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!
Diary #680
July 11, 2023 by Maggie McNeill
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Good for you Maggie, I have no idea who or if what this ashley madison thing pertains to. As my work takes me into worlds that are not exactly main stream stuff.
But never the less it is interesting to learn once again you where on the glowing squawk box. As to this “Hulu” thing im not fimilar with the title. The Sqwauk box I have for now in my mental records has been out of my life for 15yrs. But again congrats to being in another documentary. I will have to find a hunter and pay them to find it for me so i watch your part and learn about this whole thing.
If you click on the links in the column, the linked essays should give you enough to understand the controversy about the site.
Thanks maggie, I appreciate it. I am not a techno savvy individual. Lol those skills are as bad as my grammar and spelling… 😉 ( leaves the door open for a good Maggie jab or insult ). 😉
Short version: Ashley Madison was a dating site supposedly for connecting those who wanted to cheat on their spouses. It turned out most of the women were faked by chatbots, and most of the fees collected were from men who never even had a brief online conversation with a real woman.
Maggie smelled a rat because she knows that anything like this draws something like 10 men for every (non-compensated) woman. So it was either a front for escorts or a scam.
Maggie, I think I scanned past some ads for this documentary on Hulu. If you were involved, maybe it’s worth watching.