Please support independent bloggers... this is not ethical or cool in any way.
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I found another blogger Gregg Re just did this to:
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So a few days ago, Libs Of TikTok shared a post from an anonymous doctor from Wake Forest Medical School because she confessed to injuring a patient on purpose because of his political views, and this sounded scary so I did my thing and figured out who she was:
https://hucksters.net/person/kychelle-lourne-del-rosario
Almost immediately, a producer Gregg Re from Fox News "liked" my tweet, since it was also going viral... but 5 hours later, that same person posted his own tweet, with the exact same information that I had already published... but with zero credit to me.
A few more hours beyond that, and a right-wing blog The Post Millennial, quoted that Fox News producer in a news article, insinuating he was the one who exposed the doctor.
Assuming it was a mistake, I contacted the TPM journalist Libby Emmons and told her, and she responded "thanks for letting me know!" and then disappeared. After some time, I asked when she would be issuing a correction on her piece or linking back to my blog/tweet? She ignored me.
I then emailed all 4 of the top employees at TPM asking about this, which also went ignored, besides their CEO responding back to insult me.
Deciding to ask the Fox News producer about it instead, assuming we were on good terms since he had already "liked" my tweet, I sent him a DM and email, CC'ing the TPM people, asking him to clarify my blog was his source. Again, this went ignored, until I told the entire lot of them that I would be blogging about their journalistic fraud if they weren't willing to credit my research as their original source.
Suddenly, he responded: he blocked me on Twitter, and then emailed me back threatening to sue me if I proceeded with exposing their content theft. Right now as I type this, he is madly posting on Twitter "new" information about the story (getting ready for a Tucker segment no doubt) with screenshots of emails he sent to Wake Forest demanding ANSWERS!!! about whether this doctor was still treating patients or not... lmao
This might sound like just another goofy part of the internet, but for me (an independent blogger just trying to expose scams in my free time) it was extremely eye-opening that Fox News apparently steals whatever research they want without credit, and then threatens to sue if you speak up.
Now dozens of major media outlets are republishing this story, and all of them credit TPM and this one Fox producer's tweet.
The research exposing "Doctor" Kychelle Del Rosario and Wake Forest medical malpractice was stolen by Fox News from an independent blogger who they threatened to sue if I said anything. This is conservative media in a nutshell these days...
Welcome to the internet, learn how to watermark your content. Sorry that you missed your chance at internet glory, and I empathize, I had to learn this the hard way as well. Just in a different profession.
You're not wrong, but we are talking about the top media company in the USA, they know better and they just don't care.
I have dealt with several left-wing journalists over the years, they have never pulled these stunts (not yet, anyway)... it's like Grifters-R-Us on the right, you have to make some "deal" with them if you want any credit, unlike the left
personally I refuse to go down that road
I try to give people a chance to do the right thing, if they screw me then I expose them... idk if that's a good approach or not, but it's the morality I feel okay with
Watermarks aren't necessarily hard to get around lol.