{"id":3206,"date":"2011-12-13T16:54:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T23:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disruptionblog.com\/?p=3206"},"modified":"2011-12-13T16:54:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T23:54:58","slug":"wikipedia-investigates-pr-firm-bell-pottingers-edits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2011\/12\/13\/wikipedia-investigates-pr-firm-bell-pottingers-edits\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia investigates PR firm Bell Pottinger&#8217;s edits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia has suspended at least 10 accounts linked to the public relations firm Bell Pottinger as it investigates allegations of content manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>The online encyclopaedia&#8217;s founder Jimmy Wales told the BBC the lobbyists had &#8220;embarrassed their clients&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said a team of volunteers was looking at possible breaches of conflict of interest guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Bell Pottinger admitted to editing entries, but said it had &#8220;never done anything illegal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wales said he was &#8220;highly critical of their ethics&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-16084861\">BBC News &#8211; Wikipedia investigates PR firm Bell Pottinger&#8217;s edits<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia has suspended at least 10 accounts linked to the public relations firm Bell Pottinger as it investigates allegations of content manipulation. The online encyclopaedia&#8217;s founder Jimmy Wales told the BBC the lobbyists had &#8220;embarrassed their clients&#8221;. He said a team of volunteers was looking at possible breaches of conflict of interest guidelines. Bell Pottinger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2011\/12\/13\/wikipedia-investigates-pr-firm-bell-pottingers-edits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wikipedia investigates PR firm Bell Pottinger&#8217;s edits<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}