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WikiScanner Creator Releases New Tools to Uncover Anonymous Edits
Source: Wired News

Virgil Griffith, creator of the popular WikiScanner that exposed edits that Diebold and CIA employees were making to Wikipedia pages, is releasing a suite of new tools at the HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference in New York today.

CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits
Source: Reuters

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.

See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
Source: Wired News

On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines.

See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
Source: Wired News

A new data-mining service launched Monday traces millions of Wikipedia entries to their corporate sources, and for the first time puts comprehensive data behind longstanding suspicions of manipulation, which until now have surfaced only piecemeal in investigations of specific all …

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