"The Intercept" co-founder Glenn Greenwald criticized "The Daily Beast" for revealing Brooks' identity, saying on Twitter it was "repellent to unleash the resources of a major news outlet on an obscure, anonymous, powerless, quasi-unemployed citizen for the crime of trivially mocking the most powerful political leaders". "HuffPost" and "New York" contributor Yashar Ali also criticized "The Daily Beast" for revealing Brooks' identity, saying it "sets a really bad precedent when a private citizen has their identity publicly revealed simply because they made a video of a politician appearing to be drunk". "The Daily Wire" editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro said on Laura Ingraham's "The Ingraham Angle" on June 3 that "My impression was that if you are posting anonymously on Facebook, then it's not really within Facebook's purvey to start handing that information to media outlets, but I guess that isn't true".