WIRED published a history of GrapheneOS based almost entirely on claims from someone thoroughly proven to be a serial fabricator, with no meaningful attempt to verify any of it. The post mentions they could have interviewed Dan McGrady, the third co-founder of Copperhead, or anyone who was around at the time, but simply did not. Giving a known liar that kind of platform to write history is an extreme editorial failure that damages actual journalism. Will any other outlet run a correction on this?

Looking at their article the journalist must be pretty dumb.

Then I got in touch with Micay himself—via LinkedIn, of all places. He declined my request for an on-the-record interview, citing safety concerns. I’ve since learned he’s 28 years old.

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Donaldson claims he first met Micay sometime between 2011 and 2013, when Micay joined Toronto Crypto, a small group that occasionally got together to talk cryptography over beers.

So Donaldson, this journalists main source they chose to follow, met a 13 year old in Toronto to discuss crypto over beers?

Here is the Wired article this is responding to.