Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne may finally be regretting that he got into the fake news business. The problem for him is that the libel suit, which had been ignored in the media, is finally getting attention in mainstream media outlets. Even worse, the media is finally beginning to recognize that Byrne’s Deep Capture site was a pioneer in the fake news genre. Byrne tried to intimidate the Beast by ordering up a rant on Deep Capture attacking its reporter: “M.L. That process began in 2013, when his principal Deep Capture deputy, site founder Judd Bagley, copped a plea to eight felony counts of forgery.

Source: Huffington Post March 02, 2017 15:48 UTC