An anonymous user tried unsuccessfully to remove a reference to “torture” from a Wikipedia article on the Senate’s report on the CIA’s clandestine interrogation program from an IP address registered to the chamber.
The Twitter account @congressedits, which has been automatically tweeting edits to Wikipedia pages made from IP addresses in Congress since last summer, caught two attempts on Tuesday and Wednesday:
Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture Wikipedia article edited anonymously from US Senate http://t.co/Bj4q8Naed1
— congress-edits (@congressedits) December 9, 2014
Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture Wikipedia article edited anonymously from US Senate http://t.co/gCbKRlBvdw
— congress-edits (@congressedits) December 10, 2014
The user tried to remove a line describing so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” as a “euphemism for torture.”
Mashable pointed out that in both instances, the anonymous editor explained that the revision was intended to remove bias from the article. Both attempts to edit the article were blocked.
