Wikipedia exposed as a blackmail racket that extorts small businesses while publishing corporate propaganda

Friday, September 4, 2015
By Paul Martin

by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Friday, September 04, 2015

Natural News has long documented the scandal, debauchery and bogusness surrounding the “online encyclopedia” known as Wikipedia – and each time we’ve been proven correct that the media giant is little more than a corrupt operation that has always attempted to downplay or hide its seedy, shady side.

As reported by the UK’s Independent newspaper, hundreds of small British businesses and minor celebrities have been targeted by a high-level blackmail scam that was orchestrated by “rogue editors” at Wikipedia. (Side note: We at Natural News believe if this is happening in Britain, it’s a safe bet to assume it could be happening in others in other nations – just saying.)

The Independent further reported:

The victims, who range from a wedding photographer in Dorset to a high-end jewellery shop in Shoreditch, east London, faced demands for hundreds of pounds to “protect” or update Wikipedia pages about their businesses. A former Britain’s Got Talent contestant was among dozens of individuals targeted.

Wikipedia officials say they have taken action against what the media entity described as the “co-ordinated group” of fraudsters by blocking 381 accounts. They also said that the accounts were controlled by Wikipedia users who had offered to change some articles about companies and private individuals in exchange for money. In some of those cases, requests for money were veiled blackmail threats, Wikipedia said.

The Independent reported that the scam worked thusly: Fraudsters targeted businesses that were struggling to get pages about their firms on Wikipedia (which suggests de facto censorship if anyone has to “struggle” to get on a site advertising itself as a comprehensive, complete encyclopedia). Often, these businesses were rejected over concerns that write-ups were too promotional, though in some cases scammers themselves may have been the ones who caused the articles to be removed.

This episode, like so many before it, is a primary reason why respectable, credible institutions of higher learning (and news media companies) do not use Wikipedia as a “source” – because it is often incorrect, scam-filled are unreliable, and its founders are of questionable character.

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