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Prominent Palestinian News Agency Quds News Network (QNN) faces it is facing a “new cyberattack” on Wikipedia

By Kouthar Sambo Prominent Palestinian News Agency Quds News Network (QNN) said it is facing, what it describes as a "new cyberattack" on Wikipedia. According to the agency, a team of Wikipedia editors linked to Israel attempted to discredit the Agency's credibility by distorting the description of the network and misrepresenting what it truly stands for. "This could adversely affect the network’s ability to effectively reach its Palestinian, Arab, and […]

today9 December 2023

International

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 […]

today6 January 2023

International News

Turkey lifts ban on Wikipedia

Turkey has restored access to online encyclopedia Wikipedia after the official publication of a Constitutional Court ruling that the more than two-year block was a violation of freedom of expression. The detailed version of the ruling published in the Official Gazette on Wednesday opened the way for an end to the ban put in place in April 2017. Ankara has accused Wikipedia of being part of a "smear campaign" against […]

today16 January 2020

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