Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism
https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedia-antisemitism/
https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedia-antisemitism/
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Technical Fingerprinting (Controlled Domain Redirects):
*Controlled Links: Use redirects to capture IP addresses, browser fingerprints, and device data through a combination of in browser fingerprinting scripts and HTML5 canvas techniques.
->Covert snooping, not just edit history.
And the SE includes the proudly admitted use of sockpuppets.
I repeat: opposing the current government of Israel does not make me anti-semitic, just as opposing MAGA does not make me anti-English speakers.
Hopefully Wikipedia (and Bluesky) can hold the line.
Tech bros might chip in, but not because of the "antisemitism."
But they don't, they follow Milton Friedman instead.
"If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven."
And I did nothing, for I was not a pro-palestine Wikipedia editor.
So of course Elon and other right wing billionaires want to destroy it.
That being said, the information is still useful to the general public.
You can't use it as a primary source, because you can't use any ENCYCLOPEDIA as a primary source, but to say it's forbidden to use Wikipedia in a university setting is nonsense.
So many levels of creep with that guy.
Fascism is multi-faceted.
A tentacled assistant, the Heritage Foundation, is despicable.
And pls help Wikipedia!
Attacking these people is attacking truth itself.
#DemLeadersRMissing
WHY????
https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/wikipedia-entries-show-anti-israel-bias-says-wjc
“It’s scary they want to do this, but it’s not a ‘zero day,’” Kelly said in an interview, referring to the most dangerous type of hacking.
Because it is bad and it is scary and it is dangerous, but it also highlights these dangers as ones that editors already deal with.
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/01/07/internet-archive-wayback-machine-copyright-lawsuit
So hundreds of posts DATED over years, but only appearing on the day they needed a patsy?
https://web.archive.org/web/*/twitter.com/ryanrouth/*
Maybe that's another reason they want Archive gone.
Someone in a back room somewhere identified Wikipedia as a threat and marshaled the right-wing ecosystem to neutralize it
We should focus on rooting out the puppet masters. Russia? Broligarchs? Christofascists?
https://bsky.app/profile/merryrobin.bsky.social/post/3kz7vtxh3gs2g
They don't care about anything but their prophecies.
Then shocked pikachu face when Wiki gets shut down for “promoting hate speech.”
https://forward.com/news/680626/project-esther-heritage-jewish-conspiracy-antisemitism/
https://forward.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Heritage-Wikipedia-Oversight-Project-Forward.pdf
Digging a little more, there's definitely concern here but there are more steps Wiki editors can take in order to stay "sterile" while updating.
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/web-tracking-protections/#fingerprinting-protection
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Fingerprinting-Protections
Zionism got the Jews to leave Germany.
Anti-Zionism IS anti-semitism
People think that's what it always meant, and it isn't.
American Jews have self determination in the USA as does every American citizen with the right to vote
You are part of the problem, and your post is itself in bad faith.
Nothing illegal has to be wrong, and right isn’t necessarily legal.
The entire goal will now be to deify and protect the ultra-wealthy.
Most poor folks will happily participate.
“Illegal” is only what the wealthy do not like, already.
A far right extremist group with a fortune to spend targets and harass juridically people who edit Wikipedia, while they also pay for "respectable names" to edit in their favor so they can alter history.
They are called Brasil Paralelo.
antizionism is not antisemtism.
zionism holds judaism as a human shield hostage.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/texas-school-district-pulls-anne-franks-diary-after-right-wing-groups-complaint/
There are other ways to prove it’s you after the fact.
Camp (yes yes, definitely concentration camp) changed to "prison"
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Bereza_Kartuska_Detention_Camp&redirect=no
When they start losing the argument, they work to shut down the conversation. Debates, social media, interviews, person to person, the second they realize they can't win, they'll do their damnedest to make sure nobody does.
And the morons/bots/trolls all clap like good lemmings.
https://bsky.app/profile/nats44.bsky.social/post/3lfbsho626c22
Obvi, doxing and this is not ok
Doxxing the employees to make them MAGA targets should make them liable for any and all negative impacts to these editors.
though tbh, 🌎🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
🤨🍿I hope so.
@wikimedia.bsky.social needs to take steps to protect its editors' privacy.
https://bsky.app/profile/ahsokatano00.bsky.social/post/3lgidatlrrk2p
how do we effectively protect the wiki editors AND waste the time of those witch-hunting?
Do you think they 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 they're evil?
It's 1984. They want to own the "truth" so 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 get to define it.
#resist
People get hurt.
Wikipedia is still the same bad joke as it was on day one.
😎
"Employees of Heritage ... said they plan to use facial recognition software and a database of hacked usernames and passwords in order to identify contributors ... who mostly work under pseudonyms."
I suggest reading the article. (not snarking!)
And, here's the link to PowerPoint which seems very profesh.
https://forward.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Heritage-Wikipedia-Oversight-Project-Forward.pdf
This stuff is really disturbing is all I really have to say.
I wonder if the Heritage Foundation or their minions are doing illegal things or are planning to.
I was trying to use the words in parens as a parenthetical aside. As in your next step (sincerely) is probably reading this and then the ppt in that order.
I chose the wording very poorly. I'm sorry!
These volunteers don’t deserve this
Description of the techniques they are using. This describes textual analyses as well as behaviors, like when they work and how.
"HUMINT" is a phrase straight out of military intelligence circles.
I don't fully grasp this. I'd imagine Technical Fingerprinting requires inducing a person to click links in order to get the information they're seeking.
HUMINT techniques described require people to directly engage the person to try to get them to disclose info.
Then, it needed a reboot to install, so it first slowed & fragged the device to get a reboot.
But now keystroke hackers could easily be camoflaged as cookies.
using professional spy tactics on ordinary people doing nothing wrong and trying to do good.
PimEyes is Facial Recognition. Thomson Reuters & Moody's are data sources. elastic is AI for search. Dehashed searches data that has been become public via hacks or leaks. InGrav claims to have social media data on 1.12 billion people in 200 nations.
You can protest this.
This is dystopia.