The administrators of the DDoSecrets website write that they have run out of money for funding. If they don’t raise $150,000 by January 31, 2024, they might be forced to suspend operations. This is written on the red banner that appears when you go to the site.
Info: Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) is a journalist 501©(3) non-profit publishing and archiving leaks, and devoted to the free transmission of data in the public interest.
In more detail (from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Denial_of_Secrets):
Distributed Denial of Secrets, abbreviated DDoSecrets, is a non-profit whistleblower site founded in 2018 for news leaks. The site is a frequent source for other news outlets and has worked on investigations including Cyprus Confidential with other media organizations. In December 2023, the organization said it had published over 100 million files from 59 countries.
Sometimes referred to as a successor to WikiLeaks, it came to international attention for its June 2020 publication of internal police documents, known as BlueLeaks. The group has also published data on Russian oligarchs, fascist groups, shell companies, tax havens and banking in the Cayman Islands, as well as data scraped from Parler in January 2021 and from the February 2021 Gab leak. The group is also known for publishing emails from military officials, City Hall in Chicago and the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department.
The site’s leaks have resulted in or contributed to multiple government investigations, including the second impeachment of President Donald J. Trump. During the Russo-Ukrainian War, they were considered one of the best public repositories of all the Russian files leaked since the invasion began.
They’ve been around since 2018, and with only two weeks notice, now are saying they need $150k?! Who the fuck is their CFO, and how did their burn rate get so out of control? Shouldn’t they have started the campaign months ago if this was an expected problem?
This just fucking reeks of embezzlement; grossly mismanaging the funds charitable individuals had entrusted them with.
They may have created the campaign months ago, but unfortunately I posted about it late, I’m sorry
Any organization that does this will slowly be bled dry. There isn’t a single government worldwide that is actually okay with their secrets being spilled. Wikileaks was a fucking darling of the US media and political establishment right up until the moment they started leaking stuff on US political parties.
It’s incredibly hard to actually speak truth to power, because those with power are hellbent on using their power to shut you up.
Wikileaks was a RuSSian dump, by the way.
The FSB found a fool from Australia who, like many RuSSians, doesn’t give a damn about his life.
So Wikileaks reporting on the Bush admins illegal activities in the War on Terror in 2010 doesn’t count? Or was Russia behind that, too?
Clinton had to go on an “apology tour” across the world because of it, during her tenure as Secretary of State.
The Bush administration is not the same as the Trump administration. When people voted for Trump they didn’t vote for the Republican Party. They voted for Trump.
Trump was for example incredibly vocal about reducing the support to NATO. Of course the Russians would do anything to make those ideas happen.
They were ok with dems until they started spilling dirt on democrats too. Then they couldn’t be trusted.
