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Trump's Truth Social borrows term "unified Reich" from Wikipedia

Where do they get these quotes? In this recent case, Truth Social posted a video seemingly from the Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign that mixed images of the former U.S. president with openly fake news headlines. The trouble started when the Associated Press noticed that "at least one of the headlines flashing in the video appears to be text that is copied verbatim from a Wikipedia entry on World War I: 'German industrial strength and production had significantly increased after 1871, driven by the creation of a unified Reich.'" ^{[n 1]} The Trump campaign press secretary told AP "This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word, while the President was in court." [1]

But the video was not from some unknown rando, according to the New York Times. It was made by Brenden Dilley and a group that calls itself the "Dilley Meme Team". They have worked with Trump before, including the well-known 'God made Trump' campaign video. On another video, according to the Times, Trump sent them suggested edits, which the Meme Team then incorporated into the video. They used a video background template from Envato in the unified Reich video, which contains the background "news articles". Envato seems to have picked up the offending sentence from Wikipedia.

The AP story, in addition to being run by major US news outlets like ABC News, and global media like The Times of Israel, was covered as secondary reporting by the Wall Street Journal, Politico, Axios, The Guardian and Reuters which noted the Wikipedia text connection, as did Newsweek's article Where Trump's 'Unified Reich' Reference Came From.

So where did Wikipedia's sentence come from? Before July 8, 2009, there had been a sentence in World War I#Background about the growth of German industrial power, but it didn't mention any connection to the founding of the Second Reich in 1871. But the July 8 edit made this connection through the 1871 unification of Germany without mentioning the words "unified" or "Reich". Over the next 13 years, the sentence was rewritten - expanded and contracted - several times, with "unified" and "Reich" each appearing and then disappearing at least once, but apparently never appearing together. Since December 2021, "unified" has stayed in the article. "Reich" and the current word order then appeared on November 15, 2022. ^{[n 2]} – B, S

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• NYU rulebreakers must read Wikipedia: "NYU's mandatory ethics homework for student protesters includes 'The Simpsons,' Wikipedia" ( Gothamist)
• https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-orphan-articles-dark-wikipedia.html says 15% of Wikipedia is "effectively invisible to readers". Fix those orphan articles, folks!
• El Paso librarian is a top 2,000 editor: https://www.elpasoinc.com/news/local_news/el-paso-librarian-takes-love-of-knowledge-to-wikipedia/article_c2119e3a-1638-11ef-b142-5792b4f68385.html.
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