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## Better Sources About Anomaly Six

- Official site: https://www.anomalysix.com/ (practically nothing here)

- (The Intercept) https://theintercept.com/2022/04/22/anomaly-six-phone-tracki...

- (Court Case Filed against Anomaly Six by Babel Street) https://techinquiry.org/docs/A6-Babel-MoFo.pdf

- (WSJ) https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-government-contractor-embed... (article hidden behind paywall, explainer video at top of page is not)

- (Vice) https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vjxj/anomaly-6-six-special... (credit to OP for posting this in a comment)

Vice:

> Anomaly Six software lets its customers browse all of this data in a convenient and intuitive Google Maps-style satellite view of Earth. Users need only find a location of interest and draw a box around it, and A6 fills that boundary with dots denoting smartphones that passed through that area. Clicking a dot will provide you with lines representing the device’s — and its owner’s — movements around a neighborhood, city, or indeed the entire world.

WSJ:

> Anomaly Six LLC a Virginia-based company founded by two U.S. military veterans with a background in intelligence, said in marketing material it is able to draw location data from more than 500 mobile applications, in part through its own software development kit, or SDK, that is embedded directly in some of the apps. An SDK allows the company to obtain the phone’s location if consumers have allowed the app containing the software to access the phone’s GPS coordinates.

## Why The Grayzone may not be the best source:

- (Axios) https://www.axios.com/2020/08/11/grayzone-max-blumenthal-chi...

- (.coda) https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/grayzone-xinjiang-d...

- (The Grayzone top 12 stories in 2020) https://web.archive.org/web/20210129111336/https:/thegrayzon...

- (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/ad-aspi/2021-03/Stra...

Quotes from above article by ASPI (page 8):

> The Grayzone is one fringe news source, and its reach has been amplified by Chinese and Russian state-affiliated entities. Between December 2019 and February 2021, The Grayzone was cited in English at least 252 times in Chinese state-owned news outlets (the Global Times, CGTN and Xinhua) and a further 61 times in People’s Daily Online articles. Before December 2019, we could find no mentions of The Grayzone by Chinese media outlets in either English or Chinese. Peak total shares of The Grayzone articles on Twitter and Facebook also coincided with their amplification by Chinese state media outlets (Figure 6).

> The Grayzone’s top 12 stories of 2020 include accusations that Xinjiang forced labour stories are falsified by the US Government and the military–intelligence complex to drive a new Cold War (note: this included criticism of ASPI and the Center for Strategic and International Studies). The founders of The Grayzone have been interviewed by Chinese state media outlets, including the Global Times and CGTN, and have been featured on Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik Radio.