Expose attempts to "spin" Wikipedia - PR Watch

[groovedaddy]

From PR Watch:
Last week we started a new participatory project to expose the government agencies, corporations and lobbying groups that have been censoring, whitewashing or otherwise spinning Wikipedia. (See CMD Senior Researcher Diane Farsetta's great blog post for some background on this sordid tale.) So far we've logged several attempts at spin into the respective SourceWatch profiles, including:

-Chevron deleting the article on "Biodiesel";
-Military contractor Raytheon deleting information on them spying on their competitors and the U.S. Air Force;
-Republican-friendly broadcaster Clear Channel adding allegations of plagiarism to Democratic Senate Candidate Al Franken's profile;
-PR firm Hill & Knowlton removing descriptions of the political repression by the government of the Maldives, an H&K client;
-Amway parent company Alticor removing descriptions of the company's use of "Google bombing" to drive down the search engine rankings of Web sites critical of the company;
-Electronic voting machine company Diebold removing descriptions of the controversies surrounding their machines' failures and glitches;
-Conservative news network Fox News changing Keith Olbermann's profile (and not in a good way - see Olbermann's reaction on this video); http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YvgwoS0vzg

http://www.prwatch.org/node/6416

[BridgeTheGap]

1. I'm glad they're doing this - important work!

Just shows you how sleazy these bastards can be!

[lonestarnot]

2. Watch and expose, watch and expose.

:applause: