Popehat is a law-oriented internet blog. According to its tagline, Popehat is a "group complaint about law, liberty, and leisure". Its primary blogger, American attorney Ken White, writes about law, scams, and freedom of expression on the internet.
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History
The website was established in 2004.
After enjoying a low profile for many years, the blog came to widespread attention when it documented The Oatmeal and FunnyJunk legal dispute involving Charles Carreon. It has also covered Swatting, IsAnybodyDown?, Prenda Law, Scam letters and SLAPP issues. The blog sometimes helps arrange pro bono counsel for affected bloggers (the "Popehat Signal") including PZ Myers.
It has been repeatedly linked by Boing Boing, Reddit, Instapundit, John Scalzi, Techdirt, and others and was included in the ABA Journal "Blawg 100" in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. In 2015, Popehat was inducted into the ABA Journal Blawg Hall of Fame.
The blog was originally anonymous but White's identity was eventually uncovered. White's fellow (active) bloggers (anonymous or known to various degrees) include Adam, Charles, David, Derrick, Grandy, Marc, Patrick, and a bovine character named Via Angus.
DPRK News Service
Two of the blog's writers, Patrick and Derrick, run a Twitter feed purporting to be the voice of North Korea. Greta van Susteren, Slate, the Washington Post, Newsweek, CNN, Reuters Australia, and the Daily Mail (UK) have mistakenly identified the feed as authentic. On the MSNBC television program Morning Joe, journalist Mark Halperin cited the feed as evidence that the government of North Korea was expressing support for Donald Trump.