heather ford has researched political edits on wikipedia.ve a group of motivated and well resourced people who are taking a particular political line on wikipedia articles that they can very easily overwhelm the volunteer efforts of wikipedia. our own investigation has managed to find nearly 1600 times where across 20 topics or so wikipedia was changed to broadly bring its content closer to the chinese government's line. i tracked down an expert on chinese social media and cybersecurity to give me a broader sense of how this all fitted in. telling the china story has become a really important concept and idea in the last couple of years in chinese politics. they think that the rest of the world has wrong views of them misunderstands them and in order to do good politics for them they need to project a good image. looking at the articles on the recent protests in hong kong the english and chinese versions are completely different from one another. this time the edit war between a couple of editors saw 52 changes in the space of a single day a

heather ford isn't surprised at all to see the states might be getting involved.urprised it's taken this long actually. i mean when you consider the fact that wikipedia is not only the most popular website in the world. when you ask siri or you ask google questions now using the knowledge engine is from wikipedia. so it is a prioritized source of knowledge and facts about the world. and if you can influence that then you are you have you are influencing how people are understanding and perceiving what the truth is. that is fascinating stuff. and carl's with me now in our underground bunker somewhere. carl, how sure can we be that these manipulations are being done under instruction from the chinese state? and also how sure can we be that it is really widespread. we know there were 1500 tendentious edits in our own investigation across roughly 20 different wikipedia entries and we know that all of them pointed in certain ways towards chinese geopolitical interests as far as we can tell. well we do not know is who was behind these edits. we don't know why. in fact t

heather ford has researched political edits on wikipedia. group of motivated and well—resourced people who are taking a particular political line on wikipedia articles, that they can very easily overwhelm the volunteer efforts of wikipedia. our own investigation has managed to find nearly 1,600 times where, across 20 topics or so, wikipedia was changed to broadly bring its content closer to the chinese government's line. i tracked down an expert on chinese social media and cybersecurity to give me a broader sense of how this all fitted in. telling the china story has become a really important concept and idea in the last couple of years in chinese politics. they think that the rest of the world has wrong views of them, misunderstands them, and in order to do good politics for them, they need to project a good image. looking at the articles on the recent protests in hong kong, the english and chinese versions are completely different from one another. this time, the edit war between a couple of editors saw 52 changes in the space of a single

heather ford has researched political edits on wikipedia.erwhelm the volunteer efforts of wikipedia. our own investigation has managed to find nearly 1,600 times where, across 20 topics or so, wikipedia was changed to broadly bring its content closer to the chinese government's line. i tracked down an expert on chinese social media and cybersecurity to give me a broader sense of how this all fitted in. telling the china story has become a really important concept and idea in the last couple of years in chinese politics. they think that the rest of the world has wrong views of them, misunderstands them, and in order to do good politics for them, they need to project a good image. looking at the articles on the recent protests in hong kong, the english and chinese versions are completely different from one another. this time, the edit war between a couple of editors saw 52 changes in the space of a single day, arguing over the goals of the protesters, and small language tweaks constantly, such as whether they were protesters or, infact, rioter

heather ford has researched political edits on wikipedia.as managed to find nearly 1600 times where across 20 topics or so wikipedia was changed to broadly bring its content closer to the chinese government's line. i tracked down an expert on chinese social media and cybersecurity to give me a broader sense of how this all fitted in. telling the china story has become a really important concept and idea in the last couple of years in chinese politics. they think that the rest of the world has wrong views of them, misunderstands them, and in order to do good politics 00:53:28,901 --> 2147483052:03:29,166 for them 2147483052:03:29,166 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 they need to project a good image. looking at the articles on the recent protests in hong kong, the english and chinese versions are completely different from one another. this time the edit war between a couple of editors saw 52 changes in the space of a single day, arguing over the goals of the protesters and small language tweaks constantly, such as whether they were protesters or in f