MH17 Wikipedia entry edited from Russian government IP address
Russian motives questioned after Wikipedia edit changes about who is responsible for airliner crash.
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The MH17 plane crash made waves on Wikipedia after an IP address reportedly belonging to the Russian government edited a Wikipedia entry related to the airliner.
The entry on the Russian-language version of Wikipedia was changed by someone using an IP address belonging to VGTRK, a television and radio network run by the Russian government.
The edit was caught by the Twitterbot @RuGovEdits. Launched last week, the account sends out a notification whenever it detects edits to Wikipedia pages made by people using Russian government IP addresses.
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Published On 21 Jul 2014