Vox - People using NYPD computers have made edits to — and even attempted to delete — Wikipedia pages describing cases in which the department's officers were accused of racial bias and brutality in the deaths of black men, according to a Capital New York report.
The publication discovered that these changes were linked to IP addresses connected to the NYPD.
These NYPD-linked users tweaked the language in hundreds of pages, including making changes to entries describing the NYPD-involved deaths of Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo. They made deletions, additions, and word replacements that made the narratives appear more sympathetic to police
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