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Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires— Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires— Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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  • Scott 🇨🇦🏴‍☠️@sh.itjust.works
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    Isn’t there a way to lock Wikipedia articles so they can’t be edited by just anyone?

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      Pages can be protected in various ways

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy

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        Laws can be broken too

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      They’re all publicly viewable edits aren’t they? Revert them and ban the IP ranges they come from? I thought that was the standard practice for abuse of Wikipedia?

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        The problem lies in noticing them in the first place. If you make a thousand legit edits to various articles and then make some slight changes on some rich clients page chances are nobody will register this. Then again we’re on the internet so there’s always at least one guy who’d hyperfocus on monitoring something like this. The hero we need.

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