Roger and Me: insights into the dark world of stock manipulation

The first several posts published on AntiSocialMedia.net dealt with former BusinessWeek reporter Gary Weiss and his abuse of blogs, Wikipedia and message boards in defense of illegal stock market manipulation.
Almost immediately after publishing the first such post, I began to receive email from readers who were confident that any scam involving Gary Weiss was all [...]

When you’re right, you’re right.

What seems to bother critics of AntiSocialMedia.net more than anything else is their inability to disprove the things written here.
That’s because AntiSocialMedia.net deals in facts. Period.
Often, having made my case, I’ll take the additional step of drawing conclusions based on the facts. It’s never easy leaving the comfort of what I know to be [...]

Piling absurdity upon absurdity

As any engineer will attest, the key to an enduring structure is a solid foundation. Builders who choose not to worry about foundation issues will deliver a product that’s worthless at best, and a dangerous liability at worst.
Likewise, arguments crafted without a foundation amount to something ranging from worthless to dangerous.
In both cases, the motives [...]