He went very quiet after that, and after a tweetstorm to the effect of "are you even alive" he eventually posted quite testily that he'd got it wrong and was no

He went very quiet after that, and after a tweetstorm to the effect of "are you even alive" he eventually posted quite testily that he'd got it wrong and was now proceeding to shut the hell up: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1498049577131208705 https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1498049577131208705 A more thorough mea culpa would certainly have been nice, but the man was clearly quite rattled that his own "journalistic credibility was instrumentalized as part of one of those disinformation campaigns". It's hard to appreciate what pressures he might be under.