Senate Staffer Tries To Remove Reference To 'Torture' From Wikipedia
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Senate Staffer Tries To Remove Reference To 'Torture' From Wikipedia
By Catherine Thompson
Published December 11, 2014, 11:50 AM EST
An anonymous user tried unsuccessfully to remove a reference to "torture" from a Wikipedia article on the Senate's report on the CIA's clandestine interrogation program from an IP address registered to the chamber.
The Twitter account @congressedits, which has been automatically tweeting edits to Wikipedia pages made from IP addresses in Congress since last summer, caught two attempts on Tuesday and Wednesday:
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The user tried to remove a line describing so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" as a "euphemism for torture."
Mashable pointed out that
in both instances, the anonymous editor explained that the revision was intended to remove bias from the article. Both attempts to edit the article were blocked.