08.09.2014 - 15:36 [ Techdirt ]

Huffington Post Finally Removes Most Articles About Fake Email Inventor; Meanwhile, Ayyadurai Threatens To Sue His Critics

Over the weekend, it appears that someone at the Huffington Post finally realized that hoping the fuss over its entirely bogus „history of email“ series would blow over wasn‘t going to happen. In case you missed it last week, we had called out Huffington Post for allowing Shiva Ayyadurai and his friends to post an entirely bogus „history of email“ series, all designed to make it look like Ayyadurai himself had invented email — a claim he‘s been making for a few years, despite it being entirely false, based on totally misrepresenting a number of things, including what copyright means, misquoting a 1977 research paper and playing „no true scotsman“ over what is a „true“ email system.