EA Caught Fiddling Wikipedia
A number of reports are going around the gaming community about an EA staffer changing some entires to Wikipedia in favor of EA.
…a number of areas on EA’s Wikipedia page that have been altered in the past to apparently erase Hawkins’ legacy.
Not only that, but ‘clean up’ alterations were made to the page - again allegedly by an EA staffer - to remove negative entries focussing on controversial business practices and the publisher’s previous attitude to its workers.
This is a small nail in EAs coffin for consumer who don’t like the 800 pound giants. Maybe the person knew that Wikipedia tracks all IPs and maybe they didn’t, but everyone knows you shouldn’t try and change history. There won’t be much backlash from this and most people will forget that this happened in a month, but I can’t help but wonder if this was worth the rewards received from doing this.
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