'The Fox story and everything that had come afterward made her feel like Seth had been murdered again, and somehow this felt worse than the original crime. They were torturing her dead son’s memory.'
When Fox News revived a smear about a murdered DNC staffer, his family decided, finally, to fight back.At just past 10 p.m. on May 16, 2017, the cameras went live for the latest episode ofteased “explosive developments” in a “massive breaking-news story.” He had for months told his audience about the forces lined up to take down President Trump: the “propaganda media,” the “never-Trumpers,” the “Washington deep-state establishment,” and all the other fifth columnists.
And finally, for his third segment, Hannity introduced Wheeler as if the two men were old friends , praising him as “a man of honor and integrity.” But anyone hoping Wheeler would set the record straight was in for a letdown. He looked nervous. He rambled. He’d “checked out” the key source in Zimmerman’s story, the anonymous federal investigator, and found the person “very credible.
Given what he did for a living, Aaron knew more than the average person about digital security. He moved quickly to secure Seth’s accounts before someone broke in, changing passwords and activating two-step verification. And if Seth’s accounts were targets, Aaron had to assume he and his parents were targets, too. A friend who worked in cybersecurity helped his parents, Joel and Mary, lock down their devices. For nearly a week, he remained on vigil.
Speaking to Aaron over the phone, she could tell from the sound of his voice that he was exhausted. Watching the online chatter about his brother surge to the highest levels he’d ever seen, Aaron imagined the day when his future son or daughter would be old enough to Google his brother’s name.
As lawyers and editors and executives at Fox News scrambled to understand what had happened with Zimmerman’s story, the opinion side of the network continued to push it with abandon. But Hannity still had no evidence to back up his breathless speculation. Then, on the evening of May 19, almost four days after Zimmerman’s story appeared, a tweet got his attention:
Aaron sensed something was wrong. He had watched someone with a Megaupload account try to plant an email in Seth’s Gmail inbox, perhaps to make it look as if Seth had corresponded with Megaupload when he had not.
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