So yesterday Palau brought you the story of the Tories’ internet witchhunt against a supposed undercover journalist looking for dirt only to discover she wasn’t, actually. Today we get a perhaps even worse example of Tory IT bungling, as the party has been caught in perhaps the saddest thing you can do to win an (online) argument: altering a Wikipedia page:
The Tories have admitted a member of staff altered a Wikipedia entry on the artist Titian after a row between Gordon Brown and David Cameron.
During exchanges at prime minister’s questions, the Tory leader mocked Mr Brown for talking of Titian at 90, when he said in fact he had died age 86.
Shortly afterwards a Wikipedia user registered at Tory HQ moved his birth date forward by four years.
The party admitted an “over-eager” member of staff had been responsible.
David Cameron has since been disciplined for his gaffe and has had to hand in his Imac for a week.