Monday, March 23, 2015

A Wikipedia Expert's Thoughts on the NYPD Editing Controversy

Editor's Note: Recently, Capital New York reported that NYPD computers had been used to make edits to Wikipedia entries on police-related topics. We asked Wikipedia expert William Beutler to comment on this news story.

New Yorkers and the social web alike were stunned to learn that NYPD computers had been used to make surreptitious Wikipedia edits on entries related to police department controversies, including pages covering the "stop-and-frisk" policy and the deaths of Eric Garner and Amadou Diallo.

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