PayPerLie?

I remember thinking at one point that the obvious extension to the then-lucrative (now happily more or less killed by good old Google) PayPerPost business model would be to simply pay newspaper people and so forth to lie.

As always, the real world seems to have been one step ahead of me.

It is alleged that the head of Wikipedia (a non-profit) modified someone's page and destroyed the history (he certainly destroyed the history) in return for a hefty donation. It is further alleged that Wales likes to fly first class on Wikipedia's buck.

I really, really hope it isn't true. Wikipedia is of dubious trustworthiness enough as it is, without bribery. At the moment, it all seems to be nasty rumours, more or less. We shall see how it pans out.