Isis later claimed responsibility for the massacre, carried out by US citizen Omar Mateen.
WachulaGhost started targeting Twitter accounts that supported Isis, feeling that someone needed to “stand up” to the group.
His activities - and those of his Anonymous-affiliated cohorts - have been widely celebrated as stories of their successes appear online.
WachulaGhost claims to have gained access to more than 250 social media accounts affiliated with Isis supporters and sympathisers - and has received threatening messages as a result of his efforts, which generally entail filling the accounts with rainbow flags, pro-LGBT+ messages, images of gay pornography and links to porn sites.
Speaking to CNN last year, he said. “I get beheading images… death threats. ‘We’re going to kill you’ and that’s good because if they are focusing on me they are not doing anything else."
“We started to take over their accounts with porn and gay pride images basically just to troll them. We thought that putting the naked images would offend them."
WachulaGhost works with other hackers who coordinate their attacks on extremist accounts - and he believes the social platforms should be doing more to combat hate speech.
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“If the social media people like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram would stand up and do something it would help.
“Sometimes you have to stand up and make a change for the good.”
WachulaGhost says he can generally gain access to the accounts in under a minute, thanks to Isis supports' limited technical abilities.
“One thing I do want to say is we aren’t using graphic porn and our purpose is not to offend Muslims," he added.
“Our actions are directed at Jihadist extremists. Many of our own [group of hackers] are Muslim and we respect all religions that do not take innocent lives.”
/The Telegraph/
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