If you read about how it was chosen it was elected by a community poll and they mentioned they didnt really verify anything. Yeah, ridiculous thing to do, but possible for a lib that doesnt know what bellingcat is, and they later apologized take it as you want, theyre obviously libs and the other alternatives arent any better, and are probably worse
you could always host your own mail of course but that has its own issues too, you obviously cant host your own vpn so the only option is tor which can be very messy to use regularly
lmfao the vamps name is phyre i jusrt cant