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>“We are thinking of making an online database with all 'verified' twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships,” WikiLeaks tweeted Frida
by r721 10y ago
>“We are thinking of making an online database with all 'verified' twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships,” WikiLeaks tweeted Friday.
Not WikiLeaks, but "WikiLeaks Task Force" (@WLTaskForce). I'm not even sure it's widely known who exactly is behind that account, though it's interestingly a verified account itself.
UPD1 After some googling it seems the account is listed as official on wikileaks.org:
"Follow our official accounts @wikileaks, @wltaskforce, @communitywl and @wikileaksshop."
https://wikileaks.org/What-is-Wikileaks.html https://wikileaks.org/What-is-Wikileaks.html
But it was added recently (after 16 Nov 2016):
https://web.archive.org/web/20161116072950/https://wikileaks.org/What-is-Wikileaks.html https://web.archive.org/web/20161116072950/https://wikileaks...
(via https://www.reddit.com/r/WhereIsAssange/comments/5h2qqp/can_we_welcome_wltaskforce_communitywl_to_the_wl/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WhereIsAssange/comments/5h2qqp/can_...)
UPD2 Article about "Wikileaks Task Force":
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikileaks-is-making-a-twitter-army-to-fight-against-misinformation https://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikileaks-is-making-a-twit... (4 Oct 2016)
- JoachimS 10y ago"though it's interestingly a verified account itself." So in the sake of transparency, they would be tracking themselves, right?
- r721 10y agoIn theory :) But I didn't even know there could be effectively anonymous verified accounts like this one. I doubt this organization is officially registered in any sense, but it is verified by Twitter. Reading https://support.twitter.com/articles/20174631 https://support.twitter.com/articles/20174631 it seems it is sufficient to have "A verified phone number, a confirmed email address, a bio, a profile photo, a header photo, a website" and also "If the account is a corporation or company account, the name reflects the real name of the corporation or company", "The profile and/or header photo reflects the person, the corporation’s branding, or the company’s branding". Looks like "copy of your official government-issued photo identification" is not needed in organization case.
- mcintyre1994 10y agoThere's a recent @wikileaks tweet saying only they can make official statements : https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/817538212709203968 https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/817538212709203968 The link you posted still mentions the others though.