Remember Twitter 1.0, which eventually landed on an excuse for not allowing people to link to the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story? They said the story violated their “hacked materials” policy … you were not allowed to post material obtained by hacking, which did not apply at all to Biden’s laptop. Donald Trump’s tax returns? Sure, you can post those.
As Twitchy reported, The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh had his Twitter account and 20 years’ worth of emails hacked Tuesday night. WIRED senior reporter Dell Cameron tweeted for the hackers to send Matt Walsh DMs to his WIRED email address. He then tweeted that he’d spoken with the hacker, who was able to supply “some convincing proof” they’d gained access to his personal email account.
Dell Cameron, a leftist senior reporter for WIRED, used Twitter to solicit stolen information belonging to @MattWalshBlog, who was hacked last night. pic.twitter.com/wsaOWRmPnc
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 19, 2023
Cameron’s Twitter account is currently suspended.
BREAKING: Wired senior writer @dellcam has been suspended after soliciting for @MattWalshBlog's hacked information on Twitter, getting it and then linking to where people can read about it. https://t.co/zOAvqyDrhg
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 19, 2023
Usually a bad idea to announce you’re committing a federal crime, a violation of TOS and willing to commit further criminal acts on social media. https://t.co/oMBCttqUqx pic.twitter.com/xHlVLuGeGm
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) April 19, 2023
Its not illegal for a reporter to receive the information right? But is it illegal to solicit it?
— Titusville (@Titusvile722) April 19, 2023
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I believe it is illegal for a reporter to actively solicit stolen personal data.
This was the basis the FBI used to raid James O'Keefe over Ashley Biden's diary (even though O'Keefe didn't solicit the info, never published it, & had already turned it in to law enforcement).
— The Countess In Cowboy Boots (@LooneyOldLady) April 19, 2023
@elonmusk I don't know what the rules are regarding spreading stolen personal info from hacked Twitter accounts but I think this journalist should face some sort of reprecussion.
— Musc (@musc0vy) April 19, 2023
@TwitterSupport isn’t that a bannable offense?
— RD (@MiamiViced) April 19, 2023
That seems like it should be illegal to do.
😗— MJ Shea (@shempyshea) April 19, 2023
So @dellcam you are admitting accessory to a crime.
Accessory to a crime is someone who helps to commit the offense, even if he or she was not actually present during its commission. Many states differentiate between accessories after the fact, and accessories before the offense.— 𝕎𝕖 𝔸𝕣𝕖 𝔸 ℝ𝕖𝕡𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕚𝕔 🇺🇸 (@_USRepublic) April 19, 2023
I’d like to know if the @FBI will question @dellcam regarding his involvement in the hacking of @MattWalshBlog ?
— 𝙳𝚎𝚗𝚊 𝙱. (@D_R_Berry) April 19, 2023
Same ones who supported censoring Hunter Biden Laptop story because it was “hacked” fully support this hack.
— Jack Burton (@tunedloop) April 19, 2023
@ellagirwin You guys have a hacked material policy, don't you?
— Paul Spivak (@paulspivak_) April 19, 2023
@dellcam Enjoy your upcoming lawsuits…. They will be epic
— J & J (@GAKayLive) April 19, 2023
So Cameron spoke with the hacker and asked them to provide proof they’d hacked into Walsh’s email account … and was then going to write a story about it. Not cool.
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Hackers managed to gain access to a lot more than just Matt Walsh’s Twitter account https://t.co/KnfvuPcrhq
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 19, 2023
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