Wikipedia used to deflect attention from stock manipulation

Wikipedia used to deflect attention from stock manipulation
Submitted by prissears on Thu, 2008-10-02 15:25.

* Evidence

An article from The Register exposes how warnings about widespread stock manipulation schemes were suppressed. One of the methods of suppression was to control the wikipedia entries on "abusive naked short selling"

"Two and a half years ago, Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne penned an editorial for The Wall Street Journal, warning that widespread stock manipulation schemes - including abusive naked short selling - were threatening the health of America's financial markets. But it wasn't published.

"An editor at The Journal asked me to write it, and I told him he wouldn't be allowed to publish it," Byrne says. "He insisted that only he controlled what was printed on the editorial page, so I wrote it. Then, after a few days, he got back to me and said 'It appears I can't run this or anything else you write.'""

[link to www.afterdowningstreet.org]