Wikipedia editors fired en masse for taking payments to secretly promote brands: WIKIPEDIA says it has blocked more than 300 accounts being used by people who are paid to create or tweak entries at the communally sourced online encyclopaedia.
Weeks of investigation revealed 381 accounts were being used at the English version of Wikipedia for “black hat” editing in which people take money to promote outside interests without disclosing they are on someone’s payroll.
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