News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages. Parent comment

Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages by cf141q5325 on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:26AM (#19399453)
The far right had to suffer the most, but there are also plenty of left wing politicians who had to suffer from his "manipulation". There was a great article about it at nachdenkseiten but they deleted it. No wonder since he sued anyone mentioning him.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180908111231/https://www.nachd...

edit: To give an example, he deleted any mention on human rights violations in Facility 1391 with the argument, that Israel investigated the reports and found no evidence of any wrongdoing. Thats still where the page is today, different to the english version. For other individuals, like Nirit Sommerfeld he altered their Wikipedia page to push them into antisemetic corners.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages by Semaphor on Friday March 15, 2019 @11:09AM (#19400355)
Why is this downvoted? The nachdenkseiten article has a lot of information and is certainly a better source than what I could find.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages by mg794613 on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:47PM (#19401463)
I wonder the same. There is nothing in this post to down vote BUT disagreement. Which brings me to another point;has HN acquired so much weight, thatbots are now also here to manipulate informations streams?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages by NeedMoreTea on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:55PM (#19401574)
It certainly feels that way sometimes, or HNers are just as susceptible as everyone else to the polarisation that seems to affect everything today.
[ Parent | on HN ]