Hot on the heels of the Hoder blog shutdown, I noticed this story on the CIA’s alleged edits to Ahmadinejad’s Wikipedia entry, discovered by the WikiScanner, which matches up edits with their IP addresses. Questions of ethics, editing, censorship, and free speech aside, what did the CIA actually change? From the BBC article linked above:
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Hossein Derakhshan’s blog, Hoder.com was shut down on Friday by his host, Hosting Matters, over allegations of defamation brought by the lawyers of Mehdi Khalaji, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP). WINEP’s advisory board includes neo-conservative poster boy Richard Perle, and until 2001 counted Paul Wolfowitz as a member of […]
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