The official WikiLeaks and Julian Assange defense Twitter accounts were locked and inaccessible for over 24 hours, according to their current editor-in-chief, Kristinn Hrafnsson.
The accounts belonging to WikiLeaks, WikiLeaks Task Force, Assange’s legal team, and Assange’s official defense team were locked for over 24 hours, Hrafnsson confirmed on Thursday.
These accounts are locked @wikileaks @assangedefence @wltaskforce @assangelegal and cannot be accessed. They also seem to have been shadow banned. Should we be worried in these critical times?
— Kristinn Hrafnsson (@khrafnsson) December 20, 2018
Hrafnsson also stated that he believes WikiLeaks and the affiliated accounts are also being shadowbanned. The Daily Dot confirmed that “both @wikileaks and @wltaskforce were failing to appear in the platform’s ‘search all’ drop-down results.”
These accounts are locked @wikileaks @assangedefence @wltaskforce @assangelegal and cannot be accessed. They also seem to have been shadow banned. Should we be worried in these critical times?
— Kristinn Hrafnsson (@khrafnsson) December 20, 2018
People associated with WikiLeaks have attempted to reach out to Twitter for an explanation, but they have not responded.
The Daily Dot contacted Twitter for comment. A representative told the Daily Dot that the company was “looking into it.”
The accounts were unlocked on Thursday evening.
Our twitter account @WikiLeaks is now unlocked. Thanks to those who made a fuss and for @Jack and others responding to the problem. It appears that a denial of service attack had been run against several WikiLeaks and Assange legal accounts to trigger looping security lockouts. https://t.co/0JQOILmk9I
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) December 21, 2018
Sources close to the administration have told The Gateway Pundit that there has been discussion about Assange being removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has political asylum, before the new year. When questioned by a reporter about the White House’s position on Assange at a Christmas party, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said they had “no position.”
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