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The Intercept
February 14, 2018
“Risk” also featured Jacob Appelbaum, a WikiLeaks volunteer and former employee of the nonprofit that publishes the Tor anonymity software. Beginning in June 2016, members of the Tor community came forward with accusations of rape and sexual assault against Appelbaum. The Tor Project confirmedÃâà...
TheTyee.ca
August 3, 2017
Jacob Appelbaum, technologist and WikiLeaks journalist, filmed at a conference in Cairo confronting various representatives from telecom corporations about their role in aiding and abetting government censorship, appears like a champion of social justice. It is a stirring moment, but Appelbaum too is aÃâà...
Newsweek
May 17, 2017
Four Wikileaks lawyers write that instead of providing an objective portrayal of her subject matter, Poitras has re-framed her story to turn her Wikileaks ... which Poitras divulges that she was involved in an intimate relationship with one of the film's primary subjects, award-winning journalist Jacob Appelbaum.
Newsweek
May 2, 2017
The year is 2011, the setting a posh English country house where the WikiLeaks founder was bivouacked. Assange is trying to get Secretary of ... up in the Ecuadorean embassy. Also, a group of anonymous women was accusing an Assange associate, global hacktivist Jacob Appelbaum, of sexual abuse.
Gizmodo
April 28, 2017
Those reasons most prominently include WikiLeaks' role in the 2016 election and former WikiLeaks representative Jacob Appelbaum's sexual misconduct scandal. After the premiere, Poitras and company added additional footage addressing these developments, footage that I believe makes the film muchÃâà...
The Guardian
October 11, 2016
But the association with WikiLeaks – which has released classified documents that triggered several major global news stories – led to him being held at US airports, his apartment being searched and his mother subjected to arbitrary questioning, and in June 2013 he chose to exile himself in Berlin.
Gizmodo
June 8, 2016
... p.m: The Freedom of the Press Foundation has removed Jacob Applebaum from their technical advisory board. Executive Director Trevor Timm said in a statement: “In light of the allegations that have been made, Jacob Appelbaum is no longer a member of our outside volunteer technical advisory board.”Ãâà...
WIRED
June 6, 2016
Jacob Appelbaum has courted controversy throughout his career as a privacy and transparency activist, picking fights with several of the world's most ... In 2010 he keynoted the HOPE hacker conference, outing himself as a collaborator with WikiLeaks—its only publicly known American staffer—just as itÃâà...
