• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      He initially claimed it was AI. And when he was asked how faked messages could be put on archived web pages, he made a sort of “they have ways of doing these things” statement.

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      11 hours ago

      I think the idea from the article was that all the info in the profile had been previously breached and leaked, so anyone could have made the profile

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      The article doesn’t make it sound like the direction he’s actually taking, but he could potentially sue for defamation, since they’re attributing the messages to him, which he denies is true, and the messages have had a pretty apparent negative effect on him. Seems like he’s suing for leaking his PII instead though, so I guess he’s doubling down on the notion that someone apparently went through a lot of effort to fake everything.