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A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"An Indian venture capitalist is mounting an international legal campaign to pressure major media outlets to remove his name from articles or take down the stories altogether, Confider has learned.

In a move that has press freedom campaigners troubled, Rajat Khare, co-founder of Appin, an India-based tech company, has used a variety of law firms in a number of different jurisdictions to threaten these U.S., British, Swiss, Indian, and French-language media organizations."

His name is Rajat Khare. Streisand effect activate !

[–] danl 28 points 10 months ago

And the original story is that:

On Nov. 16, Reuters published a special investigation under the headline “How an Indian startup hacked the world,” detailing how Appin allegedly became a “hack for hire powerhouse that stole secrets from executives, politicians, military officials and wealthy elites around the globe”

[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like someone new is going to find out about the Striesand effect. I didn't glance at the story the first time it came around but I made sure to read it this time

[–] peopleproblems 48 points 10 months ago

I certainly didn't know who Rajat Khare was before, but it appears billionaire Rajat Khare needs to learn his lesson for trying to keep his hame clean from this "hacks-for-hire" scheme.

[–] oDDmON 25 points 10 months ago

Archive link for the unregistered: https://archive.ph/KYlZw

[–] DigitalTraveler42 22 points 10 months ago

There was a Mastodon post yesterday from Reuters about Rajat Khare, this post contained the article OP posted and a link to an even more interesting article about the Indian Hacking for hire that this scumbag is responsible for:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/a-confession-exposes-indias-secret-hacking-industry

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I was watching the swiss show as it was nuked out of YouTube 😂 had to wait hours for the reUp xD was a great show (swiss satiric late show called deville, sadly last season has aired already, but there will be a satire successor)