Gizmodo Ads Recruiting Potential Trump Leakers

[RandySF]

With the Trump administration proving to be a leaky ship in its early days, one news outlet is launching an ad blitz to find the next Deep Throat.

The Gizmodo Media Group’s investigative team has taken to buying highly-targeted Facebook ads to steer potential leakers to a new website, TellOnTrump.com, which lays out a variety of secure methods to pass on sensitive information.

“One thing we know about Donald Trump is that there are a lot of things Donald Trump doesn’t want people to know about. If you’ve reached this page, you might have information about the conduct of Donald Trump or his administration that you’d like people to know about. Here’s how you can tell us,” the site explains.

The Univision Communications Inc.-owned media group, which operates sites like Fusion and the former Gawker Media sites like Gizmodo, Deadspin and Jezebel, started running ads on the social media platform within the last week that specifically target people who list certain government agencies as their employers. The ads don’t specify which news outlet is running the campaign, but the site which the ads point to clearly identifies the Gizmodo special projects desk.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/gizmodo-ads-target-potential-trump-leakers-1487191482

[Doreen]

1. I just had an odd thought.

Maybe Trump himself is the leak. I mean he is on his phone and always tweeting and it is very likely hackers can easily take info from his devises while he is using them and pick up conversions he is having with whoever. We keep bringing up his unsecured phones and such so maybe he is doing it and it could be intentional or unintentional....who knows. Just a thought.