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Drop Site Exposes Canary Mission's Top Content Producers
Drop Site said five American-born writers in Israel helped produce Canary Mission dossiers, deepening questions about the anonymous blacklist’s funding and operations.
On March 16, the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Canary Mission and StopAntisemitism, alleging a coordinated doxxing campaign designed to chill free speech and endanger safety.
Investigations confirmed that Israeli nonprofit Megamot Shalom operates Canary Mission, receiving millions in overseas funding including donations from American nonprofits explicitly earmarked for the site's operations.
StopAntisemitism claims over 400 of the 1,000 individuals it has doxxed were fired, while plaintiff Laila Ali lost her job after the group tagged her employer with coordinated harassment demands.
Department of Homeland Security officials used Canary Mission lists to investigate foreign students, though a federal judge ruled in January that such detention based on these anonymous blacklists revealed an "unconstitutional conspiracy" violating the First Amendment.
The pending class-action lawsuit serves as one of the first tests of Illinois' Civil Liability for Doxing Act, which aims to provide legal recourse for victims facing serious emotional distress, stalking, or economic injury from coordinated campaigns.