Newsweek the fake news blog site had its offices raided by the police yesterday. They took photos and seized property including servers and computer equipment.
About two dozen investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office converged on the downtown newsroom of Newsweek on Thursday — taking photos of computers and servers, sources said.
In addition to the newsroom, the fifth floor of 7 Hanover Square also houses Newsweek Media Group, the publication’s parent company — formerly known as IBT Media.
The investigators, who arrived shortly before 8 a.m., focused on the computers’ serial numbers — and walked out six hours later carrying several of the servers, sources said.
The probe is believed to be connected to Olivet University, the San Francisco school tied to the controversial South Korean evangelical pastor David Jang, one source said.
Jang has close ties to the founders of IBT Media.
A lawyer for the company, in a brief talk to shaken and mystified staffers roughly halfway through the raid, said the police action was part of a 17-month investigation.
“People are very upset, because apparently there was a 17-month investigation and no one told us anything,” said one person close to the company.
Late Thursday, Newsweek Media Group acknowledged that agents from the DA’s office had been searching their servers for the better part of the day.
“Representatives of the New York County [Manhattan] District Attorney’s Office visited the New York City offices of Newsweek Media Group today to conduct a search of the company’s computer servers to obtain technical information about the servers.
“The company provided the DA’s representatives with access to the computer servers on location to allow for a technical inspection within the law.
“No information regarding the company’s content, stories, personnel, or sources was given and Newsweek Media Group has been assured by the DA’s office that the investigation is not about any content-related issues,” the statement said.
The company said it is cooperating with the probe.
Meanwhile, Etienne Uzac, a co-owner of Newsweek Media Group, was slapped with a $1.2 million federal tax lien by the IRS on Dec. 12, according to a record obtained by The Post.
Newsweek was kind enough to publish photos showing them seizing their servers!
This looks like the beginning of the end for Newsweek. The only thing that has sustained them this long has been their once powerful brand. It certainly hasn’t been their content.
Their entire business model has centered around publishing the most retarded click-bait garbage imaginable.
Mark Dice did a video covering just a small portion of the fake news that Newsweek has published. They’re an embarrassment to journalism.
If you thought the Bitcoin story they did a few years back was bad, look at some of the nonsense they’ve been pushing over the past couple of days.
They just posted a story claiming that Hillary Clinton could still become President.
Hillary Clinton could still become president if Russia probe finds conspiracy evidence https://t.co/7fH8dnVS0m pic.twitter.com/F3Wqea3bYC
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 18, 2018
And then you have this one alleging that Donald Trump is taking a hair loss drug linked to erectile dysfunction and depression.
Trump's hair loss drug was recently linked to irreversible erectile dysfunction and depression https://t.co/U4LsDN64KE pic.twitter.com/snHDTYcr4N
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 17, 2018
Their click-bait garbage has been so bad that they’ve come under heavy fire from leftists on Twitter. Some of them have been smart enough to realize that Newsweek’s low-tier click-bait posts are counterproductive to their political goals.
Newsweek also employs a character by the name of Michael Edison Hayden who has been active on Gab. You can say hi to him @meh6000.
Over the past few months, he has been writing all sorts of fake news articles about Nazis. Apparently, Newsweek determined after Charlottesville that stories about Nazis get clicks and that’s why he’s been told to write articles about our movement. He’s been on Gab to try and dig up dirt on Nazis that he can use for his propaganda posts.
But Hayden is not a quality individual. He was recently on Gab threatening to harass the mothers of Alt-Right activists who refuse to speak to him and has bragged online about being drunk while working in Newsweek’s office.
If Hayden represents the type of person who works at Newsweek, we can take a pretty good guess as to what all the other writers are like.
Either way, things are not looking good for Newsweek. It will be interesting to see what the fallout is from these raids. Hopefully it ends with Newsweek being forced to shut their doors for good.
