NYTimes - Rewriting History: Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar [clip-h]

thought this was interesting in relation to traceability of internet info. and also defamatory websites...

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NYTimes - Rewriting History: Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/weekinreview/04seelye.html

 

FALSE WITNESS How true are "facts" online?

 

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

Published: December 4, 2005

 

ACCORDING to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, John Seigenthaler Sr. is 78 years old and the former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville. But is that information, or anything else in Mr. Seigenthaler's biography, true?

 

The question arises because Mr. Seigenthaler recently read about himself on Wikipedia and was shocked to learn that he "was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John and his brother Bobby."....