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Shooting the Messenger

online reporting by INDependent journalist Dean Sterling Jones

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  • PR Battle of Brittain (Redux)

    Facebook deletes post criticising Arizona Senate candidate/former revenge pornster Craig R. Brittain after Brittain reports himself to website administrators I recently blogged about the PR battles of Craig R. Brittain, a former revenge porn website operator who last month announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate. From 2011 until 2013, Brittain operated the controversial revenge porn…

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  • Boing Boinged

    Boing Boing cites my blog post about Medicare scammer’s takedown request source Earlier this month, I blogged about multiple copyright takedown requests sent by one or more Medicare scammers, claiming copyright of their names, life stories, and criminal records, in an effort to convince Google to delist reports of their criminal convictions from the U.S.…

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  • Blurred Stats (Part III)

    The U.K. Statistics Authority just censured Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders for “hugely” exaggerating rape conviction statistics – here’s a list of news outlets that published the bogus figures Last week, the U.K. Statistics Authority formally censured Saunders for “hugely” exaggerating the 2017 rape conviction rate. Via “CPS chief is blasted for claiming the number…

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  • Blurred Stats

    Annual Violence Against Women and Girls crime report by U.K. state prosecution service inflates rape conviction rate statistics for second year in a row source Last year, I blogged about how the U.K. Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) inflated the rape conviction rate with its annual Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) crime report. In a…

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  • Paparazzi Schätze

    British law firm claims copyright on paparazzi hot tub photos of pop star Rihanna with her billionaire Saudi boyfriend British law firm Carter-Ruck Solicitors is claiming copyright on paparazzi hot tub photos of pop star Rihanna cosying up to her new boyfriend, billionaire Saudi Toyota heir Hassan Jameel. That’s according to the Lumen Database, a…

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  • Saterized

    Obscene domain names once owned by Trump associate Felix Sater get snapped up after articles by Shooting the Messenger and The Daily Beast Last week I scooped the story that Donald Trump’s former business partner, Felix Sater, possibly used to own a number of obscene domain names intended to disparage Sater’s Bayrock Group colleague, Jody…

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  • Twofer

    The Daily Beast publishes article featuring two Shooting the Messenger scoops source I recently blogged these Donald Trump-related scoops: 1. The Felix Sater Files (Parts I and II), about how former Trump business partner Felix Sater apparently registered a number of crude domain names intended to disparage Sater’s Bayrock Group colleague Jody Kriss. Published: August 26,…

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  • Sekulow Attacks!

    After Politico profile about “amateur sleuths” featuring yours truly, Donald J. Trump-affiliated lawyer Jordan Sekulow tells Fox News that I and other independent researchers are “wasting all of [our] time.” This week, I was featured in a Politico profile about “self-assigned Bob Muellers” who are doing independent research into Donald Trump’s Russia and business connections. The…

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  • Politiscoop

    Politiscoop

    Politico profile on “amateur sleuths” highlights three Shooting the Messenger Trump scoops Via “Amateur sleuths hunt for Trump bombshells” by Darren Samuelsohn, Politico, August 20, 2017: Countless amateur sleuths are on the case, from a short-order cook in Belfast whose research was recently cited by the Daily Beast to a Florida art teacher who tells POLITICO he…

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  • The Art of the Steal

    Did Trump plagiarise content from CNN, The New York Times, and other big news outlets on defunct Trump University blog? Since taking office, the Trump administration has repeatedly accused the news media, particularly U.S. network CNN, of reporting so-called “fake news.” However, it appears that between 2006 and 2010 Trump plagiarised content from around a…

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