On Wednesday, Bloomberg columnist Susan Antilla wrote a piece about the smear jobs that online retailer Overstock.com has undertaken against business journalists who criticize its operations.
On his blog, Weiss wrote that a post from an Overstock employee on an investor web site mentions Antilla’s husband started a hedge fund in 2002 that now invests in media companies.
There’s just one problem. Weiss added, “So there you have it — a media-hedge fund conspiracy! The only problem with this smear is that Antilla and Leibowitz are divorced, a fact that is not only ‘conventional wisdom’ but is also something that Bagley could have easily extracted from the Internet.
“This latest Overstock smear not only illustrates the intimidate-and-lie tactics used by this flailing company, but also again focuses attention on Bagley’s chosen forum for his smears — the Investor Village message board.
“As I pointed out in a post yesterday and previously, IV allows Bagley and Byrne — officers of a public company — to post with impunity on their board,smearing and libeling people by name, in blatant violation of IV’s Terms of Service.”
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