Someone From Congress Anonymously Updated Wikipedia Entries for Gateway Pundit, Salon

Evidently updating Wikipedia entries on media organizations is a thing on Capitol Hill today.

Twitter users may or may not be familiar with @Congressedits, the accountability bot that announces when Wikipedia gets anonymously edited by someone with a Congressional IP address. The bot has tracked Congress workers over the years whenever they edited entries about scandals, controversies, and even the occasional random stuff like this:

Captain Planet and the Planeteers Wikipedia article edited anonymously from US Senate https://t.co/fXX2AI5PNa

— congress-edits (@congressedits) February 17, 2017

Today, as it were, @Congressedits has picked up on the moments when two very different news sources were edited from someone working in the U.S. Capitol.

The first edit was made for Wikipedia’s article on The Gateway Pundit, where the entry describes it as a right-leaning outlet that is known for using controversial elements in their reporting. This softens the site’s previous description, where Gateway Pundit was categorized as a pro-President Trump website that pushes hoaxes.

Gateway Pundit Wikipedia article edited anonymously from US Senate https://t.co/aoGxE3bRUC

— congress-edits (@congressedits) March 6, 2017

The second edit was made to Salon‘s entry, where the online magazine was described as being “extremely biased” in addition to being “progressive and left-leaning.”

Salon (website) Wikipedia article edited anonymously from US Senate https://t.co/PThATCgLaO

— congress-edits (@congressedits) March 6, 2017

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