Rainey Reitman is a civil liberties advocate and author who co-founded Freedom of the Press Foundation and has spent years examining how financial systems can be weaponized to silence speech. Rainey Reitman's Twitter Score is 20 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #49,207 among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Rainey Reitman co-founded Freedom of the Press Foundation, an organization that grew directly out of concerns over the financial blockade imposed against WikiLeaks, linking her press-freedom work to the broader problem of payment censorship. She also co-founded the Chelsea Manning Support Network and founded Groundwork Strategy. Her book "Transaction Denied," forthcoming from Beacon Press, examines how corporate financial policies carry real consequences for free expression.
Rainey Reitman previously worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation as Activism Director, where she wrote publicly about how a cryptocurrency provision in the U.S. infrastructure bill risked imposing surveillance requirements on blockchain developers and others who do not control digital assets. She also joined EFF colleagues in submitting comments opposing FinCEN proposed requirements for transactions involving convertible virtual currency and digital assets. She now serves as a special advisor to Electronic Frontier Foundation and sits on the board of the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, which uses the Filecoin network to preserve public-interest datasets and advance decentralized technologies.
Rainey Reitman has published 7,773 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 62 accounts a total of 208 times, reflecting sustained engagement from communities focused on digital rights, financial censorship, and open technology.
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