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<p>Did you know that large companies, as well as government and public organizations have been editing unfavorable info in articles relating to them? Like for example FBI editing the Guantanamo page?</p>

<p>Here’s the full story
<a href=“http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker[/url]”>http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>and here are the “hot” edited articles
<a href=“http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/wikiwatch/[/url]”>http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/wikiwatch/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>“Wal-Mart -which does, for the record, source 70% of its products from China- deleted that inconvenient fact from its own page, replacing it with a fact that emphasizes its American products instead. Pathetic.”</p>

<p>:P</p>

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<p>I find this very funny, yet not all that surprising either.</p>

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<p>I think we should start CCpedia :D</p>

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<p>SOO???</p>

<p>whats not to love about GITMO!!! Its a resort!</p>

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<p>Why should this be unexpected? Who would do differently?</p>

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<p>they get good health care in guantanamo . lol.</p>

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<p>What’s wrong with you? Stating what is clearly obvious is always entertaining. Oh my God. A company wants to protect itself, so it edits negative information on Wikipedia. OH MY GOD. What’s going to happen next? People want to protect themselves from the rain so they pull out umbrellas? OH MY GOD. What’s the world coming to?!</p>

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<p>FNC did this bullsh* too, and then when they got caught, they aired a a 10 minute segment on it talking about “evil” companies who do this crap, then they turn around and disparage wiki.</p>

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<p>Well, they can, sooo…</p>

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<p>Wikipedia is not used as a proper source…so who cares?</p>

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<p>Well they change it but it gets changed back a lot of the time…</p>

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<p>Just like everything else, wikipedia will be ruined by corporations, just you watch.</p>