Micah Lee 🫡

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

@garriguscarraig Who knows about Twitter and Facebook, but Gab is a fork of Mastodon, an open source social network, that wasn't designed for selling user data https://t.co/UjCsvOJrC2 — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

@realDannyLucas @getongab There are other social networks, like the decentralized Mastodon fediverse, which aren't run by and primarily used by fascists — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

@zompocs Because this is a news article, not hacked data itself — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

@zompocs Twitter isn't a safe space for CP, the vast majority of the content isn't CP, and CP is found the accounts get suspended. Also, Twitter wasn't hacked with all its data dumped, so I can't do it for Twitter — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

@estimatethis sorry :( — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

@WilliamTurton @donk_enby @getongab Thanks! — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

RT @seanodiggity: says @micahflee, "OnionShare is great for [collecting] anonymous tips from the public. If you start an OnionShare receive… — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

RT @theintercept: Inside Gab, the online safe space for far-right extremists https://t.co/7RzDGWm21N by @micahflee — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

Several of the accounts with weak passwords I successfully cracked were run by open neo-Nazis, like these two. Also a bunch of QAnon accounts, and some run by typical Republican conspiracy theorists posting anti-vax and 2020 election conspiracies https://t.co/3nZwXKDLA9 — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

The 88 I cracked include: - Trump2020 (3 different users) - Trump2024 - trump2020 Plus plenty of typical weak passwords like: - 123456 - asdf1234 - letmein - password1 Also, as would be expected for Gab, the n-word. — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

GabLeaks includes 7,710 password hashes. Using the GPU on my gaming PC and a ~9000-word list of guesses (by combining a few short password lists from https://t.co/gzoSlRigdf and one I made), my GPU crunched numbers for 3 days. I cracked 88 passwords, 49 of which were unique — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

The Gab post that ranks ninth in engagement is from the major QAnon account with 220k followers. Needless to say, his predictions did not come to pass. https://t.co/EGSd6vFX69 — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

As of late February, when Gab was hacked, this was the post with the most engagement on the whole site (also unlike on Twitter, the @realdonaldtrump on Gab is not, in fact, the real Donald Trump, but rather an account run by @getongab) https://t.co/wRM49uZ0JT — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

Here are the Gab accounts with the most followers. Who wouldn't follow these accounts? https://t.co/WEy5az0NPP — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

Here are the 20 most popular _private_ groups on Gab https://t.co/PSnqbtujmF — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

Here are the 20 most popular public groups on Gab https://t.co/jaMZRxGLBH — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

I also searched the last 2 years of Gab posts for the frequency of different slurs. There was a big spike of anti-Black and homophobic slurs on a single date in February https://t.co/qjHVc8slZ2 — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

On the night of Dec 22 someone created 46 new private groups on Gab, one for each chapter of the far-right militia the Oath Keepers. The groups don't have posts and most have only 1 member. They either weren't used or the posts were deleted after Jan 6 but before Gab was hacked. — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

After the insurrection the number of Gab groups (both private and public) getting created exploded too. But, what's the spike in private groups a few weeks _before_ the insurrection? https://t.co/vPucBYpAyn — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

However, these numbers are misleading. The VAST MAJORITY of Gab's 4M accounts are inactive. 65% of them have never posted a single thing. 90% of them have never posted more than 10 times. Only 2.5% (~100,000 accounts) of the accounts have posted 10 times since Dec 1, 2020. — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

Before the failed fascist insurrection on Jan 6, Gab had 1.6 million accounts. After the insurrection, AWS kicked Parler off its service, prompting a flood of 2.4 million exiled Parler users to flee to Gab https://t.co/duzibZJwFZ — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

The hacked GabLeaks data also includes over 70k private messages from Gab users, including from Gab's CEO Andrew Torba. Here's great reporting on how he tried to get prominent anti-Semites to start using his site https://t.co/r0ssCgsLlx — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

In Marjorie Taylor Greene's case: - Account created January 11, 2021 - Email address [email protected] - 217,544 followers - Verified account - Posted 72 times (at the time of the hack) - Password hash (not the password itself, but I cracked some of them, see below) — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

The hacker, JaXpArO, sent DDoSecrets PostgreSQL database dumps containing accounts, groups, and posts (most of the data) and a text file with chat logs. Here's what the QAnon-believing, school-shooting-survivor-harassing Rep @mtgreenee's account data looks https://t.co/u4CUaPeGlq — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

Inside @getongab, the Online Safe Space for Far-Right Extremists https://t.co/38Jzx6SIXY Last month Gab was hacked. I examined the ~65gb of the hacked data. Here's a broad overview of what I found — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

RT @MarchForScience: 😂 https://t.co/se512XXr21 — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

@gasull @weapon_i “Russiagate” isn’t fake news. It actually happened. There’s tons of evidence, nothing at all like QAnon or “Trump actually won”. There’s specific left-leaning misinfo falsely blaming stuff on Russia, giving Putin way too much credit, etc. but it’s not the same at all — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

RT @catshouldnt: https://t.co/5vEh2RJLIc — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

@gasull @weapon_i Gab is a fascist website, and who do you think Glenn is referring to as "fake news media"? Not actual fake news media like Tucker Carloson, Breitbart and Infowars — PolitiTweet.org

Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

@weapon_i Where's the bad faith? — PolitiTweet.org