The imposter "Eduardo Martins"

This was a crazy story I saw last year in Mashable: https://mashable.com/2017/09/05/fake-photojournalist-eduardo-martins-brazil-instagram/#Mjp3hTZcBZqf

A man falsely claimed to be a war photojournalist, and he took other people's pictures and submitted them to a variety of publications.  Even the Wall Street Journal was duped.  The guy went by the name "Eduardo Martins," and he made social media profiles and even a personal website.

I like to imagine that I wouldn't be duped by this type of charade, but who knows...

Culpam.com

Come on, Culpam.com, who are you trying to fool?

Your article from April 3, 2018, is titled: "Chicago pizza delivery woman moved to tears after church honors her with incredible tip"

A WGNTV.com article from March 2, 2018, is titled: "Chicago pizza delivery woman moved to tears after church honors her with incredible tip"

Your opening:

CHICAGO -- A local delivery driver was brought to tears after being surprised with an incredible tip during a Chicago church service.

For the entire month of February, New Life Covenant Church, located in Chicago's Humboldt Park, says they had been challenging members of the church to honor people.

The opening from WGNTV:

CHICAGO -- A local delivery driver was brought to tears after being surprised with an incredible tip during a Chicago church service.

For the entire month of February, New Life Covenant Church, located in Chicago's Humboldt Park, says they had been challenging members of the church to honor people.

You're using somebody else's content, and your site has AdSense ads?  That's just sketchy. 

Villanova wins!

They are champions of the college basketball world:

A Russian on BlackLivesMatterMedia.com?

I've written previously about BlackLivesMatter1, a sketchy Facebook page claiming to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement.  The Facebook page frequently linked to a middleman site, BlackLivesMatter.media, which was structured a lot like Reddit:  The site contained links to news articles, and visitors were encouraged to create an account and upvote or downvote the different threads.

I don't think BlackLivesMatter.media ever became popular in its own right.  Hardly any links received more than 1 upvote, and most of the people who registered accounts seemed to be hawking products.  After I published my first article, BlackLivesMatter.media disappeared, and it was replaced a couple months later by BlackLivesMatterMedia.com.  The new site was structured exactly like the old site, and my impression is that all the accounts registered on BlackLivesMatter.media were carried over to BlackLivesMatterMedia.com.

One of theoe accounts was "AbenaTau," and I made an archive of their profile here: http://archive.is/efaRd.  AbenaTau submitted 13 links:

6 links to BlackMattersUS.com
3 links to AtlantaBlackStar.com

2 links to DoNotShoot.us

2 links to HuffingtonPost.com

BlackMattersUS.com and DoNotShoot.us have both been identified as domains controlled by Russia's Internet Research Agency.  I doubt any of AbenaTau's links were viewed more than a couple times, but still...it's mildly interesting!  I wonder where else the IRA spammers tried promoting their sites?

Notre Dame wins!

Champions of the NCAAW basketball world:

Raw Story one-month anniversary

It's been one month since Raw Story "temporarily" removed this article about Al Franken and Twitter bots: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/white-nationalists-twitter-bots-fueled-war-al-franken-democrats-fell/

The editor's note says:

We’ve discovered several issues with this article and have removed it temporarily while we do further research. Thank you for your patience.

Don't worry, I'm a patient guy.

What were his grades?

David Hogg is having difficulty with his college applications.

Just got rejected from another college but that’s ok we’re already changing the world. Goodnight everyone

— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 17, 2018

I assume he sent in the applications back in January, and so there wouldn't be any references to his recent gun-control activism.  But still...I'd expect a lot of colleges would want to take a flyer on him.

InfoLounges.com

Come on InfoLounges.com, who are you trying to fool?

Your article from March 7, 2018, is titled: "Iceland makes it illegal to pay women less than men"

An article in the New York Post from January 3, 2018, is titled: "Iceland makes it illegal to pay women less than men"

Your opening:

Iceland became the first country in the world to force employers to pay workers the same rate — regardless of gender, sexuality or ethnicity. 

A law that went into effect on New Year’s Day requires all companies with 25 or more employees to file annual disclosures proving people in the same position are paid equally, the BBC reported.

The opening from the New York Post:

Iceland on Monday became the first country in the world to force employers to pay workers the same rate — regardless of gender, sexuality or ethnicity.

A law that went into effect on New Year’s Day requires all companies with 25 or more employees to file annual disclosures proving people in the same position are paid equally, the BBC reported.

You're using somebody else's content, and your site has AdSense ads?  That's just sketchy.