamic Republic’s human rights record” isplaying out on Wikipedia.“Entries have been systematically edited to downgrade Iranian atrocities” and other outrages committed by the Islamic Republic.

And “the effects reverberate” big-time, as AI systems “draw from these compromised articles.” Thus “source reliability becomes another front in the battle,” with pro-regime Wiki insiders “making small edits over time that gradually erode entire sections.” This is what “authoritarian information warfare looks like in 2026,” as Iran kills protesters then “erases the evidence that they existed at all.”From the right: Twin-City Textbook Insurrection“All the evidence indicates that an insurrection is taking place in Minneapolis,” warns The Federalist’s Breccan F.Thies, and “this one has real violence, real obstruction of official proceedings, real consequences, and actual intent.” More, it “has actual institutional support” from major elected officials.

“Minneapolis always seems to be the powder keg pushing the brink of civil war” because “the left-wing protests, riots, and militant violence at work there are not organic”; rather, they’re promoted by local institutions of power that “give political and legal cover to their henchmen-acolytes.” The government must “investigate and punish insurrections” because the “other option is mob rule.”Protest beat: $ for ‘Extrademocratic Disruptions’The Democratic Party “is configured” to respond unreasonably “to everything President Trump does,” thanks largely to a “Byzantine network of activist nonprofits” created by “liberal foundations and progressive billionaires...