Deeply suspicious of that screenshot he's using as proof, given that a blue bubble means that's a message he sent to someone else, but he definitely seems like someone they would invite on board for a free trip.

Entirely up to you, I suppose. We're all just scrambling for explanations to make it make sense, but I expect if this is BS we'll at least see a story exposing it as BS.

Never understood why the point and click Deponia people were making a stealth action game anyway.

My bet is the other places you are seeing this are either Yahoo or MSN, which is just rehosting the Telegraph's article. That's the only other place I've seen this.

This is only half the story. When ProPublica reached out to Alito to ask for comment before publishing, Alito ran to the Wall Street Journal with the full text of the unpublished article and wrote an op-ed complaining about the reporting before it came out.