Journalist and press critic radicalized by my work. Author of a memoir on media, prison, and surveilling the state.
BarrettBrown@protonmail.com
Sep 16 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Bet you're looking forward to the new @EoinHiggins_ book on reporters who were bought off by Thiel and deployed against his enemies. Remember when you disseminated a fake story written by an admitted FBI informant while I was in jail under a gag order for writing about your boss?
Ten years ago, Swartz was arrested and charged by the @FBI for giving the public access to materials the public had paid to create. Here's an interview I gave at the time, followed in thread by lesser-known aspects of his work
Both before and after his initial arrest and charging, Swartz assisted with the crowd-sourced investigation into illicit surveillance and propaganda technologies uncovered by #Anonymous, #Wikileaks, and #ProjectPM in early 2011 - like persona management:
