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3 unusual facts about U.S. Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia


U.S. Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia

Others, such as those involving Gil Gutknecht, were reported but received less widespread coverage.

On August 16, 2006, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that the office of Representative Gil Gutknecht tried twice—on July 24 and August 14, 2006—to remove a 128-word section in the Wikipedia article on him, replacing it with a more flattering 315-word entry from his official congressional biography.

On August 2, 2013, an editor linked to the US senate with the IP 156.33.241.5 //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward Snowden&diff=prev&oldid=566904988 edited the Wikipedia page of whistleblower Edward Snowden to change his description from "dissident" to "traitor".



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