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Congress has announced an investigation into Wikipedia. The investigation was triggered in large part by my @PirateWires report from October, "How Wikipedia's Pro-Hamas Editors Hijacked the Israel-Palestine Narrative." The piece shows how 40 anti-Israel editors – the Gang of 40 – made a collective 850,000 edits to 10,000 articles, completely reshaping the PIA (Palestine Israel articles) topic area. The Gang of 40 works to severs historical, spiritual and cultural ties between the land and the Jewish people by removing those ties in articles, from the biggest broad-stroke to the most trivial (seeming) minutiae. The main thrust of the Gang of 40, however, is to paint Israel as a "settler colonial" occupier – a goal is has achieved with surprising success. Four months after my piece came out, Wikipedia's "Supreme Court," ArbCom, held one of its most sweeping arbitration proceedings in years. Six leading editors from the G40 were handed indefinite topic ban. One admin was warned by ArbCom. Another editor, who led the Tech For Palestine canvassing effort, was given a site ban – the most severe punishment Wikipedia can deliver. Make no mistake, though, the Gang of 40 is still working hard to achieve its ideological mission. And it's succeeding beyond even their imagination. I'll have more on that very soon. Note: among the many people taking a victory lap on this, you won't see the single most important figure — my source on this piece. I did have more than one source, but one stands out. They know who they are.

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