‘We’re always watching’: Anonymous Knicks reporter shares story on MSG surveillance
Mar 28, 2019; New York, NY, USA; New York Knicks owner James Dolan reacts during the second half against the Toronto Raptors at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports In April, Investigative sports journalist Pablo Torre partnered with Wired’s Noah Schactman to publish a report that New York Knicks owner James Dolan was using Madison Square Garden’s security team to surveil the online activity of people who were critical of him across the country.
“There’s this one teenager in Colorado, who said something on Twitter, and [Madison Square Garden chief security officer John C. Eversole] and the Madison Square Garden security staff went into freak out mode, and they actually called the local cops on this kid,” Schactman said on Pablo Torre Finds Out. Knicks owner James Dolan reads your tweets, per sources inside his surveillance state—then MSG security will “freak the f— out” and call local cops on critics.
“They scared the crap out of some 14 year old kid in Colorado,” a staffer wrote, in one of dozens of texts we saw. pic. twitter.
com/EfmQxS6O2A — Pablo Torre Finds Out (@pablofindsout) April 17, 2026 Torre followed up his initial reporting on Friday’s episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out, and played a modulated recording of an anonymous Knicks beat reporter, which, if true, confirms Dolan’s surveillance tactics. “A few years back, I had a report, and then I get a call from the Knicks shortly after that. ‘I know who your source is.
’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t play guess-the-source,’ and the person is like, ‘I know this is your source. ’ “I asked, ‘Where is this coming from? Why are you so certain on this?