Wikipedia's Sockpuppets
A team of Wikipedia admins overseen by the Wikimedia Foundation has uncovered the largest sockpuppet network in Wikipedia history.
A Wikipedia network associated with the account, Morning277, is made up of paid editors who were hired by small Silicon Valley companies to create pages for them. The account has made more than 6,000 edits since 2008. Hundreds of pages connected to the network have disappeared and many involve the company, Wiki-PR.
Wiki-PR warns potential clients, “Don’t get caught in a PR debacle editing your own page,” and offers to generate articles about clients who don’t meet Wikipedia’s “notability” standard.
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