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Lawsuit: Fox News Group Hacked, Surveilled, and Stalked Ex-Host Andrea Tantaros (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Comparing their actions to the plot this season on the Showtime series Homeland, an attorney for former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros has filed a complaint in federal court against Fox News, current and former Fox executives, Peter Snyder and his financial firm Disruptor Inc., and 50 "John Doe" defendants. The suit alleges that collective participated in a hacking and surveillance campaign against her. Tantaros filed a sexual harassment suit against Roger Ailes and Fox News in August of 2016, after filing internal complaints with the company about harassment dating back to February of 2015. She was fired by the network in April of 2016, as Tantaros continued to press complaints against Fox News' then-Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, and others. Tantaros had informed Fox that she would be filing a lawsuit over the alleged sexual harassment. Tantaros claims that as early as February of 2015, a group run out of a "black room" at Fox News engaged in surveillance and electronic harassment of her, including the use of "sock puppet" social media accounts to electronically stalk her. Tantaros' suit identifies Peter Snyder and Disruptor Inc. as the operators of a social influence operation using "sock puppet" accounts on Twitter and other social media.
Is electronic stalking illegal?
Everyone on slashdot should be familiar with sock puppets.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
I have no idea who Andrea Tantaros is.
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For the last week or so /. has been hard to read because all the comments are squashed up in the left half of the screen. If you zoom in to read more easily it's even worse!
Am I the only one to notice this? I haven't seen anyone mention it (not that it's easy to read comments now).
What's going on? Same on a number of browsers and PC's, NoScript or not.
WTF?
Thanks in advance for any replies
I've seen this problem only on my iPhone. Not seeing it on the PC.
i wouldn't say "squashed up in the left half of the screen", i'd say "perhaps 20 percent narrower". probably to make room for more advertisements.
Yeah, probably for ads. The only effort put into this website for the past few years, beyond reading through news submissions and reposting them, is to make more space for ads.
and the ladies are just going to have to live with it. #MAGA
Why is this even on Slashdot?
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Someone is messing with the columns and DIVs on slashdot and has completely messed it up. Account information box floating all over the fucking place (hey, morons, I know who I am, I don't need it giant size right there on the screen) covering up content
Then they fixed that by shoving the column over to the left taking up half the screen.
Two words for you morons: "Staging" "Environment"
Then, maybe some "testing"
But whatever, the content, submissions, editing, and comments are all crap now too so I suppose it fits.
This is completely shocking. Who would have thought that a subsidiary of News Corporation would stoop to something like hacking and electronic surveillance? /s
Now all we would need is an independent FBI and Justice Department to investigate News Corp....
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(me rolling on floor laughing)
Another record high temperature day by the Beach
Seems to be a cold war going on with ad-blockers. They tried to make the ads under the summary hard to ad-block with simple filters. You need to use CSS selectors to get rid of them.
Bring back subscriptions. I'm happy to pay for the abuse I get here.
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For the last week or so /. has been hard to read because all the comments are squashed up in the left half of the screen. If you zoom in to read more easily it's even worse!
Am I the only one to notice this? I haven't seen anyone mention it (not that it's easy to read comments now).
What's going on? Same on a number of browsers and PC's, NoScript or not.
WTF?
Thanks in advance for any replies
Must be just you. /. has worked fine in chrome on android and firefox on windows all week for me. Maybe reset your browser to factory default and disable your addons?
Oh look... voted up again as "informative" for another inane comment while the OP gets nothing...
Climate of Fear: Jim Risen v. the Obama administration
NYT reporter Jim Risen says Obama's actions "will have a chilling effect on freedom of the press in the U.S."
The Obama DOJ’s effort to force New York Times investigative journalist Jim Risen to testify in a whistleblower prosecution and reveal his source is really remarkable and revealing in several ways; it should be receiving much more attention than it is. On its own, the whistleblower prosecution and accompanying targeting of Risen are pernicious, but more importantly, it underscores the menacing attempt by the Obama administration — as Risen yesterday pointed out — to threaten and intimidate whistleblowers, journalists and activists who meaningfully challenge what the government does in secret.
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Yep - Obama went after a New York Times reporter.
Aaaand Trump is the "fascist"!?!?!
Because they are comments from progressives. If they were from conservatives, they would be bunched up on the right!
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OT - but why are comments bunched up on the left?
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To match the owners' politics.
It's because /. has joined the liberal echo chamber.
It appears Fox is unravelling at the seams.
Apparently some wishes do come true.
"thanks"
qed
I'm seeing it too, a no-addons SeaMonkey browser.
I welcome it since it makes the line length something close to 80 characters which is much better for reading. Looks pretty ugly though.
Oh, please no!
http://www.acetonestudio.com
Liberal SJW? This is a story about hacking and surveilling a previous employee, all appropriate Slashdot material. Would you prefer that it not be reported when it's Fox news? Because we might hurt their feelings?
Grow up.
Fox News just keeps looking better and better!
If, by better, you mean worse.
It's good bye, not good by.
Anyway, bye!
Online harassment is 100% relevant on a technology website.
For the 20 years I've been in corporate IT, preventing some form of bad behavior enhanced by technology has been part of my job.
If there's a way to reach out and hurt someone with a keyboard, someone will find it.
This was the headline there:
Lawsuit: Fox News group hacked, surveilled, and stalked ex-host Andrea Tantaros
And the headline for the story right next to it:
Ars Technica Live: Why it’s important to defend hackers, even the not nice ones
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
This new "SJW" term seems to follow some strange grammatical rules- for example, it can only appear in conjunction with spelling mistakes.
colin_faber is probably triggered. Let's make sure he's able to get to a safe space.
Did you miss where it says "Lawsuit:" at the beginning?
these are just unsubstantiated rumors though
Yeah, for the first 15 seconds, the whole screen bounces up and down like a yo-yo and you click on things at your peril, because what was there when you started the click probably won't be what was there when the click registers.
Amateurs.
On Firefox I get a stripe like what I'm told is called "a half Brazilian" at any zoom level where the text is readable.
It's OK on chrome. However it was working on FF before, I haven't upgraded it or anything.
Perhaps some genius is being the clever dickie with the user-agent header.
Are we back to the days of "This site best viewed with Nutscrape Nevergetthere"?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."