Not everyone who strives to navigate the internet without being tracked is up to no good. This is the underlying premise of a qualitative study led by a trio of Drexel University researchers, who set ...

I have been permanently blocked from editing Wikipedia, the website I named and led in 2001. Yes, really. I can hear you asking, “How? What’s going on over there?” The incident reveals something truly ...

Threat Level is one of four finalists in the 2008 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism for our readers' work digging up over 100 self-serving anonymous edits performed by corporations ...

Sick of anonymous users screwing up your hard work on the Wikipedia? Virgil Griffith, a graduate student at Cal Tech, created a tool that identifies anonymous Wikipedia editors based on the digital ...

It's might seem like a House of Cards-like move, but if you've ever been curious about just what, exactly, those on Capitol Hill are editing on Wikipedia, a brand-new Twitter bot is blowing the ...

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Ed Summers, an open source Web developer, recently saw a friend tweet about Parliament WikiEdits, a UK Twitter “bot” that watched for anonymous Wikipedia edits coming from within the British ...