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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Sarah Palin's wingnut fans trying to edit Wikipedia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Sun Jun 5 17:26:13 2011
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Sarah Palin's wingnut fans trying to edit Wikipedia to match her wacky
"Paul Revere history"
http://j.mp/iodsET (Little Green Footballs)
"Man, you've gotta almost admire the sheer blind dedication of Sarah
Palin's wingnut acolytes. Now they're trying like crazy to edit the
Wikipedia page for "Paul Revere" to make it match Palin's botched
version of history. Here's the Revision history of Paul Revere; check
out the edits that are being reversed ..."
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Wikipedia seems to be fairly resilient in this case. But erroneous
changes to less highly visible pages are much less likely to be
quickly discovered and corrected, unfortunately.
--Lauren--
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