Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american journalist and author”. Today it says “american journalist”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
Michael D. Weiss is an American journalist , author , and news commentator . He specializes in international affairs , in particular the Middle East and Russia . He is a contributing editor at New Lines magazine, a senior correspondent for Yahoo News , and editor of The Insider . He is a regular network guest on several CNN shows. He is also director of special investigations at the Free Russia Foundation. Weiss rose to prominence in 2015 with the publication of the New York Times bestseller ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror , co-written with Hassan Hassan . He is a former investigative reporter at CNN , and has also written for numerous other publications including The Daily Telegraph , Foreign Affairs , The Wall Street Journal , The Guardian , Slate , The Weekly Standard , and The New Republic , among others. He was a columnist for Foreign Policy magazine, The Daily Beast and NOW Lebanon .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Michael Weiss is an American journalist and author. Weiss is a senior editor for The Daily Beast , a consulting executive editor at Coda Story , a columnist for Foreign Policy , an author and a frequent national security analyst and contributor for CNN .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 958508370.
The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023 1 passage from the previous snapshot no longer appear
American journalist and author Michael D. Weiss is an American journalist and author. He is contributing editor at New Lines magazine, senior correspondent for Yahoo News , director of special investigations at the Free Russia Foundation and the coauthor of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror .
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american journalist and author”. Today it says “american journalist”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is
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american journalist and author
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american journalist
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