It really doesn’t get much worse than this. You know you’ve been hacked, you publicly admit the data is fantastically absurd, and yet you go forward anyway and announce an award.
Time Magazine’s list of Top 100 influential people was released, and TechCrunch brings to everyone’s attention that the list is an absolute farce.
Says Techcrunch:
The hackers of 4Chan have succeeded in completely gaming Time Magazine’s online poll for its Time 100 list of the most influential people on the planet. At the top of the list is Christopher Poole, aka Moot, the founder of the 4Chan online forum, whose members used some coding to get his name to the top of the list. Not only did they help moot win the poll, but they also arranged the next 20 names to spell out “Marblecake, also the game.” Marblecake is a lewd sexual reference, but is also supposedly the name of the chat room where one of 4Chan’s online collective actions, Project Chanology, originated.
So, if a magazine knows it is publishing something inherently inaccurate, and everyone else knows it’s inaccurate, how do you trust anything else it writes?