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EI exclusive: a pro-Israel group’s plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia

Posted by uscsjp on April 21, 2008

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“A pro-Israel pressure group is orchestrating a secret, long-term campaign to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.

A series of emails by members and associates of the pro-Israel group CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America), provided to The Electronic Intifada (EI), indicate the group is engaged in what one activist termed a “war” on Wikipedia…”

Report, The Electronic Intifada, 21 April 2008

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9474.shtml

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