{"id":2890,"date":"2023-11-27T08:29:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T08:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/saudi-arabia-government-infiltrates-wikipedia-and-jails-two-staff-to-control-narrative\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T08:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T08:29:40","slug":"saudi-arabia-government-infiltrates-wikipedia-and-jails-two-staff-to-control-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/saudi-arabia-government-infiltrates-wikipedia-and-jails-two-staff-to-control-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia government &#8216;infiltrates&#8217; Wikipedia and jails two staff to &#8216;control narrative&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n        Two Saudi Wikipedia administrators were jailed for 32 years and eight years in government efforts to control information, say NGOs.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad-halfpage u-show-for-small-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-180x22-grey-6.svg\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Saudi Arabian authorities have &#8220;infiltrated&#8221; Wikipedia and convicted two administrators in an attempt to control the site&#8217;s editorial content, according to two non-governmental organisations (NGOs).<\/p>\n<p>It comes weeks after a US court sentenced a former Twitter employee to three and a half years in prison for spying for Saudi officials.<\/p>\n<p>Two organisations, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) and SMEX, based in Washington and Beirut respectively, said in a joint statement that &#8220;the Saudi Arabian government infiltrated Wikipedia by recruiting the organization&#8217;s highest-ranked administrators in the country&#8230; to control information about the country and prosecuting those who contributed critical information about political detainees&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The NGOs said they had evidence of Wikipedia&#8217;s penetration by the Saudi government based on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2023\/01\/06\/saudi-arabia-government-infiltrates-wikipedia-and-jails-two-staff-to-control-narrative\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Saudi Wikipedia administrators were jailed for 32 years and eight years in government efforts to control information, say NGOs. ADVERTISEMENT Saudi Arabian authorities have &#8220;infiltrated&#8221; Wikipedia and convicted two administrators in an attempt to control the site&#8217;s editorial content, according to two non-governmental organisations (NGOs). It comes weeks after a US court sentenced a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}