Wikimedia Confusion Swirls In Wake of Porn Charges

Contridictory stories are circulating after Fox News's pursuing of Wikimedia Foundation for hosting pornography reportedly resulted in Jimmy Wales personally removing some pornographic material from its servers, then giving up his special editing privileges under pressure. Fox News reported that Wikimedia is "in chaos"; this report was picked up by VentureBeat and others. Wales denies that there is any chaos (any more than usual, that is) at Wikimedia. The Fox News report apparently relied on a single unnamed source, and Wales said, "They don't even bother to contact me before publishing nonsense." The background: on April 27 Fox News published an exclusive report about porn on Wikimedia servers, then followed up by contacting organizations that had donated to Wikimedia to ask them what they thought about it. In the aftermath, Wales took a position in support of purging porn from Wikimedia Commons. This all started when estranged Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger contacted the FBI with an allegation of child porn on Wikipedia.

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Fox News?

[Max Threshold]

Seriously, Jimbo? You let yourself be used as a political pawn by Fox News? Does anyone care about the drivel Fox News spews?

Wait, scratch that. A lot of people care.

Does anyone who matters care about the drivel Fox News spews?

Re:You have to wonder

[pnewhook]

Society needs to issue a restraining order preventing the word "fox" from coming within 50 words of "news". Helps prevent confusion.