In fact, from a June 2010 web article, MakingMoneyOnline, Part 2: Microworking on the site The Quill, a number of other crowdsourcing sites ShortTask, microWorkers, and DeskLancer suffer to a more observable degree from spam crowdsourcing.
The logical owner would be a firm committed to opinionated journalism, with a clear strategy for makingmoney from online journalism and a large TV news-gathering operation that could feed video into a Newsweek iPad application.