Russia spotted editing Wikipedia page about downed Malaysia Airlines jet

[Submariner]

http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/18/5917099/russia-spotted-editing-wikipedia-page-of-downed-malaysia-air-jet

Before the edit, the entry read:

The plane [flight MH17] was shot down by terrorists of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic with Buk system missiles, which the terrorists received from the Russian Federation

And after the edit — which occurred about an hour later — it simply said:

The plane [flight MH17] was shot down by Ukrainian soldiers.

The bot that spotted the change is RuGovEdits. Launched just this past weekend, it sends out a tweet when it detects Wikipedia edits made by people using Russian government IP addresses. Similar tools recently launched for the UK Parliament IP block (@parliamentedits), and for the US Congress (@congressedits). None of those can tell you who exactly made the edit, or protect from people using internet proxies, but they work autonomously and at all hours of the day. In this case, the edit has been linked back to someone in Kiev at VGTRK, Russia's state-run TV and radio network.

Sneaky little bastages!

[Peacetrain]

1. They are in full out damage control

Interesting that the ip address linked back to their state run media.. I think they are fanning out all over the internet to try and stop the truth from coming out..but it is too little too late..