About this Site

Sections

• What is this site?
• What is Canary Mission?
• What BlackNest reveals
• Source attribution
• Who are we?

What is this site?

This is a reproduction of BlackNest, one of several secret websites operated by Canary Mission. BlackNest was discovered by a collective investigating Canary Mission.

At the time of access, BlackNest was completely accessible for public viewing. It was first hidden behind a firewall, then, likely in response to reporting, completely taken down. It's possible it was moved elsewhere rather than deleted outright.

Claude LLM was extensively used by the Shefing group (led by Philippe Cohen) in creating this site. While we tried to faithfully preserve the sloppy (and in-progress) nature of BlackNest with this reproduction, we found it important to clean and fix up parts of the website for usability. Some parts of the website like the cards on the homepage are therefore attached to their relevant components (e.g. the Training card on the homepage leads the viewer to the Training page). When originally accessed, BlackNest was quite unusable and filled with irrelevant templates (AI slop) that have been weeded out for this release.

We believe that BlackNest exists as a marketing tool for Canary Mission's team to show off the doxxing operation's impacts. We believe its audience is, at least in part, Canary Mission donors. BlackNest also serves as an onboarding hub for new employees.

The existence of BlackNest was first reported by journalist Jacqueline Sweet at Drop Site News on January 6, 2025.

What is Canary Mission?

Canary Mission is a doxxing operation run from Israel, by Israelis, in the service of Israel's national interests. Although Canary Mission gestures toward caring about real anti-Semitism by publishing profiles of e.g. actual Nazis on the rarest of occasions, they mostly focus their operations on anyone that dares criticize Israel for the genocide and apartheid it has enacted on the Palestinian people. This is by design: Canary Mission wants to conflate anti-Semitism with pro-Palestinian speech; it wants to squash the two together, to make it so that employers, school administrators, funders, and others can't easily see the difference and don't bother to engage. Having one's picture appear next to that of an avowed Nazi for the grave offense of exercising political speech sows fear in critics of Israel and human rights defenders. It silences people. The result is a cultural shift. Canary Mission "Attack[s] The Messenger, Not The Message" to ultimately "[Use] Individuals to take down orgs" (read more about Canary Mission's goals in their marketing PDF).

The operation is professionalized and corporatized. The employees work from Sunday to Thursday (Israeli schedule), meet near-daily, and get paid for doxxing (or "creating content" as they call it) ~$50,000-$80,000 a year USD. The work consists of digitally stalking people who express political speech half a world away — digging up their years-old social media posts, scouring grade-school yearbooks to confirm citizenship statuses, locating victims' family members to understand the best tactics for silencing their target, and so on.

Examples of Canary Mission's digital stalking process

This is an anonymized image of a Canary Mission's doxxing victim's gradeschool yearbook. The victim's name is underlined in red by a doxxer. Canary Mission digs up years-old data for their digital stalking campaigns.

This screenshot shows one doxxer's notes about a student they were in the process of doxxing.

This screenshot shows one doxxer's notes about someone they were in the process of doxxing. It marks them as a 'foreign national'

This is an image showing digging for the identity of a targetted individual's parents.

Here are two instances in which doxxers worried about their target coming across as too pretty or sympathetic.

The organization:

• creates and maintains public profiles targeting individuals for their political speech.
• is used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to target people for detention in ICE camps and deportation. Canary Mission is very proud of this.
• operates with pseudonymous, paid staff, some of whom we have been able to name.
• is based in Israel.

What BlackNest reveals

• "Company Impacts" - tracks deportations, firings, arrests, and "change of behavior" as success metrics
• "Company Impacts – Claude" - an older version of company impacts, seemingly retired in favor of the newer version (above).
• Team Resources (click "VTO" and then on the strategic goals for Q2) - outlines company goals and methods.
• Content Strategy - outlines goals, weekly focus areas, and tracks campaign statuses and team KPIs (Key Performance Indicators).
• Content Strategy Weekly Schedule - Shows a weekly schedule beginning on Sunday and ending on Thursday (coinciding with the workweek in Israel). Meetings held during the workday.
• Active Campaigns - Documents targeting of universities including MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and Dartmouth

For a complete inventory of extracted pages, see the sitemap.

Source attribution

Who are we?