[Infowarrior] - Wikileaks Somehow Reached a New Level of Desperate

[Richard Forno]

(c/o GV)

Wikileaks Somehow Reached a New Level of Desperate
Eve Peyser
Today 2:00pm
http://gizmodo.com/wikileaks-somehow-reached-a-new-level-of-desperate-1790902241

In a characteristically desperate move, the Wikileaks Task Force tweeted out that the organization nobly devoted to making private documents public is looking to create “an online database with all ‘verified’ twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships.” This feels desperate.

Twitter verifies users based on whether their accounts are “of public interest,” meaning that many journalists, along with celebrities, brands and politicians, are verified. Around 237,000 accounts are currently verified on the social platform.

Wikileaks explained to journalist Kevin Collier on Twitter that the organization wants to do this in order to “to develop a metric to understand influence networks based on proximity graphs.” Whatever that means.

Wikileaks is also threatening to sue anyone who calls their pale king a rapist in response to their latest stunt. (Assange has been hiding away in the Ecuadorian embassy in London ever since Swedish authorities have tried to pursue rape charges against him.)

Whatever Wikileaks’ “reasoning” for wanting to publish the private information of 237,000 Twitter users, this threat is aggressive and further proof that the Sarah Palin-endorsed group has gone way off the deep end.