February 2, 2006

Congress traced doctoring Wikipedia

Filed under: internet, politics - alexei @ 5:28 am

Investigation on the part of Wikipedia revealed 1,000+ edits to the open source encyclopedia traced to IP addresses reserved for the Senate and the House of Representatives. According to Wiki, these edits contained libelous statements, childish insults, or removed content with malice. The investigation was prompted when on January 27, Lowell Sun of Massachusetts published "Rewriting history under the dome", in which Matt Vogel, the chief of staff for Congressman Marty Meehan, said he authorized an intern to replace the Wiki entry for the congressman with a staff-written one, which omitted the references to Meehan’s broken term-limits pledge and massive compaing war chest. Some of the sillier ones uncovered during Wiki’s investigation included listing White House press secretary Scott McClellan under the entry for "douche". Thus far only one IP address has been blocked (one tied to Meehan) and a "request for comments" page has been opened.

Rewriting history under the dome, Lowell Sun
Congress caught making false entries in Wikipedia, News.com

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