{"id":51214,"date":"2020-02-17T16:01:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T21:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51214"},"modified":"2020-02-17T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T21:02:00","slug":"why-did-twitter-just-lockdown-wikileaks-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51214","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Twitter Just &#8220;Lockdown&#8221; WikiLeaks Account?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/why-did-twitter-just-lockdown-wikileaks-account\">Why Did Twitter Just &#8220;Lockdown&#8221; WikiLeaks Account?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just hours after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/who-holds-secret-talks-tech-giants-stop-spread-coronavirus-misinformation\"><strong>secret meeting with Silicon Valley tech giants to discuss censorship of &#8220;misinformation&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0surrounding coronavirus, and just\u00a0<strong>days before Julian Assange&#8217;s extradition hearings are set to continue,<\/strong>\u00a0Kristin Hrafnsson &#8211; a WikiLeaks&#8217; journalist &#8211; reports that the WikiLeaks&#8217; Twitter account has been locked-down&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khrafnsson\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/378800000322490823\/65b794b029734035a04d39f5ffe9b22f_normal.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WikiLeaks twitter account has been locked, shortly before Assange extradition hearing. All attempts to get it reopened via regular channels have been unsuccessful. It has been impossible to reach a human at twitter to resolve the issue. Can someone fix this?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterSupport\">@twittersupport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack\">@jack<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>t is not the first time Twitter has &#8211; allegedly &#8211; acted to suppress WikiLeaks voice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/a1165bc23bcaf83c9fb34605fd23bb70.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/twitter-accused-of-suppressing-dnc-wikileaks-story\">The Washington Examiner noted as far back at 2016<\/a>, Twitter lit up in late July with allegations that it tried to suppress news that secret-leaking website Wikileaks exposed thousands of emails obtained from the servers of the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friday afternoon, users noted, &#8220;#DNCLeaks&#8221; was trending, with more than 250,000 tweets about it on the platform. By Friday evening, it vanished completely from the site&#8217;s &#8220;trending&#8221; bar for at least 20 minutes. It returned as &#8220;#DNCLeak&#8221; after users erupted, though it was too late to quell their rage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Did Twitter Just &#8220;Lockdown&#8221; WikiLeaks Account? Just hours after a\u00a0secret meeting with Silicon Valley tech giants to discuss censorship of &#8220;misinformation&#8221;\u00a0surrounding coronavirus, and just\u00a0days before Julian Assange&#8217;s extradition hearings are set to continue,\u00a0Kristin Hrafnsson &#8211; a WikiLeaks&#8217; journalist &#8211; reports that the WikiLeaks&#8217; Twitter account has been locked-down&#8230; WikiLeaks twitter account has been locked, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2001,819,880,4318],"class_list":["post-51214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-julian-assange","tag-twitter","tag-wikileaks","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51215,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51214\/revisions\/51215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}