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Kid Berwyn

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25. CIA manipulates Wikipedia. FBI, too.
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 08:57 AM
Apr 2025
CIA and FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits

By Reuters, August 16, 2007

By Randall Mikkelsen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program.

The changes may violate Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest guidelines, a spokeswoman for the site said on Thursday.

The program, WikiScanner, was developed by Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and posted this month on a Web site that was quickly overwhelmed with searches.

The program allows users to track the source of computers used to make changes to the popular Internet encyclopedia where anyone can submit and edit entries.

WikiScanner revealed that CIA computers were used to edit an entry on the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. A graphic on casualties was edited to add that many figures were estimated and were not broken down by class.

Another entry on former CIA chief William Colby was edited by CIA computers to expand his career history and discuss the merits of a Vietnam War rural pacification program that he headed.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/cia-and-fbi-computers-used-for-wikipedia-edits-idUSN16428960/

Ed Martin must be a fucking moron. Nobody tell him.

PS: The “Vietnam War rural pacification program” Colby headed was Operation PHOENIX . . it murdered more than 40,000 people merely on suspicion of being, or just helping, the communist North..

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And how about fox news too ? vapor2 Apr 2025 #1
X ? {un}TruthSocial ? Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2025 #4
This needs to stop.................. Lovie777 Apr 2025 #2
Headed for 1A colission. bucolic_frolic Apr 2025 #3
Wikipedia's description of the Jan 6 Capitol attack fails to support the Trump Administration's Official Lie. thought crime Apr 2025 #5
snork. AllaN01Bear Apr 2025 #6
how about sinclar radio and or the enoch times ? AllaN01Bear Apr 2025 #7
Well that will bring the cost of groceries down. SunSeeker Apr 2025 #8
Jockularity Iamscrewed Apr 2025 #9
Irony is dead, when the right wing starts accusing others of "propaganda". nt eppur_se_muova Apr 2025 #10
Trump and his goons GenThePerservering Apr 2025 #11
"allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public." Botany Apr 2025 #12
Sorry, buster, that's what they DO. elleng Apr 2025 #13
If "spreading propaganda" is a crime, then a lot of Republican politicians, churches and organizations Jack Valentino Apr 2025 #14
Oh, really? Just wait til this guy finds out about Fox "News" DFW Apr 2025 #15
Are we in the 1930s again? groundloop Apr 2025 #16
Funny how they did away with any agency investigating outside propaganda and would go after wiki. Historic NY Apr 2025 #17
So Wikipedia is now on Trump's shit list. Lionel Mandrake Apr 2025 #18
Thats exactly what fox news does. Exactly. oldmanlynn Apr 2025 #19
So does Trump Jarqui Apr 2025 #26
Probably because Wiki says he lost the election fair & square. JohnnyRingo Apr 2025 #20
isn't Rupert a foreign national? Astraea Apr 2025 #21
Knew that was coming some time. Time is now. twodogsbarking Apr 2025 #22
"Acting" Martin acts on hearsay. May the felon's puppet never be confirmed. May he stay "interim." ancianita Apr 2025 #23
Ed Martin is the worst of the worst. sop Apr 2025 #27
Sounds like The Wizard Apr 2025 #24
CIA manipulates Wikipedia. FBI, too. Kid Berwyn Apr 2025 #25
Thank you for this. WikiScanner can provide the evidence to countersue Martin for wrongly attacking Wikipedia ancianita Apr 2025 #30
I periodally make edits for local or historical stuff.... Historic NY Apr 2025 #28
Trump will get clobbered again. Each time we grow stronger and more resolved. GreenWave Apr 2025 #29
I just donated to Wikipedia (wikimedia I think) SupportSanity Apr 2025 #31
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