16 Feb: MediaIte: Using Hacked Data, Washington Post, Reuters Go After Doxxed Freedom Convoy Donors
by Caleb Howe
The identities of individual donors to a GiveSendGo-based fundraiser for the “Freedom Convoy” Canadian trucker protest were exposed by hackers, who distributed lists of their names and addresses. That doxxing has now led to those donors being targeted by the Washington Post, Reuters, and other media outlets — not to mention harassment on social media...
When the New York Post was suspended from Twitter over their article about Hunter Biden‘s laptop, Twitter cited their “hacked materials policy” as the basis, but also updated the policy as a result of that incident.
The new policy says the company does not “permit the use of our services to directly distribute content obtained through hacking by the people or groups associated with a hack.”
However, in this case, that seems to be exactly what is happening. The hacked donor names are being used directly on Twitter by the Washington Post‘s Aaron Davis, who has a thread that includes names as well as statistical data on the hacked material.
Verified user Dean Blundell has also shared the list on Twitter, so far without consequence...
Reuters has not been flagged for their tweets linking to their publication of donor names obtained from the hacked materials...
As of the time of this post, none of the news outlets have opted to remove any hacked materials or delete tweets that contain names obtained from the hacks. As it stands, private individuals who donated to the protest fundraiser continue to be treated as fair game, something that is not the case for every cause out there.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/using-hacked-data-washington-post-reuters-go-after-doxxed-freedom-convoy-donors/ar-AATXqeR?ocid=BingNewsSearch
“...were exposed by hackers...”
The hackers were employed on a contract basis by the US and Canadian government.