Category: doxxing

Twitter bans financial site Zero Hedge over false coronavirus claims

[ad_1] In a statement, Twitter said only that it had banned Zero Hedge for violating the social network’s “platform manipulation policy.” However, Zero Hedge said it had received a notice on Friday that it was violating Twitter policies against “abuse and harassment.” Twitter had warned in late January that it would ban accounts involved in […]

YouTube declines to pull videos containing homophobic, racist attacks

[ad_1] The service said it had conducted a review of the videos and said there was language that was “clearly hurtful,” but that there hadn’t been policy violations. In a response to Gizmodo, a Google spokesperson also claimed that Crowder was only “debating” Maza’s opinions, and was off the hook as he hadn’t directly “instructed” […]

Former Senate IT worker pleads guilty to doxxing senators on Wikipedia

[ad_1] Cosko took advantage of another employee’s key to break into Hassan’s office at least four times, using keyloggers to help him swipe login credentials and grab sensitive data. He published the Senators’ information in September after he got “angry” at their line of questioning for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Staff caught him in […]