After Orlando, hacktivists add rainbows, gay porn to IS Twitter accounts
In a brief moment of comedy lighting the gloomy days after Sunday morning's deadly attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, hackers infiltrated pro-Islamic State (IS) group Twitter accounts and gave their profiles an LGBT makeover
One hacker, WauchulaGhost, broke into the account of pro-IS user @gi_h_a_d35 and changed his profile picture to a rainbow flag.
“Hello World. It’s time I share with you a little secret…I’m Gay and I’m Proud!! #GayPride #OrlandoWillNotBeForgotten !!! #GhostOfNoNation,” he tweeted from the account.
In other instances, he replaced pro-IS accounts' cover photos with porn, and changed their avatars to a graphic reading "I [heart] porn."
“Daesh doesn’t like porn,” the hacker told the Washington Post on the condition of anonymity, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
“They don’t like women in general. We just started using it to poke fun at them and diminish their presence online.
“The government really hasn’t been doing enough, especially on social media,” he said. “You see the beheading images everywhere."
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