Skeletons in the closet? Uncovering embarrassing Wiki edits by Pentagon, Congress
A recent movement to track in real-time edits government organizations anonymously make to Wikipedia has also turned up deep archives of changes made dating……
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Transparency bots hint at better uses for news algorithms
By BEN LYONS / Monitoring Wikipedia edits made from Russian government addresses, an automated tool caught controversial changes in the wake of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 crash in Ukraine this July. Someone at a state-run TV and radio network, VGTRK, anonymously removed mentions of Russian Federation-sourced missiles, swapping in Ukrainian soldiers as the culprits.