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I can explain porn sites on my screenshot, says politician – really, I can
Source: The Guardian
I can explain porn sites on my screenshot, says politician – really, I can
US congressional candidate Mike Webb offers supporters 2,000-
word justification for video tabs visible in his Facebook post
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Tuesday 17 May 2016 10.33 BST
An American congressional candidate wants you to know that the porn tabs he had open in a screenshot posted to his Facebook page are absolutely nothing to be concerned about.
Mike Webb, Republican candidate for Virginia’s 8th district, posted to his Facebook page on Monday, discussing an odd phone call he had had with a staffing agency in Alexandria, Virginia (don’t ask). Accompanying the post was an even odder screenshot:
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Those tabs in the top left-hand corner, in case you can’t make them out, read “LAYLA RIVERA TIGHT BO[OTY]” and “IVONE SEXY AMATEUR”.
A lesser congressional candidate might have hastily removed the images and apologised. Not Webb, however. Despite taking down the original post, shortly after he reposted it to his page alongside an explanation of where the images came from.
The explanation is 2,000 words long. It does not make a huge amount of sense, but apparently blames the pornographic images on an experiment Webb was performing to see whether or not someone was using malware embedded on porn sites to infect electoral candidates with malware that would prevent them from filing their candidacy before the deadline.
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US congressional candidate Mike Webb offers supporters 2,000-
word justification for video tabs visible in his Facebook post
HAL 90210
Tuesday 17 May 2016 10.33 BST
An American congressional candidate wants you to know that the porn tabs he had open in a screenshot posted to his Facebook page are absolutely nothing to be concerned about.
Mike Webb, Republican candidate for Virginia’s 8th district, posted to his Facebook page on Monday, discussing an odd phone call he had had with a staffing agency in Alexandria, Virginia (don’t ask). Accompanying the post was an even odder screenshot:
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Those tabs in the top left-hand corner, in case you can’t make them out, read “LAYLA RIVERA TIGHT BO[OTY]” and “IVONE SEXY AMATEUR”.
A lesser congressional candidate might have hastily removed the images and apologised. Not Webb, however. Despite taking down the original post, shortly after he reposted it to his page alongside an explanation of where the images came from.
The explanation is 2,000 words long. It does not make a huge amount of sense, but apparently blames the pornographic images on an experiment Webb was performing to see whether or not someone was using malware embedded on porn sites to infect electoral candidates with malware that would prevent them from filing their candidacy before the deadline.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/17/i-can-explain-porn-sites-screenshot-mike-webb-facebook
