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FBI files offer view into sick world of Hunter Moore’s IsAnyoneUp

FBI files offer view into sick world of Hunter Moore’s IsAnyoneUp

by Conor Skelding
June 24, 2014

Hunter Moore, founder of now-defunct revenge porn isanyoneup.com, claimed that all he did was post pictures people sent in.

An FBI file detailing an federal investigation into the site appears to tell a different story.

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Fearing "embarrassment," the FBI advised agents against interviewing Susan Sontag

Fearing “embarrassment,” the FBI advised agents against interviewing Susan Sontag

by Conor Skelding
June 13, 2014

An FBI memo dated August 13, 1968 regarding Susan Sontag ended with the determination that “her activities do not warrant further investigation. By December 4 of the same year, the Bureau was calling for a full report in two weeks. “Give this immediate attention,” Hoover wrote to the New York office. Why had Hoover instructed New York to reopen their file on Sontag?

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BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti's $40,000 PowerPoint

BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti’s $40,000 PowerPoint

by Conor Skelding
May 12, 2014

In March 2014, Jonah Peretti, founder of HuffPo and BuzzFeed, spoke at the University of Florida and was paid $40,000 plus “first class expenses.” Thanks to public records law, we have a copy of the presentation, which compares growth of Judaism and Mormonism to demonstrate that “quality religions don’t just go viral on their own”

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NSA's Intellipedia page on Edward Snowden is under construction

NSA’s Intellipedia page on Edward Snowden is under construction

by Conor Skelding
March 03, 2014

The National Security Agency’s response for the entry on Edward Snowden on the American intelligence community’s internal wiki suggests that Intellipedia may not be quite so dynamic and heavily trafficked as its architects might hope.

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FBI declined to investigate Hannah Arendt over man's claim she "corrupted" his daughter

FBI declined to investigate Hannah Arendt over man’s claim she “corrupted” his daughter

by Conor Skelding
January 13, 2014

Despite a distraught father’s fears that she had “corrupted” her daughter with European wanderlust, the FBI declined to investigate Professor Hannah Arendt in 1956.

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