When Univision decided to rehire Daniel Coronell as president of Univision’s news division, we harshly criticized the move as the dog returning to its vomit. It appears that the dog has decided to vomit again. Per corporate parent TelevisaUnivision’s press release: TelevisaUnivision, the leading Spanish-language media and content company in the world, informs that, after more than 2 years heading Univision News, Daniel Coronell will step down as president of Univision News by mutual agreement on the 31st of the current month. The “mutual agreement” language betrays the rumored firing as reported across several outlets. Why now? Multiple sources report, among other reasons, that there were concerns that Univision’s news division was still strongly biased in favor of Democrats and against President Donald Trump. This should surprise no one. As I said after the network’s 2023 interview of the then-former President Trump: The interview happened because Televisa wanted it to happen, for reasons that are not yet clear to me. I have some friends who are furious over this interview while others are over the moon. I’m not ready to accept what I just saw at face value, and I am left with more questions than answers. But my gut tells me this is a one-time op and that Univision will continue to favor both the leftwing policy pupu platter and the Democrats that want to enact it. I remain suspicious. One thing to watch for going forward: will Trump (or Republicans in general) begin to garner different coverage on Univision, or is this a one-off for both Trump and Univision?  The interview turned out to be a one-off. Univision’s news coverage is not substantially different from what it was a few years ago. But with Jorge Ramos gone, the news coverage is far less strident in terms of tone.   Coronell, one of the co-architects of Univision’s descent into corporate immigration advocacy status, was originally fired when the merger with Mexican parent Televisa was complete. At the time, we thought that the network’s new arrangement, with Jorge Ramos made a direct-reporting Special Editorial Advisor to the CEO, would not hold. We wrote: Time will tell whether this is a gesture aimed at creating a soft landing for Ramos at, say, CNN; or whether he has actual power, in which case, the incoming head of news is constrained before fully putting his stamp on the division. Either way, this arrangement is not sustainable beyond the short term.  Spoiler: it didn’t. Ramos was famously let go at the end of last year, and now Coronell follows him out the door.  Replacing Coronell as President of News: his original successor, Leopoldo Gómez. We wish him all the best as he continues to enact much-needed reforms at Univision.  

During a White House press briefing on Thursday dominated by questions about either the economy or Venezuela, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt threw down with former conservative reporter-turned-liberal CNN host and chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins over the former topic with Collins insisting the state of the economy was not as strong as Leavitt made it seem and Leavitt hitting back the economy has improved from the Biden years. Collins started off by asking about President Trump’s comments from Tuesday night in which he was “telling parents two weeks before Christmas that they should only buy two or three dolls for their children.” Leavitt first addressed the need to make more products in America: “[I]f we want products made right here in America...which is a large part of the reason the President has effectively implemented tariffs, then we’re going to have better quality products...Maybe you’ll pay a dollar or two more, but you will get better quality, and you’ll be supporting your fellow Americans by buying American.” Former conservative reporter-turned-liberal hack Kaitlan Collins deserves to have her partisanship thrown back in her face. The end of this from @PressSec @KarolineLeavitt is exactly right. She didn't do this tough girl act in the last administration when Leavitt's predecessors… pic.twitter.com/T2fC8KjLcQ — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 11, 2025   Leavitt broadened out and directly took aim at Collins and her network: [W]ith respect to affordability, every economic metric, Kaitlan, and I wish you would report more on it does, in fact, show that the economy is getting better and brighter than where it was under the previous administration. I will repeat, inflation as measured by the overall CPI has slowed to an average 2.5 percent pace. Real wages are increasing roughly $1,200 for the average worker. Gas prices are down in almost every single state across the country. Again, in 22 states, it’s below 2.75. You look at the tax cuts, those are going to go into effect next year, so the best is yet to come. The President is digging our country out of the economic hole that the previous administration put us in and that’s what he’s talking about. Collins replied “inflation is about what it was a year ago, as you know, and grocery prices have been up” and “we’ve covered the economy,” but made sure to tell viewers it’s “mixed.” She also tried to nitpick on inflation, which Leavitt wasn’t having: This is down from what the President inherited. The President inherited 2.9 percent in January. Today, it’s at about 2.5 percent. So, we’re trending in the right direction with more to come. And I would remind you, when President Trump left office in his first term, inflation was 1.7 percent and the previous administration jacked it up to a record high nine percent. So again, in ten months, the President has clawed us out of this hole. He’s kept it low at 2.5 percent, and we believe that number is going to continue to decline, especially as energy and oil prices continue to decline as well. After hearing Collins claim “no one” was “arguing it wasn’t high under Biden,” Leavitt unloaded by invoking the economic denials from Biden White House Press Secretaries Jen Psaki and Karine Jean-Pierre that Collins and her fellow liberal lackeys “just took at [their] word.” This disconnect, Leavitt argued, has