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Byline at BuzzFeed
Read more: Byline at BuzzFeedThe Frisky was a popular site for women. Now it’s a marketing scam leeching off the brand. Read my latest at BuzzFeed News. Via “How A Popular Women’s Website Became A Pay-To-Play Nightmare” by Dean Sterling Jones, BuzzFeed News, April 22, 2019: On first glance, the Frisky appears to be a thriving women’s entertainment and…
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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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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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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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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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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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Daily Beast: Pecker Pulls Back on Pro-Trump Coverage
Read more: Daily Beast: Pecker Pulls Back on Pro-Trump CoverageNational Enquirer boss tiptoes away from his pal Trump, with an assist from Hollywood’s leading talent agency. Check out my latest byline at The Daily Beast Via “National Enquirer Boss David Pecker Tiptoes Away From His Pal Trump as Scandal Swirls and Circulation Drops” by Lachlan Markay, Asawin Suebsaeng and Dean Sterling Jones, The Daily Beast,…
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Pro-Trump Bot Campaign Tries to Hijack Daily Beast Article About Pro-Trump Bot Campaign
Read more: Pro-Trump Bot Campaign Tries to Hijack Daily Beast Article About Pro-Trump Bot CampaignAn online media campaign to obscure unflattering news articles about Donald Trump has targeted a Daily Beast article I co-authored about the campaign Earlier today, Twitter purged tens of millions of fake and suspicious accounts in a seeming attempt to restore trust in the embattled social media platform, which had been exploited by Russian operatives…
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Russian Troll Factory Whistleblower Blasts Media
Read more: Russian Troll Factory Whistleblower Blasts MediaWhistleblower Lyudmila Savchuk criticises media misrepresentations of her by Fox News, The Daily Mail, The Los Angeles Times, and others Last week, I published archived job ads for the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a pro-Putin “troll factory” based in St. Petersburg that was recently indicted for allegedly meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Via “Here Are…
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