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Next, we havea barrage of twitter post from hundreds of accounts in both French and English about th Emma Watson nud@ threat, linking WHO IS REALLY BEHIND THE EMMA WATSON NUDES? Each of this post is an exact cepy of the one before and they all surfaced within minutes of ene anether. On September 21, Fox Weekly pests the first known article about the leaking of Emma Watson's nudes from a site that 'originated frem 4chan'. This article presented ne infermation linking the site to 4chan except for an image of the 4chan loge on the site in question. Emma Watson Nude Photos To Be Leaked By 4Chan Hacker? s E Wetoos the next target of he notarievs Chon aker key 2014/09/21/ Another interesting note is that some tweeting have very This story was quickly spread among many mainstream media outlets, .ach Purporting the ernmayeuarenot website is thie work of 4ehan suspicious twitter handles and all post the老,(act same content. They also all follow RanticMarketing RanticMarketing isn't very active on twitter, having posted only a few tweets since the September 17. However, as soon as we started digging, they became very active. 09/ This led us to believe that they were actively browsing the thread, or were at least aware that we were digging. server-status which showed this site was being hested on the same server as a site called rantie.com, belenging to Rantie Marketing The apache server status was removed within an hour of its discovery. Apache Server Status for www.emmayouarenext.com 220K Mone Tweets Tweets& reples Rantie Anothervery interesting tweet conneets rantie to FoxWeekly, whichis very suspicious given what we know about Rantie being responsible for t website, and considering that FoxWeekly was the on the story. Turns out that Fox Weekly isn't areal news site. lt's a project by a group of social media manipulators call Swenry who ve been known for their internet heaxes te drive traffie to their site fer ad revenue. YOUTUBE'S MOST BRAZEN SPAMMERS ARE NOW PLAGIARIZING THE NEWS Mey 22, 2014 1 News 1 Comment Share On Facebook ly Swenty, the social media manipuiators who fooled Thime and CNN into reporting on their hoaxes are now stealing their content The groups latest scheme is a blag called Foxeeldy Since March 4 the site has pifered docens of articles from the titC·Fox Nevrs, th* Nevv york Times, CNLEhe Associated Press, and tioomberg. jey joey b, and juice7292- Foxweekly was founded by a man who inberchangeably calls hise the same names used by Swenay's mysterious founders our other FoeWeekly 'veters' are named Frands ijk Dany Roger% Luis west, and w1am Howard. None of these writers including joey. kind of digital-news footprin The group were also formerly known as SocialVEVO and has been responsible for heaxes invelving NASA, Rockstar (OTAS), FOX (Family Guy), and other companies that Rantic Marketing has claimed' to have Rantie Marketing is a corporation specialising in social media marketing, and claim to have worked with NASA, Electronic Arts, Steam, Reckstar, On the unkely chance that FoaWeeldy ponied up the thousands of dollars required for an Associuned Press Subscription and access to its journalism the Daily Dot reached out to themm CNN. and the Times 10 double-check. So far the Tress the only news organizaton weos invesigacing Foxwieelly The only other original articles on FoxWeelly deal wih Seventy's storied history Before Svenay the comparty was known as Socialves. Before h it was juse a group of YeuTube botters who first gained notoriety in 2012 with a rap video called Pickles In the viral YouTube iden, a man mamed Jacob Povolotsk-also known as Yasha Swag-bounces around singing nonsensical crap. The popularity of the video wasnt organic-it was thanks t thousands of fraudulentvews fabricated by these men Woing with componies that yeu lae&e In early 2013, the group branded itself Socialveva, named afber the massive ideo hosting service poiwered by YouTube. SocialVevo began launching Internet hoaxes targeted at NASA Famiy Gu and Grand Theft Auto Each hoax was a classic bait-and-switch, driving thousands of people to Savenry's homepage where it sold Facebook kes Youtube views and Twitter followers Swenty ompany Overview able to dupe legiomate nes sources such as CNN. Time and Gawler into reporting hoaxes-for esample, Family Guy's supposed "Countdown" to an announcement about Brian ASA HBO BRIAN QUANOG, Rhade Island Come Taste OurCla So in summary; FoxWeekly does a story about how 4chan hackers' are responsible for the emmayouarenext website and a threat to leak Emma Watson nudes. s eut the t site is run by the same people at Rantle Marketing: a viral secial media marketing company accounts on twitter being used to send traffic to the emvmayeuarere t website and blame i Rantie Marketing sends tweet to Foxweekly saying·thanks re thanks for the downtime you have caused us by summoning the wrath of 4chan' Turns out FoxWeekly isn't a real new outlet, but instead a side projeet that have been responsible for many internet hoaxes from which they
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