‘They’re obsessive about us’: Parler CEO rebuffs ‘hacking’ rumor, investor not stunned ‘liberal imbeciles’ on Twitter fell for it

Whereas gossip concerning the alleged intrusion despatched #ParlerHacked to the highest of the Twitter developments on Tuesday, firm CEO John Matze dispelled the rumor in a put up on his personal platform, insisting “all allegations are pretend” and that the location’s critics are merely “obsessive about us.”

“The alleged ‘Parler hack’ is a screenshot from a WordPress web site that has been circulated repeatedly over the previous 6 months, regardless of Parler’s a number of responses that we don’t use WordPress merchandise, nor WordPress databases,” Matze wrote.

That is an irresponsible rumor which makes use of a ‘techie’ trying WordPress config file which is barely able to complicated a journalistic hack, not an precise hacker. If Twitter continues to reality test others, they need to additionally reality test posts corresponding to these that unfold viral misinformation.

Day by day Dot journalist Mikael Thalen additionally weighed in to again up Matze’s clarification, stating that the screenshot in query is certainly previous information.

He additionally reiterated a degree made by Buzzfeed’s Jane Lytvynenko relating to the reliability of one of many most important figures spreading the brand new rumor – Kevin Abosch, a self-avowed “artist” and “knowledge scientist.” Abosch claimed to have seen “what seems to be like legit proof” that 1000’s of Parler accounts had been “compromised,” however declined to share any proof.

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Although his Twitter deal with beforehand recommended an affiliation with the New York Instances, Abosch quietly altered the bio on Tuesday evening after netizens famous that he doesn’t work on the outlet, and had merely been the topic of a profile story in 2018.

Conservative radio host and Parler stakeholder Dan Bongino pointed to a different particular person serving to to lend credence to the ‘hack’ story – Twitter-verified tech entrepreneur William LeGate, who additionally referenced the questionable screenshot – including that the rumor was “designed solely for lib imbeciles to run with. In fact, they fell for it.”

Different right-of-center commentators quickly echoed Matze’s name for Twitter to “reality test” the hacking allegation, urging the corporate to deal with the rumor because it did an October story within the New York Publish, which posited shady overseas enterprise dealings by the Joe Biden household. Whereas the article was promptly blacklisted from Twitter for a number of days on the idea that it was illicitly obtained “hacked materials” – an assumption by no means really confirmed – the rumors about Parler have been allowed to flow into freely.

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