A woman wrote 206 interconnected Wikipedia articles in Chinese since 2019 with false accounts of Russian medieval history, one of the largest hoaxes on the site (Rachel Cheung/VICE)




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A woman wrote 206 interconnected Wikipedia articles in Chinese since 2019 with false accounts of Russian medieval history, one of the largest hoaxes on the site  —  She “single-handedly invented a new way to undermine Wikipedia,” says a Wikipedian.  —  RC

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