David S. Rohde

American reporter

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“Wikipedia” coverage of his kidnapping

  • A women-in-STEM “edit-a-thon” organized by Wikipedia in Nova Scotia, Canada, 2018
    In Wikipedia: Issues and controversies

    The New York Times reporter David S. Rohde was kidnapped by Taliban militants in Afghanistan in 2008, his employer arranged with Wikipedia for news of the incident to be kept off the website on the grounds that it could endanger Rohde’s life. The site’s administrators complied, in the face of…

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