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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis should exonerate Joy Reid --
Please spread it far and wide -- add it to every Joy Reid DU thread; share on FB if you go there; retweet -- whatever. Let's shut this down.
Cybersecurity expert working w/ Joy Reid on alleged hacking releases lengthy statement: "Five months ago, we found evidence Joy Reids now-defunct blog ... was breached after a review of suspicious activity."
Link to tweet
It was already posted here, but isn't getting much traffic
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210542735
HipChick
(25,485 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)rzemanfl
(29,568 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Joy Reids Hacking Claims Look Increasingly Unlikely
Only a pretty bizarre course of events would have led to those allegedly "fraudulent" homophobic blog posts.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/joy-reid-blog-post-hacking_us_5ae0ae7ee4b02baed1b593b6
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Thanks
lame54
(35,321 posts)Guilty or not
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)which seems like sound journalistic practice, to me.
AncientGeezer
(2,146 posts)"Joy Reids Hacking Claims Look Increasingly Unlikely
Only a pretty bizarre course of events would have led to those allegedly fraudulent homophobic blog posts.
By Hayley Miller"
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/joy-reid-blog-post-hacking_us_5ae0ae7ee4b02baed1b593b6
And...
"Joy Reid Drops Event Appearance Amid Scrutiny Over Hacking Claims
The MSNBC host was supposed to moderate a panel in New York City on Thursday.
By Hayley Miller" which contains this..."This time around, Reid has vehemently denied writing the posts, claiming her blog had been hacked. But as HuffPost reported, only a pretty bizarre course of events would have led to the allegedly fraudulent homophobic blog posts."
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/joy-reid-cancels-event_us_5ae1d916e4b055fd7fc90c67
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)skylucy
(3,743 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Seems this is what he was notorious for doing for a fee.
Here..Reid is exhonerated again & again.
Hope the FBI finds the source of this BS.
EXHONERATED HERE:
https://amp.cnn.com/money/2018/04/25/media/joy-reid-msnbc-host-wayback-machine/index.html?__twitter_impression=true
AND HERE:
Link to tweet
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mythology
(9,527 posts)A claim of innocence is not proof of evidence.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Glad to know the FBI is investigating this.
oasis
(49,408 posts)PaulX2
(2,032 posts)And see when something was added.
mr_liberal
(1,017 posts)She's only saying that a couple were by somebody else. I think only two.
So its actually both. She wrote homophobic posts AND she was hacked as well.
George II
(67,782 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....that's not good enough for all the people frothing at the prospect of jumping on Joy Reid for some reason.
Kingofalldems
(38,478 posts)"Curses! Foiled again!"
NoMoreRepugs
(9,459 posts)a decade ago? Seriously people, our country is being dismantled and some here are applying the purity test to Joy?