[ih] Defamation lawsuit brought by self-proclaimed email "inventor" settles

[Joly MacFie]

The lack of cynicism is a marked contrast to the undeserved Gore derision,
but yes, they are both journalism failures..

joly


On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:09 AM Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net> wrote:

> On 5/31/2019 3:44 PM, Vint Cerf wrote:
> > there is something trumpian about this - making a massively false claim
> > has kept ayyadurai's name visible in email storms among the cognoscenti
> > for several years now.
>
>
> To me, what has been most impressive -- and frankly emblematic of the
> larger fake news phenomenon -- is how poorly many journalists have done
> their job at vetting the claims.  Given that it takes maybe 2 minutes --
> 10 if one is diligent -- to establish the basic problem with his claims,
> this really is quite striking.
>
> d/
>
> ps. I believe the storms on lists like this are only due to the
> continuing public media and legal activities.  A stray claim getting
> little public coverage would get a single storm here, perhaps, but even
> we show a damping effect after that.
>
>
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