leaktivist
leaktivist noun: someone who advocates for a political cause by leaking secret information to the public; a person who practices leaktivism.
Noun
leaktivist (plural leaktivists)
- Someone who advocates for a political cause by leaking secret information to the public; a person who practices leaktivism.
- According to the leaktivist collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) roughly 70 gigabytes of posts, private messages, profiles and plaintext passwords were obtained in the hack.2021 March 1, Chris Mills Rodrigo, “Fringe social media platform Gab hacked”, in The Hill, Washington, D.C.: Nexstar Media Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023
- Some comes from anonymous ‘leaktivists’, like the mole who released the Panama Papers in 2016, raising questions about the financial dealings of all sorts of people, from Putin’s friends and Xi Jinping’s brother-in-law to Mark Thatcher and several members of the Spanish royal family.2022, Ian Shircore, Conspiracy: History’s Greatest Cover-Ups and Unsolved Mysteries, London: John Blake Publishing, →ISBN, pages 5–6
Forms of leaktivist
| plural | leaktivists |
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Origin of leaktivist
Blend of leak + activist.
Questions about leaktivist
- What does leaktivist mean?
- Leaktivist means someone who advocates for a political cause by leaking secret information to the public; a person who practices leaktivism.
- What part of speech is leaktivist?
- Leaktivist is a noun.
- What is the plural of leaktivist?
- The plural of leaktivist is leaktivists.
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