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WikiLeaks wants to start building a list of verified Twitter users that would include highly sensitive and personal information about their families, their finances and their housing situations.
"We are thinking of making an online database with all 'verified' twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships," WikiLeaks tweeted Friday.
The disclosure organization, run by Julian Assange, says the information would be used for an artificial-intelligence program. But Twitter users immediately fired back, saying WikiLeaks would use the list to take political vengeance against those who criticize it.
Twitter "verifies" certain users, such as world leaders, nonprofit organizations and news outlets, with a blue check mark beside their names so that other users of the service can be confident about the posters' identities. WikiLeaks, which has a verified Twitter account, did not say whether it would subject itself to the scrutiny it was proposing. (It was also unclear whether, under its plan, WikiLeaks would seek to uncover information about the financial lives of Russian President Vladimir Putin or President-elect Donald Trump, both of whom are verified on Twitter.)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @05:19AM
Funny that a few short years ago, fox news and the RNC were all buttsore over Wikileaks exposing their dirt and swinging that election to Obama, and were calling for someone to kill asange any way possible.
Today, that WL handed the election to them, now fox news has hannity over there where assange is holed up, sucking him off on national television. I had the misfortune of seeing it. It was discusting. Sean even had gobs of cum running down his chin by the end of the interview. Funny expressions on seans face as he begged for more.