A Brief History of NRA Employees Editing Wikipedia for Fun and Possibly Profit

[Splinter]( October 8, 2019 [A Brief History of NRA Employees Editing Wikipedia for Fun and Possibly Profit]( [The grammar on Wikipedia’s Holocaust Denial page didn’t fix itself. Someone, perhaps finished with their paperwork for the day but still chained to a desk around 5:40 on a June afternoon, noticed a single missing preposition in their perusal of the page’s 12,000 words. It should have read “in his view,” not “as his view.” As in: In the notorious Holocaust denier Harry Elmer Barnes’s view, Germany never actually desired war, and the slaughtering of 11 million people was, in fact, propaganda used to justify a “war of aggression.” So one enterprising person contributed three bytes to maintain the unity of a sentence and thus correct the record, in whatever small way they could.]( [[House of Representatives](](@feature1LinkUrl) [The Impeachment Plot Thickens Yet Again]( [The congressional impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scandal took another twist on Tuesday, with the chair of the House Intelligence Committee accusing the State Department of withholding potentially incriminating text messages and emails belonging to EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland.]( [[Supreme Court](](@feature2LinkUrl) [The Supreme Court's Landmark LGBTQ Rights Hearing Was Full of Conservative Idiocy]( [The Supreme Court heard arguments today in a set of potentially landmark LGBTQ rights cases. So how did it go? The answer, it seems, is “a hell of a lot shakier than anyone who believes in LGBTQ rights should be comfortable with.”]( [[2020](](@feature3LinkUrl) [This Is the Dumbest Controversy]( [If your sticking point on Elizabeth Warren is that she’s “flip-flopping” on her story about getting fired because of her pregnancy, your head is full of rocks, and if you emptied it out, you’d simply float away.]( [[White House](](@feature4LinkUrl) [Trump Is Making a Huge Mess and No One's Happy]( [Less than 24 hours after threatening to “totally destroy and obliterate” the economy of Turkey if they dare challenge his “great and unmatched wisdom” following his decision to allow them to invade Northern Syria, President Donald Trump praised the country on Tuesday as “good to deal with” and an...]( [[The Discourse](](@feature5LinkUrl) [Ellen Staunchly Defends Her Nauseating Friendship With George W. Bush]( [On Tuesday, Ellen DeGeneres responded to criticism of her revolting appearance with former president and creator of global misery George W. Bush at a Dallas Cowboys game—in private seats which she described as “very fancy.”]( [[2020](](@feature6LinkUrl) [Wall Street Is Legitimately Worried About Warren]( [Much of the business of Wall Street is “managing risk,” and at the moment, analysts agree they have a scary risk named “Elizabeth Warren.”]( [[House of Representatives](](@feature7LinkUrl) [Democrats Can't Stop Trying to Shoot Themselves in the Foot]( [When Nancy Pelosi was finally dragged into launching an impeachment inquiry last month, it felt as though the Democrats had finally turned a corner from talking about the existential threat to the country posed by Trump to acting like they might do something about it. And despite the worries from...]( YOU MAY ALSO LIKE [[Gizmodo](](@rec1LinkUrl) [Instagram Goes Dark]( [Finally, Instagram is going dark.]( [[Kotaku](](@rec2LinkUrl) [Blizzard Subreddit Closes After Devs Suspend Hearthstone Player For Pro-Hong Kong Statements]( [Hearthstone player Chung “blitzchung” Ng Wai recently made waves when, during an official competition, he voiced support for Hong Kong amidst ongoing protests over Chinese rule. He’s since been suspended from competition by Hearthstone developer Blizzard and stripped of his tournament winnings, a move that has been widely criticized. During...]( [[Kotaku](](@rec3LinkUrl) [Blizzard Suspends Hearthstone Player For Hong Kong Support, Pulls Prize Money]( [Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai, a pro Hearthstone player from Hong Kong, ended a stream earlier this week with a statement of support for those engaged in months-long protests against local police and government. As a result of this, Blizzard has ruled that he violated competition rules, and have handed out...]( [[Deadspin](](@rec4LinkUrl) [Who Is Your Favorite Athlete Not On Your Favorite Team?]( [Today, we’re talking about getting eaten by a whale, state names as first names, typos, Hitler, butter knives, and more.]( [[Kotaku](](@rec5LinkUrl) [In Borderlands 3, The Faster You Leave The Starting Area The Better]( [The first few hours of every Borderlands game tend to feel like an uphill grind until you finally unlock better skills and find cooler weapons. Borderlands 3 is no different. But it gets a lot better once you leave Pandora, especially if you want to find a gun that isn’t...]( You made it to the end. Thanks for reading our newsletter! [Visit Splinter]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [Terms of Use]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Profile Center]( © 2019 Gizmodo Media Group 1540 Broadway, 27th Floor New York, NY 10036