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A single prolific Wikipedia editor made 17 changes to Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s biography between October 10 and November 1, during the final weeks before Election Day, according to Wikipedia’s revision history. The activity by the account CopyleftEverything was highlighted by NPOV Media founder Ashley Rindsberg, who described what appears to be a concentrated clean-up of El-Sayed’s page.
Wikipedia records show CopyleftEverything has made 19 edits to the biography in total, with all but two occurring during that three-week period. The activity coincided with a surge in attention to the page. Rindsberg reported that El-Sayed’s biography received approximately 1.64 million views in October, consistent with Wikimedia pageview data.
Jewish Outreach Section Removed
One of the most consequential changes came on October 31, when CopyleftEverything removed 1,642 bytes concerning campaign Jewish outreach director Lenore Goldman. The edit history records the explanation as “removed Lenore section per talk.” Rindsberg characterized the deleted material as covering El-Sayed’s tensions with Michigan’s Jewish community and what he called the candidate’s “antisemitism problem.”
The removed passage linked the campaign’s Jewish outreach effort to disagreements over El-Sayed’s positions on Israel, U.S. military aid and his response to the March attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. Federal investigators later assessed that attack as a “Hizballah-inspired act of terrorism” targeting the Jewish community. Following the attack, El-Sayed said that “hurt people hurt people.”
Hasan Piker Controversy Was “Cut Down”
According to Rindsberg’s analysis, another part of the apparent clean-up involved material concerning Hasan Piker. Rindsberg described the Piker controversy as having been “cut down.” An October 10 revision shows CopyleftEverything changing Piker’s description from a “controversial left-wing Twitch streamer and political commentator” to a “left-wing political commentator.” Material following that description remained, including references to criticism of Piker over statements involving September 11, Hamas and Israel.
The same revision added material about Kamala Harris and Barack Obama. CopyleftEverything wrote in the edit summary: “insanely funny to have 2 long paragraphs on Piker and none on Harris, Obama, or Trump.” It also added language saying Republican nominee Mike Rogers had asked AIPAC not to advertise openly because its brand was “too toxic.” Axios had reported that Rogers’s allies feared visible AIPAC support could become a political liability, but “too toxic” was CopyleftEverything’s wording rather than an Axios quotation.
Material Copied to Rogers Page Was Later Corrected
X user Yehuda Teitelbaum separately documented another episode involving the two candidates’ biographies. On November 1, CopyleftEverything copied material from El-Sayed’s Wikipedia page onto Rogers’s page, adding 1,967 bytes with the edit summary “from Abdul El-Sayed,” according to the page history. The copied paragraph said Rogers had claimed El-Sayed “pledged support” to the Muslim Brotherhood and that his campaign was funded by Muslim “terrorist groups.”
Less than three hours later, another editor revised the material, correcting the date and Rogers’s quotation to “terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.” The editor also removed a reference to Trump calling El-Sayed a “terrorist sympathizer” because it was “not in clip,” and removed the article’s characterization of Rogers’s response as “anti-Muslim rhetoric,” according to the edit summary.
Broader Editing Record
CopyleftEverything has nearly 12,000 Wikipedia edits and states on its user page: “I am interested in documenting left-of-center political groups and minor parties.” Rindsberg found particularly extensive editing of pages involving the Party for Socialism and Liberation, American Communist Party, Revolutionary Communists of America and Democratic Socialists of America chapters.
Teitelbaum also highlighted an October 15 discussion on Hasan Piker’s talk page. During a debate over descriptions of Zionism, CopyleftEverything wrote that distinguishing “nationalist” from “supremacist” seemed like “quibbling between ‘White nationalist’ and ‘White supremacist’ when the two beliefs correlate tightly.”
El-Sayed’s page was also restricted during the editing period. Wikipedia’s protection log shows that since August 6 it has required “extended confirmed” access, preventing ordinary new or anonymous users from directly editing it. Rogers’s biography has no entries in its corresponding protection log.
The result was a concentrated stretch in which one established editor repeatedly shaped a candidate biography drawing more than a million views, while also carrying some of its language into pages covering El-Sayed’s opponent and the wider Senate race.