• MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social
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    24 小时前

    You could, but it would be reverted within 24 hours.

    And by hours I mean minutes.

    Perhaps even seconds if it’s during CET waking hours.

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      21 小时前

      It depends al lot in the subject and the amount of people with some knowledge about it. About hitler it would last only a very short time, but there have been prank pages that survived for months

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        12 小时前

        True. I was thinking about the Hitler one in particular, as I’m sure someone would quickly notice such an extensive edit on such a notable topic.

        In fact, I wonder if there are bots or something for detecting these edits…

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      17 小时前

      But by that time, the network had been active for almost a decade and had been able to make some considerable changes to the public record.

      Plenty of examples like this.
      Wikipedia is manipulated garbage on anything with political relevance.
      IDK why people keep defending it.