Lawsuit: Fox News Group Hacked, Surveilled, and Stalked Ex-Host Andrea Tantaros (arstechnica.com) 100
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.
Electronic stalking (Score:3)
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Does that designation work retroactively ? Because while Fox News is most certainly a designated surrogate of the government they've only held this status since January 20th, and did not have it at the time of the alleged events.
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Re:Electronic stalking (Score:4, Interesting)
Is electronic stalking illegal?
If it's persistent and outrageous enough it can be harassment. But this stalking was done by Fox News while she was suing them, and the accounts were used to disseminate private information obtained through illegal hacking. If it can be proven I suspect a Judge will find something very illegal was going on.
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Do you really think someone would make a unique virus [...]
Depending on what sort of AV software you're using, making it "unique" can be as simple as adding few dozen bytes to the end of a file.
Re:Electronic stalking (Score:4, Informative)
Retaliation for various kinds of employee whistleblowing, including complaints about sexual harassment, is illegal. If they really were electronically stalking her as retaliation for her sexual harassment complaint, that would be grounds for a lawsuit even if the same actions would otherwise be perfectly legal.
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'sock puppet' in scare quotes? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:'sock puppet' in scare quotes? (Score:4, Funny)
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Quote slang, jargon, unusual words, weird context (Score:5, Informative)
Quotation marks are also used for slang, jargon, and similar unusual words, including ordinary words used for an unusual meaning, in a context in which the reader may be unfamiliar with the meaning. In this usage, quotes take the place of the phrase "what is called". Essentially you're quoting a group, rather than a person.
For example, a newspaper article written for the general public, one might write "he met up with his 'homeboy' or "Intel's Pentium computer processors had a bug in the 'floating point unit', the part of the processor which handles fractions."
http://www.writingwithclarity.... [writingwithclarity.com]
http://blog.apastyle.org/apast... [apastyle.org]
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Another use of normal quotation marks is to indicate that you are using a common or slang term in a more formal piece of writing (like a legal filing) where that word or phrase does not have a ready dictionary definition - the indication makes it clear that the slang meaning is intended rather than the literal meaning.
So that's not scare quotes either - it's just indicating that the term 'sock puppet' in this context does not refer to the puppets made from socks that we all remember from our childhoods.
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No, but the legal complaint that inspired the article that got copy-pasta'd into the summary was.
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Proof of how long since I've watched FNC (Score:5, Insightful)
I have no idea who Andrea Tantaros is.
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Well, when they do get non-blondes, they are usually HOT!!
The latest one that I"m drooling over is Abby Huntsman [google.com]....WoW!!
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when they do get non-blondes, they are usually HOT!!
The ones on Red Eye sure did melt steel. (Now that I've googled "Andrea Tantaros", I do recognize her.)
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Err...I don't get what you mean....?
They all seem pretty nice to me looks AND personality?
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Thanks John- now whenever I need to suppress an erection I have someone to think about other than my mother.
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Every man has dreams of 'fucking their way up the ladder'. But that's all about 'female privilege'.
Perhaps if you found a gay boss, but still not likely, gay men are just too slutty.
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Been there, done that. 3 men on the floor. CEO, the IT guy and me, the coder/devops guy. (Truth there was a fourth, but 'he' was 'in between' and worked a woman's job.)
Never again. The worst part, couldn't even use the office as a dating pool, that and the coffee. (Yuban in pre measured bags, I once dared use 2 bags to try and make coffee worth drinking (failed), known as 'Mr. Twobagger' after that. Truth is, total darkness is more my M.O.)
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I told recruiter after recruiter I left because there was too many women there. Everyone of them understood, including the female recruiters.
I've seen marketing departments with all women staff implode from the infighting. Not a pretty sight.
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Fox News is trying to create a more diverse workplace.
"We got blondes, redheads, brunettes..."
OT - but why are comments bunched up on the left? (Score:1)
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
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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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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 supp
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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?
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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"?
Why is this even on Slashdot? (Score:4, Insightful)
Why is this even on Slashdot?
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Why is this even on Slashdot?
What hacking & surveillance aren't enough for you?
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No Dip shit because BeauHD still isn't over the election, and he believes what Obama said that people shouldn't watch Fox News.
His twitter feed, "Trump is a saggy sack of shit. If any one of you is even remotely considering voting for him this November, please unfollow me. "
"That sack of shit next to Hillary is attracting flies! #debate"
"Clinton wiped the floor with Trump tonight. Say hello to your next president, America!"
" It's only a story because it has the 'Trump' buzzword. Stupid media is stupid."
"I b
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Nothing original, "Dip shit", just the same crap pasted into one comment after another. Sad!
Unprecedented (Score:5, Insightful)
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This is completely shocking. Who would have thought that a subsidiary of News Corporation would stoop to something like hacking and electronic surveillance? /s
Next she'll be saying they hacked her phone... oh wait
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[citation needed] [wikipedia.org]
RICO, flip 6 - two hole (Score:1)
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
Like grandpa used to say: (Score:5, Insightful)
You lie down with dogs and you get up with fleas.
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She agrees to go to work for known scumbags and then complains when she gets scumbaggered. Grandpa was right: Fleas.
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Assigning blame to the victim is not tantamount to shifting the blame to the victim. Everyone should get the amount of blame he or she deserves.
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It's more like she didn't want to lie down with dogs, she just wanted to work for them.
And yes, I am purposefully being thick here. Even if she worked at a nightclub with real scum bags, I would still want her protected.
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Obama hacked, surveilled and stalked and outright harassed a reporter who had successfully dug up dirt on the Obama Administration and made them look bad under the guise of "national security" to silence him.
Who, Sharyl Attkisson? (He launched a cyberattack on her backspace key to get it stuck so it would delete an article on Benghazi she was writing. Thanks, Obama.)
*gets popcorn* (Score:4, Funny)
It appears Fox is unravelling at the seams.
Apparently some wishes do come true.
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Could you not have let me have my daydream for just a little bit longer? :(
"Good by" then. (Score:3, Interesting)
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It's better to make spelling mistakes than be a complete liberal idiot like you and BeauHD that thinks the Russians, Fox News and the FBI stole the election from Hillary.
Dipshit BeauHD put this on his twitter feed, yep it is really mature writing there, no spelling mistakes, but complete shit.
"Trump is a saggy sack of shit. If any one of you is even remotely considering voting for him this November, please unfollow me. "
"That sack of shit next to Hillary is attracting flies! #debate"
"Clinton wiped t
This was posted on Ars, and it was kind of funny.. (Score:2)
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
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