"The Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New Yorker reported incorrectly last month that Pompeo was an Army officer who served in the 1991 Gulf War. ... The situation shows how much major media outlets have come to rely on Wikipedia, a crowd-sourced encyclopedia run by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit that employs less than 300 people."
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Heather Timmons & David Yanofsky in “A lie about Mike Pompeo's Gulf War service started with an anonymous Wikipedia edit”, Quartz, (21 April 2018)
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