Heads up: Something's going down at Newsweek. Servers were taken recently in financial investigation..now being reported that top staff have been fired.
348 2018-02-05 by AIsuicide
Not my favorite source, but here's the Daily Beast article:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek-guts-its-top-edit-staff-amid-legal-turmoil
I've gotta wonder what the hell is going on over there? Did they find something on the servers they weren't expecting to find?
52 comments
1 AIsuicide 2018-02-05
Submission statement: Considering the recent seizure of Newsweek's servers in connection with an investigation into their finances, one has to wonder if these firings have anything to do with information found on the servers.
1 RoseandRoseandRose 2018-02-05
What information? Woah let me know, this is hypebeast mode right now.
1 GetHisWallet 2018-02-05
They're owned by the Unification Church (Moonies), so highly likely that they're being investigated as a laundering front.
1 Chibibaki 2018-02-05
Its been a while since we had someone mention the Moonies. Those guys show up in the strangest of places.
1 AIsuicide 2018-02-05
I'm speculating. I did say - one has to wonder..and I am definitely wondering. Because if the investigation was financial..why fire top editors? What do they have to do with the financial aspect of the company?
1 RoseandRoseandRose 2018-02-05
I don't know, but I can't wait to find out.
1 AIsuicide 2018-02-05
You and me both.
1 dhamon 2018-02-05
In a publishing company, chief editors are the de facto senior management.
1 AIsuicide 2018-02-05
They handled the finances?
1 Madrenoche 2018-02-05
I'm paraphrasing but, it said they cared more about clicks and retweets than accuracy.
1 AIsuicide 2018-02-05
Hahahaha..kind of like the latest brigades we've been dealing with on this sub that care more about upvotes and downvotes that accuracy...
1 Madrenoche 2018-02-05
Exactly... kind of like when TMOR digs their claws into a certain r/conspiracy post
1 AIsuicide 2018-02-05
They're all busy trying to form the narrative on the Carter Page posts now...my how the voting can change once a certain few users show up on those threads..simply amazing.
It's like everyone at r//politics got a memo or something.
1 Madrenoche 2018-02-05
Believe me..if it has anything to do with conspiracy they have bots which act like a plaque and mutate. The bots also give them a thousand x the up votes...even know their fake TMOR users feel as if that many people agree what they're posting.
1 bosox82 2018-02-05
TMOR?
1 Madrenoche 2018-02-05
Top minds of reddit...a sub which is constantly harassing this sub
1 expletivdeleted 2018-02-05
maybe top staff had access to info they shouldn't have had and sold/monetized it.
1 AIsuicide 2018-02-05
Well, we know some of the staff that were fired did stories on the financial fiasco...so maybe they had it and used it..it's possible.
1 Beaustrodamus 2018-02-05
They are under the control of a Korean Cult Leader, for starters. http://observer.com/2013/08/moonies-messiahs-and-media-who-really-owns-newsweek/
1 Beaustrodamus 2018-02-05
https://nypost.com/2018/01/18/nypd-officers-raid-newsweek-headquarters/
https://medium.com/@bpreeves/a-fool-and-his-money-are-the-new-owners-of-newsweek-financing-a-south-korean-cult-49b38946e1dc
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/03/newsweek-ibt-olivet-david-jang/
1 RagingSatyr 2018-02-05
Damn it hit the MSM, that's big.
1 -STpablo- 2018-02-05
No way! The moonies owned my university too, so weird. I wonder how much they low key have control over.
1 SoCo_cpp 2018-02-05
Newsweek seemed to push a non-stop stream empty anti-Trump drivel articles. That can't be too awfully profitable, when all the much better known sources are doing the same.
1 threwahway 2018-02-05
Hyuk yeah nobody would dislike the guy otherwise!
1 ellipses2015 2018-02-05
Boy, you are not kidding about that. Newsweek used to be a respected source of information. Then they started publishing articles that did nothing but criticize Melania Trump's footwear. Seriously.
