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Course: Zionist Editing on Wikipedia

Israel National News - Arutz Sheva · 113.6K views · 2010-08-18 · 2:04

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Overview

A short news segment from Arutz Sheva about a course on pro-Israel editing of Wikipedia.

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HN cites it, mostly critically, as evidence of organized political efforts to influence Wikipedia content.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2022–2026

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What people said

andersrs · 2023-05 · Recommendation

Sure there is a lot of spam but there is also a lot of political pressure to influence politically controversial articles. This rather old video was an eye opener for me. [VIDEO]

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tinfoilhatter · 2026-05 · Criticism

I like how Wikipedia is referred to as the world's encyclopedia, while stuff like this goes on: [VIDEO]

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malandrew · 2025-01 · Criticism

To be fair, the JIDF has been astroturfing Wikipedia for far longer: [VIDEO] Who knows where the balance actually lies, but it's not just pro-Palestinians doing the propaganda here. Israel has engaged in far more propaganda than pretty much everyone (except maybe the United States) since the hasbara policy was first established following the public image fallout from the Sabra and Shatila massacre. [LINK]

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