Administrators jailed for 32 years, and eight years, as activists warn of ploy to infiltrate website
An investigation by parent body Wikimedia found the Saudi government had penetrated Wikipedia’s senior ranks in the region, two rights groups said.An investigation by parent body Wikimedia found the Saudi government had penetrated Wikipedia’s senior ranks in the region, two rights groups said.Last modified on Thu 5 Jan 2023 20.55 GMTand jailed two administrators in a bid to control content on the website, weeks after a former Twitter worker was jailed in the US for spying for the Saudis.
“Wikimedia’s investigation revealed that the Saudi government had infiltrated the highest ranks in Wikipedia’s team in the region,”Dawn, which is based in Washington DC and was founded by slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and Smex, which promotes digital rights in the Arab world, cited “whistleblowers and trusted sources” for the information.
In an investigation that started last January, Wikimedia said it “was able to confirm that a number of users with close connections with external parties were editing the platform in a coordinated fashion to advance the aim of those parties”. The arrests appeared to be part of a “crackdown on Wikipedia admins in the country”, Dawn and Smex said, naming the two people imprisoned as Osama Khalid and Ziyad al-Sofiani.
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