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George news investigation findings
posted ago by hellob ago by hellob +452 / -2

I checked some of their source code and have some interesting findings.

George.news uses the app id 362293833600. <meta content="362293833600" property="fb:app_id" />

If we look the owner up, we get the following response from FB: https://graph.facebook.com/362293833600

   "category": "Utilities",
   "link": "https://paper.li/",
   "name": "Paper.li",
   "namespace": "paper_li",
   "id": "362293833600"
}

Ok so I want to find out what this paper.li is about, they provide out of the box platforms for news/blogs just as George news is a customer of them. Ok so far.

  1. I digged further into the api of this platform, it was created in "created_at":"2018-10-21T18:23:02Z". So the account that george news uses, is much older (pre-planned) or spin-off from failed project?.

"created_at":"2018-10-21T18:23:02Z" https://george.news/~api/papers/04247827-e179-48cb-856b-48c99fd91e16?

What really bothers me, Paper.li is owned by Finity SA (finity.ai) according to their Privacy policy https://paper.li/privacy.html.

On their website there is a video under the tab "events" https://finity.ai/#onglet1|2 where they hosted or monitored the World Economic Forum Live event tweets etc. So the company behind the platform of George.news is working for the WEF!

The profile picture below of george news links to https://dfns.tv, which redirects to their youtube channel a whois search doesn't bring anything up. Who can dig further into this?

https://defensetv.org is also build on top of paper.li it has a different and more realistic creation date. "created_at":"2020-02-06T08:22:55Z" Source: https://defensetv.org/~api/papers/a9525c52-a7d6-4059-bc78-e186a944fafb credits: @Cosmoa

They are tracking every move via the following integrations: Twitter, facebook, google analytics (GTM), Addthis button and paper.li tracking. Hello privacy ?

QDROP Seems more than a coincidence that this drop was also in 2018. Could it be that they knew that George news was Fake News psyop? https://qalerts.app/?n=529 credits: @Blind_Marksman

UPDATE

BIG FIND: they are loading https://z.moatads.com/addthismoatframe568911941483/moatframe.js into to George news website. Searching for moatads on Google gives you the following result:.

Moatads Moatads.com is a browser hijacker that comes to your computer in the form of add-on for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. ... Moatads.com also can analyze your browsing and collect your personal data. Some data may be transferred to third parties without your consent.

Update: Addthis and Moat are Oracle company products, just some more tracking services. If you have adblock enabled it will block them by default. Never trust google as main source.Thanks @scyenceFiction

They don't have a privacy policy or terms and conditions page. Every website has one even GAW. Who are they?

Credits: @FrenchFrogsForTrump

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