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  • 2020-02-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Someone Edit Michael Bloomberg’s Wikipedia Page to Say He... (en)
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  • Did Someone Edit Michael Bloomberg’s Wikipedia Page to Say He ‘Died’ of Wounds Inflicted by Elizabeth Warren? Claim During the February 19 2020 Democratic debate, a Wikipedia user edited candidate Michael Bloomberg's page to make a tongue-in-cheek reference to an interaction with fellow Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren. Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting During a particularly contentious Democratic debate on February 19 2020, rumors circulated on Twitter and Facebook that a mischievous Wikipedia user had edited Michael Bloomberg’s page and indicated he died — due to wounds sustained in the course of being attacked by Elizabeth Warren: Someone futzed with ⁦ @Wikipedia ⁩ pic.twitter.com/xyzLq4t028 — Josh Robin (@joshrobin) February 20, 2020 Political reporter Josh Robin said someone futzed with Wikipedia, including the above screenshot. In it, after born, it suggested Bloomberg died on February 19 2019, with his cause of death listed and linked as Senator Elizabeth Warren. In the tweet’s replies, another Twitter user asserted the page had been updated to change 2019 to 2020: It’s been updated pic.twitter.com/EZMY0PY4TP Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die — Kyle, RN (@kyejons) February 20, 2020 In reporting on the purported edits to Wikipedia’s Mike Bloomberg page, one news outlet suggested that a similar edit had been added to say that Bloomberg had been stabbed by Warren, [Joe] Biden and [Bernie] Sanders: https://www.facebook.com/TheJerusalemPost/posts/2913350742119912?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDKO9E53x2SzHt0pLZP96ujJTLwZIhVTyrPHldKnxVT8FD6ZrXibyJ-iknkzJ8IcBjxmKcun4trRWXVuRp08jxUCsNI-iles0nhkypCZebJnnXLd_TB6XIkPcpTG1OiKKASkBJ7FWuQgKo_CSeAcDvAHZAV36j6ZBl5f5MkJ7puifsqq9vCAei3mG-ic9kOaLuA5_ZOPYv3bRfDnyUxjVF1XPtf3WUPjE6GfefhhsnKVw9x0O5yWh_uxMxxwXq7ac1y4I84I9eDg9-IjjE3gTAtiPRHamw4oLPAUcyJc68plEf62Y4jWV9QqPu6zk19rVU5kJsNH_arCyrxulxDkfY7AQ&__xts__%5B1%5D=68.ARCqLWznjPbRCq4RYhR4iD9LbJkkyqeo8kAIunnoV79rXpbP-NHzQo-gETwnAgXPntAO9kwBaX1BJPeD0oc9hslNFeKuDvnhjhYBBLnFS2t6BMm9NjPLMP1XWzYzR5yLRG0OeaOOJkLbDXgkPEZ2NND6FWHbmv5B6ss7Cm17bbEXLMBGOAMBgXIz0acPFAgvtyoAkdnsRt-ks4kztNCny1mI1Z_SlZMBjVjz4-Pyt5sI6rlfru1qQfJiolMyIHP00nrR9kPVT1w4mQtwsS6NK_vV2Etb7V5RgqO3EVp72gO_n4Z6GxUAhsgTSlRZjX3PRBTVQlGPp38AWEX9BKW4VRlQ1w&__tn__=-R Other news organizations reported on discourse about the page, but without mentioning the screenshots. We searched revisions to Bloomberg’s Wikipedia page made on February 20 2020, and located one of the claimed revisions : This is an old revision of this page, as edited by DQUACK02 (talk | contribs) at 04:38, 20 February 2020. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision. That one indeed showed getting stabbed by Warren, Biden, and Sanders: Born Michael Rubens Bloomberg February 14, 1942 (age 78) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Died February 19, 2020 (aged 78) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Cause of death Getting stabbed by Warren, Biden and Sanders Screenshots of Mike Bloomberg’s supposedly and temporarily vandalized Wikipedia page including a death date and debate-related cause of death existed in Wikipedia’s revisions. The edit above was visible for three minutes before another Wikipedia user removed the died February 19 2020 information from the page. Posted in Fact Checks , Politics Tagged 2020 debate , elizabeth warren , mike bloomberg , wikipedia , wikipedia vandalism (en)
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