been purposeful to “push untrue narratives about the President” (click “expand”): LEAVITT: My predecessor was standing at this podium, but now you want to ask me a lot of questions about it, which I’m happy to answer. But I will just add, there’s a lot more scrutiny on this issue from this press corps than there was —  COLLINS: Because the President has said it’s non-existent. Non-existent. LEAVITT: — well, and the previous administration said that too. COLLINS: Right. LEAVITT: My predecessor, stood up at this podium and she said inflation doesn’t exist. She said the border was secure and people like you just took her at her word and those were two utter lies. COLLINS: That’s not true. LEAVITT: Everything I’m telling you is the truth, backed by real factual data. And you just don’t want to report on it because you want to push untrue narratives about the President. A few minutes before Collins, Real Clear Politics’s Philip Wegmann served as Thursday’s example of how it’s farce to argue conservative media writ large shows up to White House events with softballs: .@PhilipWegmann: “On these advanced Nvidia H200 chips, why is the President willing to allow China to have access to one of America's chief technological advantages?”@PressSec @KarolineLeavitt: “Look, I will tell you just a couple of things. The President put out his own… pic.twitter.com/9ClARv3Anr — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 11, 2025   Our friend Elizabeth Mitchell at the Daily Signal followed Wegmann and asked for the administration’s reaction to a how-to video from socialist New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani to illegal immigrants on resisting Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE): .@DailySignal’s @TheElizMitchell: “New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani put out a video recently telling immigrants in New York City they have the right to stand up to ICE. Are you concerned this will inspire New York City residents to resist ICE operations? And what will the… pic.twitter.com/Dv1oeVuxNb — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 11, 2025   As our Steve Malzberg noted, this hasn’t received any attention on the flagship network newscasts. Rewinding even further back in the briefing, Fox’s Peter Doocy pressed Leavitt on Wednesday’s seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker: DOOCY TIME: “Based on the way that things stand right now, is Operation Southern Spear about drugs or is it about oil?”@PressSec @KarolineLeavitt: “What I will tell you, Peter, is that the Trump administration is focused on doing many things in the Western Hemisphere. The… pic.twitter.com/gFTyNzyqdj — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 11, 2025   He also asked whether the seized oil will be injected into the U.S. marketplace and then whether the administration’s build-up off the Venezuelan coast has put in jeopardy the President’s chances at the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize (click “expand”): DOOCY: And because you said the President is trying to do a lot of things at once, he talks a lot about how he thinks the way to bring down prices for everything would be to bring down the cost of energy. Would he use this seized Venezuelan oil to try to help Americans with affordability here in the United States? LEAVITT: Well, what I can tell you right now, the vessel has been seized, as you know, and the Department of Justice is did that in conjunction with the Coast Guard and the Department of War. The vessel is currently undergoing a forfeiture process. Right now, the United States currently has a full investigative team on the ground, on the vessel, and individuals on board the vessel are being interviewed, and any relevant evidence is being seized. With respect to the oil, that’s a different issue. As you know, Peter, the vessel will go to a U.S. port, and the United States does intend to seize the oil. However, there is a legal process for the seizure of that oil, and that legal process will be followed. DOOCY: And my last one on this, if President Trump launches a bigger military campaign in the Caribbean, is he jeopardizing a possible Nobel Peace Prize? LEAVITT: Look, the President has proven over the past year that he is more than worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize. I think he’s been nominated for it nearly 100 times this past year, which is definitely a record. He’s solved, I think, nine conflicts around the world we are up to now. He’s actively working on Russia/Ukraine war, which is the big one as we speak and has been over the past year. With respect to any additional action in Venezuela. I’m not going to get ahead of the President or the United States military. Staying on the topic of Venezuela, the great Kellie Meyer of NewsNation closed the Q&A by asking about whether the administration views their actions Wednesday as a closer move toward war (see below) and then if they’ve considered how a full-scale war would be seen by the President’s base: .@NewsNation’s @KellieMeyerNews: “Two quick ones on Venezuela. Does the President consider the seizure of the oil tanker an escalation or a step towards war with Venezuela?@PressSec @KarolineLeavitt: “I think the President considers the seizure of the oil tanker as effectuating… pic.twitter.com/GJMP0KIPcw — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 11, 2025 Last but not least, the new media seat went to our friends at Real America’s Voice and host Eric Bolling, who asked about affordability (see below) as well as the fact that blue states have been handing out Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDL) even if applicants can’t understand English: .@RealAmVoice’s @EricBolling was today’s “new media seat” recipient at the White House press briefing.... Bolling: “As you point out, affordability crisis, it strikes me energy prices have been coming down aggressively since President Trump’s second term, approaching $55 a… pic.twitter.com/hdUfrbbnAN — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 11, 2025 To see the relevant transcript from the December 11 briefing, click here.

ABC News program The View was channeling Venezuela’s communist Maduro regime during Thursday’s show when a majority of the cast engaged in their usual anti-Trump screeching; this time triggered by the U.S. legally seizing a sanctioned oil tanker. Despite the ship’s sanction being issued by the Biden administration and the fact that the Coast Guard had a warrant, they were eager to accuse President Trump of “piracy,” and claimed all Americans were complicit. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg seeming ignorant of the sanctions on the ship and nor was she concerned about its shady history. Instead, she was busy suggesting the seizure was just a distraction. “I mean, okay, he seized a tanker. What is it really? What is it really? Is this more let's not talk about Epstein?” she declared. She also cooked up a crazy scenario where China was supposedly going to retaliate against the U.S. Of course, she skimped on the details of what she meant: The Chinese get their oil from Venezuela. So, what happens if they get on their -- the side of the Venezuelans and say, this is not right? What happens if there's retaliation? All these guys in power now seem to be living on bases all over the country somehow. Somehow they're living on Army bases and stuff. Who’s going to pay if there’s retaliation?   Either ignorant that the Venezuelan oil tanker seized by the U.S. Coast Guard was sanctioned by the Biden administration for selling to terrorist groups and flying false flags or trying to hide that fact, The View claims it was seized to distract from the Epstein files. They also… pic.twitter.com/As8WWPiDRb — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 11, 2025   Sorry Whoopi, but China wasn’t going to do jack all for Nicholas Maduro. They had closer ties with Iran and didn’t do anything after the U.S. bombed their nuclear enrichment facilities. At one point in the segment, Goldberg started to spew her anti-America hatred. According to her, “We have a lot of nerve doing this” because America was awful and supposedly a puppet state to Russia: [W]e are watching the country get run into the ground and we are in bed with the Russians, with all the people that were -- that I thought we were not supposed to be sanctioning and partying – Not partying with but working with. And so, I'm not sure what we're trying to do anymore because we don't seem to have a clear – a clear thing.   Whoopi proclaims that America "as a lot of nerve" to seize the ship because America is so awful and a Russian puppet state: "We have a lot of nerve doing this because we are running -- we are watching the country get run into the ground. And we are in bed with the Russians, with… pic.twitter.com/CrWav0NPEh — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 11, 2025   Her clownish sidekick Joy Behar agreed that the seizure was just an attempt to distract. She suggested that Trump was going to start a war to distract from the Epstein files; and reached way back into her Bush bashing tool kit to claim he was doing it for the oil: Do you remember the movie Wag the Dog? The movie was a U.S. president, I think Dustin Hoffman. Starts a war in Albania to distract from a sex scandal weeks before an election. That's the movie. Sound familiar? And the "U.S.S. Epstein" is at the dock right now. Plus the fact that now we know it was about oil. We were wondering why does he keep going to Venezuela? Now, we know.   A la 'Wag the Dog,' The View claims Trump seized the tanker in order to start a war to distract from his scandals. Joy Behar and Sara Haines claims he wants to invade Venezuela for the oil. pic.twitter.com/XCdVF5OMdT — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 11, 2025   Despite also suggesting that Trump was interested in invading Venezuela for the oil, co-host Sara Haines did note, “this move specifically on this tanker might be a good thing” because the ship was servicing America’s adversaries like China, Iran, and Russia. “This is something the European Union has sanctions with them, Canada has sanctions with them, the U.S. has sanctions. They came in with a warrant on this ship,” she argued. “This was a legal seizure of an oil tanker. And a lot of what they’re saying is that this is also going to de-incentivize black market ships from stopping in Venezuela and taking this oil to enemy nations.” Behar’s weak mind couldn’t wrap itself around what Haines was talking about and baselessly blurted out that the tanker was blown up. When confronted on the lie, she scoffed: BEHAR: So, if they took the oil to enemy nations, what does that mean? HAINES: Well, it was supplying some terrorist regimes for years now. FARAH GRIFFIN: And they’re sanctioned by the U.S. government. It is unlawful. BEHAR: But so, you can just blow up all the ships that are doing it?! FARAH GRIFFIN: It’s not blown up. We seized it. BEHAR: Well, whatever!   