According to leaked documentsobtained by Forward, the Heritage Foundation is planning to identify and target those anonymous editors.
The Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank and the authors ofProject 2025.
The three sides are slight but paint an unpleasant picture.
The slides explain how Heritages operatives would create fake accounts to interact with Wikipedia editors.
It also said it would use neuro-linguistic programming to identify writing style, repeated phrases, and content patterns.
Operatives would even cross reference the editors activities on other sites in an effort to unmask them.
Neither the Heritage Foundation nor the Wikimedia Foundation responded to Gizmodos request for comment.
Wiki editors have also been criticized for labeling the Anti-Defamation League as anunreliable sourceof information about the conflict.
Holocaust scholars have since come out to say that the sites editors aredistorting the memoryof the tragedy.
Wikipedia is supported by donations and it publishes its financials every year for the public to go over.
According to those disclosures, the foundation spent $31.2 million on equity.
What did Wikipedia do with that $31.2 million?
It gave much of it out asgrant money.
Editing Wikipedia is always a fight.
It is, in effect, a giant community note on all human knowledge.
And we know how much social media site CEOs love community notes.
Wikipedia even maintains a history of the edits and discussions, on every entry.
The discussions are oftenmore fascinatingthan the entries themselves.
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