The manager for Jason Malachi says Jason never posted on his Facebook page that he’s the voice behind four songs on Michael Jackson’s new album, adding Jason’s the victim of internet fraud.
Thad Nauden tells TMZ someone created a phony Facebook page in Jason’s name, touting that he conspired to fool Sony, the Michael Jackson Estate and the public by secretly singing songs on the album, “Michael.”
Nauden says Jason — a Deputy Sheriff in Maryland — wants everyone to know beyond a shadow of a doubt … he did not sing a single note on the album.
Nauden says whoever created the Facebook page is malicious and better lawyer up.
Whoever did this has far too much time on their hands. Setting up fake facebook pages is so 2010.
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LONDON, England (CNN) — How many people does it take to break the Internet? On June 25, we found out it’s just one — if that one is Michael Jackson.
The biggest showbiz story of the year saw the troubled star take a good slice of the Internet with him, as the ripples caused by the news of his death swept around the globe.
“Between approximately 2:40 p.m. PDT and 3:15 p.m. PDT today, some Google News users experienced difficulty accessing search results for queries related to Michael Jackson,” a Google spokesman told CNET, which also reported that Google News users complained that the service was inaccessible for a time. At its peak, Google Trends rated the Jackson story as “volcanic.”
As sites fell, users raced to other sites: TechCrunch reported that TMZ, which broke the story, had several outages; users then switched to Perez Hilton’s blog, which also struggled to deal with the requests it received.
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Be_Mike_Like SHAMONE ITS NOT MOVING! WeAreTheWorld, WeAreTheChildren, WEAreTheOnesWhoMakeABrighterDay, SoLetsStartGivin’ #Fight4MJ ! <3
dmoonstreet#fight4mj over 1,000 “fans” at the fan event at the o2 in jan, 20 fans turn up to London justice4mj demo, makes me wanna scream
BLackorWhite3 There is nothing that can’t be done when we raise our voice as one! – Michael Jackson #fight4mj
sara_all4love: (2) his plan was for a good nights sleep, not to rest eternally, that time, it didnt go as planned, we had lost our king. #WeLoveYouMichael
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Jermaine Jackson and artist David Ilan were interviewed at the event by CNN. Jermaine Jackson urged fans and invited them to be involved in the tribute. He said: “We are asking Michael Jackson’s fans all around the world to get involved, because this is really important. This is the biggest tribute to my brother, which is the Michael Jackson Tribute Portrait.”
Artist David Ilan explained: “Everybody that signs up for free gets one dot in the portrait. I put one dot in at a time by hand with a pen on the canvas. There are 17,000 dots that I have placed so far, and 250,000 that have already signed up so I have some catching up to do. We are going to get to a million very soon. Everyone is welcome to join.” Ilan adds, “The portrait is in 168 countries so far. It is past every border. There is Palestinian to Israeli territory – everywhere that you can imagine: Iraq, Iran. They are all coming together to work together to create this image of Michael Jackson. The portrait is going to go on a world tour then it will find a home somewhere. It is going to be announced pretty soon.”
David Ilan discusses the amount of web hits that the tribute website gets each day. Ilan says: “Per user, we are getting more hits than Facebook and MySpace. People are really coming together using the site. It is a place for everybody to get together to mourn. The coolest thing is that people are coming in from everywhere. If they can’t get to any other tribute, or they are in a small town somewhere – everyone can be part of this tribute and get their dot placed in the tribute.
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Awww…
