Investigation launched after public servants, staffers caught making offensive Wikipedia edits

By James Massola
Updated October 27 2016 - 5:18pm, first published 9:02am
A Defence-lined edit to the Wikipedia page of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani.
A Defence-lined edit to the Wikipedia page of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani.

Public servants and political staffers appear to have made tens of thousands of anonymous changes to Wikipedia that insult a world leader and a former prime minister, scrub embarrassing information and even claim the Holocaust was "justified".