Investigation concludes Saudi Arabia infiltrated Wikipedia with agents to control content
Saudi Arabia infiltrated Wikipedia by recruiting the organisation's highest-ranked administrators in the country as government agents, in a bid to control content on the website, activists said Thursday, citing the investigation. Wikimedia, the parent company of Wikipedia, terminated all of its administrators in Saudi Arabia in December after an internal investigation. “Wikimedia’s investigation revealed that the Saudi government had infiltrated the highest ranks in Wikipedia’s team in the region,” Democracy […]
