In November 2005, a Wikipedia user deleted some paragraphs from an article on voting machine vendor Diebold, removing a section critical of the company's machines. The changes came from an IP address that belonged to Diebold itself.
Wikipedia Scanner traces millions of Wikipedia entries to their corporate sources, and shows articles are manipulated.
Wikipedia Scanner is the brainchild of Cal Tech student Virgil Griffith and offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated.
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