[ih] Defamation lawsuit brought by self-proclaimed email "inventor" settles

[dhc at dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker)]

On 5/31/2019 3:44 PM, Vint Cerf wrote:
> there is something trumpian about this - making a massively false claim 
> has kept ayyadurai's name visible in email storms among the cognoscenti 
> for several years now.


To me, what has been most impressive -- and frankly emblematic of the 
larger fake news phenomenon -- is how poorly many journalists have done 
their job at vetting the claims.  Given that it takes maybe 2 minutes -- 
10 if one is diligent -- to establish the basic problem with his claims, 
this really is quite striking.

d/

ps. I believe the storms on lists like this are only due to the 
continuing public media and legal activities.  A stray claim getting 
little public coverage would get a single storm here, perhaps, but even 
we show a damping effect after that.


-- 
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net