Cell Phone Data, Seth Rich, and the New York Times

In December of 2019, the New York Times wrote a special piece about the abuse of cell phone location data. They may have unwittingly been given evidence to the murder of Seth Rich

I wrote this twitter thread back in December of 2019. I had to use the web archive to save it, since Twitter purged conservative thinkers like me in early 2021 and erased this thread and many others that I wrote (some of which are archived here. )

The upshot is this: someone gave the NY Times a data set of cell phone location data that covered, among other places, the Washington DC area. It turns out that data set potentially covers the neighborhood where Seth Rich was killed, and based on the dates the NY Times mentioned, it could cover the night of the murder.

They may have the means to identify who was in the vicinity of Seth at the exact date and time he was killed, and where those near him went afterwards.

Do you suppose the NY Times followed through with proper investigative journalism with this data set?

Of course not. They used it to try to dirty up Trump. They still hold this data, by the way. It may reveal Seth’s killers.