Twitter bans Wired's Dell Cameron for covering that anti-trans activist Matt Walsh's account was hacked; Wired denies breaking Twitter's hacked materials policy
lob insults at Ben Shapiro CT Jones / Rolling Stone : He Reported on a Twitter Hack. Musk's Free Speech Haven Kicked Him Out Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast : Journalist Banned From Twitter After Reporting on Hack of Matt Walsh's Account Kevin Hurler / Gizmodo : Matt Walsh's Twitter Hacker Says He Was Just ‘Stirring Up Some Drama’ Mastodon: Dell Cameron / @dell@journa.host : Just got permanently suspended for publishing this story: https://www.wired.com/... Tweets: Steven Monacelli / @stevanzetti : WOW: @dellcam has been suspended by Twitter after reporting about the hack of Matt Walsh's Twitter account https://twitter.com/... @wired : WIRED Statement on Dell Cameron's Permanent Twitter Suspension: WIRED learned Wednesday afternoon that senior reporter Dell Cameron's Twitter account was permanently suspended after he reported on Matt Walsh's Twitter account being hacked. 1/3 @wired : We have not received any further explanation from Twitter and our attempts to reach Twitter's press office were met with the customary poop emoji. We ask that the account be reinstated, and that Twitter provide an explanation. 3/3 - WIRED Managing Editor, Hemal Jhaveri Alex Howard / @digiphile : The @Wired journalist who reported on a hack of Matt Welsh's Twitter account has been “permanently suspended” by @Twitter. Unclear what @policy @dellcam violated or how; just reporting on hacked materials does not violate @TwitterSafety Rules: https://help.twitter.com/... @ellagirwin? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Corin Faife / @corintxt : A reminder that *the* biggest conservative criticism of Twitter was that it blocked reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop story. Details reported by @dellcam are far less sensitive. This is an ideological move meant to deplatform journalists critical of the right. https://twitter.com/... @wired : The hacker who claims to have compromised the Twitter account of right-wing commentator Matt Walsh last night says the whole purpose of the attack was to stir up controversy and sow chaos on Twitter. Well, mission accomplished. https://www.wired.com/... Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__ : Fun fact: This is the very same rule that was used to block distribution of the New York Post story about Hunter Biden, the greatest First Amendment violation in American history. https://twitter.com/... Matt Walsh / @mattwalshblog : Your reporter directly solicited stolen material from my phone. A Twitter suspension is going to be the least of his problems, and yours. https://twitter.com/... Scott Nover / @scottnover : Musk is going to say some dumb shit like Dell was cooperating with the hacker by reporting this, then he's gonna restore his account, and we'll all be dumber as a result. https://twitter.com/... Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper : by Musk's standard all those NY Post people should have been banned for reporting on Hunter Biden's alleged laptop https://twitter.com/... @evan_greer : Unreal that @dellcam was suspended for reporting on this https://twitter.com/... Tony Webster / @webster : Elon Musk's “By ‘free speech’, I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.” policy strikes again. https://twitter.com/... KC Walsh / @thecomixkid : Weren't you the same dude praising some right wing racists who stole government documents and posted to his gamer friends You deserved every thing coming your way https://twitter.com/... @anarcish : Best part is if he sues all the hacked phone data becomes available to both sides legal council through discovery, and a lot of it will get entered into the public court record. If someone steals compromising info on your, your best course of action is to shut the fuck up. https://twitter.com/... @woobietuesday : Here's the article Dell Cameron wrote about the Matt Walsh hacking that ultimately got him permanently suspended after right wing reactionaries claimed he was soliciting hacked emails to expose Walsh. As usual, they were catastrophizing. https://www.wired.com/... Kat Tenbarge / @kattenbarge : Dell Cameron was permabanned from Twitter for reporting on leaked emails between Matt Walsh and Steven Crowder that show Walsh's plans for his current trajectory: “There's certainly plenty of money to be made when you can get millions of hits online [...]” https://www.wired.com/... https://twitter.com/... Jon Christian / @jon_christian : Elon: Hunter Biden's hacked laptop is a huge scandal that everyone should pay attention to Also Elon: we'll permanently ban you for reporting on hacked material https://twitter.com/... @hcasan0va : Apparently a wired senior reporter was suspended for soliciting Matt Walsh's hacked material (which is both illegal and against tos). Now wired is working diligently to cover it up. Check out the thread. There are actual screen shots as proof Dell Cameron (senior reporter)... https://twitter.com/... Jeet Heer / @heerjeet : Would be curious what the journalists involved with The Twitter Files think of this. https://twitter.com/... @wired : Neither Dell's story nor his Twitter feed contained hacked materials. We do not believe his account violated Twitter's policy. 2/3 Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive : I've known Dell Cameron for years. He is an upstanding journalist who adheres to the highest ethical standards of reporting. Twitter should immediately restore Dell's access to his account. https://twitter.com/... Sam Sacks / @samsacks : Each day it becomes clearer that the Twitter Files was a PR op organized by Elon Musk to build a narrative that he's the savior the website needed. https://twitter.com/... Timothy Burke / @bubbaprog : Wired Magazine is now verboten on this “free speech” platform https://twitter.com/... Joseph Menn / @josephmenn : This story got author Dell Cameron permanently suspended for “distributing” hacked materials, by which I guess they mean quoting from a hacked DM in a news story. Musk, meet Streisand. https://www.wired.com/... Kathleen Schmidt / @kathmschmidt : I hope book publishers are aware that it's a matter of time before authors' accounts start getting suspended on here. https://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : Old enough to remember when Twitter suspending the @nypost for reporting on the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop was the centerpiece of Musk's “Twitter Files” https://twitter.com/... Karl Bode / @karlbode : “The nonsense never ends.” https://www.techdirt.com/... @simardcasanova : Another journalist suspended for literally doing his job Twitter is doomed https://twitter.com/... Kevin Raposo / @kevin_raposo : this is absolutely ridiculous. This is extremely lame and petty @TwitterSafety https://twitter.com/... Rob Pegoraro / @robpegoraro : I'm so old that I remember Twitter's owner being outraged at the idea that a hacked materials policy could be used to justify merely blocking shares of a news story for a day or so. https://twitter.com/... Kevin Collier / @kevincollier : Twitter has suspended Wired reporter Dell Cameron for tweeting this story, saying it violated the company's rules against distributing hacked materials. In other news, it's really dang easy to search for some of the Pentagon Leaks docs on this site. https://www.wired.com/... Drew Harwell / @drewharwell : Another journalist suspended for reporting. This story: https://www.wired.com/.... With every day Twitter becomes increasingly hostile to journalism. https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer