Dan Wootton trending on Twitter...

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I was wondering why this name has been popping up on my "Trending for you"on Twitter over the past while

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/07/17/gb-news-star-dan-wootton-unmasked-in-cash-for-sexual-images-catfishing-scandal/

Wow is all I can say.

Just wow!

@Dymaxion
His boyfriend complained to the police. He told them about the hard drive he'd found. I guess whenever they finished their relationship.

The benchmark is Hugh Edwards which the right wing media wallowed in and on the Bylines evidence we have seen so far DW has exceeded that threshold by some length.

Would the press publish anything if they didn't have evidence, opening themselves up to be sued

These allegations are very serious so I can't imagine so. Especially after the HE debacle.

The benchmark for everyone - Huw Edwards and Dan Wootton included - should be solid evidence and good reporting. Not some tedious culture war.

He has come out fighting....

A media organisation doesn't put information like this out there if there isn't truth behind it after 3 years worth of investigative journalism.
They just don't.

They have the proof.

I noticed that, the link with The News of the World.

The link to The News of the World being that the journalists on this article and Dan Wootton worked there together. So either you think they are all phone hackers ( doubtful ? ) or none of them are ?

Whatever the actual truth is, there is a horrible satisfaction in seeing him a get a virtual kicking like he gave to Phil Schofield.

But I hope this isn't the future of British "journalism". These petty feuds breaking out, trying to settle old scores.

Ah you meant the article. I thought you mean Byline Times itself.

I wonder if the hard drive still exists, surely the ex would have given it to the police ?

Wait a minute, are you standing up for News of the World journalists? Because I thought everyone on MN thought they were the scummiest of the lot!

Vera99 get some marshalls in, there's going to be a long queue for letting Mr Wotton know what it's like to be on the receiving end for a change.

The founders of Byline, the platform Byline Times was developed from, are both from Korea. I'd be curious to know if Byline Times is subject to UK defamation laws. Anyone know?

From that video up thread I posted IT'S WAR - lawyers get ready it's PARTY TIME !

I liked on "the advice of my lawyers".

No statement about suing, which would have been easy to do.

Yes, in the article about Dan Wootton. It says at the end the two Byline writers used to work at the News of the World with Dan Wootton.

Wait a minute, are you standing up for News of the World journalists? Because I thought everyone on MN thought they were the scummiest of the lot!

Nope, I am saying that those NOTW journalists include Dan Wootton, so I am saying are they all tarred with the same brush ? Were all journalists working for the News of the World in whatever capacity all phone hackers ? If they were then Dan has some explaining to do ?

From Jim Waterson, Guardian Media Editor, on Twitter tonight:

I have been looking into Martin Branning for several years.

If you would like to join the people already sharing fresh information with me then my DMs are open, my email address is [email protected], or you can WhatsApp me directly: +447760993558

The implications of the claim that he paid anonymously for sexual footage of his colleagues are quite frightening. This is not some sort of "culture clash".

He didn't blink once in that video - gonna be the legal fight of the century. Get your popcorn in.

What the hell is going on? His speech just came through my FB news feed and man that was an awkward watch. Is there anyone on TV who isn’t trying to hold back the tide of skeletons tumbling out of their cupboards? I don’t understand. Every way you turn there’s someone spouting some vitriolic bullshit and then clutching their pearls days later saying ‘this is all so unfair’. ‘It’s trial by media’. Just bizarre.

I'm sure not all actually phone hacked but I thought the general feeling on here was that Murdochs NotW was an awful paper, the journalists were terrible people and they all knew about the phone hacking going on and did nothing about it. And, tbf, I've heard people condemn Wootton for that too because he worked for both the NotW and The Sun so he must have known.

Until tonight I had only ever heard of DW. I've just watched 5 minutes of his statement in that GB news clip. My almost immediate sense was that he's lying, and crapping himself, and desperately blaming social media, trolls, his ex, etc in the hopes that the gullible masses will believe him.

He's disturbing. Seems to be the sort who has relied for too long on merciless calculatedness in his dealings with others, and now he's run out of cover.

If it's true, it's awful that he targeted colleagues. Creepy. But why were these people sending him sexual footage. Why do adults do that?

I'm sure not all actually phone hacked

You would have to have bottomless pockets and a very hungry legal team to say otherwise !