Emma Watson threat looks like it was a marketing hoax [View all]

[Bonobo]

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/976588-emma-watson-nudes-nope-naked-pictures-threat-from-4chan-after-speech-is-a-hoax/

The purported Emma Watson nude photos don’t seem to exist and the threat to release them appears to be based on a hoax.

The purported threat came as dozens of women have fallen victim to the massive celebrity hacking scheme in the last few weeks, with hundreds of images circulating online.

Watson was reported to have been targeted by people who got mad at her speech, with a website called “Emma Watson is Next” appearing. Reports about the threat featured comments from 4chan and Reddit users claiming that they would target Watson, with the primary focus of the reports being the website.

“There is evidence that the emmayouarenext.com website is hosted by Rantic and that they have a recent history of inventing stories of this nature, they even reused the 4chan + hacker angle from a previous promotion,” the user said.

“It seems the whole point of marketing these days is to sell lies to as many people as possible and this particular campaign appears to have done that very successfully.”