Shoreshthe drift report · all case files
Case file

Elisa Hategan

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “romanian-canadian antiracist activist”. Today it says “romanian-canadian author”.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-03.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2025 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since. Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now. 1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2025

Elisa Hategan (born December 17, 1974), formerly known as Elisse Hategan , is a Romanian-Canadian author, freelance journalist, and antiracist activist. As a teenager she was a member and spokesperson for the Heritage Front , a now-defunct white supremacist organization in Canada. She broke with the group and testified against them in court, and has been credited for contributing to the organization's demise. Ce a descoperit cand s-a intors in tara sa" . "The rise of white supremacy and its new face in the 21st century - National | Globalnews.ca" .

This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 1281411670.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “romanian-canadian antiracist activist”. Today it says “romanian-canadian author”. Read the current article and compare.
Oct '232025
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.

What Wikipedia says this is

Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2023, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.

Then

romanian-canadian antiracist activist

Now

romanian-canadian author

Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.

← back to the drift report