Dov Kleiman is accused of hacking into a rival's account in the craziest war between NFL aggregators in recent memory.
On Thursday, @TheGameDayNFL reported that Kleiman entered the account in the middle of the night through access granted years ago and has been sending hateful tweets to people like NFL insider Jordan Schultz and JPA Football. He released an 8-minute video to X claiming that Another of his NFL aggregation accounts.
Kleiman denied the allegations in a lengthy statement to the Post on Thursday, saying, “They are clearly lying and have been debunked for lying on their own videos.”
In TheGameDayNFL's video, which has been viewed nearly 5 million times since it was posted, the four Gen Z men who host the “Caps Off” podcast – Adam Tabatchnik, Matan Mann, Jack Parodi and Felipe Fontes – , someone had been hacking into the GameDayNFL account for years, sending out mean tweets from it, and continued to do so even after repeatedly changing passwords and restricting access.
“Jordan [Schultz] He is ill and wants a free engagement and is disrespectful because he wants free money from Elon. You should unfollow him,” one of the numerous tweets in question read.
“I would never say that about Jordan!” one host said, and another said, “You never say that about Jordan!” worked With Jordan. ”
The group has accused Kleiman of previously using “burner” accounts to attack rivals, with language identical to some of the hateful tweets sent from their own accounts. he claimed.
Fontes revealed that Kleiman accessed the GameDayNFL account several years ago for a “Twitter takeover,” where he hired names with large social followings in hopes of driving engagement. The account was operated during the match, but Kleiman speculated that he was still accessing it from there. time.
Mr. Fontes said Mr. Klayman was accessing their accounts through a “third-party Google Chrome extension” that allowed users to continue accessing the now-defunct Tweetdeck app, and that the loophole was I kept guessing that this meant that he wasn't logged out.
Mr. Fontes claimed that he copied the browser extension and determined that Mr. Klayman could still access his account via a workaround on Tweetdeck.
Klayman, who previously told the Post about his origins as a ubiquitous NFL aggregator, said GameDayNFL's accusations were all about getting attention.
“They're targeting me, the account with the bigger attention, likes, and views. And if you look at what they wrote in their last tweet, they're targeting me as the account with the bigger attention, likes, and views. , are desperate for more attention,” Klayman told the Post.
“Before I posted, I never received a single DM or email asking about this. Wouldn't it be suspicious if this was true?”
He continued, “If they gave that person access and they've already admitted to lying in a video that calls into question the whole incident, that's not 'hacking,' right? ? So they gave me and other people access to their account three years ago. I don't know if that's proof that I sent fraudulent tweets three years later.”
Kleiman said it was “literally impossible” to make yourself an administrator of another account, concluding: [thing] Be careful about assumptions. ”
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