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Caught In The Cross Hairs - Media Lens And The Mystery Of The Wikipedia Editor
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2018/884-caught-in-the-cross-hairs-media-lens-and-the-mystery-of-the-wikipedia-editor.htmlDate Written: 2018-10-17 Publisher: Media Lens Year Published: 2018 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX23112 Media Lens investigates the case of "Philip Cross", a person who has made hundreds of thousands of edits to Wikipedia pages in a campain against anti-war activists, critics of British and Western foreign policy as well as Media Lens itself. Abstract: -- Excerpt: Political analyst and former UK British ambassador Craig Murray described the scale of Cross's activities: "Philip Cross" has not had one single day off from editing Wikipedia in almost five years. "He" has edited every single day from 29 August 2013 to 14 May 2018. Including five Christmas Days. That's 1,721 consecutive days of editing. '133,612 edits to Wikipedia have been made in the name of "Philip Cross" over 14 years. That's over 30 edits per day, seven days a week. And I do not use that figuratively: Wikipedia edits are timed, and if you plot them, the timecard for "Philip Cross's" Wikipedia activity is astonishing if it is one individual.' So who is Philip Cross? |