Showing posts with label Palestinian history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Palestinian history. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Rewriting Palestinian wikis

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.
A day after this story went online, according to excellent Palestinian news site the Electronic Intifada, the blowhard freak-tank CAMERA curbed its wiki-terrorism. Read all about it here.

- freddy