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Yet another naked shorting disinformation campaign laid bare
Former business journalist Gary Weiss, who seeks to cover-up the threat and impact of market manipulation via illegal naked short selling, has made Wikipedia a major point of focus.
Wikipedia’s Jimbo Wales unimpressed by Gary Weiss and his lies
It’s easy to see why Gary Weiss was the logical choice when proponents of illegal naked short selling sought a resolute apologist for their repugnant practice.
The Pendulum Swings
On balance, 2006 was a very dark time for the market reform movement, as every charge was followed by a blistering counter-charge, and every lunge answered by a quick parry.
Gary Weiss discards own identity, reborn “Tom Sykes” the bumbling sockpuppet
Apparently aware of the ruin that is his own reputation, Gary Weiss has taken to battling in favor of illegal stock market manipulation as “Tom Sykes”.
Weighing the options
My direct involvement notwithstanding, I feel it’s both fair and accurate to say that the events surrounding the Gary Weiss/Mantanmoreland affair were among the strangest and most polarizing in Wikipedia’s history.
“Do I Live in a Synthetic Reality?” Do-It-Yourself Home Test
“The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth.”…
Lecture on abuse of social media by stock manipulators
I recently lectured business students at the University of Texas, on the topic of abuse of social media…
Emails show journalist rigged Wikipedia's naked shorts
Writing from the pages of a makeshift website known as AntiSocialMedia.net, Bagley has accused Gary Weiss of not only rigging Wikipedia but flooding countless blogs and stock message boards with anonymous vitriol meant to undermine Patrick Byrne and his views on naked shorting. And he says that Weiss has worked in tandem with several others, including a man named Floyd Schneider.
The Final Word on Gary Weiss and Wikipedia
One of the strangest things I’ve ever seen is how Gary Weiss deals with getting caught in a…
July 14, 2008
The many fish tales of Wikipedia's Jimbo Wales
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 deepcapture.com: that former financial journalist Gary Weiss is possibly the most profoundly conflicted Wikipedia editor in the history of that website.