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In reply to the discussion: Trump's D.C. Prosecutor Is Going After Wikipedia For Allegedly Spreading 'Propaganda' [View all]Kid Berwyn
(21,803 posts)25. CIA manipulates Wikipedia. FBI, too.
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..
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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Trump's D.C. Prosecutor Is Going After Wikipedia For Allegedly Spreading 'Propaganda' [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Apr 2025
OP
Wikipedia's description of the Jan 6 Capitol attack fails to support the Trump Administration's Official Lie.
thought crime
Apr 2025
#5
Irony is dead, when the right wing starts accusing others of "propaganda". nt
eppur_se_muova
Apr 2025
#10
"allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public."
Botany
Apr 2025
#12
If "spreading propaganda" is a crime, then a lot of Republican politicians, churches and organizations
Jack Valentino
Apr 2025
#14
Funny how they did away with any agency investigating outside propaganda and would go after wiki.
Historic NY
Apr 2025
#17
"Acting" Martin acts on hearsay. May the felon's puppet never be confirmed. May he stay "interim."
ancianita
Apr 2025
#23
Thank you for this. WikiScanner can provide the evidence to countersue Martin for wrongly attacking Wikipedia
ancianita
Apr 2025
#30
Trump will get clobbered again. Each time we grow stronger and more resolved.
GreenWave
Apr 2025
#29