Update #2
Daybreak tells us that its original press statements about Columbus Nova acquiring Daybreak were an error on the part of the company and that it is correcting that error now.
"It was current executive chairman Jason Epstein, former senior managing partner of Columbus Nova that acquired Daybreak, not Columbus Nova itself. That distinction was never corrected in the past, so we are correcting that now," a Daybreak spokesperson told us.
MOP commenters have pointed out that a
Wikipedia account called Daybreakpr was blocked earlier this month - right around the time the sanctions were announced - for editing the Daybreak wikipedia entry to reiterate the claim that Epstein, not CN, has always owned the company. -Bree
Update #3
Daybreak has now apparently
deleted the 2015 press release from its servers, as the link we quoted from earlier today is now returning a 404 error. It remains quoted in full above. And as
@DkTanic tweeted to us (and ventyred posted in the comments), the
Daybreak privacy policy from 2015 also refers to CN as its parent company, which is how we referred to CN in this piece's original title and slug and which Daybreak told us by email was inaccurate: