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Next, we have a barrage of twitter post from hundreds of accounts in both French and English about the Emma Watson nude threat, linking WHO IS REALLY BEHIND THE EMMA WATSON NUDES? Each of this post is an exact copy of the one before and they all surfaced within minutes of one anether. on September 21, Foxweekly Posts th·first known articl@ about thh@ leaking of Emm Watson's nudes from a site that 'originated from 4chan. This artiele presented ne information linking the site to 4chan exeept for an image of the 4chan loge on the site in question. Emma Watson Nude Photos To Be Leaked By 4Chan Hacker? Emma Weso the nest larget of the notoris dChan lesker? Another interesting note is that some 500 the people tweeting have very susplcious twitter handles and all post the xact sarne content. This story was quickly spread among many mainstream media outlets, each purporting the emmayouarenext website is the work of 4chan 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 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 server as a site called rantie.com, belenging to Rantie Harketing The apache server status was removed within an hour of its discovery. Apache Server Status for www.emmayouarenext.com was being hested on the same Tweets Tweets&reples Rantie Gome people ant the unseen to beseen just far publicity Aint no secret Another very interesting tweet connects rantic to FoxWeekly, which is very suspicious given what we know about Rantie being responsible for that on the story. Turns out that Fox weekly isn't real news site. It'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 for ad revenue. YOUTUBE'S MOST BRAZEN SPAMMERS ARE NOW PLAGIARIZING THE NEWS Mey 22, 20141 News T Commen Share On Facebook ly Swenry, the social media manipulators who fooled Time and CNIN into reporting on their hoaxe% are now stealing ther coment. The groups latest scheme is a blog called FoxWeeklySince March 4 the site has pifered dazens of aroicles from the Fox Ne the New York Times CNN the Associated Press and Bloomberg Foxeelly was founded by a man who interchangeably calls imsel joey jpey b and juice7292- same names used by Savenzy's mysterious founders The four other Faweekly writers' are famed Francis syle, Danny Roger% Luis west, and wiliam Howard. None of these writers including joway. has any kind of digital-news footprint. The few music-related and The group were alse formerly known as SocialVEVO and has been responsible for heaxes invelving NASA, Rockstar (OTAS), FoX (Family Guy), and other ©ompanies that Rantic Marketing has 'claimed' to have Rantie Marketing is a corporation specialising in social media marketing, and claim te have worked with NASA, Electronic Arts, Steam, Reckstar, unikely chance that FoaWeekly ponied up the thousands of dollars required Associuaced Press subscription and access to its journalism the Daily Det reached out to themm nvestigacing Foxweekly The only other original articles on FoxWeelkly deal with Swenty's storied history Tme is the only news organtionwho is Before Savenay, the company was known as Socialvevo. Before h botters who first gained notoriety in 2012 with a rap vides called "Pickles agroup of YouTube In the viral YouTube video, a man named Jacob Pavolotsk-also known as Yasha Swag-bounces around singing nonsensical crap. The popularity of the video wasnt organic-it was thanks to thousands of fraudulent views abricated by these men. Woking with componies that you lae&me In early 2013, the group branded itself SociaMevo. named after the massse video hosting servce powered by Youtube. Socdalvevo began launching Internet hoases targeted at NASA Family Guy and Grand Theft Auto Each hoax as a classic bait-and-swtch driving thousands of people to Seenry's homepage, where it sold Facebook liken, YouTub" vien % and Twitter followers. Sweny was able to dupe legromate ne sources such as CTime and Gawer into reporting on its hoaxes-for example, Famiy Guy's supposed "countdown" to an announcement about Brian the ompany Overvie HBO BRIAN UAHOG, Rhode Isand Come Taste Du 09 2 54 17 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. Turns out the emmayouarenext site is run by the same people at Rantie RanticMarketing is potentially responsible for hundreds of sock puppet accounts on twitter being used te send traffic te the emmayouarenext website and blame it on 4chan -R antic Marketing sends a tweet to Foxweekly saying thanks no thanks for the dewntime you have caused us by summoning the wrath of 4chan' which is then quickly deleted Turns out FoxWeekly isn't a real new outlet, but instead a side project by a group of internet pranksters knewn as Swenzy (formerly SecialVEVO that have been respensible for many internet heaxes frem which they

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