Published time: August 06, 2013 16:17
Edited time: August 07, 2013 14:14
Edited time: August 07, 2013 14:14
The Wikipedia page for the man responsible for leaking classified National Security Agency files to the media has been updated hundreds of times since he started sharing sensitive documents in early June, but one of those revisions — and a questionable one at that — comes courtesy of someone in the United States Senate.
On Friday, someone logged into Wikipedia and changed a line in Snowden’s biography from "American dissident” to "American traitor.” Joe Klock at The Daily Dot website was the first one to report on the edit, and quickly noticed that the revision was made from a computer connected to the Internet from within the walls of a US Senate building.
The word change only stayed on the Snowden page for around one minute, but it still managed to create quite a stir.
On a discussion page for the entry, one Wikipedia editor confirmed that the change was made by someone with access to a Senate computer.
“The edit was made by this IP and the IP does belong to the US Senate. The edit was reverted within 1 minute due to the fact that it does not reflect a neutral point of view which is one of the Five Pillars that governs how Wikipedia operates. In that way, Wikipedia not only performed as it should but it did so incredibly quickly,” the post reads.
Nailing the perpetrator responsible for that single edit will likely be task all too impossible, though. While the IP address behind the change is indeed registered to the Senate, it isn’t restricted to one particular user.
“If the agency or facility uses proxy servers, this IP address may represent many users at many personal computers or devices,” the discussion page acknowledges.
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