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> The new Hasbara-esque scandal (but worse)
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From Electronic Intifada

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 13 March action alert signed by Gilead Ini, a "Senior Research Analyst" at CAMERA, calls for "volunteers who can work as 'editors' to ensure" that Israel-related articles on Wikipedia are "free of bias and error, and include necessary facts and context." However, subsequent communications indicate that the group not only wanted to keep the effort secret from the media, the public, and Wikipedia administrators, but that the material they intended to introduce included discredited claims that could smear Palestinians and Muslims and conceal Israel's true history.


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What would it have to become, though? I mean, is it completely out of reach? Would they have to become Brittanica? Or could some modification of the Wiki way accomplish it?
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yow   The new Hasbara-esque scandal (but worse)  
the fieryangel   Interesting : So, how many administrators are i...  
Somey   More discussion on this subject is taking place in...  
Eleland   They blocked User:Zeq for a year, though... ironi...  
Disillusioned Lackey   action to pretty much everything. They blocked Us...  
Merzbow   As of yet nobody has been able to produce a shred ...  
jorge   As of yet nobody has been able to produce a shred...  
Tarc   As of yet nobody has been able to produce a shred...  
Milton Roe   [quote name='Merzbow' post='95510' date='Wed 23rd...  
Saltimbanco   So we now have the Hasbara Fellowships, the JayJG ...  
Milton Roe   If Wikipedia wanted to deserve to be considered a...  
Proabivouac   If Wikipedia wanted to deserve to be considered a...  
Saltimbanco   Re Jayjg's "watch my back," I doubt...  
Tarc   Re Jayjg's "watch my back," I doubt ...  
Saltimbanco   Re Jayjg's "watch my back," I doubt...  
Milton Roe   What would it have to become, though? I mean, is ...  
guy   What would it have to become, though? I mean, is ...  
jorge   There are those who doubt the impartiality of Bri...  
Moulton   There are those who doubt the impartiality of Brit...  
Saltimbanco   There are those who doubt the impartiality of Br...  
guy   [quote name='guy' post='96178' date='Fri 25th Apr...  
Saltimbanco   [quote name='guy' post='96178' date='Fri 25th Ap...  
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