There is another Wikipedia scandal emerging, and it appears our own Senator Larry Craig (or more likely one of his staffers) is involved in it.
Wikipedia is an open-source encyclopedia that is written and policed by community efforts, meaning most anyone can change the information. They have noticed several congressional entries being whitewashed to suppress embarrassing information (like a congressman’s reversal on his own term limits campaign pledge), and to hyper-inflate their accomplishments.
The beautiful thing is that Wikipedia administrators can see the IP address of whoever makes changes to the site, and they noticed most (if not all) of these changes are coming form the IP addresses assigned to the U.S. Congress. This means that congressmen, senators, and/or their staffers are making a concerted effort to change history. If not outright history changes, they are at least polluting a pure source of information with their own subjective and personalized views.
Larry Craig’s page edit was not to the level of outright misinformation, but was accused of having hyper-inflated autobiographical information added to it. Here is the page that lists Craig’s page among the other congressional violations.
Judge for yourself on this matter. I will monitor this and post more as it becomes available.
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