Damn, successful journalist Alina Simone just got owned by Epicmafia user VashTheStampede for releasing a story in major online publication The Guardian.
In Epic Mafia, there is a word for the act of scanning someone’s messages for clues as to whether they are mafia: scumreading. Careful inspection of the Sullivan County Tribune website might have revealed that listed among the newspaper’s staff was one Nikita Petrov – a Russian historian acclaimed for his books about the Soviet secret police, who Eris was known to admire. But no one scumread Eris’s suicide note. Or his obituary. His clues were never found.
"Hey Alina how's work going" "Oh it's frickin awesome I'm covering a story over how an online mafia player wrote a fake suicide note and spent tons of time and resources to make it seem real but then was revealed anyway haha. It's going to be so cool haha" "... don't you write for The Guardian?"
"Epic Mafia’s vigilantes began to cast their net wider. The focus shifted from people telling potentially dangerous lies to those telling commonplace ones, like the player ostracised for claiming to be from Australia when she in fact lived in Florida."
