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Michael Jaccarino (August 4, 2013). "Snowden a friend or foe? Wikipedia fight takes both sides". Fox News. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
Ryan Gorman (August 4, 2013). "Someone within the US Senate edited Edward Snowden's Wikipedia page to change his description from 'dissident' to 'traitor'". The Daily Mail.

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Leaked To Reporters In First Paragraph Of Blurb

I think the first paragraph should read:

"Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American computer professional who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) to reporters, starting in June 2013."

Otherwise, when you read the paragraph you begin thinking "who did he leak it to? Terrorists? Wikileaks? Some enemy state?" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.250.146.106 (talk) 23:05, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, things that start in "from" should end in "to". I went with mainstream media, just to avoid the question of what the reporters did with it. Plenty would bury it. InedibleHulk (talk) 15:50, January 30, 2015 (UTC)

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Captions!

I just paid amara.org to create some captions for this. Anyone want to help me change the periods, and commas so that it plays fine and fix the typos? When That;s done, i want to get the captions translated Victor Grigas (talk) 23:53, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Transcription error

The is a small, but important, error in the transcription of an interview Mr. Snowden gave to ARD in January 2014. The transcription and, consequently, Wikipedia's article read "They don't allow me to defend myself in an open court to the public and convince a jury that what I did was to my benefit." However, it should read "They don't allow me to defend myself in an open court to the public and convince a jury that what I did was to their benefit.". It is difficult to verify this transcription error because that was an exclusive interview. The video is, therefore, available only in Germany and is subject to geoblocking.

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 I just paid amara.org to create some captions for this. Anyone want to help me change the periods, and commas so that it plays fine and fix the typos? When That;s done, i want to get the captions translated [[User:Victorgrigas|Victor Grigas]] ([[User talk:Victorgrigas|talk]]) 23:53, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
+== Transcription error ==
+The is a small, but important, error in the transcription of an interview Mr. Snowden gave to ARD in January 2014. The transcription and, consequently, Wikipedia's article read "They don't allow me to defend myself in an open court to the public and convince a jury that what I did was to '''my''' benefit." However, it should read "They don't allow me to defend myself in an open court to the public and convince a jury that what I did was to '''their''' benefit.". It is difficult to verify this transcription error because that was an exclusive interview. The video is, therefore, available only in Germany and is subject to [[Geo-Blocking|geoblocking]].