The Daily Telegraph reported on 27 April that government computers had been used to maliciously alter articles about prominent people, including falsifying the death of television sports presenter Des Lynam. Other public figures targeted include Michael Grade and Chris Evans.Oliver Duggan "Des Lynam 'killed by a giant snowball' and other embarrassing Wikipedia edits from Whitehall computers", Daily Telegraph, 27 April 2014 On the same day, The Herald in Glasgow reported that the articles for Clydebank and Barlanark, had been vandalized by government computers. Also that day, the National Post reported that a government computer had also targeted the page about Canadian author David Gilmour, which was vandalized to describe him as a "misogynist, homophobe [and] racist".
