Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident
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wikipedia-seigenthaler-biography-incident-164-17149218
title:
Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident
text:
In May 2005, an unregistered editor posted a hoax article onto Wikipedia about journalist John Seigenthaler. The article falsely stated that Seigenthaler had been a suspect in the assassinations of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. After the hoax was discovered and corrected later in September, Seigenthaler, a friend and aide to Robert Kennedy, wrote in USA Today that the article was "Internet character assassination". The incident raised questions about
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
2005 editorial controversy on Wikipedia
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Seigenthaler_biography_incident
date created:
2005-12-05T19:51:54Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T04:44:00Z
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13
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