Yesterday the site Pirate Wires published an interesting story about an unknown group of Wikipedia editors who have worked, seemingly in coordination, to rewrite and revise articles about Hamas, Israel and the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As the article points out, this matters because Google gives Wikipedia articles automatic top billing on any search related to these topics. As a result, the desire to shape what these articles say has become extremely contentious.
Led by around 40 mostly veteran editors, the campaign has worked to delegitimize Israel, present radical Islamist groups in a favorable light, and position fringe academic views on the Israel-Palestine conflict as mainstream…
One of the most prominent members of the pro-Palestine group is the user Iskandar323, a prolific editor whose nuanced approach to historical and even esoteric…
