Twitter bot that monitors Wikipedia edits catches Russian TV network in the act.
by Kadhim Shubber July 18 2014, 5:41pm EDT
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The world is still reeling from the shock of the deaths of 298 people on Malaysian flight MH17, which was shot down in Ukraine yesterday, but the battle to write and rewrite history has already begun online.
Thanks to a Twitter bot that monitors Wikipedia edits made from Russian government IP addresses, someone from the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) has been caught editing a Russian-language Wikipedia reference to MH17 in an article on aviation disasters.