Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk
Elon Musk appears to have outsourced decisions about who to ban from Twitter to the platform's right-wing extremists.
Micah Lee
Micah Lee is The Intercept's former Director of Information Security. He's a security engineer and an open-source software developer who writes about technical topics, leaked datasets, and the far right. Micah is the author of Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Datasets, a hands-on book that teaches journalists, researchers, and activists how to download, research, analyze, and report on datasets.
Contacts:
- micah.lee@theintercept.com
- micah.01 on Signal
- @micahflee@infosec.exchange on Mastodon
- @micahflee.com on Bluesky
- @micahflee on X
Posts:
Elon Musk’s “Free Speech” Twitter Is Still Censoring DDoSecrets
Twitter has censored the website of nonprofit transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets for more than two years.
Hacked Documents: How Iran Can Track and Control Protesters’ Phones
The documents provide an inside look at an Iranian government program that lets authorities monitor and manipulate people’s phones.
Liberty Counsel’s Donor Records and Pro-Trump Election Messaging Exposed in Data Breach
Thanks to its tax status, the Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group has largely avoided public scrutiny.
Donald Trump Has His Own History With the Espionage Act
The Trump administration used the controversial law to target media outlets and sources who provided important information to the public.
Russia Is Losing a War Against Hackers Stealing Huge Amounts of Data
Dozens of Russian companies and government agencies have been hacked in apparent retribution for the invasion of Ukraine.
Leaked Chats Show Russian Ransomware Gang Discussing Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine
Chat logs reveal that members of the Conti ransomware gang repeated Putin's lies about Ukraine — and bemoaned their inability to buy Apple products.
Canadian Conservative Denied Giving to “Freedom Convoy,” but His Name Was on Donor List
An analysis of hacked data shows that someone using the name Richard Ciano did, in fact, donate to the “Freedom Convoy.”
Oath Keepers, Anti-Democracy Activists, and Others on the Far Right Are Funding Canada's "Freedom Convoy"
The Intercept obtained the hacked donor data of GiveSendGo, including roughly 104,000 donors who contributed $9.6 million to “Freedom Convoy 2022” and “Adopt a Trucker.”
The Coronavirus Crisis
Disinformation Doctors and Project Veritas Deny Teaming Up to Harass Medical Officials
America's Frontline Doctors launched a video series devoted to Covid-19 disinformation and claimed it was teaming up with Project Veritas.