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Journalists Expose Disqus Commenters Using by Discovering Email Addresses

  • PC World, Wednesday, December 11, 2013 2:57 PM

Disqus, the commenting platform used by many media outlets, has come into the spotlight after a group of journalists broke into its platform to expose the offensive comments of politicians and other public figures for on right-wing websites. The Swedish newspaper Expressen in conjunction with an investigative journalism group allegedly revealed the identity of hundreds of people who left these comments through their email addresses. Disqus says that their site had not been breached, but blamed the journalists for abusing a feature it used for a third-party service.

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