Trolls are editing Wikipedia pages to push random crap [1] to the 'Google Acquisitions' Pushbullet channel. Pushbullet, FYI, crawls content from various sources [2] for their automated channel push notifications.<p>[1] https://twitter.com/binoyxj/status/632451202618228736
[2] https://twitter.com/binoyxj/status/632453672421584896
If Pushbullet is designed to announce changes to Wikipedia pages, then it hasn't been compromised - it's working exactly as intended. The real question is, should people be relying on Wikipedia - which any random person (or troll) can edit - as a source of actionable information?<p>If I were interested in the latest news about which companies Google had acquired, I'd be crawling Google's Investor Relations pages, not Wikipedia.