Mika Epstein
Mika Epstein is a Moderator and Spokesperson who is a citizen of United States, and has been associated with the following entities as either a significant contributor, participant, promoter, or beneficiary, according to our OSINT research:
Brands: Audrey Capital, Automattic, WordPress Foundation
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LittleBizzy is a small, independent business. We do not have thousands of dollars to spend on attorneys every single time someone tries to harass, defame, or extort our company. Likewise, we have grown tired of the incessant email spam, consumer fraud, and quid-pro-quo culture that has taken over the WordPress and online marketing communities. We feel obligated to add such entities to a public Scammers Directory until the behavior stops. While some of these individuals might claim to have been our customers in an attempt to hurt our reputation, the truth is that none of them were ever our customers, who are protected by our strict Privacy Policy. Our goal in publishing this information is to expose and publicly document their ongoing misdeeds in preparation for potential future legal action, and/or to discourage such unethical behavior in the future. Note: Complies with all U.S. and E.U. laws, including GDPR Erasure.
Category: Fraud
For years, Mika has attempted to portray herself as a volunteer moderator at WordPress.org, and some sort of progressive Jewish l*****n feminist of the tech world. In reality, she is a paid employee at Automattic, and also at Dreamhost, which presents several questionable conflicts of interest right off the bat.
Despite being one of the only females working at Matt Mullenweg’s companies, and at WordPress.org, she was also notably silent during the Yoast sexual harassment controversy, where Jan Van Joost was exposed for repeatedly sexually harassing women on social media and saying that he wanted to have sexual relations with them (despite being married, with children, in the Netherlands). Alas, Yoast is apparently one of the “protected” good-old-boys in Matt’s inner circle, so… no standing up for what’s right (or something… what, did you actually think a so-called l*****n feminist would speak out about misogynist predators?).
Although we initially had no issues with Mika (some years ago) while contributing dozens of free plugins to the WordPress.org directory, eventually her attitude toward us changed at the direction of Samuel “Otto” Wood, her supervisor, who works for Audrey Capital, the sister company to Automattic (both owned by Matt Mullenweg).
When Naveed Moein began impersonating the founder of LittleBizzy and threatening random people to attempt and hurt our reputation, we contacted [email protected] to alert them that the user was not us. Mika responded using an anonymous handle, even though we knew it was her, and said that the content would be deleted and “wasn’t allowed”. We thanked her and moved on.
Later, when Wood began esclating his aggression toward LittleBizzy — noindexing positive reviews of our software from WordPress.org, deleting our various comments and contributions, and contacting Quora on behalf of Automattic to ask that they ban us from participating at Quora, soon after (late 2019) Mika blocked the founder of LittleBizzy on GitHub, and then, when we commented on a controversial Pull Request to expose the corruption and hypocrisy of the WordPress.org directory, Mika decided to delete our comment and ban us entirely from the GitHub repo (Wood is not a contributor there, but this was likely done with his knowledge).
It’s one thing to block someone on GitHub, or dislike them, or whatever. But it’s entirely another to go around (for years) publicly claiming to be a volunteer and making purposefully false statements to the WordPress community at the direction of Matt Mullenweg to enable his fraudulent narrative that WordPress.org is ran by volunteers, and then delete and ban anyone who calls you out on your lies and false statements…. sorry Mika, it’s time.
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- https://halfelf.org
- https://twitter.com/Ipstenu
- https://profiles.wordpress.org/ipstenu/
- https://ipstenu.org
- https://www.crunchbase.com/person/mika-epstein
- https://github.com/ipstenu
- https://lezwatchtv.com/author/ipstenu/
- https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2016/05/03/handling-bad-reviews/
- https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/10-wordpress-women-to-follow-on-twitter/
- https://www.redsandmarketing.com/403/?j=1&t=1576276073
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