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By Alex Seitz-Wald
Newt Gingrich loves technology, but apparently it doesnt always love him back enough on its own and sometimes needs encouragement.
Gingrich has already been caught vastly inflating his Twitter following with phony accounts, and now CNN now reports that the campaigns communications director, Joe DeSantis, has been aggressively making dozens of edits of Gingrichs Wikipedia page. DeSantis has attempted to scrub or embellish embarrassing information about Gingrichs marital troubles, House ethics investigation, and $500,000 Tiffany credit line:
Wikipedia records show DeSantis has made over 60 adjustments to entries in the online, publicly-edited encyclopedia to the biographical entry on Gingrich, the similar page on his wife, Callista, and a separate page on one of their books, Rediscovering Good in America. [...]
DeSantis edits, which began in October of 2008, included rewriting, removing, and editing lines, including several edits to references of Gingrichs marriages, according to Wikipedia edit records, which are published and publicly viewable on the site.
While its common for campaigns to monitor and request edits to their candidates Wikipedia pages, whats surprising is the degree to which DeSantis, a senior campaign official, has personally gone to great lengths to micromanage his bosss entry.
Senior Gingrich Campaign Official Scrubbed Infidelity, Tiffany Credit Line From Wikipedia Page | ThinkProgress
Gingrich spokesman defends Wikipedia edits CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs