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Disqus scrambles after leak fuels Swedish tabloid exposé |
December 11, 2013
Disqus is updating its widely-used comments platform after a Swedish tabloid exposed politicians and other public figures for allegedly making highly offensive comments on right-wing websites.The Swedish daily Expressen, working with an investigative journalism group, said it uncovered the identity of hundreds of people who left offensive comments at four right-wing websites through their email addresses. It then confronted the authors of the comments, many of whom freely admitted to writing them.Later on Tuesday, Disqus said its network had not been breached and that it did not leak email addresses. The journalists appeared to have abused a feature it used for a third-party service, it said.Based on information from Disqus and other observers, a general picture of the journalists’ method has emerged.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2079060/disqus-scrambles-after-leak-fuels-swedish-tabloid-expos.html#tk.rss_all
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