The vice president's public remarks are often riddled with run-on sentences that are hard to follow. 'But there are still a lot of problems that we are trying to fix,' she added, calling for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. 'We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation including ours in our administration,' Harris replied. You're confident this border is secure?' interviewer Chuck Todd pressed the vice president in the interview. 'We're going to have two million people cross this border for the first time ever. 'The border is secure, but we also have a broken immigration system, in particular, over the last four years before we came in, and it needs to be fixed.' 'I think that there is no question that we have to do what the president and I asked Congress to do, the first request we made: pass a bill to create a pathway to citizenship,' Harris said. Harris blamed the Trump administration for a 'broken' immigration system. Like Singh’s case demonstrated, there is usually a very close eye of Wikipedia’s large community of volunteers on the changes happening and usually, malicious changes are detected and fixed within minutes, if not by the hour.Vice President Kamala Harris insisted the U.S.-Mexico border is secure in a jumble of words on her 'Meet the Press' interview Sunday. But in keeping with its protected pages policy, a Wikipedia administrator locked Singh’s profile till September 21 once the vandalism was fixed. In this case, these changes went live because the page was not protected and the edits were minor (major edits are likely to draw more attention). Pages are protected when a specific damaging event has been identified that cannot be prevented through other means such as a block”.
But for a small number of articles, typically those relating to popular topics, people or places, there are additional protections that kick in when a page is locked (a padlock turns up on the top right corner for any unauthorised user).Īccording to Wikipedia, “in some circumstances, pages may need to be protected from modification by certain groups of editors. But the likelihood of that is minimal and the chances that the user who changed Singh’s Wikipedia page was very likely in Pakistan.Īnyone can add or edit articles on Wikipedia, which, as on Monday, had over 6.45 million articles. To be sure, IP addresses can be spoofed using VPN services and if a VPN service is leveraging PTCL’s servers, someone sitting outside of Pakistan too would be able to spoof the above as their address. IP address allocation records showed this particular address was allocated to the Pakistan Telecommuication Company Limited (PTCL), Pakistan’s national telecoms provider (the equivalent of India’s BSNL). Looked up using a internet address whois lookup service showed that the IP address was like in use in Pakistan. The version history for Singh’s page shows that the user who made those changes was unregistered and was using the internet protocol (IP) address 39.41.171.125. While anyone is allowed to make or suggest edits, the service follows a strict logging mechanism. Wikipedia is a wiki, a collaborative database or service where anyone can add or edit content. The user also replaced the word India to Khalistan in links cited to support claims on the page, leading to a purported timesofkhalistan that does not exist.Īll of these changes were undone by an anonymous Wikipedia editor roughly 15 minutes later. This person also made some random changes to Singh’s game statistics. This user also edited his name to first read “Major Arshdeep Singh Langra” and, a minute later, to “Major Arshdeep Singh Bajwa”.
Reports indicate that the crowd-sourced digital encyclopaedia may be asked to explain why these changes were done by the government of India, but HT could not immediately obtain a confirmation.Īccording to the edit history of Singh’s Wikipedia page, an unregistered user replaced the words “India” with “Khalistan” at several locations on the profile at 12:28am India Standard Time (IST). Indian cricketer Arshdeep Singh was the target of vicious online trolling after his side lost to Pakistan in the Asia Gup game on Sunday night, with some vandalising his Wikipedia page to claim he was linked to the separatist Khalistani movement.
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