Hackers target fact-checking site after Clinton endorses it
Source: cnet.com
Verrit was hacked almost immediately after Hillary Clinton tweeted about it.
4 September 2017 9:31 pm AEST
@rich_trenholm
Hillary Rodham Clinton invited followers to try fact-checking site Verrit.
Monica Schipper
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A political fact-checking site has been hacked almost immediately after it was endorsed by Hillary Clinton.
Clinton invited followers to sign up to Verrit on Sunday, but within an hour of her tweet a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack prevented the site from loading. It's now up and running again..................................
The site is aimed at "the 65.8 million", a reference to the higher number of US voters who picked Clinton in last year's Presidential Election over the eventual winner Donald Trump...................................
Read more: https://www.cnet.com/au/news/hillary-clinton-verrit-backs-fact-check-site-targeted-by-hackers-donald-trump-fake-news/
Good on Hillary. She said long ago she is part of the resistance. This is one way to be productive and resist.
Link to tweet
https://verrit.com/sixty-five-point-eight-million/
Link to tweet
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)and political partisans make it seem that such a site isn't neutral?
Allow me for a moment to be the Devil's Advocate, but if Ted Cruz offered up his support for a "fact check" website, I wouldn't give it a second thought about being "neutral".
Laurian
(2,593 posts)that swamp social media. I think that's important whether it's viewed as partisan or not. There's noting wrong with making the views of our side more visible.
TheBlackAdder
(28,222 posts)She should say something like, "I often watch Fox & Friends too! So, take comfort when watching it, that I am sharing the experience with the rest of you."
lostnfound
(16,191 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)I wonder if that would work with some of the Trumpettes at work who keep changing the break room tv to Faux.
GoCubsGo
(32,095 posts)Assuming that's possible. Get Hillary to endorse a site, and then sit back and wait for them...
TheBlackAdder
(28,222 posts)m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)mcar
(42,376 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)It's an opinion site. Maybe one day it will be a fact-checking site, but putting "Verrit.com authentication code" on each article does not turn it into a fact-checking site.
I can't actually see a claim on the site itself that it's about "fact-checking". Maybe cnet has just misunderstood? Or there was some silly bit of PR marketing?
csziggy
(34,138 posts)It does claim to provide verified sources of information:
ABOUT
Verrit collects and contextualizes noteworthy facts, stats, and quotes for politically engaged citizens. Each verrit is a verified item of information marked with a 7-digit identification code. To authenticate a verrit, enter the code in the search bar and match it to our database.
Note: External links and site comments do not necessarily reflect Verrits views.
https://verrit.com/
To find the information I posted, click on the small circled "i" at the top right of their front page.
This is in opposition to the Fox News and Sinclair "alternative fact" stories.
I just accessed their site for the first time and what I see are tidy little memes with linkage to the sources from which they were taken. Given the prevalence of Twitter and Facebook and the reluctance of many to read more than a sentence or two, this is a good way for the left to easily spread their ideas.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)The chart below illustrates the staggeringly disproportionate focus on Hillary Clintons emails.