[WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Mon Mar 14 21:41:06 UTC 2011


>>
>> The Koch brothers are mostly unknown. It is a known fact that they have
>> at
> least one professional PR firm (New Media Strategies) working to monitor
> their Wikipedia presence. That's certainly within their rights, and can
> be
> within the Wikipedia rules. It is Ken's assertion that there are "many
> people highly motivated to write misrepresentations and
> unbalanced articles," though the evidence seems to point to there being
> maybe a handful of such people.

The article "Political activities of the Koch family" does not show that
much activity.

I don't know much about them, but they don't seem to sneak around saying
one thing and doing something else; that cuts way down on the uproar.

Fred





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