Support #DDoSecrets with a donation by end of January if you can. Most recently, their data has contributed to our research and helped us understand more about censorship and oppression tactics used around the world. https://donorbox.org/ddosecrets-five-years-later
Announcing the Greenhouse Project - a new anti-censorship initiative from #DDoSecrets. By acting as a 'publisher of last resort' and ensuring the reporting and source files are preserved, the Greenhouse Project builds on DDoSecrets' previous efforts to reverse the chilling effects of censorship by creating a "warming effect". https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Appin_Uncensored
After Reuters published an exposé about an Indian hacking firm, a temporary court order forced them to remove the reporting from their website. The article was subsequently removed from the Internet Archive, and other outlets began to censor their coverage as well, removing passages and entire articles. The original Reuters article has now been uncensored by Distributed Denial of Secrets, and is presented here along with the documentation: https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Appin_Uncensored
“In five years we've published over 100 million files from nearly 60 countries revealing the inner workings of far right extremist groups, sanctions evaders, weapons manufacturers, tax havens, illegal resource extraction, as well as law enforcement, military, and political groups from all over the world. We need your help to continue this valuable work.”
#DDoSecrets' work with ICIJ and OCCRP, including providing the data and foundational research, enabled both the #NarcoFiles and the #CyprusConfidential collaborations. The real world impact of these investigations is already being felt and will continue well into 2024
We're also proud to have worked with PPLAAF on another collaboration this year, in addition to ICIJ's other 2023 investigation, #DeforestationInc
Here's a little story about why we need to support #DDoSecrets: donorbox.org/ddosecrets-five-years-later In 2008, a bomb strapped to a motorcycle exploded outside the office of a Croatian magazine, killing the journalist and publisher Ivo Pukanić in his car. After a trial, six people were convicted for the murder.
This #CyprusConfidential collaboration would have never happened without #DDoSecrets' commitment to open data, refusal to compromise with exclusivity deals, and its stubborn pursuit of every last missing file and folder in any given dataset. Although we have networks like the ICIJ and the OCCRP to carry out cross-border investigations, we need to also fund the library of leaks that make those investigations possible: https://donorbox.org/ddosecrets-five-years-later
As folks gather at the birthplace of Wikileaks #37c3, I wonder who will raise the alarm that #DDoSecrets needs donations to continue? https://donorbox.org/ddosecrets-five-years-later Wikileaks hasn't published a leak since 2019, while DDoSecrets has published millions of documents. But the Germans like to pretend history ended when Julian got arrested. The leaks didn't stop, it's just the funding for the leaks kept going to the bloated ancestor, instead of going to the active publisher. Who will archive and publish leaks when #DDoSecrets runs out of funding? Unclear, but don't expect to see anything new from WL.
Distributed Denial of Secrets or #DDoSecrets is a vital publisher archiving leaks, for the public. We have been active for five years, but donations have never kept up with the pace of our submissions. We have shared hundreds of terabytes of leaks with journalists and researchers. We are now launching an urgent appeal: https://donorbox.org/ddosecrets-five-years-later Without your donations, we may be forced to pause operations and suspend access to our search engines and direct download tools. Can you pitch it to help us meet our goal?