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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsArsTechnica: Disinformation guru "Hacker X" names his employer: NaturalNews.com
Robert Willis, the hacker who helped build a massive, US-based disinformation network and was profiled in a recent Ars Technica feature, has decided to name names. In a blog post today, Willis confirmed he worked for Mike Adams, who goes by "the Health Ranger" at the site NaturalNews.com. This matches the documentation previously seen by Ars Technica in the course of reporting the piece.
Willis had joined NaturalNews.com in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election and helped the site build out a network of anonymized websites that looked independent but secretly promoted the "health" information and pro-Trump political writings of Mike Adams and NaturalNews.com.
NaturalNews has long been linked to disinformation. In 2019, The Atlantic named it one of the top producers of anti-vax content on the Internet. The site has touted homeopathy, urged "natural" remedies for things like cancer, and warned about "chemtrails." NaturalNews content has been banned from Facebook, and the site has been called a "powerful conspiracy empire."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/disinformation-guru-hacker-x-names-his-employer-naturalnews-com/
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ArsTechnica: Disinformation guru "Hacker X" names his employer: NaturalNews.com (Original Post)
DBoon
Oct 2021
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EYESORE 9001
(25,932 posts)1. Sunlight is the best disinfectant
and, no, Im not quoting woo.
myccrider
(484 posts)2. Yes and no...
Sunlight is a disinfectant for any surface that it reaches. Its not necessarily the most effective disinfectant, even then, depending on the surface in question, length of time, not wanting something bleached, etc. And if sunlight cant reach a surface, then its useless as a disinfectant for that particular problem.
/pedantry
DBoon
(22,363 posts)3. If you hide in a place where the sun don't shine
you never have to worry about the light of day