Online encyclopedia reveals it banned hundreds of accounts as part of an investigation into "suspicious edits and sockpuppetry" that promoted organizations or products. Steven Musil is a senior news ...

The accounts in question were accepting money to promote external interests without revealing their affiliation. Wikipedia has blocked nearly 400 user accounts for what it calls "black hat" editing.

Update: Turns out it was a simple misunderstanding. Larry Sanger told TNW he accidentally logged in with the wrong username of and older account. Wikipedia spokesperson said the older account had been ...

Wikipedia said that it has blocked more than 300 accounts being used by people being paid to create or tweak entries at the communally sourced online encyclopedia. Weeks of investigation revealed 381 ...

Taha Yasseri receives funding from the European Commission. Wikipedia has become one of the most highly linked-to websites on the internet, with countless others using it as a reference. But it can be ...

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Editors of the English version of Wikipedia have blocked 381 user accounts for editing articles on the online encyclopedia despite being secretly paid to do so by various interests. The editors also ...

The investigation — called "Orangemoody," after the first account editors discovered — focused on a series of accounts running what sounds like a protection racket. The "sock puppet" accounts would ...