@Congressedits nabs Wikipedia change calling Snowden 'American traitor'

Source: Ars Technica

The new bot @Congressedits, which tweets anonymous Wikipedia edits made from Capitol Hill, discovered one of its most substantial revisions on Tuesday. The program listens for Wikipedia changes stemming from Congressional IP address ranges, and it auto-tweeted about an alteration to the page for Navi Pillay, the United Nation's High Commissioner on Human Rights.

The 33-word revision to the page for Pillay added that the commissioner has received "criticism for reffering (sic) to Edward Snowden, the American traitor who defected to Russia, as a 'Human Rights Defender' and saying that he should not face trial for his crimes." The month before, Pillay made headlines when she said Snowden "should be seen as a human rights defender," and "We owe a great deal to him for revealing this kind of information."

Read more: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/congressedits-nabs-wikipedia-change-calling-snowden-american-traitor/