The Wikimedia Foundation expands lobbying, charges for faster data access and limits automated scraping as political attacks led by Elon Musk and other conservatives intensify and prompt congressional inquiries.Bernadette Meehan, chief executive, increased public-affairs spending to $174K last fiscal year, has doubled lobbying outlays and is directing about 32% of human-rights and safety funds to protect volunteer editors from harassment and threats.The site faces state censorship and criminal prosecutions:
Russia is the most frequent requester since its invasion of Ukraine, and at least 10 volunteer editors are jailed or threatened in
China, Myanmar, North Korea,
Saudi Arabia and Belarus.