GrapheneOS1d ago
There are at least a dozen people spending at least several hours attacking GrapheneOS across platforms on a daily basis. It's a very strange situation. How do these people have so much time and dedication to keep making posts across platforms attacking us? It's relentless.
Show threadGrapheneOS1d ago

Every day, dozens of new accounts join our chat rooms to spread the same fabrications about GrapheneOS including via direct messages.

On Hacker News, one of the accounts making personal attacks based on fabrications in most threads about GrapheneOS has been doing it for 8 years.

Show threadGrapheneOS1d ago
Y Combinator has a financial stake in numerous surveillance and exploit development companies. Hacker News is a platform they own and the moderators on it have permitted years of vile harassment towards our team which they'd normally remove if others were targeted.
Show threadGrapheneOS1d ago
Hacker News mods micromanage it enough to repeatedly ask us not to reuse a bit of text across our comments. Meanwhile, they do nothing about disgusting personal attacks and harassment content consistently being spread in threads about GrapheneOS on their heavily moderated site.
Show threadGrapheneOS1d ago
The largest privacy community on Reddit /r/privacy bans any discussion or mentions of GrapheneOS. A bot automatically removes any post mentioning GrapheneOS they'll very actively ban people who evade their filters. The mods of the subreddit misrepresent this as something we want.
Show threadGrapheneOS1d ago
Many privacy subreddits have mods who are hostile towards GrapheneOS. We were banned from posting on /r/Android for multiple years. The mod who banned us said our official project account on Reddit was ban evading because they once unjustifiably banned one of our team members.
Show threadGrapheneOS1d ago
On Wikipedia, a company attacking GrapheneOS project made years of edits to the site pushing false narratives about us. They cited articles based on their own press releases. Other content was made paraphrasing Wikipedia which ended up being cited by it. It continues to this day.
Show threadXtreix1d ago

@GrapheneOS The French Wikipedia page for GrapheneOS is currently the only accurate one and I am one of the contributors, another community member started rewriting the page, and I joined in. I haven't contributed to the page in quite a while, but everything looks fine to me.

The US page is managed by people hostile to GrapheneOS, as you already know. If you change the content, a member will revert your edit. I’ve tried several times with no success, it’s deplorable.

Attacks from scammers and companies selling snake oil seem to have intensified since the collaboration with Motorola Mobility. It’s absurd how many trolls and malicious people I see on X, and it’s almost impossible to respond to them all. This social network is terrible, I’ve rarely seen so much violent content on a platform, fortunately, there are also people who support the project.

Show threadMike8h ago
@Xtreix
What kind of misinformation do you claim about the english Wiki page of GrapheneOS?
I've looked through a few edits and didn't find much that I would call malicious (other than one vandalism where Edward Snowden recommends Classic Amiga OS instead of GrapheneOS)
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Show threadGrapheneOS7h ago
@m1k3y @Xtreix It presents an inaccurate narrative about the origin of GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS was started in 2014. It's the direct continuation of the CopperheadOS project. We still have the original repositories from 2014 and 2015 on GitHub which are still relevant. It has an inaccurate narrative about our response to the massive escalated harassment towards Daniel in 2023 too. It's interpreting a primary source (incorrectly) which goes against Wikipedia policy and yet has been there for ages.
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@m1k3y @Xtreix Why is there a separate article for the original name of the GrapheneOS project which presents it as a product from a company and yet it predates the company existed and was renamed to GrapheneOS? It's because Copperhead heavily edited Wikipedia prior to their business collapsing due to us preventing them continuing to fork our code on a yearly basis. Copperhead made a fork of GrapheneOS in 2018, not the other way around. Wikipedia presents a false narrative from them.
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