The accounts in question were accepting money to promote external interests without revealing their affiliation. Wikipedia has blocked nearly 400 user accounts for what it calls "black hat" editing.

Online encyclopedia reveals it banned hundreds of accounts as part of an investigation into "suspicious edits and sockpuppetry" that promoted organizations or products. Steven Musil is a senior news ...

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Update: Turns out it was a simple misunderstanding. Larry Sanger told TNW he accidentally logged in with the wrong username of and older account. Wikipedia spokesperson said the older account had been ...

Taha Yasseri receives funding from the European Commission. Wikipedia has become one of the most highly linked-to websites on the internet, with countless others using it as a reference. But it can be ...

I get a kick out of social scientists who embed themselves among street gangs, crack dealers, or female impersonators, in the name of decoding weird subcultures. Business professors rarely do anything ...

Editors of the English version of Wikipedia have blocked 381 user accounts for editing articles on the online encyclopedia despite being secretly paid to do so by various interests. The editors also ...

Ten user accounts linked to controversial PR agency Bell Pottinger have been suspended by Wikipedia after they were caught rewriting clients entries on the crowd sourced encyclopaedia. The Independent ...