Saturday, August 30, 2008

Does Wikipedia Play a Role in The Presidential Election? Someone Named "Young Trigg" Appears to Think So!



An individual identified as "Young Trigg" made over 30 changes to the Wikipedia entry of Sarah Palin on the day before her nomination was announced.

Trigg BTW is the name of one of her sons. The 5 month old one. Young Trigg joined the day the edits were made, and made edits only to this entry.

Manipulation of Wikipedia entries is of course nothing new.For people or companies or countries or parties or I expect politicians, "Young Trigg" is clearly not her 5 month old son.

But whoever Young Trigg is, it points to the importance of digital info sources in all decision making, including apparently the Vice Presidency.

If you would like to see a list of Young Trigg's edits, you can find it here.

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