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House to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias

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152 points xqcgrek2 | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 18:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.246s | source
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amanaplanacanal ◴[27 Aug 25 18:59 UTC] No.45043592[source]▶
I don't see the point. Even if there is organized bias, what can Congress legally do about it?
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bazzargh ◴[27 Aug 25 19:11 UTC] No.45043747[source]▶
Remove 501(c)3 status, apparently. Trump's repeatedly threatened this in other cases - the TNPA concluded he didn't have that power with executive orders, but congress did https://tnpa.org/nonprofits-under-fire-how-the-irs-can-and-c...

Not a lawyer tho, and it seems that even with a majority getting something like that through congress would be very difficult.

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hshdhdhj4444 ◴[27 Aug 25 19:14 UTC] No.45043788[source]▶
So bias is reason to remove 501c3 status?

Then should we remove the 501c3 status of every church, mosque, temple, etc in the U.S. because they are biased towards not just the existence of a god, but the existence of their particular version of god?

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1. slipperydippery ◴[27 Aug 25 22:48 UTC] No.45046277[source]▶
More relevantly, it’s an open secret that a lot of churches are heavily into political advocacy directly for candidates, which they’re not supposed to do under their tax status, but they’ve been playing with the boundaries unchecked and are now really obviously past where they’re supposed to be—but nobody’s got the guts to go after them, so they just keep getting bolder.