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uhnope

(6,419 posts)
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 12:46 PM Aug 2016

How much of Wikipedia is written by Putin's paid trolls?

http://calvertjournal.com/comment/show/2967/wikipedia-russian-government-edits

Knowledge is power: why is the Russian government editing Wikipedia?

After edits to Wikipedia articles related to the conflict in Ukraine have been traced to the Russian government, Olga Zeveleva unpicks this latest twist in Russia's information wars


A troll on DU has been trying to use Wikipedia links in a crusade to defend the poor little Putin gov. It's bad enough that a Wikipedia entry could literally be written by anybody, including the person posting it as proof, but now we see it's hacked by the Putin gov also. WTH. Also:

A Tweetbot Caught the Russian Gov't Editing Flight MH17 Wikipedia Info

http://gizmodo.com/a-tweetbot-caught-the-russian-govt-editing-flight-mh17-1607483459




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How much of Wikipedia is written by Putin's paid trolls? (Original Post) uhnope Aug 2016 OP
I sold you and you sold me..under the spreading Chestnut tree Peacetrain Aug 2016 #1
Putin's ex-KGB. Igel Aug 2016 #2

Peacetrain

(22,877 posts)
1. I sold you and you sold me..under the spreading Chestnut tree
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 12:50 PM
Aug 2016

we are there facts no longer seem to matter

Igel

(35,317 posts)
2. Putin's ex-KGB.
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 03:38 PM
Aug 2016

Meaning that facts haven't mattered for a long, long time when it comes to what's told the public.

It's when the government stops getting the real facts because facts stop mattering entirely that things go to pieces. That was one of the things Gorbachev tried to correct--Facts Matter. Accounting facts, 5-year plan facts, public statistics facts, comparison facts with other societies, military facts.

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