He actually had a username, but I’ll try to summarize this. A user named tottoritom once wrote in a Japanese history Wikipedia page about a certain Yasuke, claiming that he was the first black Samurai in feudal Japan. They never mentioned their sources IIRC and a man named Thomas Lockley published a book about Yasuke years later. Upon inspection, Internet users have noticed that tottoritom cited Thomas’ book years before it was published, which led to the obvious conclusion that tottoritom was Thomas Lockley and that he deliberately wrote misinformation probably to promote/validate his book later on. Because of this, the Wikipedia page of Yasuke has been on an edit war ever since the scandal.
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