NPOV is an investigative media outlet exposing how the internet is quietly manipulated — and who benefits from it.

The most powerful influence operations today don’t happen on cable news or social media timelines. They happen upstream:

• On Wikipedia pages that define reputations

• Inside search engine results that determine what people see first

• In AI training data that hard-codes bias into the systems shaping the future

NPOV investigates that hidden layer. We expose coordinated manipulation campaigns that quietly rewrite history, lock in narratives, and distort public understanding — often without readers ever realizing it’s happening.

If you’ve ever wondered:

• Why certain people or topics suddenly become “controversial”

• Why AI outputs increasingly reflect activist consensus rather than reality

• How activist narratives get locked in as “fact”

• How biased sources are fed into large language models

NPOV shows you how and why that happens — with receipts.

While online controversies are loud and fleeting, infrastructure manipulation is quiet, durable and extremely difficult to undo. Once a false or distorted narrative is embedded into Wikipedia, search results, or AI systems, it becomes the default reference point for journalists, policymakers, and the public. We trace these attacks back to their source. Who organized them, how they were executed and why platforms failed to stop them And we publish the evidence. If you believe the internet shapes reality — and want to know who’s shaping the internet — you’re in the right place.

Who’s Behind NPOV

NPOV was founded in 2025 by Ashley Rindsberg, an award-winning investigative journalist specializing in online manipulation, censorship, and narrative warfare. Rindsberg’s reporting has:

• Triggered a U.S. Congressional investigation into Wikipedia

• Exposed one of the largest coordinated manipulation efforts in Wikipedia’s history

• Led to editor bans and arbitration rulings on English Wikipedia

• Prompted policy changes at Reddit

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