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Fake Russian History on Chinese Wikipedia

2022-07-01 01:41:02.488989+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Following along to the news two years ago: Reddit: I’ve discovered that almost every single article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by the same person - an American teenager who can’t speak Scots...

She Spent a Decade Writing Fake Russian History. Wikipedia Just Noticed.

A Chinese woman created over 200 fictional articles on Chinese Wikipedia, writing millions of words of imagined history that went unnoticed for more than 10 years.

Via meFi

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