Dedicated site/network for investigation? ( pizzagate )

submitted by Griskor

I've been loosely following the investigation over on reddit in r/pizzagate and r/operation_bearenstain . There was a thread discussing the possibility of a dedicated site to gather and organize findings, without the risk of censorship that reddit has shown ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Operation_Berenstain/comments/5ejnis/continuation_of_my_thoughts_on_communication_and/) ). If there's any interest in such a site, I'd love to work with a couple other IT/sysadmin types to setup a censorship-proof dedicated site for the investigation. I personally have access to servers around the globe, which could easily be used for a distributed infrastructure (full site mirrors, offsite backups, VPN accounts for members that request it, etc).

I'm thinking something along the lines of a forum/wiki to organize information, and an IRC network for real-time discussions. User groups could be setup so new users have to submit content through a moderation queue (which would be viewable by all users), keeping a lot of the spam/off-topic/distractions out of the main view. All public IRC channels and moderation logs from the site would be published to prove that no censorship is taking place.

reddit and voat are definitely great places to organize the majority of the community, but it is far too easy for important content to be buried or locked down by site admins. This investigation seems like it's just getting started, and in my opinion a dedicated site would make it much easier to sort through all the information out there.

Sprite98

Here I am and take my upvote :)

I think the website is a good idea, I also feel like we need to somehow have a "storefront" which looks like a MSM website (meaning by that all the graphic standards will aligned to those of a MSM website so that people kind of the trust solely based on their perceived "professional" look) where we put articles aout our most up to date findings (findings that we will have discussed in our private onion chan or irc or whatever is possible).

The logic behind is simple: If you look at wikileaks I feel it's crazy how many valid informations they have about anything and how few people seem to grasp it all. The reason is simple, if we want to convince as many people as possible, we need to have a user friendly website that breaks things open, basically adding a non partisan journalistic side to the "leaks" side is what will make us gain numbers.

I also think we need to organize better, as in taking all of our skills into account and working on it rather than having everyone go to a different direction and come back later (though this can also create the noise we need to hide our most important efforts and results).

I mean this going to be a long long ride, investigation will probably last for a few years so yeah, we need to have a HQ that is not public otherwise they will always be one step ahead of us as they will see all of our research.

Griskor

Have you guys done any planning yet? SecureDrop or GlobaLeaks look pretty useful for having people anonymously submit info, and a Mediawiki frontend would likely be the easiest place to actually catalog everything. There'd be a good bit of work involved with setting up group permissions and public audit trails for everything, but it would be well worth it IMO. I work from home and have plenty of time to work on this, so feel free to PM me and we can get a line of communication going between everyone interested in helping out (once we have a domain, IRC or some other self-hosted chat platform will make everything easier).