[FL4RonPaul] FW: Wired News report gives proof of Wikipedia as tool of CIA, intelligence agencies (fwd)

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From: dr.l.sachs@gmail.com [mailto:dr.l.sachs@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dr L
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Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 8:47 AM
To: Henry Morgan
Subject: Wired News report gives proof of Wikipedia as tool of CIA,
intelligence agencies

Credibility Of Wikipedia Takes a Dive After Wired Exposé
Online encyclopedia outed as bias tool of intelligence agencies,
corporations by new Wikipedia Scanner database

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, August 14, 2007

HYPERLINK
"http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/140807_wikipedia_credibilit
y.htm"
\nhttp://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/140807_wikipedia_credibili
ty.htm

The credibility of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has taken another dive
after a newly developed software program exposed how the CIA, corporations
like Diebold and others routinely edit entries to bury criticism and
manipulate the truth.. . . .

Now a CalTech graduate student has developed a software tool that threatens
to slam the final nail in the coffin of any credibility Wikipedia had left.

"Wikipedia Scanner -- the brainchild of CalTech computation and
neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith -- offers users a searchable
database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations
where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with
data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses," reports
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. While anonymous, such
changes typically leave behind digital fingerprints offering hints about the
contributor, such as the location of the computer used to make the edits."

"In this case, the changes came from an IP address reserved for the
corporate offices of Diebold itself. And it is far from an isolated case. 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 allegations."

Griffith has compiled a list of different corporations and branches of
government that have abused the so-called impartiality of Wikipedia to
essentially edit the truth out of existence, replacing it with a PR friendly
facade favorable not to the facts or any sense of neutrality, but only to
the interests of the parties concerned.

The Wikipedia Scanner (HYPERLINK "http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/"
\nhttp://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/) also allows users to type in an IP range
and find out which organizations are editing what pages on Wikipedia.

"The result: A database of 5.3 million edits, performed by 2.6 million
organizations or individuals ranging from the CIA to Microsoft to
Congressional offices, now linked to the edits they or someone at their
organization's net address has made. Some of this appears to be
transparently self-interested, either adding positive, press release-like
material to entries, or deleting whole swaths of critical material,"
concludes the Wired report.

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