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applegrove

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Mon Mar 1, 2021, 12:45 PM Mar 2021

Another Far-Right Social Network Hacked

Another Far-Right Social Network Hacked

March 1, 2021 at 11:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard 9 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/03/01/another-far-right-social-network-hacked/

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Wired: “When Twitter banned Donald Trump and a slew of other far-right users in January, many of them became digital refugees, migrating to sites like Parler and Gab to find a home that wouldn’t moderate their hate speech and disinformation. Days later, Parler was hacked, and then it was dropped by Amazon web hosting, knocking the site offline.”

“Now Gab, which inherited some of Parler’s displaced users, has been badly hacked too. An enormous trove of its contents has been stolen—including what appears to be passwords and private communications.”

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"The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70 GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists."


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Another Far-Right Social Network Hacked (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2021 OP
Sweet! lagomorph777 Mar 2021 #1
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