AntiSocialMedia.net by Judd Bagley

I recently had the honor of lecturing a group of business students at the University of Texas, on the topic of abuse of social media by stock manipulators. I’ve merged the recording of the lecture with my slide presentation and make it available for you here.

One of the strangest things I’ve ever seen is how Gary Weiss deals with getting caught in a lie. A great example of this is his denial of so much as editing Wikipedia, in the face of evidence that not only has he been a very active Wikipedia editor, but that he’s also engaged in an active effort to inject misinformation about illegal “naked short” stock trading, prominent opponent of naked short selling Patrick Byrne, and Overstock.com, which is the company Byrne heads as CEO.

Over the past month, dozens of volunteers have joined together to assemble a staggering amount of evidence backing up one of the central claims of AntiSocialMedia.net: that former financial journalist Gary Weiss is possibly the most profoundly conflicted Wikipedia editor in the history of that website.
By all accounts, the resulting mass of evidence vastly [...]

Nobody aspires to have “enemies.” I suspect, even the super-villainous would probably prefer to go about their villainy unopposed.
But just as the Yin and the Yang are opposite ends of the same stick, when one acquires a new friend, one often acquires that friend’s enemies, too.
Over the past month, it has become evident that AntiSocialMedia.net, [...]

It’s been one year since the launch of AntiSocialMedia.net, and what better way to start another year than asking those who’ve publicly assailed the accuracy of our reporting to offer suggestions on how to improve?Over two days I’ve sent email to this blog’s harshest critics, asking each to favor me with a specific instance of [...]

We like to think that based on the strength of some of the research on this site, a move to delete the Wikipedia article autobiography of Gary Weiss was undertaken recently.
A longshot from the beginning, that effort failed despite the principled efforts of Cla68, an exemplary contributor and a truly bright light in what can [...]

I thought the question of Gary Weiss’s abusive Wikipedia sockpuppetry was settled long ago. And while I never expected what I’ve come to realize is an incomparably corrupt band of Wikipedia administrators to do anything about it, I assumed all objective observers would at least concede the obvious.
Then Goofus arrived, leaving a string of comments, [...]