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February 1, 2006

Congress Altering Wikipedia Entries

Posted by Eric at 7:53 am. Filed under: Politics, Randomly Interesting

There’s an interesting story over at the CNET politics blog that we missed a couple of days ago, about alterations to Wikipedia entries that originated from IP address allocated to the Senate and House.

The latest episode appeared last week in the form of a report that aides to Rep. Marty Meehan, a Massachusetts Democrat, deleted references to his broken term-limits pledge and massive campaign war chest on Wikipedia.

Then the trusty editors at Wikipedia got together and compiled a list of over 1,000 edits made by Internet addresses allocated to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The IP address subsequently was blocked and unblocked.

An extensive analysis reveals how juvenile official Washington secretly is, behind the mind-numbingly serious talk of public policy.


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