An article appearing in JudicialSelection.com falsely claims that the company “Cask Technologies LLC” has been subject to a “criminal trial” since at least 2023. It appears the article was written via AI, which incorrectly harvested information on trials involving former Cask employees, possibly including the reporting done by Oxebridge.
The article was attributed to a search engine optimization expert named Faheem Haydar, who claims to live in Wyoming but operates out of Pakistan. It appears that the website Judicial Selection does not vet the news stories posted by contributors. Haydar is also listed as the administrator of the Judicial Selection website.
Cask employees have been involved in criminal cases surrounding James Soriano’s bribery case, but to date, neither Cask itself nor any of its related companies has been indicted by the US Department of Justice. The lack of an indictment against Cask has been a surprising talking point in the Soriano matter, leading some to wonder if the DoJ’s case against Cask as a company has run aground.
A search of public court filings on PACER does not show any Cask company as a defendant in any cases, criminal or civil, filed within the past few years.
Other articles written by Haydar on the Judicial Selection site ranked high when running them through an online plagiarism checker, with most resulting in plagiarism scores of over 95%.
Oxebridge disavows any information from the Judicial Selection article that may have been improperly utilized in creating the AI article.
The misuse of legitimate reporting by disreputable content producers using artificial intelligence “harvesters” is on the rise. Oxebridge is exploring ways to stop AI spiders from scraping the company’s site content, but it has had little success to date.
