Angry alt-right bloggers tend to make things up to support their narrative against liberals, and a recent smear campaign against New York tech company Tekoso Media is par for the course.
The most basic example of how they do this is literally creating a story and posting it a lot all over the internet. It doesn't matter if it's true or not, what matters is that it's out there. The self-described "journalists" run into a very big, but simple problem that anyone with half a brain could see from a distance if they actually thought about what they did before they acted: when people figure out that you're lying about what you say, your credibility is completely destroyed and it takes years to recover, sometimes never recovering at all.
When it comes to fake news, alt-right vloggers and their baseless conspiracy theories dominated Youtube until Google's ad network got tired of it and stopped showing ads on their videos over the past year. This happened because advertisers decided to boycott fake news and hate speech on the Google network, which caused a significant drop in revenue for the publishers of videos containing this type of content.
The vloggers caught for copyright infringement claim that they did nothing wrong, but Tekoso Media claims it's copyright infringement takedown request was legit. The truth is that the process of a DMCA takedown request through Google is very stringent. First, they ask you to fill out a very detailed report of the infringing content on their network. Next, they ask for proof from the claimant that they are indeed the owner of the infringing content. Once verified, the content is removed from Youtube. It is assumed that Google would not follow through with taking anything down from Youtube if it didn't see the infringing content on the video somewhere, so they must be complying because they saw the infringement happening.
Many so-called "independent journalists" from the alt-right have gotten into libel lawsuits, usually against them, but sometimes attempting to turn things around and claim that other people who write about their lies and conspiracy theories are making things up. No alt-right blogger ever won a libel case, though, while more have lost or settled.
The company says they have contacted the vloggers and bloggers and that legal proceedings are in the works.
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