So that RNC convention site wasn\u2019t hacked. It was fake.<\/p>\n
If you search on Google for things like \u201cDallas Republican Convention,\u201d \u201cDallas RNC convention,\u201d \u201cDallas Republican Midterm Convention,\u201d or even just \u201cRepublican Midterm Convention,\u201d the website<\/a> that Tim wrote about below (and that I, at one point, linked to in my story<\/a> about how to get around Dallas during the convention) will appear at the very top of the search. First spot, first page, as of Friday at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n However, it appears it was not the official page for the convention. That page is here<\/a>. It does not really pop up when you search, but a press release<\/a> about the convention does. We do regret the error, but in our defense, it\u2019s likely the page that a lot of people have been using because, again, it\u2019s at the top of every Google search. And we weren\u2019t the only ones fooled: The Dallas Observer also believed it was the correct page. \u201cThe website was a lookalike, and we failed to recognize it as such,\u201d the publication says on Facebook<\/a>. \u201cDays prior, we even attempted to apply for media credentials for the conference through their portal before it was staged to redirect to the DOJ Epstein Library.\u201d At least a few other journalists were fooled too, including Katie Phang<\/a>. The New York Times<\/a> says more than 140 news sites linked to it. The website was that convincing.<\/p>\n We originally attempted to apply for credentials through a media portal at the official page, which generically just says gopconvention.com. Once we never received a response regarding our credentials, we applied at the apparently fake site, just like the Observer.<\/p>\n