by Phoebe Huss at Drop Site
Anonymous web developers doxxed people, and gained thousands of followers, submissions, and dollars—then disappeared.
“Expose Charlie’s Murderers,” a website created shortly after right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk’s assassination in September promised to provide a searchable database of the names and workplaces of over 60,000 people “supporting political violence online,” sortable by employer, location and industry. Its stated purpose was to execute “the largest firing operation in history.”
The website listed six cryptocurrency blockchains and asked supporters to fund “a highly sophisticated enterprise system that will be impervious to Leftist attacks.”
Over a two-day period, the website’s anonymous developers collected more than $30,000, per CoinTracker, software used for crypto-based taxes. About 190 payments were made to the six crypto addresses between September 12 and 14.
But over the next several days, its website was taken down. It relaunched as the Charlie Kirk Data Foundation on September 14, but the domain registrar Epik LLC deplatformed its second website because it was registered using false information and received DDoS attack threats. A third ECM website was also taken down. On September 23, ECM disappeared from the public eye by making its last post on X.
The group has not responded to several inquiries from Drop Site on where the donations went, and…
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