Ed Snowden Signed Up for Twitter, Follows One Account: the NSA
Posted: September 29, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Global, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English, Director of National Intelligence, Edward Snowden, Moscow, National Security Agency, RUSSIA, Twitter, United States, Verizon Wireless 1 Comment
Edward Snowden, the world’s most famous whistleblower, has joined Twitter, announcing his presence on the social media platform with a reference to a once ubiquitous Verizon Wireless advertising campaign. In the aftermath of his disclosures, it’s a not so subtle dig at American intelligence collection.
After providing a group of journalists with a trove of classified NSA documents in 2013, Snowden initially tried to stay out of the public eye, maintaining a fairly low profile in Moscow. He granted hardly any interviews and kept himself out of the news in an apparent effort to keep public attention focused on the substance of his disclosures.
Can this man look anymore self-righteous? pic.twitter.com/aSRrKDOxpY
— Christine Sisto (@ChristineSisto) September 29, 2015
But in the last year or so, Snowden has taken on a more public profile, appearing frequently at conferences and granting occasional interviews….(read more)
Source: Foreign Policy
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