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Gary Weiss
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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”.
Our Watchdogs and the Financial Scandal of the Century
Naked short selling helped crash the economy. The OIG thrashes the SEC. Other Watchdogs do nothing.
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…
Gary Weiss, Psychopath & Scaramouch (Portfolio Magazine)
Summary – For over 10 years Gary Weiss (once a reporter with BusinessWeek, and recently, a columnist with…
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.
Gary Weiss knows what Joe knows
Gary Weiss come to know the substance, sentiment and timing of one of New York Times business columnist Joe Nocera’s most vicious attacks against opponents of illegal naked short selling, long before it was published?
Gary Weiss and DTCC: Roddy Boyd Responds
In an earlier item, I noted that perhaps one of the strangest things I’ve experienced as a reporter is having Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) spokesman Stuart Z. Goldstein ignore my request for comment for several days, only to receive an answer not from Goldstein, but from then-New York Post business writer Roddy Boyd.
Gary Weiss: his DTCC ties and lies
We knew Gary Weiss's aim was to discredit and marginalize high profile opponents of illegal naked short selling. Yet his book, which seemed to be the launch pad of Weiss’s campaign, was quite critical of both hedge fund and prime broker culture: the two obvious sides of the naked shorting equation.So who was paying Weiss to spend all day, most every day, publishing his attacks via his blog, message boards, and Wikipedia? Nobody had ever considered the DTCC.