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Round-Up: Maria Butina’s Russian Fundraiser
Read more: Round-Up: Maria Butina’s Russian FundraiserRound-up of news coverage re: Shooting the Messenger story about the Kremlin-backed company paying for Maria Butina’s legal expenses Via “The Enigmatic Russian Paying Maria Butina’s Legal Bills” by Natasha Bertrand, The Atlantic, March 20, 2019: Maria Butina, the first Russian to plead guilty to seeking to infiltrate and influence American policy makers in the run-up to…
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SCOOP: Maria Butina’s Russian Fundraiser Hosted and Boasted U.S. Separatists Prior to 2016 Election
Read more: SCOOP: Maria Butina’s Russian Fundraiser Hosted and Boasted U.S. Separatists Prior to 2016 ElectionThe Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia was paid by the Kremlin to fly Texas and California separatists to Moscow in September 2016 Maria Butina (source) Maria Butina’s legal defense fund is being handled by a Kremlin-backed Russian company that hosted and boasted U.S. separatist groups shortly before the 2016 presidential election. The Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia…
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Bad Fan Fiction (Redux)
Read more: Bad Fan Fiction (Redux)Prior to suing HBO, Michael Jackson’s estate hired a takedown lawyer to scrub erotic fan fiction from the web source Michael Jackson’s estate is suing HBO for $100m over the tell-all documentary Leaving Neverland. The documentary, containing graphic allegations that the late singer sexually abused two young boys during the late 80s and early 90s,…
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Head of Russian Propaganda Site USA Really Calls It Quits
Read more: Head of Russian Propaganda Site USA Really Calls It QuitsAlexander Malkevich and his website USA Really were sanctioned for “attempted election interference” last year Alexander Malkevich (source) Alexander Malkevich, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Russian propaganda website USA Really, has quit the project after he and his site were sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in December. Malkevich, who currently leads Russia’s Civic Chamber of…
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Bogus Copyright Complaints Sought to Suppress Michael Moates Sexual Harassment Claims
Read more: Bogus Copyright Complaints Sought to Suppress Michael Moates Sexual Harassment ClaimsAt least three young women have accused conservative writer Michael Moates of sending sexually suggestive messages Multiple bogus copyright complaints sought to suppress sexual harassment claims made last year against conservative writer and D.C. Chronicle founder Michael Moates. The complaints, sent in Moates’ name over a five-month period starting October, requested that Google delist six…
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Former Trump Campaign Aide Michael Caputo Is Enlisting MAGA Supporters to Shield Him From Antifa
Read more: Former Trump Campaign Aide Michael Caputo Is Enlisting MAGA Supporters to Shield Him From Antifa200 members of the MAGA Quick Reaction Force are prepared to face down anti-fascist protesters at Michael Caputo’s home and office Michael R. Caputo (source) Former Trump campaign communications adviser Michael R. Caputo has created a new mass text system to alert nearby Donald J. Trump supporters to Antifa protests of his home and office.…
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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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