http://www.deepcapture.com A massive financial crime is occurring within the United States. The institutions that should be stopping it have been captured by the criminals who are doing it. Corporate governance has turned into a hoax while companies are destroyed, pensions looted, society is deprived of innovations, and the nation's financial system may implode. The financial press is so willfully blind it borders on a cover-up. The dots are being connected in the world of social media, but the same criminals who are behind the financial scam are manipulating social media to forestall the day of social epiphany. And yes, I know this all sounds like a bad Sandra Bullock movie. By Patrick Byrne Sat, 17 May 2008 04:59:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As will be explored in a subsequent piece, it would be fair to describe my relationship with Bethany McLean of Fortune as "strained". However, it is not unusual for her to write or call me seeking comment, generally regarding allegations fed her by crony hedge funds which she ... http://www.deepcapture.com/david-einhorn-cheryl-strauss-and-the-strange-availability-of-bethany-mclean/ From: Christopher Faille [mailto:XXX@hedgeworld.com] Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 3:06 PM To: XXX Subject: an e-mail from Byrne to Herb Greenberg last week? XXX Thank you for the kind words. There is something you might be able to help me with. Something on Herb Greenberg's blog on MarketWatch has me shaking my head. As you presumably know, ... http://www.deepcapture.com/response-for-chris-faille/ 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. By all accounts, the resulting ... http://www.deepcapture.com/the-many-fish-tales-of-wikipedias-jimbo-wales/ We like to think that based on the strength of some of the research on this site, a move to delete the Wikipedia article autobiography of Gary Weiss was undertaken recently. A longshot from the beginning, that effort failed despite the principled efforts of Cla68, an exemplary contributor and a truly ... http://www.deepcapture.com/wikipedia-it-pays-to-have-friends-in-high-places/ Nobody aspires to have "enemies." I suspect, even the super-villainous would probably prefer to go about their villainy unopposed. But just as the Yin and the Yang are opposite ends of the same stick, when one acquires a new friend, one often acquires that friend's enemies, too. Over the past month, it ... http://www.deepcapture.com/finding-the-laugh-in-a-wikipedia-slaughter/ This post will take you on a little journey which promises to be very satisfying by the time it's done, but will require your full attention to get there. HINT: you're free to take notes if it will help. Arriving at our destination, you can expect to have learned, as ... http://www.deepcapture.com/gary-weiss-and-his-trail-of-wikipedia-deception/ There has been much speculation as to the root of Gary Weiss’s abiding interest in the personalities voicing their objections to the practice of illegal naked short securities trading. In February of this year, some felt that question was answered in the form of a minor yet tremendously significant incident from ... http://www.deepcapture.com/dtcc-caught-covering-up/ At some point on December 4, 2006, the number of reviews of Gary Weiss's book Wall Street Versus America dropped from 17 to 10, as all of the following reviewers' contributions were deleted: Burton (Baltimore, MD) Dave Watson (Banning, CA) Luminiere (Miami) George (Needham, MA) Marty Ross (Houston, Texas) Rich Golden (New York, NY USA) Ted Dichtler ... http://www.deepcapture.com/gary-weiss-amazoncom-sockpuppet-revisited/ Preface and editor’s note: AntiSocialMedia.net has issues with Gary Weiss, not his wife.As is happens, one of the more startling examples of abuse of social media we’ve discovered anywhere – and the central theme of this, the third part of this series on Gary Weiss – cannot be told without ... http://www.deepcapture.com/gary-weiss-the-root-of-his-problem-part-iii/ Let’s start by re-stating three key facts as established in Part One. In June of 1995, Gary Weiss told the world that his personal email address was garywbw@aol.com. Gary would go on to use that account to identify himself when posting on ... http://www.deepcapture.com/gary-weiss-the-root-of-his-problem-part-ii/ When attempting to understand the nature of a specific pathology, it’s wise to seek information about its origins in the context of the subject’s history. This is the first of a four part series on the origins of the pathology apparently afflicting our subject, Gary Weiss. This pathology is manifest as ... http://www.deepcapture.com/gary-weiss-the-root-of-his-problem-part-i/ Preface and editor’s note: As stated previously, we have issues with Gary Weiss, not his wife. As is happens, one of the more startling examples of abuse of social media we’ve discovered anywhere – and the central theme of this, the fourth and final part of this series on the history ... http://www.deepcapture.com/gary-weiss-the-root-of-his-problem-part-iv/ Preface: A word about the law and the press. It’s safe to say that, thanks to the protections rightly granted journalists in the Bill of Rights, almost nobody ever successfully sues a reporter. The standard of proof is too high and the weight of case law too overwhelming for even ... http://www.deepcapture.com/the-susan-antilla-method/ Take a trip with me, back to early 2006. On January 7, Jordan Goldstein, general counsel of TheStreet.com, pronounced that company co-founder Jim Cramer had never sold a single share of TSCM stock. Exactly one month later, Jim Cramer announces, via the adoption of a rule 10b5-1 plan, his intention to exercise ... http://www.deepcapture.com/how-not-to-respond-to-a-subpoena-by-the-sec/ As any engineer will attest, the key to an enduring structure is a solid foundation. Builders who choose not to worry about foundation issues will deliver a product that’s worthless at best, and a dangerous liability at worst. Likewise, arguments crafted without a foundation amount to something ranging from worthless to ... http://www.deepcapture.com/sam-antar-and-gary-weiss-pile-absurdity-upon-absurdity/ Third Point, LLC is a hedge fund run by Daniel Loeb, also known on stock message boards as “Mr. Pink.” Michelle McDonough (formerly Michelle Sarian), is a convicted felon who has spent one year in prison for securities fraud. Today, as before going to prison, McDonough has a company called Magic ... http://www.deepcapture.com/paid-bashers-cracking-the-code/ Before reading what follows, it’s important to know that Yahoo! message board aliases ymh_ymh_ymh, ursa_of_245_park_avenue, ursa_383_madison_avenue, and ursa_minor_245 all belong to Yolanda Holtzee. You can read more on these relationships here. According to a Wall Street Journal story dated April 18, 2006 (reprinted here, one week later): In 1998, hoping to ... http://www.deepcapture.com/yolanda-holtzee%e2%80%99s-house-of-mirrors/ Because Gary Weiss was found to be behind the first real example of multi-ID message board bashing to be publicly proved, and because it was apparent from writing and posting styles that one person was making a large percentage of all bashing contributions to the Yahoo boards in particular, we ... http://www.deepcapture.com/floyd-schneider-a-paid-stock-message-board-basher-unmasked/ UPDATE: as explained here, shortly after the following post was published, all of the reviews of each of the five "reviewers" examined were deleted by the reviewer himself, whom we posit to be Gary Weiss. Consequently, the links to the original reviews included in this post lead to blank pages. ... http://www.deepcapture.com/gary-weiss-amazoncom-sockpuppet/ I would like to address the one interesting and worthwhile point made by the toy army deployed to attack this effort and those people presumed to be part of it. It came in the form of a question posted to Yahoo’s Overstock.com message board by topangan90065, which reads as follows: Take a ... http://www.deepcapture.com/darl-j-dumont-dedicated-stock-message-board-troll/