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Russian Government Edits Wikipedia Page on MH17 Crash
Posted on 7/20/14 at 10:13 am
Posted on 7/20/14 at 10:13 am
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A political battle has broken out on Wikipedia over an entry relating to the crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, with the Russian government reportedly removing sections which accuse it of providing "terrorists" with missiles that were used to down the civilian airliner.
A Twitter bot which monitors edits made to the online encyclopaedia from Russian government IP addresses (unique numbers relating to certain computers or networks) has spotted that changes are being made to a page relating to the crash.
It appears that an internet user from within the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) changed a Russian language version of a page listing civil aviation accidents to say that "The plane [flight MH17] was shot down by Ukrainian soldiers".
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All edits to Wikipedia are permanently logged, with the username and IP address being stored along with the changes they have made.
An automated Twitter bot called congress-edits was created to monitor for changes made from US Congress computers and immediately tweet them. The source code powering that project was released to the public, allowing the creation of RUGovEdits which performs a similar role in Russia.
Wikipedia is the best thing ever
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Posted on 7/20/14 at 10:53 am to TerryDawg03
Russia: not a geopolitical threat to US interests since 2012.
Posted on 7/20/14 at 11:17 am to LSUTigersVCURams
Leave Ann Romney's horse out of this!
Posted on 7/20/14 at 11:21 am to udtiger
Obama "Who is Russia and could you hand me my 9 iron"
Posted on 7/20/14 at 12:04 pm to udtiger
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Leave Ann Romney's horse out of this!
Pretty sure I can see Ann's horse from my house.
More serious note, did I hear correctly that most of the people onboard were headed to an AID's summit?
We know Putin is anti-gay,, so...
This post was edited on 7/20/14 at 12:06 pm
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