Another Faux lesbian blogger exposed as a man
This is why anon blogging is going down the toilet. Things like this are becoming more common, and the legions of people willing to lie for a cause on the internet are just becoming obnoxious to all. This is one reason why I switched to blogging with my real name. How can you trust anon bloggers?
Graber, masquerading as Brooks, had supplied information to a number of news outlets, including the Guardian, which pointed towards an Edinburgh IP address for the Amina blog.
But the LezGetReal editor’s own conduct increasingly led to questions over her own identity. Material released online on Sunday, which resulted in an admission by MacMaster that he was Amina, also raised questions about Brooks, including speculation over whether the two were creations of the same person.
MacMaster, in a contrite blog post on Monday, even apologised to “Paula Brooks” as a handful of named victims of his deception.
Challenged on Monday by the Washington Post, Graber said he had started the blog after witnessing the mistreatment of close lesbian friends.
“I didn’t start this with my name because … I thought people wouldn’t take it seriously, me being a straight man,” he said. He said his interaction with Amina was purely coincidental, “a major sock-puppet hoax crash[ing] into a major sock-puppet hoax.” “Sock puppet” is the term used by bloggers to describe a fake persona adopted by a blogger who may also be posting under another name.