Never gonna outrun the bots it would seem.
EJ Gibney
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Researcher of things. Focused on StyleGAN images.
Tomorrow is May 1st. The Daily Beast has said nothing about their Apr 12 article. No staff writer has stepped forward. The "source" of the article wrote about me on their blog calling me a "fake person", a "sock account", and "in cahoots with thugs targeting children".
This was written because I debunked an image that served as the main anecdote for The Daily Beast's article.
Good to know that TDB uses sources that resort to ad hominem when challenged. Very professional.
In my Medium post, I focus on my area of expertise, StyleGAN images.
Steven Jarvis claims that an image of his 4-year-old daughter was altered to change the child's gender and then "run through a GAN program".
I replicated the methods by which Jarvis claims the image was created and found most claims highly implausible while others were verifiably false.
I wrote about The Daily Beast's April 12th article and how a fact-check could have saved them a lot of anguish.
The article's author, Jake Lahut, said he knew that conspiracy theorist and cyberstalker Steven Jarvis was "a mess with his keyboard activism". Still, he used Jarvis as a primary source without fact-checking his claims.
In two weeks since the article's publishing, not one employee of The Daily Beast has stepped forward with a statement.
When the article crossed my radar about a day after it's publishing, I thought I'd reach out to a few of The Daily Beast's writers to see if they had thoughts. Not a peep.
I thought I might try to reach out to EIC Tracy Connor. Not a Peep.
I wrote to EVERY possible Daily Beast email I could find... Tips, Editorial, Press... Not a peep.
They want this to go away. It won't.
This is Gateway Pundit levels of bad journalism and accountability will be inevitable.
Funny enough, Jake Lahut KNEW about Steven Jarvis prior. In a blog post about the article, Jarvis says that he talked with Lahut for weeks and shared 3 phone calls. Apparently, nothing registered as a red flag.
Yet in a DM with @conspirator0, Lahut says "I know Jarvis is a mess with his keyboard activism".
Jake Lahut knew what he was getting into. He did it anyway.
The Daily Beast needs to retract this story and apologies to all of the parties involved.
The article has features lies that Jarvis likes to frequently tell about other disinformation researchers. Lies that have prompted his followers to "faildoxx" people.
In published DM's, Jarvis rails against Jared Holt, Mike Rothschild, and The Daily Beast's Will Sommer.
Jarvis believes they're all operatives working to keep QAnon alive.
Why would Jake Lahut platform Jarvis AFTER seeing that wall of nonsense?
The article features an anecdote about photos of Jarvis' four-year-old girl. Jarvis claims these photos were shared online.
The problem (and one of the reasons I'm so bothered) is that the photo that was shared was an artificially generated image from ThisPersonDoesNotExist. Jake Lahut would have been able to discern that had he done LITERALLY ANY research.
If you know me and the work I've done, you'll know why this is infuriating.
I've temporarily ended my Twitter divorce. But I think it's for good reason.
On April 12th, The Daily Beast published an article about the DeSantis Campaign. It featured the story of Steven Jarvis, a conspiracy theorist, and serial harasser. The author, Jake Lahut, paints Jarvis as a long-time disinformation researcher and a victim. He got played.
Since Apr 12, NOT ONE Daily Beast employee has spoken against this.
But there's more...
He reinstated white supremacists
He fired practically the entire staff
He engaged in a targeted harassment campaign against a former staff member
He said he would step down based on a poll (didn't)
He had the algo modified to amplify himself
He caters to white nationalists
He coordinated a release of information skewed to make it politically biased
He charged for API access
He devalued the verified system
Now he's blocking Substack links and his Twitter files friend quit.
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