Leaked Documents Show Plot to Dox Anonymous Wikipedia Editors Using Hacking and Facial Recognition

[Judi Lynn]

Twitter and Facebook apparently weren't enough.
/ Future Society/ Elon Musk/ The Heritage Foundation/ Wikipedia

Never content to rest on their hoarded wealth, institutional power, and oligarchic control over our government, a growing number of moneyed right-wingers and their influential allies are now targeting the acclaimed online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

Take a recent trove of documents, obtained by the Forward, that reveal plans by right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation to use cyber espionage tactics to "identify and target Wikipedia editors abusing their position by analyzing text patterns, usernames, and technical data."

The influential organization behind Trump's infamous Project 2025 joins a host of groups like the Anti-Defamation League, Accuracy in Media, and the Canary Mission in the practice of "doxxing" individuals they label antisemitic. As Jewish Currents reports, that charge has been increasingly weaponized by right-wing groups in recent months to silence Jewish groups, peace activists, lawyers, and journalists who don't support their political or ideological goals. The Forward — an award-winning Jewish publication — is also suspicious the charge is being deployed overbroadly by the Heritage Foundation to deter fair coverage on Wikipedia of topics including Israel's actions in the Middle East.

In order to wage this doxxing campaign against Wikipedia's editors, the Forward reports, the extremely well-funded think tank is organizing to capture IP addresses, browser fingerprints, device data, geolocations, ISP information, and network details from planted links that log unsecured data. Employees of the Heritage Foundation also shared plans, according to the Forward's reporting, to utilize social engineering through "curated sock puppet accounts to reveal patterns and provoke reactions [and] information disclosure," while cataloging sensitive info through facial recognition software and exploiting "breached datasets for reused names, emails, and online identities."

More:
https://futurism.com/leak-dox-wikipedia

[Skittles]

1. they're holding steady for now

I occasionally send donations because I like to support the platforms I regularly use

[Mosby]

2. Numerous Anti-Israel Wikipedia Editors, Including Instigators Who Targeted ADL, Banned Following Investigation

New York, NY, January 17, 2025 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today welcomed the disciplinary action taken against multiple editors by the Wikipedia arbitration committee in the wake of a massive effort by anti-Israel editors to spread misinformation and hate across the platform.

Among those topic-banned by Wikipedia from the Israel-Palestine discussion were Iskandar323, Selfstudier, Nableezy, Levivich and Nishidani – all of whom ADL has identified as being part of a bad-faith campaign in an attempt to undermine the credibility of ADL.

Another editor, Ivana, who also participated in the campaign against ADL and was caught advocating for editorial changes offline during the bad-faith campaign, was previously banned outright from editing the online encyclopedia.

https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/numerous-anti-israel-wikipedia-editors-including-instigators-who-targeted