[geocentrism] Fw:Diebold outed over Wikipedia entry massaging
- From: "philip madsen" <pma15027@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Jim Condit" <votefraud@xxxxxxxx>, "BobB" <banaugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "geocentrism list" <geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:04:30 +1000
But it is not only the Vatican at it as you will see. Diebold also hmmm.
Philip.
Subject: Vatican outed over Wikipedia entry massaging
Vatican outed over Wikipedia entry massaging
A California researcher says that he has uncovered evidence of efforts by
dozens of companies, political and other organisations - including the CIA, the
British Labour Party and the Vatican - to edit entries on the popular Wikipedia
website in order to boost their own public image.
The Wikipedia Scanner, which trawls the backwaters of the popular online
encyclopedia, has unearthed a catalogue of organisations massaging entries, the
Sydney Morning Herald says.
Workers operating on CIA computers have been spotted editing entries including
the biographies of the former presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, while
unnamed individuals inside the Vatican have worked on entries about Catholic
saints - and the Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.
And somebody from a computer traced to Democrat headquarters edited a page on
the conservative American radio host Rush Limbaugh, calling him "idiotic",
"ridiculous" and labelling his 20 million listeners as "legally retarded".
The Scanner says Diebold, a supplier of voting machines, has made huge
alterations to entries about its involvement in the controversial "hanging
chad" election in the US in 2000. The company was criticised in the wake of the
disputed results, but edits made by its employees on Wikipedia have included
the removal of 15 paragraphs detailing the allegations.
"In August 2003 Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold, announced that he
had been a top fund-raiser for George Bush," the deleted text read. "When
assailed by critics for the conflict of interest . he vowed to lower his
political profile."
Last year some US congressional staff were found to be removing information
from the profiles of the politicians they worked for and this year the computer
group Microsoft back-pedalled after it was revealed to have offered money to
experts to "correct" entries about it.
The Scanner, built by Virgil Griffith, a researcher at the California Institute
of Technology, compares 5.3 million edits on the encyclopedia against the
internet addresses of more than 2 million companies or individuals.
SOURCE
Wicked pedia: Vatican, CIA edit online entries (Sydney Morning Herald, 16/8/07)
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