Twitter featured an article in its “trending” section that relied on hacked materials to out police officers who had donated to a fund in support of fellow officers that were the target of Black Lives Matter’s ire.
The article, which was posted by the Guardian, is based on a “data breach at a Christian crowdfunding website” GiveSendGo by the hacking group Distributed Denial of Secrets. DDOS then shared the information with the publication, which was later featured by Twitter despite the social network’s banning of the bombshell New York Post report about Hunter Biden’s laptop over unfounded concerns that the story relied on hacked materials.
The Guardian then reported the names of police officers who had donated to the fund, including two low-level Wisconsin officers who donated the fund of Rusten Sheskey, who was under investigation after the shooting of Jacob Blake. Sheskey was eventually cleared of wrongdoing in the case.
“Two $20 donations to Sheskey’s fund were associated with email addresses of a pair of lieutenants in Green Bay, Wisconsin’s police department. One, given under the name, ‘GBPD Officer’, was tied to an address associated with Chad Ramos, a training lieutenant in the department; another anonymous donation was associated with Keith A Gehring, who is listed as a school resources officer lieutenant,” the Guardian reported.
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The Guardian also reported the names of public officials and police officers who donated to the legal defense fund of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager accused of murder in the fatal shooting of a protester in Wisconsin.
Just before the 2020 presidential election, Twitter took the unprecedented step of blocking all links to the New York Post’s story that had the potential to swing the outcome of the election. The company claimed it was a violation of their rules that could “incentivize” hacking, though Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has since admitted the banning of the story was a “total mistake.”
But the apparent change of heart comes too late for GiveGoSend co-founder Jacob Wells.
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“When we started GiveSendGo, we let people give anonymously because people had such a big heart they didn’t want credit,” Wells said. “Now where we’re at in this country, they have to give anonymously because we’ve seen what happens when their name gets out there. It makes me sick to my stomach. … The point of this was to weaponize this information against the individuals who gave. There’s no other value other than to make them fearful.”
