Just a little less than a year ago, I was contacted by a producer from a UK-based production company making a documentary series on the story of Ashley Madison; long-time readers will recall that I played a small part in exposing the company’s scam long before it became common knowledge. It turns out that when the documentary writers were doing their research, they dscovered a heap of internal Ashley Madison emails complaining about my expose in general and having a cow over my publishing screenshots of their bot-creating interface in particular. The company was so worried, in fact, that it resorted to what Ken “Popehat” White refers to as “bumptious legal threats”, trying to intimidate me into taking down the column (fat chance) by foolishly threatening me with a libel suit while also claiming that I had published proprietary information (ie, admitting that my statements were not libelous because they were true). Anyhow, Ken told them (in a legal way, of course) what they could do with their suit, and I watched with glee as everything I said was eventually proven correct. The fact that I knew about it long before the proof became common knowledge was fascinating to the documentary producers, and so they sent a camera crew to Sunset last October to interview me. Anyhow, the documentary premiered on Hulu last Friday, and though the reviews seem mixed people are telling me my part was great, so give it a watch and see for yourself!
Archive for July 11th, 2023
Diary #680
Posted in Diary, Perception, tagged Ashley Madison, lawyers, Maggie in the Media, scams on July 11, 2023| 4 Comments »
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