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News Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism
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Fast Forward Wikipedia’s operator rejects Jewish groups’ call to override editors on ADL trustworthiness
More than 40 Jewish groups told the Wikimedia Foundation that the decision to label the Anti-Defamation League “unreliable” makes the Jewish community less safe
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Opinion ‘Does anybody question the NAACP?’: The ADL head thinks Wikipedia is biased. Is he right?
Jonathan Greenblatt speaks out over the site’s controversial decision to question his organization's reliability as a source
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Opinion Wikipedia called the ADL ‘unreliable.’ It’s a wake-up call the civil rights organization badly needs
The designation reveals long-standing contradictions in one of the most storied American civil rights organizations
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Fast Forward ADL faces Wikipedia ban over reliability concerns on Israel, antisemitism
Wikipedia editors argued that ADL tends to label legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitism
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News Conservative Israeli think tank uses fake accounts to skew Wikipedia
Kohelet Policy Forum worker secretly operated five 'sock puppet' accounts, skewing debates and articles about Israel’s judicial overhaul and other contentious issues
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Opinion To fix Wikipedia’s Holocaust denial, we must start by naming names
Anonymity on the do-it-yourself encyclopedia fuels constant misinformation
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Opinion The shocking truth about Wikipedia’s Holocaust disinformation
Why Wikipedia cannot be trusted: It repeatedly allows rogue editors to rewrite Holocaust history and make Jews out to be the bad guys
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