Thursday, August 07, 2014

THE BIG STORY - UK Govt. Wikipedia Edits Obscure High Profile Killings


A spokesman for the Jean Charles de Menezes' family expressed deep shock that anonymous editors had used official state computer networks to alter information in his Wikipedia article.(Reuters / Menezes family RR / KS)

UK government officials have reportedly edited an array of Wikipedia articles relating to the high profile killings of Jean Charles de Menezes, Lee Rigby and Damilola Taylor.


According to an in-depth investigation conducted by Channel 4 News, UK government computers were recently utilized to add inaccurate data to a Wikipedia page documenting Jean Charles de Menezes’ death. De Menzes was shot and killed by Metropolitan Police officers at Stockwell tube station in 2005.

Official state computers were also reportedly harnessed to edit the pages of Damilola Taylor, a 10-year-old Nigerian schoolboy who was murdered in Britain in 2000, and Lee Rigby, the 25-year-old victim of the 2013 Woolwich terror killing.

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