Topic: Virgil Griffith

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Sanger recounts the early history of Wikipedia, which launched in 2001 as a free encyclopedia project for Jimmy Wales's company, Bombis. He notes that Google's search algorithm helped Wikipedia become the dominant source of information, which quickly drew the attention of the CIA and other government agencies. Evidence from the "Wiki Scanner" project in 2007 proved that IP addresses from Langley, Virginia, were being used to edit Wikipedia articles.