| Teesus | Date: Wednesday, 2013/08/07, 0:03 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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The Wikipedia page for the man responsible for leaking classified National Security Agency files to the media has been updated hundreds of times since he started sharing sensitive documents in early June, but one of those revisions — and a questionable one at that — comes courtesy of someone in the United States Senate.
On Friday, someone logged into Wikipedia and changed a line in Snowden’s biography from "American dissident” to "American traitor.” Joe Klock at The Daily Dot website was the first one to report on the edit, and quickly noticed that the revision was made from a computer connected to the Internet from within the walls of a US Senate building.
The word change only stayed on the Snowden page for around one minute, but it still managed to create quite a stir. On a discussion page for the entry, one Wikipedia editor confirmed that the change was made by someone with access to a Senate computer.
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