Haines finally admits that the tanker was seized legally and that the U.S. and the E.U. had sanctioned the tanker. Behar scoffs at why delivering oil to "enemy nations" is a bad thing and falsely claims the ship was blown up. pic.twitter.com/pNYW4z8VkE — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 11, 2025   We know you work for ABC News Joy, but facts matter. They’re not “whatever.” In the same week that she stepped up to defend accused assassin Luigi Mangione and the chaos of Somalia (where actual pirates operated freely), former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin insisted that the federal seizure warrant didn’t mean anything and it was still illegal. She then accused Trump of being a “pirate” and said America was complicit: It's unclear whether or not this was legal. A federal judge did issue this seizure warrant that you're referring to, roughly about two weeks ago, because of this particular ship's past activity smuggling Iranian oil. And that's typically used to finance terrorist activity. So, I understand that piece. But the piece that I don't understand is that the President of the United States is almost acting as if he’s a pirate and the United States is -- you know, we're just a group of pirates. Because some legal experts will tell you that the U.S. has no jurisdiction to enforce unilateral sanctions on non-U.S. persons outside of its territory. And I'm sort of in that space. Leave it up to Hostin to parrot Maduro’s regime on national television.   Despite the tanker being seized legally, Sunny Hostin claims that Trump is "acting as if he is a pirate and the United States we're just a group of pirates." Adding: "Who are we to board a ship even with a U.S. federal judge's seizure warrant and then keep the oil? That to me… pic.twitter.com/dqIl30YWyg — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 11, 2025   “Who are we to board a ship even with U.S. federal judge's seizure warrant and then keep the oil? That to me feels a lot like corruption, it feels a lot like to me imperialism, it feels a lot like me to fascism,” she sneered. “And so, while it may be cloaked in an appearance of legality, I still question that.” Looks like Hostin needed to go back to law school to learn about forfeiture. Interestingly, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin found some courage to speak out against Hostin’s nonsense and pointed out that things like this happened all the time. “We do sanction terrorist organizations and regimes that are associated with them all over the world and we do seize assets that could support terrorist activities,” she said. “This is long-standing throughout the Middle East. It’s news because it’s in the western hemisphere.”   Alyssa Farah Griffin notes that this has been standard procedure for a long time:"We do sanction terrorist organizations and regimes that are associated with them all over the world and we do seize assets that could support terrorist activities. This is long-standing throughout… pic.twitter.com/l7F8ubdIkf — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 11, 2025   And not just the U.S. It’s likely a majority of The View were too ignorant to know that earlier in the year Germany seized one of the tanker’s in Russia’s shadow fleet. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View December 11, 2025 11:03:18 a.m. Eastern (…) WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I don't understand -- I mean, okay, he seized a tanker. What is it really? What is it really? Is this more let's not talk about Epstein? JOY BEHAR: Yes. Yes. GOLDBERG: Let's not talk about Hegseth? What is this, because what happens if the people who support Venezuela like, I don't know -- BEHAR: Like Venezuelans. GOLDBERG: The Chinese get their oil from Venezuela. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: The Russians. GOLDBERG: So, what happens if they get on their -- the side of the Venezuelans and say, this is not right? What happens if there's retaliation? All these guys in power now seem to be living on bases all over the country somehow. Somehow they're living on Army bases and stuff. Who’s going to pay if there retaliation? BEHAR: We are. We are. Can I just read? Do you remember the movie Wag the Dog? The movie was a U.S. president, I think Dustin Hoffman. SARA HAINES: Yes. BEHAR: Starts a war in Albania to distract from a sex scandal weeks before an election. That's the movie. Sound familiar? And the "U.S.S. Epstein" is at the dock right now. Plus the fact that now we know it was about oil. We were wondering why does he keep going to Venezuela? Now, we know. HAINES: Well, we did talk about here over and over, was this – Because it clearly wasn't about drugs when he kept stress these boats because people knew the drugs weren't headed for the U.S. and – Over and over was it regime change or was it the oil? We're now realizing oil is part of it. But this move specifically on this tanker might be a good thing. And I say that because my first reaction when Trump's involved and a lot of the people he puts in office, you're like, ‘what the hell are they doing?’ There's no faith in the system. There's no transparency especially after all these boats were attacked. But this is supposedly and I actually kind of deep dove into this topic about sanctioned oil and it is diverting oil that could be going to China, Russia. FARAH GRIFFIN: And Iran. HAINES: And Iran who are not -- they're adversarial nations to us. This is something the European Union has sanctions with them, Canada has sanctions with them, the U.S. has sanctions. They came in with a warrant on this ship. There was actually a warrant to go after this ship because what they're trying to do – BEHAR: How quaint. HAINES: Well, no. You’ve got to call - SUNNY HOSTIN: A federal judge did issue a seizure warrant. That's true. [Crosstalk] HAINES: We criticize all the time about the illegal things. You got to call them. This was a legal seizure of an oil tanker. And a lot of what they’re saying is that this is also going to de-incentivize black market ships from stopping in Venezuela and taking this oil to enemy nations. So, this actually might be a good thing sadly wrapped in a Trump packaging which makes it really hard to see that point. BEHAR: So, if they took the oil to enemy nations, what does that mean? HAINES: Well, it was supplying some terrorist regimes for years now. FARAH GRIFFIN: And they’re sanctioned by the U.S. government. It is unlawful. BEHAR: But so, you can just blow up all the ships that are doing it?! FARAH GRIFFIN: It’s not blown up. We seized it. BEHAR: Well, whatever! [Crosstalk] HAINES: This isn’t the drug boats. HOSTIN: Can I just say this, though, on the legal piece of it? FARAH GRIFFIN: Yeah. HOSTIN: It's unclear whether or not this was legal. A federal judge did issue this seizure warrant that you're referring to, roughly about two weeks ago, because of this particular ship's past activity smuggling Iranian oil. And that's typically used to finance terrorist activity. So. I understand that piece. But the piece that I don't understand is that the President of the United States is almost acting as if he’s a pirate and the United States is -- you know, we're just a group of pirates. Because some legal experts will tell you that the U.S. has no jurisdiction to enforce unilateral sanctions on non-U.S. persons outside of its territory. And I'm sort of in that space. Who are we to be able to bomb boats off of the coast of Venezuela? Who are we to board a ship even with U.S. federal judge's seizure warrant and then keep the oil? That to me feels a lot like corruption, it feels a lot like to me – BEHAR: Imperialism. HOSTIN: - imperialism, it feels a lot like me to fascism. And so, while it may be cloaked in an appearance of legality, I still question that. FARAH GRIFFIN: We do sanction terrorist organizations and regimes that are associated with them all over the world and we do seize assets that could support terrorist activities. This is long-standing throughout the Middle East. It’s news because it’s in the western hemisphere. (…) 11:08:23 a.m. Eastern GOLDBERG: We have a lot of nerve doing this. BEHAR: Exactly. GOLDBERG: Because we are running -- we are watching the country get run into the ground and we are in bed with the Russians, with all the people that were -- that I thought we were not supposed to be sanctioning and partying – Not partying with but working with. And so, I'm not sure what we're trying to do anymore because we don't seem to have a clear – a clear thing. (…)

“Unexpectedly” was the word of the day Thursday for media reporting on Commerce Department numbers showing that the U.S. goods and services trade deficit fell in September to the lowest monthly level since June of 2020. According to the Commerce Department report issued Thursday, the trade deficit shrank 10.9% from August, thanks to a 3.0% increase in exports dwarfing a much smaller 0.6% rise in imports. Analysts had predicted that the September trade deficit would grow to between $62.5-63.5 billion. Instead, the trade deficit decreased $6.4 billion from its August level. At $52.8 billion, September’s trade deficit was about $10 billion lowered than predicted, prompting media to echo the pessimistic analysts’ surprise with headlines, such as: “US Trade Deficit Unexpectedly Shrinks To Smallest Since 2020” – Bloomberg “U.S. Trade Deficit Unexpectedly Narrows In September As Exports Surge” – Nasdaq.com “US trade balance shows unexpected improvement, defying forecasts” – Investing.com The $289.3 billion value of exports was the second-highest monthly total on record, while shipments of consumer goods hit a record high. Since April, President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariff policies and resulting negotiations with countries charging exorbitant tariffs on U.S. goods has helped level the