Hillsborough disaster Wikipedia posts

{{Use British English|date=February 2022}}

{{Use British English|date=February 2022}}

The '''Hillsborough disaster Wikipedia posts''' was an incident of [[Vandalism on Wikipedia|vandalism edits on various Wikipedia articles]], mostly the [[Hillsborough disaster]] article, via the use of British Government computers, causing a [[List of political scandals in the United Kingdom|British Government scandal]]. On 24 April 2014, Oliver Duggan, in the ''[[Liverpool Echo]]'', reported that users of computers that used [[IP address]]es registered to the [[Government Secure Intranet]] (which is used by many of the [[United Kingdom]]'s [[Departments of the United Kingdom Government|government departments]]) had added derogatory and offensive material to [[Wikipedia]] articles, particularly the article about the [[Hillsborough disaster]]. The vandalism was quickly re-reported by other media, and subsequent reports highlighted other acts of [[Vandalism on Wikipedia|vandalism]], on various articles, originated by computers using those IP addresses. After an investigation by ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' and [[Wikipediocracy]], the person behind the edits was identified as a "junior civil servant" within the UK government who was dismissed.

The '''Hillsborough disaster Wikipedia posts''' was an incident of [[Vandalism on Wikipedia|vandalism edits on various Wikipedia articles]], mostly the [[Hillsborough disaster]] article, via the use of British Government computers, causing a [[List of political scandals in the United Kingdom|British Government scandal]]. On 24 April 2014, Oliver Duggan, in the ''[[Liverpool Echo]]'', reported that users of computers that used [[IP address]]es registered to the [[Government Secure Intranet]] (which was used by many of the [[United Kingdom]]'s [[Departments of the United Kingdom Government|government departments]]) had added derogatory and offensive material to [[Wikipedia]] articles, particularly the article about the [[Hillsborough disaster]]. The vandalism was quickly re-reported by other media, and subsequent reports highlighted other acts of [[Vandalism on Wikipedia|vandalism]], on various articles, originated by computers using those IP addresses. After an investigation by ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' and [[Wikipediocracy]], the person behind the edits was identified as a "junior civil servant" within the UK government who was dismissed.

==Hillsborough disaster==

==Hillsborough disaster==