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Fyre Festival Co-Founder Billy McFarland Paid Someone to Write His Wikipedia Bio
Read more: Fyre Festival Co-Founder Billy McFarland Paid Someone to Write His Wikipedia BioMcFarland’s self-promotional Wikipedia bio now describes him as a “fraudster” Billy McFarland, co-founder of the doomed Fyre Festival, paid a professional Wikipedia editor in 2014 to create his current bio as part of a promotional effort to raise his public profile. According to Wikipedia editing records, McFarland paid a user with the handle Bernie44 an…
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Daily Beast: Google Yanks Services From Sanctioned Russian Website
Read more: Daily Beast: Google Yanks Services From Sanctioned Russian WebsiteUSAReally.com has been barred from using Google Analytics as the website’s American contributors reconsider their involvement — The site’s parent company has postponed its lawsuit against Facebook while its attorneys apply for a sanctions exemption. Read my latest at The Daily Beast. Via “Google Yanks Services From Russian Propaganda Site” by Lachlan Markay and Dean…
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Mumbai Cyber Police Demand Personal Details of Modi Critics
Read more: Mumbai Cyber Police Demand Personal Details of Modi CriticsMumbai cyber police are demanding that U.S. tech companies hand over personal details of Internet users who insulted Indian PM Narendra Modi Last year, I blogged about efforts by Mumbai’s “cyber police crime division” to purge the Internet of doctored images of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. Since that post, the censorious cyber squad has refocused its…
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Twitter is Censoring Criticism of Turkish President Erdoğan
Read more: Twitter is Censoring Criticism of Turkish President ErdoğanTwitter deletes ‘insulting’ tweets/accounts by critics of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan following court order Since 2016, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sued, arrested, and detained thousands of opposition journalists, academics, civil servants, and other critics of his government’s increasingly authoritarian policies. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (source) Online, Erdoğan’s efforts to control his public image have been equally…
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Round-Up 2018: Here’s the Scoop
Read more: Round-Up 2018: Here’s the ScoopRussian trolls and stealth political campaigns. Revisiting my scoopiest stories of 2018 2018 was undoubtedly my most successful year since I started writing at Shooting the Messenger almost five years ago. Once described as an “amateur sleuth” by Politico and unceremoniously trashed by a surrogate for U.S. president Donald Trump on Fox News (something I’ve…
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Head of Russian Disinfo Website Sanctioned by U.S. Treasury
Read more: Head of Russian Disinfo Website Sanctioned by U.S. TreasuryIn June I scooped a story about attempts by Russian government media adviser Alexander Malkevich to set up a troll factory-linked propaganda website in Washington, D.C. Yesterday Malkevich was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury for “attempted election interference” Since April, I’ve been doing original reporting on USA Really, a now-infamous disinformation website aimed at U.S. readers.…
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Russian Trolls Gatecrashed a Washington D.C. Midterm Election Party at the National Press Club
Read more: Russian Trolls Gatecrashed a Washington D.C. Midterm Election Party at the National Press ClubRussia’s Federal News Agency allegedly engaged in attempts to interfere in U.S. elections. Last week it gatecrashed a National Press Club election night party attended by Michael Avenatti, who told me: “Putin must be so proud.” Attendees at a National Press Club election night event have become targets of a disinformation campaign by Moscow’s Federal…
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Daily Beast: D.C. Media Venture Boasts Indicted Russian Agent as CFO
Read more: Daily Beast: D.C. Media Venture Boasts Indicted Russian Agent as CFOIn June, USA Really tried to set up shop in Washington D.C. It just implicated itself in a multi-million dollar criminal conspiracy. Check out my latest byline at The Daily Beast. Via “D.C.-Based Russian Media Venture Boasts that Indicted Kremlin Operative Is Its CFO” by Lachlan Markay and Dean Sterling Jones, The Daily Beast, October 26, 2018:…
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Why Did This Florida Takedown Lawyer Try to Suppress Negative Reviews for InventHelp?
Read more: Why Did This Florida Takedown Lawyer Try to Suppress Negative Reviews for InventHelp?InventHelp is currently being sued for allegedly scamming aspiring inventors. Two years ago, Florida takedown lawyer Zachary Sloan tried to suppress those allegations InventHelp is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based company that claims to help aspiring inventors patent and market their inventions. From its inception in 1984, InventHelp has cultivated a slick image. For example, since 2014…
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Emboldened by Trump, Alt-Right Gloats Over Death of John McCain
Read more: Emboldened by Trump, Alt-Right Gloats Over Death of John McCainA white nationalist, a professional provocateur, a former revenge pornographer, and a big basket of deplorables On August 14, 2017, Unite the Right rally organiser Richard Spencer held a press conference at his home in Alexandria, Virginia, where he spoke at length about the alt-right’s affinity for US president Donald Trump. “We were connected with Trump…
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