The people who censored Gamergate on Wikipedia were working for Russia and Saudi Arabia

[hyatt]

As they say, follow the money. There are Russian oligarchs with a lot of money:

Meet the Russian Billionaires that Took on BP and Won.

Herman Gref: CEO of Sberbank, Russian trade minister, and board member of the World Economic Forum

American Billionaires Vanish From Russian Fund's Website (right when Gamergate happened)

International Advisory Board: Leonard Blavatnik School of Government

Edelman names Stan Polovets (of Alfa Group) as New Regional Chairman in Russia

This last one leads to...

The Edelman Dig

Edelman senior account supervisor for social strategy Adam Rosenberg was part of the New Organizing Institute, a large number of Democratic Party campaign staff working for the AFL-CIO. Edelman was at this time taking orders from Russia (see Polovets above) and from Omar Qirem of Edelman Saudi Arabia. So when PR orders came in to Edelman from Russia and Saudi Arabia, Rosenberg could distribute these orders to the other campaign staffers that he had been working with for a decade. These included:

* Ari Rabin-Havt of the Democratic National Committee
* Taryn Rosenkranz of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
* The Arab American Institute which is the vehicle that brought Rashida Tlaib into Congress
* Amanda Michel of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and also The Guardian's Senior Editor for Strategy and Partnerships. As was observed, everything links back to The Guardian.
* Blue State Digital which is sponsored by Anil Dash who is known for racketeering
* Win Without War which signed a Letter of Solidarity Standing With NIAC which is a known front for the Iranian govenrment
* Zach Exley of the Ruckus Society which advocates for violent "direct action" campaigns, and who was the Chief Community Officer for Wikipedia starting in 2010.
* Eli Pariser, a co-founder of the Avaaz movement that is run by the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office as a front for Hamas. He is also a member of the Tech Advisory Board of the Anti-Defamation League with Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman, Facebook VP Guy Rosen, Crowdstrike president and former FBI Executive Assistant Director Shawn Henry, and Craig Newmark of Craigslist who is a member of the US-Palestinian Partnership.

Some of the Wikipedia staff were working for George Soros's Open Society Institute. The significance of this is who Soros was working for.

* Soros was partnered with Igor Ivanov of the Russian Federation, the Russian-controlled African National Congress party (ANC), Wadah Khanfar the head of Qatari state media Al-Jazeera, and multiple other foreign powers.
* The chairman emeritus of the Soros organization was partnered with Qatar.
* Soros's senior advisors include Prince Turki the former head of Saudi Intelligence

[Bbb23sucks]

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Thanks for the really good effortpost! Though, could you possibly give any explanation as to why they would do such a thing? What strategic benefit would it create?

[hyatt]

What strategic benefit would it create?

Simple, they scan everyone's internet histories to identify and get rid of Americans who would resist a foreign takeover of the United States. Everyone organizing under the #gamergate hashtag on Twitter would have made it easy for the co-author of Finding News Curators in Twitter and Transient News Crowds in Social Media to identify them, then they could be bulk-added to the GIFCT database by Sir Nick Clegg to remove them from multiple internet services at once. So that's what all of the money spent on "counter-terrorism" was used for.

[ericbarbour]

* Amanda Michel of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Heh heh, ask me about the Berkman Center sometime.

Executive Assistant Director Shawn Henry, and Craig Newmark of Craigslist who is a member of the US-Palestinian Partnership

Same for Newmark. He is a slime, I tell people he's a slime--they refuse to believe me.

None of this surprises me. American nonprofits need money and Russian and Saudi billionaires are willing to pass out money, in return for "small favors". It's how this "capitalist" country works. Or pretends to work. And you just HAVE to expect that the WMF would fill up with greasy little political operatives. It's that kind of nonprofit.

Exley was only there for 3 years . Resume padding, maybe. As least he got a nice WP bio out of it. Because he WROTE IT HIMSELF.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_Exley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wikitedium