The Washington Examiner managed to screw this up in two completely different directions.
We were reading Hudson Crozier’s Aug. 30 piece about A/I and could not find the section where he mentions Sabot Media. Turns out the article does name us, link an archived copy of our reporting, and quote from it.
We just couldn’t see that part.
The Examiner apparently cuts the article off for non-subscribers and drops a generic weekly/monthly subscription box underneath it. No “subscribe to continue.” No “there’s more article below this point.” Nothing indicating that you’ve only been shown part of the story.
So failure #1: their paywall makes readers think the article simply ends.
Then we checked what the page itself was actually delivering.
The rest of the article, including the entire section mentioning Sabot, was still sitting there in the page source.
So failure #2: the “paywall” hides the article from the reader while still handing the reader the article.
Meaning we accidentally discovered that the Washington Examiner’s subscription system is simultaneously bad at selling subscriptions and bad at restricting subscriber content.
Incredible work.
The particularly funny part for us is that the material hidden behind this invisible-not-really-a-paywall includes a section where Crozier explicitly names Sabot Media, links our reporting, and quotes our analysis of A/I’s infrastructure resilience and the wider effect of U.S. sanctions.
So, thanks for the citation, Hudson.
And thanks to the Washington Examiner for eventually letting us read the rest of the article for free because apparently the paywall is more of a suggestion rendered in CSS.
Crozier’s piece:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/4702739/leftist-network-terrorists-plain-sight/
We’re adding the mention to the source trail in our ongoing investigation:
https://sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati