Wikileaks teases mass doxing wave of verified Twitter accounts

The Wikileaks Task Force logo. (credit: Wikileaks Task Force)

A Friday Twitter post from Wikileaks' official "task force" declared intent to build a publicly searchable database revolving around a particular group of people: verified Twitter accounts.

"We are thinking of making an online database with all 'verified' Twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships," the Friday tweet reads. A follow-up post sought suggestions from the public and said the group was "looking for clear discrete (father/shareholding/party membership) variables that can be put into our AI software."

The task force neither clarified where this information would come from, nor did it clarify its reasons for mulling such a project.

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