“Hacker X”–the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire–unmasks himself
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#2There are many fake news real empires including all the newspapers that published the WMD and Gulf of Tonkin and Syria chemical weapons/caliphate etc. stories:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/terrorism-hoax-ontari...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9958679/BBC-admits-...
Re: “Hacker X”–the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire–unmasks himself
#3 Payton believes the hacker just wants to do the right thing.
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#4So the network is now banned, he's made his money, and he's looking for notoriety and a new lucrative opportunity — it's no wonder the article reads like a résumé.
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#5There are many fake news real empires including all the newspapers that published the WMD and Gulf of Tonkin and Syria chemical weapons/caliphate etc. stories: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/terrorism-hoax-ontari... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9958679/BBC-admits-... https://www.arabnews.com/node/1945091/media
Not the same things AT ALL.
Stories 1 and 3 are about one fantasist who managed to trick a bunch of regular news outlets.
Story 2 is about a single flawed report from the BBC.
You can sit back and complain that not enough checking is being done by reporters and editors at mainstream media sites, and you would be right; the pressure is always on reporters and editors to get the story out and move on to the next one; the news cycle has got shorter and at the same time budgets have got tighter.
But an occasional failing to meet high standards like that is a million miles away from deliberately setting up a ring of supposedly independent web sites with the intent of pushing lies 24x7 and carefully calculating how to get as many people as possible to believe in those lies.
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#6So the network is now banned, he's made his money, and he's looking for notoriety and a new lucrative opportunity — it's no wonder the article reads like a résumé.
Exactly. I bet all my horses that he's paving the way for the promotion of his own book which could be already completed, printed and ready to be announced and distributed.
Hopefully readers will leave it on the shelves.
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#7Does Speed Racer have any brothers that don't suck?
Re: “Hacker X”–the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire–unmasks himself
#8There are many fake news real empires including all the newspapers that published the WMD and Gulf of Tonkin and Syria chemical weapons/caliphate etc. stories: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/terrorism-hoax-ontari... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9958679/BBC-admits-... https://www.arabnews.com/node/1945091/media
Not the same things AT ALL. Stories 1 and 3 are about one fantasist who managed to trick a bunch of regular news outlets. Story 2 is about a single flawed report from the BBC. You can sit back and complain that not enough checking is being done by reporters and editors at mainstream media sites, and you would be right; the pressure is always on reporters and editors to get the story out and move on to the next one; t…
And that is different how exactly from the advertisement industry, which pushes trash nobody really needs?
Not to mention the secondary industry of fake reviews latched onto that.
Not really meant as what about, because at the end of the day it is the same annoying shit almost everybody seems to accept as necessary evil, that's just the way it works, yada yada.
edit: Put another way, every channel is oversaturated with noise. No Signal anymore, except for Virtue maybe. I don't give a shit. Just bad entertainment.
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#9This "ethical hacker" needs to be charged with something severe - the damage he helped create is long-lasting and potentially resulted in 100,000's of deaths.
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#10Really surprised this isn't gaining more traction on HN. Maybe it's because of the clickbaity title...
In the meantime, the comment section on Ars is delivering in equal parts rage and comedy.