Fox News Changes Wikipedia to Smear Rivals; Comprehensive List of Changes

Changes made to Wikipedia from an IP Address that resolves to Fox News, show a pattern of smearing Fox's rivals, including Al Franken, Keith Olbermann, and CNN, while removing damaging or embarrassing information to it's own reporters. We pored through the changes to produce a comprehesive list of what Fox News allegedly changed."

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stalin, on 8/14/2007 7:33:52 PM
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Uh... you get that backwards, DeezNuts?

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TheRealStuff, on 8/14/2007 7:41:39 PM
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"After all, the Internet has a liberal bias. <-(sarcasm)"

Intended sarcasm, perhaps, but it's actually true. Just like colleges have liberal bias. Educated, well-to-do people tend to become liberal (usually out of guilt), and they are generally as vapid and brainless as their conservative cohorts.

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jackgillespie, on 8/14/2007 7:48:35 PM
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This is why I try not to research politics on wiki. It is however great for nerdy stuff and simple science stuff.

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oatsnhoney, on 8/14/2007 8:55:15 PM
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A new tool is now available to track wiki edits back to their ip addresses.

http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/

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jackanape, on 8/14/2007 9:55:45 PM
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Deeznuts: One word is amazingly important in some sentences. FOX has a bad habit of including words like 'some', 'suspected', 'possible', etc.

'There was another terrorist attack by suspected al-queda members' is quite abit different that 'There was another terrorist attack by al-queda'.

One is suspect, the other is absolute, yet when FOX and CNN use these words, most people don't recognize that the credibility of the story is only as good as it's source.

Many of the things the Bush government has accomplished was based on the skewing of legal jargon that the average person doesn't understand, or the 'suspected' guilt of terrorist forces/ reports so unfortunately we have to watch for these slight manipulations.

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rcg, on 8/14/2007 10:04:23 PM
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Wow, only kook-aid drinking reich-wing-Nuts would read about this and then come in here to bash wikipedia. Folks, just ignore the disinformation that comes from, oatsnhoney, TheRealStuff, and DeezNuts.

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DeezNuts, on 8/14/2007 10:55:00 PM
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Disinformation? It was copied from that very article...

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HunterPence, on 8/14/2007 11:56:22 PM
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"This doesn't just show the bias of Fox news. It shows the problem with a concept like wikipedia's. "

I don't think it's a problem at all. A feature, not a bug. Sure, you'll have people editing it according to their various biases, but all those edits are well documented. I think the whole project illuminates biases that are hidden in other medium.

Anyway, as far as accuracy goes, attempts to measure have shown that Wikipedia's in the same league as any other encyclopedia.

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otester, on 8/15/2007 3:06:33 AM
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Like with 9/11 article, under discussion I posted a link shows how WTC7 was demolition along with trade centres and that got deleted.

The link in question: http://911blogger.com/node/10025

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cadpig, on 8/15/2007 10:31:59 AM
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I know damn well you lefty liberal terrorist loving jew hateing hippy treehumpers can't talk about disinformation..rcg!!! Your the main one driking at the loony leftist kool aid stand....You guys also use Wikipedia, Prisonplanet and every blog you can get your lying hands on to prove your point..

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