The CIA on Wikipedia

a very interesting tool. Finding lots of interesting stuff, like NY Times ip's vandalizing Fox news and President Bush's page.

This is why I stopped editing wikipedia from work. There's a lot of crazies on there, and once they saw my ip, I almost got banned.
 
And then there could be people who are clever enough to edit pages from a computer that can't be traced to their employer.
 
Oliver said:
Just as a side-remark since there is no thread yet:

Fox is doing the same and "optimizing"-Wiki entries...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/8/14/212516/918
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But is it Fox News, or just some random person that happens to work for Fox News and is using his office computer? It could just be someone's personal work. Employers like Fox News will tend to attract people with a certain set of opinions.
 
CIA edits Wikipedia!

That's right debunkers, no more using wikipedia as a source. The CIA edits it! It's been proved. It's admitted. It's all in the public record - look it up.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6947532.stm

An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of organisations that edit Wikipedia pages has revealed that the CIA was involved in editing entries.
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Wikipedia Scanner allegedly shows that workers on the agency's computers made edits to the page of Iran's president.
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That's it. Government shills really are all over the net spreading disinfo.

And what exactly did the disinfo artists write in the article?
On the profile of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the tool indicates that a worker on the CIA network reportedly added the exclamation "Wahhhhhh!" before a section on the leader's plans for his presidency.
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That's it. 'Wahh'. Let's see which truthers decide to leave that part out...
 
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Oh, what a wonderful place to move my post. Makes me look like an idiot for posting dramatic news in a thread that already has the news in it.

This thread belongs in CTs since its a heads-up to all CT debunkers about the next wave of excuses coming from the truthers.
 
wikipedia could complain to the CIA. The staff member could then be in serious trouble. I know I would be if I did something like that at work.

NB The CIA could be different to my organisation.
 
On the profile of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the tool indicates that a worker on the CIA network reportedly added the exclamation "Wahhhhhh!" before a section on the leader's plans for his presidency.
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*snicker*
 
rjh01 said:
wikipedia could complain to the CIA. The staff member could then be in serious trouble. I know I would be if I did something like that at work.

NB The CIA could be different to my organisation.
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Why should it? The edits from the CIA are not enough of a problem to care about. Your average school district is likely to be more of an issue.
 
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robinson said:
Something great about Wiki is that you can look at the edits. Interesting times. The CIA edited this page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
so you can actually see what they did, rather than take anybodies word for it.

I like that.

The edits on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad are interesting as well. You can see the mind of the editors at work, as they change things. Orwell would have loved this one.
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Wikipedia is not goverment run. I doubt Orwell would have been too sure what to make of wikipedia it isn't something that turns up much in tradtional novels about the future or sci-fi (a sort of wikipedia for people turns up in Kaleidoscope Century).
 
Hmmm ... I think there may be some misunderstanding about this issue. I mean here, on the JREF forums. Maybe the News stories didn't report the essential point of the story.
 
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