Thread by @GrapheneOS

GrapheneOS developers/moderators are being impersonated across different platforms (Matrix, Telegram, Reddit) as part of the attacks on the project.

They're copying our display names, avatars and usernames. Make sure to confirm it's one of our accounts and not someone malicious.

This is one of the tactics being used to cause harm to GrapheneOS. See github.com/bromite/bromit… for a particularly damaging past incident where they impersonated Bromite's developer.

Happening more frequently now and multiple developers/moderators are being targeted this way.

People have fallen for this trick repeatedly and a lot of harm has been caused with it. It's not going to keep working for them when they're doing it so frequently.

It's unfortunate CalyxOS/Techlore have encouraged their communities to engage in these relentless attacks on us...

They're developed a bunch of dishonest talking points their community spreads about GrapheneOS across multiple platforms every day. It happens on most prominent posts discussing GrapheneOS. It's not simply their communities doing it. They've taught them to do it and encourage it.

It's our rooms being raided, so it's our rooms which end up being a mess from the endless trolling.

We regularly refute the misinformation they spread with fact-based responses. Their response to that has been playing the victim and pretending defending ourselves is aggression.

CalyxOS/Techlore are involved in increasingly intense harassment and bullying targeting our developers.

Henry (Techlore) and Nicholas Merrill have both been extensively involved in pushing the narrative that our lead developer is crazy to direct harassment/bullying towards them.

This is not simply their communities doing something without their approval. They not only approve of it and encourage it but have been the ones crafting most of the malicious talking points. They regularly encourage attacks on us and pretend us refuting those makes them victims.

We've been building archives of the underhanded by CalyxOS leadership/developers who claim to be uninvolved in it and by people they welcome in their rooms despite extensive involvement in harassment.

They welcome people who have publicly told our developers to kill themselves..

They've seriously crossed the line in the past few months and we're starting to more actively defend ourselves beyond just countering misinformation now and then. They can expect this to be brought up in any organization/project/conference any of them ever has any involvement in.

That's what the archive of the attacks is being used for rather than fruitlessly trying to convince their toxic community to stop attacking us.

They don't realize it but these underhanded attacks on us have cost them substantial funding/support already and will cost a lot more.

Further raids, impersonation, and harassment/bullying will directly result in posting threads like this one about what's happening. Each time there's another escalation of attacks, we'll be contacting multiple organizations, etc. about what's happening. There are consequences.