PatrickByrne writes "This is The Register's world-class investigative piece about one aspect of the meltdown on Wall Street ('naked short selling') and how the criminals engaged a scratcher to distort Wikipedia to confuse the discourse. The article explicitly and formally accuses a common US business journalist, Gary Weiss, of lying about his efforts to distort a Wikipedia page under assumed names, and accuses the Powers That Be in Wikipedia (right up to and including Jimbo Wales) of complicity in protecting Weiss. This is not another story about a 15-year-old farm kid in Iowa pretending to be a professor. This is like the worst Chomskian view of Elites manipulating mass opinion. But it is all documented." We discussed the alleged Wikipedia manipulation when The catalog first wrote about it last December. The submitter is the CEO of Overstock.com and a major player in this drama from the beginning.

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