Paid Wikipedia Editor Sanitizes the Page of Biden Coronavirus Czar Jeffrey Zients
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T.D. Adler
8 Dec 2020
Politico
reported last Thursday that a paid editor earlier this year had scrubbed and fluffed the Wikipedia page for Jeffrey Zients, an adviser to former Vice President Joe Biden recently named as the “Coronavirus Czar” for the prospective Biden Administration, to burnish his progressive credentials. The company behind the edits did not disclose their connection to Zients at the time as required by the site’s Terms of Use, and the account used for the edits has since been banned from Wikipedia by a site administrator.
The effort to sanitize the Biden adviser’s page is merely the latest case of Wikipedia editors with conflicts of interest editing articles on prominent Democrats to burnish their images. Biden’s Vice Presidential choice, Kamala Harris, also notably saw her Wikipedia page
sanitized earlier this year by an organizer for her campaign.
Zients was recently
announced by Biden to be his choice as the coordinator of his Administration’s response to the ongoing coronavirus . . .
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