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Muck Rack Verified (Then Unverified) These Seemingly Fake Journalists
Read more: Muck Rack Verified (Then Unverified) These Seemingly Fake JournalistsPetar Mikonoss and Dragana Stepic purportedly write for once-popular women’s site The Frisky. There’s no evidence either of them actually exist. In its heyday, The Frisky was one of the most beloved women’s sites on the internet. Founded by Turner Broadcasting in 2008, the site offered a “unique brand of funny, informative and relatable content…
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Round-Up 2019: Creating a Buzz
Read more: Round-Up 2019: Creating a BuzzHackers, backlinks, and Russian trolls. Revisiting my scoopiest stories of 2019 First up, a perennial thanks to zen master blogger Peter Heimlich and his wife Karen Shulman, BuzzFeed News Media Editor Craig Silverman, EIC Ben Smith, and online disinfo chronicler extraordinaire Jane Lytvynenko, Daily Beast EIC Noah Shachtman, reporters Lachlan Markay, Lachlan Cartwright, and Asawin…
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More on the Global Trade in Hacked Links
Read more: More on the Global Trade in Hacked Links“None of this surprises me. Every one of my accounts including my IRS account has been hacked,” said former mayor of Atlanta Shirley Franklin This is an addendum to a recent story I co-bylined with BuzzFeed News media editor Craig Silverman (click here to read). Our story — about online marketers who sell links from…
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BuzzFeed News: Hackers Breaking Into Sites and Adding Links to Game Google
Read more: BuzzFeed News: Hackers Breaking Into Sites and Adding Links to Game GoogleGoogle made the link a valuable commodity, so hackers are compromising sites and then getting paid to inject links. ICYMI, here’s my latest byline for BuzzFeed News Via “Hackers Are Breaking Into Websites And Adding Links To Game Google” by Craig Silverman and Dean Sterling Jones, BuzzFeed News, December 18, 2019: …Websites of all types…
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