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WikiCensor: Wikipedia violates own rule, censors, blocks ITS EDITORS

By Paul Bedard

Published April 15, 2016 9:31pm ET

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WikiCensor: Wikipedia violates own rule, censors, blocks ITS EDITORS — In this Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013 photo, Maia Weinstock, of Cambridge, Mass., a Brown University graduate, works on her computer during a Wikipedia "edit-a-thon," on the Brown campus, in Providence, R.I. They held the event, which brought together dozens of people to train them on how to add and edit pages to Wikipedia, to coincide with Ada Lovelace Day, an annual observance started in Great Britain in 2009 to highlight women in technology and named for the English mathematician who died in 1852. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) | Steven Senne

Wikipedia, the so-called people’s encyclopedia that strives for even-handedness, “often” is edited with an agenda and retaliates against editors who see problems with entries by blocking their IP address, according to a new investigative report.

This Sunday’s “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” includes two “Wikipedia insiders” who detail the retaliation, information control and conflicts of interest by the website, one of the most important on the web.

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