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WikiLeaks proposes tracking verified Twitter users’ homes, families and finances

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>“We are thinking of making an online database with all 'verified' twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships,” WikiLeaks tweeted Friday.

Not WikiLeaks, but "WikiLeaks Task Force" (@WLTaskForce). I'm not even sure it's widely known who exactly is behind that account, though it's interestingly a verified account itself.

UPD1 After some googling it seems the account is listed as official on wikileaks.org:

"Follow our official accounts @wikileaks, @wltaskforce, @communitywl and @wikileaksshop."

https://wikileaks.org/What-is-Wikileaks.html

But it was added recently (after 16 Nov 2016):

https://web.archive.org/web/20161116072950/https://wikileaks...

(via https://www.reddit.com/r/WhereIsAssange/comments/5h2qqp/can_...)

UPD2 Article about "Wikileaks Task Force":

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikileaks-is-making-a-twit... (4 Oct 2016)

Re: WikiLeaks proposes tracking verified Twitter users’ homes, families and finances

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>“We are thinking of making an online database with all 'verified' twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships,” WikiLeaks tweeted Friday. Not WikiLeaks, but "WikiLeaks Task Force" (@WLTaskForce). I'm not even sure it's widely known who exactly is behind that account, though it's interestingly a verified account itself. UPD1 After some googling it seems the account is listed as official on wik…

"though it's interestingly a verified account itself."

So in the sake of transparency, they would be tracking themselves, right?

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