Political Editing

On Monday last week the Daily Telegraph reported about abuse of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia by organisations editing entries in order to promote themselves and rubbish their opponents. The Plaid Cymru entry is often changed to include a claim that it supported Hitler during the second world war and that it is a fascist party.

The Telegraph reported that one of the organisations that have abused the site in this way is the Labour Party. In today's edition the Labour supporting newspaper Scotland on Sunday has lifted the story, but has edited out every reference to the Labour party :-)