import/export playing field. Despite their typical critical tone regarding Trump and his tariff policies, Thursday’s media reports of September’s smaller deficit occasionally (often begrudgingly) gave the president credit: “The U.S. trade deficit has fallen to its lowest monthly level in five years, as trade patterns adjust to President Trump's steep tariffs…Balancing the deficit has been a principal goal of Trump's tariff policies, which have changed rapidly since he took office.” – The Wall Street Journal “Because exports grew by more than imports, the U.S. trade deficit shrank, in line with the Trump administration’s goals… The recent drop in the trade deficit has moved the country toward accomplishing one of Mr. Trump’s biggest goals.” – The New York Times “President Donald Trump's protectionist trade policy, marked by sweeping tariffs, has caused big swings in the trade deficit, distorting the overall economic picture.” - Reuters

Wikipedia is “Wokepedia,” complains Elon Musk. That’s because it’s become so left-wing. “It’s designed to push an ideological agenda that you can’t see,” says journalist Ashley Rindsberg in my new video. He runs “Neutral Point of View,” a Substack publication that exposes Wikipedia bias. “So what if it’s biased?” I ask. “It’s just one website.” “Wikipedia’s information spreads into everything online,” he replies, “ChatGPT, ... Siri, Alexa. Ask a question, it is all Wikipedia.” As a result, “a few thousand powerful editors determine what gets counted as information.” Those editors sure hate President Donald Trump. When he put undocumented immigrants in what people called “cages” at detention centers, Wikipedia editors listed the centers under “concentration camps.” Since Wikipedia says, “anyone can edit,” I tried to put that in perspective, adding, “President Obama built these cages.” Within a day, my edit was taken down. “Wikipedia has definitely been taken over by woke activists,” says Rindsberg. An editor of my page even posts pictures of Lenin and Che on his website profile! To make sure the content stays leftist, Wikipedia labels conservative media “unreliable.” Editors should not cite Fox News, The Federalist, The Daily Wire, the New York Post ... By contrast, Wikipedia labels CNN, and even MSNBC, VOX, Slate, The Nation, and Mother Jones, “reliable.” That’s nuts. Fox sometimes gets things wrong, but MSN and Slate don’t?  Another example: After years of leftist media labeling the claim that COVID leaked from a lab a “conspiracy theory,” most eventually acknowledged on the new evidence.      “COVID-19 likely originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China,” summarized the “Today” show. But Wikipedia still says there’s “no evidence supporting laboratory involvement.” My own Wikipedia page is filled with not just mistakes but smears. Wikipedia editors make me look cruel. They claim that when I anchored “20/20,” I complained that AIDS research gets “too much funding.” But all I’d said was that AIDS research gets disproportionate funding compared to other diseases -- diseases that kill more people. Former President Bill Clinton said the same thing: “We’re spending 10 times as much per fatality on people with AIDS!” They don’t trash him, just me. Wikipedia’s socialists sure hate libertarians. It’s not fair. “There’s no recourse, there’s no accountability,” says Rindsberg. “Nobody for you to talk to and say, ‘This is wrong.’ If this was a news organization, there would be an avenue or a channel for you to at least address it. In Wikipedia’s case, that is not true.” At least things may be changing now, because there are new options, like SciencePedia and Justapedia, covering science and law. “Justapedia,” says Rindsberg, “was founded by a veteran Wikipedia editor who couldn’t handle the left-wing bias. ... This is exactly what we need ... people to be able to choose among different sources, so we’re not all forced into the Wikipedia information funnel.” Most importantly, since he has an extraordinary track record of success, is Elon Musk’s Grokipedia. It’s new and AI, so it makes mistakes, but Grok currently leads AI intelligence tests. When it comes to topics I checked out, such as the probable origins of COVID, and my page, Grokipedia does better. “Is there any way to fix Wikipedia?” I ask Rindsberg. “The best chance we have is for dedicated people who are really interested in these topics to get in there and become an editor that can make those kinds of changes. We only need a few dozen, maybe even fewer, to make an impact ... If enough people say ... ‘I’m going to give it a go.’ ... they actually can make an impact. The question is, are enough people going to take that leap?” I hope you who read this column will! Every Tuesday at JohnStossel.com, Stossel posts a new video about the battle between government and freedom. He is the author of “Government Gone Wild: Exposing the Truth Behind the Headlines.”