"That said, you guys do the vast majority of the work. I have always said so. My job is to fact-check, package it up as a publishable story, fact-check again... and then defend the story against critics and detractors. The hard work is all done in places like this and by tipsters in my inbox." -
Milo Yiannopoulos
How many illegal hackers does Milo Yiannopoulos keep on his contact list? Because at this point,
it seems like the new 'technology editor' of Breitbart.com gets more of his stories from 8chan and Baphomet than not. Here's a brief list of top posts by Yiannopoulos that never would have been, except that hackers sent him tips:
1. Shanley Kane expose
Milo Yiannopoulos worked with hacker and white supremacist Andrew Auernheimer (aka weev) to craft a hit piece against Shanley Kane, Auernheimer's ex. Auernheimer, a noted white supremacist, accused Kane of "racism", despite being a Neo-Nazi himself. Yiannopoulos repeated these accusations verbatim, and even granted Auernheimer a follow-up interview.
2. Sarah Nyberg expose
Milo Yiannopoulos used hacked documents allegedly taken from activist Sarah Nyberg's computer in a hit piece accusing Nyberg of pedophilia (among other things.) The photos, specific details and quotes (allegedly from Nyberg) in Yiannopoulos's piece were all provided by Baphomet, who took responsibility for hacking Nyberg in December 2014. Many other #Gamergate writers also capitalized on Baphomet's hacking of Nyberg, writing similar "exposes" based on unverifiable, stolen, and heavily modified chat logs.
3. Shaun King expose
Acting on a tip from Baphomet hacker Joshua Goldberg, Yiannopoulos accused Shaun King of “pretending to be biracial in order to qualify for an “Oprah scholarship” to historically black Morehouse College” in his column at Breitbart. The Baphomet hacker who provided Yiannopoulos with this tip is currently awaiting trial on terrorism charges, having sent an FBI informant bomb-making instructions with the intent they be used in a terrorist attack.
4. Randi Harper expose(s)
Yiannopoulos wrote a three-part expose against OAPI founder and Good Game Auto Blocker creator Randi Harper. In these articles, Yiannopoulos repeated many unsubstantiated claims about Harper virtually identical to the crazy bullshit written about her on Encyclopedia Dramatica, a hacker's trophy case of doxx and so-called "satire" written by internet harassers about their victims. Some of the pictures Yiannopoulos used in his articles about Harper were also identical to ones hosted on Encyclopedia Dramatica.
Is Milo Yiannopoulos incapable of writing a story unless Gamergate, 8chan, or Baphomet does the heavy lifting for him? It sure seems that way.