WauchulaGhost, who said he's received death threats from ISIS members, identifies as a part of hacking collective Anonymous. (He added that he doesn't speak Arabic but has 'contacts all over the world who translate for me.')Īs ISIS uses social media to spread its message, a growing number of hackers are taking matters into their own hands, often operating illegally to take down content.
'Then I'll let them know it's the ghost and not who they thought it was.' 'I'll talk to them for a few minutes, either in Arabic or English, and I'll just have a normal conversation,' he told CNNMoney. He says he also direct messages its followers to cause confusion. When he takes over the accounts, WauchulaGhost replaces images of ISIS flags with rainbows and gay couples embracing. 'I just felt there's something I could do against the Islamic State to defend those people.' 'You had all those innocent lives lost,' he told CNNMoney.
Initially, WauchulaGhost replaced the jihad-related content with pornography to offend ISIS, but started posting gay pride messages following the attack of a gay nightclub in Orlando that left 49 dead.
