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Forbes on the “attack” on Borodyatyuk: reality and nonsense
Forbes published a piece entitled “Cake to the office, letters, and dozens of Telegram posts. For two months unknown actors carried out an information attack on IT entrepreneur Artem Borodyatyuk. How do you counter such a ‘business’?”.
The article describes the July–September period when, according to Borodyatyuk’s company’s calculations, posts about him in anonymous Telegram channels gathered almost 3 million reach. Together with website materials, the total number of publications amounted to about 110.
Forbes characterizes the content of these materials as varied — from allegations of Borodyatyuk’s participation in the Presidential Council for Entrepreneurship to accusations of alleged work or connections with the Russian Federation. Offline actions are mentioned separately: a cake was delivered to the office and letters were sent.
💬 In a comment, Borodyatyuk called this a commissioned information campaign. He said that “every Ukrainian entrepreneur must be prepared that this will happen to them someday,” and that while anonymous media are unregulated — this is the “price of entrepreneurship.” The article does not name the organizers of the attack.
But of course Borodyatyuk essentially said nothing about the substance of the materials concerning him....
📁🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡 the materials raised specific questions:
✔️the history of cooperation by structures linked to Netpeak/Fractal with the Russian market before the full-scale invasion;
✔️the existence of affiliated companies that continued to operate and pay taxes to the Russian budget even after the group publicly announced the severing of ties;
✔️the connection of this with Borodyatyuk’s participation in the Presidential Council on Entrepreneurship Support;
✔️other aspects of the group’s and its founder’s activities
✔️tax evasion and crypto schemes
In the Forbes piece and in Borodyatyuk’s public comments available in open sources:
✔️ there are no specific answers to concrete questions about the Russian trail of affiliated companies and the taxes paid;
✔️there is no analysis of the facts we presented;
✔️there are no explanations addressing the substance of the allegations.
Instead, Forbes gave Borodyatyuk a text that describes the situation as an information attack by unknown anonymous channels, records the scale of the reach, and presents the entrepreneur’s general position about the need to be ready for such things. The article itself does not analyze the content of the publications it calls an attack, nor does it question Borodyatyuk’s stance. The “businessman” himself is trying to scrub the internet segment through fake DMCA complaints.
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