Good! I look forward to seeing the lack of method applied by Newsweek shown in court documents. It was a phenomenally irresponsible thing for them to publish, and I hope they pay for it.

edit: a friend pointed out that I should probably say that I write for nbc news so I'm kind of trashing the competition. This is really just my personal distaste speaking, though.

props for the edited disclosure.

The reporter's attitude even after it was demonstrated how sloppy her work was (if she didn't know) really put a nail in the coffin of having any sympathy for her

As someone who has been fighting in court for a number of years against an author and publisher who widely distributed blatantly false material, with plenty of hard evidence to support my claims, I think this will be a really hard lawsuit to win. Newsweek will argue First Amendment all day long. Defamation law varies by state and California's standard involves "special damage," which might be hard to prove for someone without steady employment. (See http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/california-defamation-law.) There might be some kind of emotional distress claim, which would make sense, but it's not going to be easy to put a number on.

You might expect to see a settlement given Newsweek's backtracking.

[I'm not a lawyer. This isn't even close to being legal advice.]

I don't think this will go to court and given the exposure of this screw-up, Newsweek will have no choice but to give him a nice fat settlement.

I think that their irresponsible reporting bringing numerous death threats upon an innocent man probably weighs in somewhere.

If nothing else, the coverage of this will probably goose another round of donations.

yeah, unless the reveal against you made you a targeted invididual on a global scale, I don't think the comparison fits

It seems a lot of people forgot about the piece, or at least that’s what Newsweek is hoping.

Whether or not Dorian Nakamoto won the lawsuit or not, Newsweek’s credibility goes down at least a notch.

I thought Newsweek shut down and sold their name a whole back. So Newswrek isn't really Newsweek.

I hope something good for Dorian Nakamoto comes out of this whole nonsense because he's obviously a guy whose seen better times. Everyone at Newsweek needs to quit and go find a real job because their entire existence only made sense before Digg and Reddit came into existence. There's no journalism there, it's just the thing you flip through for the most attention-grabbing bits.

Easy on the grave dancing, buddy. Didn't Reddit's citizen journalists accuse the wrong people for the Boston Marathon bombing?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/04/25/boston-bombing...

Surely, this a is sin greater than whatever Newsweek may have committed.

Wait, where did I praise Reddit for their journalism?

The entire slam against Newsweek was to liken it to Reddit, so you're just affirming my point.

Yes, out of a few million users, a few committed bad acts. Who the Hell could possibly have seen that coming?

The point is not that there are a few bad apples out there, but that Reddit (and other crowd sourced media) have limited ability to police/prevent such actors and their actions. I posit that the editors of Newsweek and other assorted old media have more control over their reporters both before and after the story is published.

Yeah but that's most national mainstream news sources. I just hope they learn from their mistake.

Yup, fair enough.

Looks like Newsweek fucked up.

Reporters are allowed to make mistakes in reporting, and accusing someone of inventing a famous and well-liked technology is not defamatory.

This will get killed on First Amendment grounds pretty quickly.

Of course they're allowed to make mistakes but gross negligence needs to be held accountable for.

What if Satoshi Nakamoto donate to Dorian Nakamoto with bitcoin? That will be amazing ... ...

This is silly. If all the publicity really "hurt" him he wouldn't be spurring up all this publicity. He's just ganking fools for all they got.

Is it worth noting? That just sounds like a smear that's unrelated to the posted story to me.