It doesn’t matter what their sexual preference is. When I took those ISIS accounts and added the images and tweeted about the Orlando attack, I didn’t even hesitate. All I could see was pain and hurt because so many innocent lives were taken. When I woke up and saw the tragedy on the news, I was stunned. Wauchula Ghost: I started adding LGBT colors and graphics because of the Orlando attacks. IBT: Why did you decide that adding gay porn to the Twitter accounts associated with ISIS was a good idea? However, I work with all that are Anonymous, as we are One. Wauchula Ghost: I work alone and am not a member of any group or sect. IBT: Are you working alone or with other members of Anonymous? All I can say is I am a male, based in the U.S. and work in the IT field. Wauchula Ghost: That’s a subject that unfortunately I can’t give too much information on. Here is the complete interview International Business Times carried out with Wauchula Ghost: This isn't good enough for Ghost, and he says he will continue to attack ISIS’ presence online. “This isn’t a one-time thing," he says. "It will keep going.” In a statement to the Washington Post, Twitter said: “We condemn the use of Twitter to promote terrorism and the Twitter Rules make it clear that this type of behavior, or any violent threat, is not permitted on our service.” “ never talks about who is responsible for reporting those accounts to suspend they only hit the button that actually suspends the account,” Ghost says about Twitter’s claims. “It’s Anonymous and citizens of the world that have come together and are seeking out and reporting these accounts.”
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Ghost says he works alone but affiliates himself with the wider Anonymous "hacktivist" movement, which has been actively targeting ISIS through a series of operations for a couple of years, though sometimes publishing inaccurate information and targeting the wrong Twitter accounts.ĭespite this, Ghost believes hacktivists are doing more than companies like Twitter are to stop ISIS from disseminating its hateful message online - even though Twitter said in February that it had suspended 125,000 ISIS-related accounts since the middle of 2015. It doesn’t matter what their sexual preference is.” “When I took those ISIS accounts and added the images and tweeted about the Orlando attack, I didn’t even hesitate,” Ghost said. “It just felt like the thing to do. Ghost says that the Orlando shooting, where Mateen allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS during a four-hour siege in which he massacred 49 and wounded 53 more - was the inspiration for using LGBT imagery. Over the past week, Ghost has compromised the security of hundreds of Twitter accounts he claims are being used by supporters of ISIS to spread their message and help radicalize people across the globe.
When are they going to 'lose it’ and kill more innocent people. “I’m more worried about people like Omar that are walking our streets right now.
But Ghost says he isn't worried about retaliation. One of the ISIS-linked Twitter accounts hacked by Wauchula Ghost to show pro-LGBT messages.īy plastering Twitter accounts associated with ISIS members in the rainbow flag of the LGBT movement and writing “I’m gay and I’m proud”, the hacker might be playing a dangerous game. His mission is to highlight the need for the government and companies like Twitter to do more to prevent online radicalization from happening, and he's planning more attacks in the coming days and weeks.Īccording to Sharia law, as interpreted by the Islamic State terrorist group (also known as ISIS), the punishment (or hudud) for engaging in homosexual sex (or liwat) is being thrown from the top of a building and then stoned to death by the watching public - and there are numerous examples of the group’s members carrying out such brutality. In the wake of the Orlando gay nightclub shooting, the hacker who calls himself Wauchula Ghost tells International Business Times that he isn’t worried about retaliation.
His latest efforts have seen him mocking them by plastering their Twitter accounts with gay porn, rainbow flags and messages of support for the LGBT community. to undermine the Islamic State group’s ability to spread their extremist message online. He is a lone wolf hacker working from his home in the U.S.