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A comment on Eric Schmidt's 2014 plan for Hillary's campaign via Wikileaks. Parent comment

Re:Eric Schmidt's 2014 plan for Hillary's campaign via Wikil... by davesque on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @05:51PM (#12850352)
He has a TV show on RT (https://www.rt.com/tags/the-julian-assange-show/), a Russian state-run news channel which is widely criticized as being a propaganda outlet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)#Propaganda_and...). That seems like a massive conflict of interest to me. I also don't imagine it would take very long for him to lose his show if he published any seriously damaging Russian leaks.
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Re:Eric Schmidt's 2014 plan for Hillary's campaign via Wikil... by tdb7893 on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @06:12PM (#12850564)
Yeah, I looked at the "America" section of the news site and it's very anti-America and very anti-Clinton. Having a show on there is concerning and looking at the descriptions for the episodes for the shows it looks like Assange really doesn't like the US government at all.

EDIT: I still don't think he's releasing these because of bias but I think he's very happy with the effect of the leaks that he has gotten

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