Lee’s dominance of the page followed his creation of a page dedicated solely to listing allegations in the dossier. Lee also framed as credible later debunked claims of Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen supposedly visiting Prague to talk to alleged DNC hackers and repeated other extreme collusion claims uncritically. Much of Lee’s early contributions in this period had portrayed Steele and his allegations as credible citing FBI reliance on the dossier, including for the FISA warrant since discredited by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz. While the article consistently favored a left-wing bias, it was not dominated by any particular editor in the year following its creation. Initially, the Steele dossier article showed the partisan wrangling typical of political articles. Most of Lee’s edits at the Steele dossier page were under the BullRangifer username, with some recent activity happening under his current username. His Fyslee account’s profile page also disclosed his real name as does a profile page under the same account name on SourceWatch, a wiki owned by the progressive Center for Media and Democracy. Nearly all his contributions are listed under his current account, including an image upload where he gives his real name and several times where he signed comments with his real name. Most recently he used the name “BullRangifer” and earlier used “Fyslee” as his username. Lee has previously used other names on Wikipedia. However, the Steele dossier page is unusual as nearly 1,500 edits to the page, roughly a third of all edits, were made by Lee and constitute the bulk of the page’s content.Ĭurrently, Lee uses the name Valjean on Wikipedia, from a character in the Victor Hugo novel Les Misé rables. Such a high traffic article on a major political news story would normally see a diverse range of contributions, even if mostly from a left-wing slant. The Wikipedia page on the Steele dossier has been viewed nearly three million times since the page’s creation shortly after the dossier was published in BuzzFeed. Lee maintains several pages in a personal editing space that smear Trump, including an essay that suggests Trump was involved in killing Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and other journalists might be “disappeared” if Trump won re-election. Attorney John Durham’s criminal investigation into said allegations. Lee’s anti-Trump bias has affected Wikipedia articles on the Trump-Ukraine impeachment controversy, allegations of improprieties in the Russia collusion investigation such as those affecting former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and U.S.
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