An acquaintance from another online forum, said he had a little disagreement with one (or more) of the CT people last year, over the Ferguson issue.
According to him: They were citing his research without attributing it to him or citing him as the source, etc. When he called them out about it, they blocked him, but continued to cull information from his online account (that they apparently were still culling information from).
He said he believed they were trying hard to become varsity players in the blogosphere (?) and wanted it to appear they were coming by the info in other ways. (I dont know what other ways that would be if not from culling online info.)
Prove it. Anyone can just bleat out unsubstantiated smears. The deal is that you need to prove it.