Assessment: Raddle.me — Open-Source Assessment: Comparative Analysis and Implications

This assessment examines Raddle.me, an anarchist discussion platform, and the person who founded and administers it, known by the handle ziq. It sets the platform’s documented design, governance and conduct beside historical and contemporary cases of four kinds of operation:

platforms run or entered by intelligence or law-enforcement agencies;
informants and undercover officers inside political movements;
ideological or factional manipulation of online communities;
commercial and research collection of activist content.

The purpose is to establish which features Raddle shares with each kind and what those overlaps imply for users, for the movement network around the platform, and for anyone assessing the platform’s risk.

The information cut-off is 21 October 2026.

Key Judgments

	Judgment	Confidence
KJ1	Raddle is an openly marketed collection target, sold to police, immigration and military buyers since 2019	High
KJ2	A few administrators hold users’ identifying data and leave little trace themselves	High
KJ3	The operator has narrowed privacy promises, including on the day police sought user data	High
KJ4	Raddle is governed through undisclosed accounts, including a public admin name passed between five accounts	High
KJ5	The 2024 police request followed by a change of hands behind the admin name is a possible indicator of deliberate infiltration	Low to moderate
KJ6	Moderation protects the operators more than it suppresses talk of surveillance	High
KJ7	External collection is the best-documented state relationship; direction by a sponsor remains possible	Moderate / low
KJ8	The risks fall mainly on users and the movement network	High
KJ9	After being questioned in October 2026, the operator rewrote the rules and back-dated the record of the change	High / moderate