In February 2019, a Russian entrepreneur who uses Wikipedia in his work began to notice something mysterious: a relatively new user on the Russian-language version of the platform was making regular edits to political articles. While the user clearly attempted to dilute the effect of the edits by making politically neutral changes elsewhere, much of the account’s activity was devoted to promoting Russian government figures and adding negative passages to entries about opposition figures.
Soon enough, it became clear that a dozen users were all involved in this effort, making it the largest conspiracy Russian Wikipedia had seen since 2010.
Meduza, an independent-minded online publication, dove into the details of the plot.
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