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Investigative journalist & computer forensics expert. Second home at @duncaned@tech.lgbt https://t.co/KnffsSZJi0 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 Слава Україні!
Feb 5, 2023 7 tweets 4 min read
The DNC hoax on The Nation - described in my spiked report for @CJR - was launched in 2017 by a US-British disinformation team, “Disobedient Media”. Their leader, William Craddick, claimed to have instigated the Pizzagate conspiracy story. (To those who have forgotten this MAGA myth: Hillary Clinton and her election staff ran a child sex and torture ring in the non-existent basement of a pleasant Washington neighbourhood pizzeria.)
Feb 3, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
Russia-Trump and Columbia Journalism Review. @BylineTimes will shortly publish a report I prepared on Russian influence in the U.S. which CJR suppressed @BylineTImes @emptywheel @Professorshaw @kathapollitt @seth_hettana @michaeldweiss @davidcorndc @froomkin @tomwatson @plashmar During 2020, I filed a detailed investigation commissioned by CJR on Russian inspired and influenced reporting in U.S. Report was fact checked, legally passed, and approved to run 6 August 2020. Two days before publication CJR's publisher Kyle Pope intervened to blocked it.
Mar 16, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
With support from internet scientist Dr Ian Brown last year I provided detailed analysis of how Europol and French intelligence services hijacked and remotely monitored tens of thousands of high security "EncroChat" phones for over two months. computerweekly.com/opinion/EncroC… According to Europol "Operation EMMA" "made it possible to intercept, share and analyse millions of messages that were exchanged between criminals to plan serious crimes". In Britain it's a crime to reveal or talk about interception evidence in court.
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Nov 4, 2019 8 tweets 4 min read
Complete new leaked Facebook confidential documents will be online to assist the International Grand Committee on Disinformation and Fake News, meeting in Ireland on Wednesday. oireachtas.ie/en/press-centr… @carolecadwalla, @DamianCollins , @JoStevensLabour, @profcarroll, @ashk4n At noon on Wednesday, Dublin time, I + others will publish full copies of 6,971 pages of Facebook confidential and legal documents, leaked in February. Some are documents used by @commonscms in their report on Facebook. Download sites will be identified Wednesday.
Apr 16, 2019 6 tweets 4 min read
Facebook today tried to block stunning video of award-winning British journalist @carolecadwalla presenting at #TED2019 conference They failed ted.com/talks/carole_c… @bydonkeys @brexit_sham @anthonybarnett @arusbridger @openDemocracy Facebook claimed talk had "inaccuracies" "Facebook, you were on the wrong side of history ... you broke our democracy"
Apr 5, 2019 4 tweets 8 min read
@GCHQ 1/4 Factual correction, GCHQ Wrongby 40 years In February 1980, for the first time, [I] revealed the secret London site [you] have operated from since 1953. Here duncancampbell.org/menu/journalis… @ggreenwald @cybergibbons @1Br0wn @rj_gallagher @nickdothutton @wikileaks @GCHQ @ggreenwald @cybergibbons @1Br0wn @rj_gallagher @nickdothutton @wikileaks 2/4 For the first 40 years, the GCHQ Palmer Street Westminster office operated outwith law, was not accountable or "avowed", was not answerable to parliament, and spied on UK citizens and friends and allies (and their people and companies) as much or more, than enemies