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Shooting the Messenger
online reporting by INDependent journalist Dean Sterling Jones
“If you need someone to do great reporting about shady schemes, scams, digital media skullduggery, and disinfo, consider hiring Dean!”
— Craig Silverman, indicator.media co-founder & author of Regret the Error —
“Boorish and offensive”
— Yevgeny Prigozhin, deceased Russian warlord —
Latest Posts
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SCOOP: Plagiarism Plagues the Revised Edition of Steven Rosenbaum’s Already Cooked Book
Read more: SCOOP: Plagiarism Plagues the Revised Edition of Steven Rosenbaum’s Already Cooked BookTHE FUTURE OF TRUTH, HOW AI RESHAPES REALITY was pulled from digital bookshelves in May after The New York Times discovered it contained AI-fabricated quotes. In a bizarre twist, the revised edition contains whole paragraphs lifted without attribution from news coverage of the scandal. “I think I’m the leading inquisitor in the quest of truth…
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SCOOP: A Pseudonym Used by Wheel of Fortune Announcer Was Active on Second Child Abuse Forum
Read more: SCOOP: A Pseudonym Used by Wheel of Fortune Announcer Was Active on Second Child Abuse ForumA LAWYER FOR JIM THORNTON says he only visited lifeline.chat—an illicit chatroom for paedophiles—by mistake, believing it was a suicide prevention site. But someone with the same username was active for at least two years on another paedophilia forum, where they posted a photo of a topless boy, professed their love of lifeline.chat, compared being…
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неудачная попытка: Russia’s State Media Censor Tries to Torpedo Military Losses From Google Search Results
Read more: неудачная попытка: Russia’s State Media Censor Tries to Torpedo Military Losses From Google Search ResultsVLADIMIR PUTIN doesn’t want you to know the staggering cost of his war in Ukraine. A Russian government filing is demanding the removal of GlobalMilitary.net’s “Russia-Ukraine war military losses tracker” from international search results. Said to contain “information prohibited for public distribution in the Russian Federation,” the tracker shows that Ukraine has managed to destroy…
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SCOOP: Long Before His Book Scandal, Steven Rosenbaum Faced Accusations of AI Fabulism on Wikipedia
Read more: SCOOP: Long Before His Book Scandal, Steven Rosenbaum Faced Accusations of AI Fabulism on WikipediaREGIONAL EMMY AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND FILMMAKER STEVEN ROSENBAUM insists that AI-generated quotes in his 2026 book, The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality, were an ‘accident.’ But Wikipedia editing logs show that he was once accused and warned about the exact same behaviour, while potentially hiding a conflict of interest. “I’m not a regular…
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About Me
Based in Northern Ireland, but work mainly in the U.S.
Bootstrapped a freelance journalism career by publishing original reporting via this blog. Former Rolling Stone/Daily Beast EIC Noah Shachtman gave me my break. I co-edit Forbes 30 under 30 while researching for production company Recorded Time, making documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4. Love Tom Verlaine and unusual-looking lamps.
My Work
Interested in propaganda and digital trickery.
I’ve been published by, among others, Forbes, The Guardian, BuzzFeed News, Foreign Policy, and The Daily Beast, garnering praise from the likes of CNN’s Clarissa Ward and ProPublica’s Craig Silverman. I use open-source tools to find stories such as my Snopes plagiarism exposé (click here to read).
Impact
A thorn in the side of all manner of shady characters.
My reporting has been cited by every major U.S. news outlet, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Fox News, which broadcast that I was “wasting all of [my] time“. Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin once tried to troll me and Indian police have accused me of trying to incite civil unrest.
Interviews & Selected
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