
Last week, I looked into the edits that computers inside of Canada’s House of Commons had been making to Wikipedia, and found out that several Canadian politicians had their staffers edit out sections of their boss’s articles pertaining to their personal controversies, ethics investigations, and spending scandals. Digging into the Wikipedia edits made by powerful organizations is not necessarily a new thing, but after code was released earlier this month for a Twitterbot that automatically tweets anytime a computer within a certain IP range (an array of internet addresses associated to a government or corporation) edits Wikipedia, online alert systems that monitor edits from known government and corporate IPs sprung up all across the web. For the Canadian government, that account is called @GCCAEdits.
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