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Wikipedia locks page on 'recession' after pro-Biden users make 41 edits to REDEFINE word

'We're in a recession folks, it's a feature not a bug,' wrote a user on Twitter, joking about the incident

In a span of one week, unregistered users of Wikipedia edited the definition of ‘recession’ 41 times which led to the administrator locking the page on Thursday, July 28. The edits took place amid the reports of the US economy shrinking for the second straight quarter.

“A Wikipedia administrator has placed a pause on edits to Wikipedia’s ‘Recession’ page by unregistered users until early August to stop ‘vandalism’ and ‘malicious’ content after the page was edited 41 times in the past seven days with repeated attempts to alter the historical definition of a recession,” The Daily Wire reports. The changes happened after gross domestic product fell at a 0.9 percent annualized rate after a 1.6 percent decline in the first three months of the year in the US economy, as per The Guardian. Author Ann Bauer shared a screenshot on Twitter showing the edits. She wrote, “Here is the revision history from roughly the past 24 hours on Wikipedia's RECESSION page.”

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Many took screenshots of the changes made to the definition of recession and shared them on Twitter. One of the edits described the word, “In the United States, a recession is defined as a significant decline in economic activity spread across the market, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales. In the United Kingdom and other countries, it is defined as a negative economic growth for two consecutive quarters.”

One individual said, "The best way to avoid a recession is to simply change the definition of a recession. Biden is doing this right now. Wikipedia definition editing done," while another shared the funny highlights edited by the people. One more user couldn't help but say, " We're in a recession folks. It's a feature not a bug."

One pointed out the financial crisis of 2008, the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression in 1929. The user wrote, "OMG - who knew that the number of edits for the Wikipedia page for "recession" are a leading indicator for an actual recession. Same editing storm in 2008! You just can't make this stuff up!"

US recession fears grow

New data by the commerce department showed that the US economy shrank for the second consecutive quarter. The gross domestic product, which fell 0.2 percent in the second quarter, had a decline of 0.4 percent in the first quarter. According to the Business Standard report, Sal Guatieri, a senior economist at BMO Capital Markets said, “The more important point is that the economy has quickly lost steam in the face of four-decade high inflation, rapidly rising borrowing costs, and a general tightening in financial conditions. The economy is highly vulnerable to slipping into a recession.”

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