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January 30, 2006

Staff Rewrite Wikipedia Entry

Members of US Representative Martin Meehan's staff have admitted to deleting unflattering information about a broken campaign promise from Wikipedia. Is this just one of many cases of Congressional staff edits?


Read More:


Meehan staff are said to admit rewriting data, Excised mention of broken pledge


http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/01/29/meehan_staff_are_said_to_admit_rewriting_data/


An Investigation by the Lowell Sun has found that this is one of more than 1,000 cases of Congressional staffers making changes to Wikipedia entries in the last six months. Read more:


Rewriting history under the dome

http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_3444567


Posted by Buzz Webster at January 30, 2006 06:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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