1 MaryLS 2018-02-05
They recently had an article presenting a scenario where Hillary Clinton could still become president (this would be after Trump is impeached, Pence steps aside and Ryan shows "integrity" by naming Clinton as Pres. -- or something along those lines) Boy it was bad. I previously had not realized Newsweek had fallen so far. Now I say -- good riddance.
1 SomeoneLikeYouToo 2018-02-05
At the bottom of that Daily Beast article there is a link to Buzzfeed with accusations that Newsweek were involved in ad fraud.
Basically, the accusation is that they bought "junk traffic and bots" to inflate the view count on their advertisements. I wonder if they were Russian bots. :-)
But the South Korean cult someone else mentioned is also interesting...
1 AIsuicide 2018-02-05
Russian bots...oh my sides.
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1 Green_Lives_Matter 2018-02-05
If anyone here believes in Russian bots, I have some potato vodka futures to sell you...
1 prolix 2018-02-05
There are bots originating from they country including Russia. Thanks for showing everyone your bias though. You come to a conspiracy sub and mock people who believe in a conspiracy that doesn't fit your bias/narrative. And even somehow manage to let the fact that there are bots literally everywhere slip right past you. It's like you are intentionally blinding yourself from reality..
1 Green_Lives_Matter 2018-02-05
*tips fedora*
1 HahThatsSilly 2018-02-05
It's almost like you're intentionally taking his words literally and using that to attempt some rather lame insult.
Nobody thinks he meant "there are no bots, ever, that have originated from within the country of Russia".
1 prolix 2018-02-05
Yes, it's an insult. No, it's not lame.
1 lopestatus 2018-02-05
1 stainless_hardened3 2018-02-05
Russian bots are real. Their significance over other bots is what's inflated. There are all kinds of bots all over the internet from all different entities. But I do get what you are saying. We were getting to the point that we would discredit any movement against the mainstream narrative as perpetrated by Russian bots which effectively discredits it.
1 TerribleTherapist 2018-02-05
Buying bots for ad revenue is like a 16 year old Warcraftgold.info thing. Jesus.
1 Thisismyrealface 2018-02-05
Except it fraud, and illegal if used to make money.
1 Apersonofinterest666 2018-02-05
Newsweek came out with an article not to long ago about the Steele Dossier, One year later where they say that the Dossier is largely unverified.
They tried to pad the “verified” results by including the Facebook and Twitter ads.
1 55Savushkina 2018-02-05
is this it? is this trump purging the very fake newsweek? RIP derpstate!
1 colin_crapperschtick 2018-02-05
Newsweek started to go to shiiiiiiit when they allowed Fareed Zakaria to spout his drivel......down hill right straight to hell after that
1 jollysloth 2018-02-05
From The Outline
1 AIsuicide 2018-02-05
Sounds like top brass are firing on one cylinder.
1 Tejava4Lyfe 2018-02-05
Newsweek went from a respected print magazine to the biggest collection of clickbait fake news on the internet. Good riddance.
1 FullMetalSquirrel 2018-02-05
I remember being excited to be offered a job there out of college and kicking myself for not taking it. Probably a solid decision now that I see what they became.
1 ZionistKhazarsDid911 2018-02-05
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/7rnnmq/newsweek_raid_reportedly_linked_to_sfs_olivet/
1 ak235 2018-02-05
It's a shitty MSM outlet. Who cares.
1 DragonflyGrrl 2018-02-05
It's fun to watch them fall.
1 SixVISix 2018-02-05
Good.
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1 bosox82 2018-02-05
Thanks
1 AIsuicide 2018-02-05
You and me both.
1 Chibibaki 2018-02-05
Its been a while since we had someone mention the Moonies. Those guys show up in the strangest of places.
1 Thisismyrealface 2018-02-05
Except it fraud, and illegal if used to make money.