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Lawsuit: Wikipedia Shields Online ‘Trolls’ Pushing Malicious Smear Campaign

‘If you want to know the truth about Mr. Kavanaugh, do not read his Wikipedia page.’

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Decorated film producer Ryan Kavanaugh is suing Wikimedia Foundation for allegedly protecting two “trolls” who were paid to wage an online smear campaign that Kavanaugh claims cost him more than $1 billion.

Wikipedia is already facing renewed scrutiny after it banned its own founder for protesting the site’s allowance of “ideologically motivated bullies” and anti-free speech policies. Kavanaugh’s lawsuit, filed in February, accuses the organization of allowing paid bullies to attack a man with false or misleading information while operating under the guise of being a “trustworthy” source.

“If you want to know the truth about Mr. Kavanaugh, do not read his Wikipedia page,” Kavanaugh’s legal filing claims. “It does not contain the truth. Instead, it has been vandalized by online trolls, who worked for years as Wikipedia ‘editors’ to reshape Kavanaugh’s page.”

In 2021, a YouTuber named Ethan Klein falsely believed that Kavanaugh was financing a copyright lawsuit against him. In what Klein referred to as a successful “largescale concerted effort to destroy his Wikipedia,” he paid two Wikipedia editors to “vandalize” Ryan Kavanaugh’s personal Wikipedia page, the lawsuit says. Their edits “focused specifically on inserting, amplifying, or emphasizing negative content.”

Kavanaugh claims this vandalism lost him several major financial opportunities, costing him more than $1 billion in potential earnings.

In a declaration made under oath, Klein admitted that these changes “were not based on fact,” and........

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