PM: On Wednesday, WIRED senior reporter Dell Cameron was permanently suspended from Twitter after he asked for and obtained hacked materials from Matt Walsh’s Twitter account.
“Spoke with the hacker who says he compromised Matt Walsh’s account, and who was able to supply some convincing proof they’d gained access to his personal email account. Story TK,” a tweet from just after midnight on Wednesday read.
In a post to Mastodon, Cameron stated that he “just got permanently suspended for publishing this story,” linking to an article he wrote titled: “The Hacker Who Hijacked Matt Walsh’s Twitter Was Just Bored.”
Another post revealed that Cameron was suspended from Twitter for violations of the social media’s policies “against the distribution of hacked materials.”
The story alleges that this hacker provided screenshots of “an apparent copy of Walsh’s W2 tax form, which lists his employer as Bentkey Services, LLC, the publisher of the Daily Wire,” “a direct message on Twitter from Shapiro from 2017; emails between Walsh and the conservative commentator Steven Crowder, host of the Louder with Crowder podcast, dated March 2014; and a photo of Walsh holding up a paper dated November 2020—apparently used to authenticate some type of accompanying message.” MORE