Case file
David Keyes
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “executive director of advancing human rights and co-founder of cyberdissidents”. Today it says “israeli-american public relations representative and human rights activist”.
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The opening as it read in 2015
The New York Times calls him "a pioneer in online activism." He is a frequent contributor to The Daily Beast . Keyes has written for The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Wall Street Journal , "Reuters", The New Republic , Foreign Policy and appeared on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, Bloomberg TV, Al Jazeera and many other media outlets.1
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “executive director of advancing human rights and co-founder of cyberdissidents”. Today it says “israeli-american public relations representative and human rights activist”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
executive director of advancing human rights and co-founder of cyberdissidents
Now
israeli-american public relations representative and human rights activist
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