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Re:Getting Julian Assange: The Untold Story by tazjin on Sunday May 21, 2017 @07:29AM (#14386779)
The Fillon leaks were not from Wikileaks as far as I know.

Wikileaks Twitter shows that they linked to a search result for "Fillon" in their old releases, which they often do for current topics.

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Re:Getting Julian Assange: The Untold Story by raverbashing on Sunday May 21, 2017 @07:58AM (#14386881)
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/01/wikileaks-turns-its-att...

But what really did him in (I think) were the Canard Enchainé revelations

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Re:Getting Julian Assange: The Untold Story by tazjin on Sunday May 21, 2017 @09:03AM (#14387100)
That article says exactly what I said :)

They linked to search results - in fact for multiple (opposing) candidates - from their old leaks.

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Re:Getting Julian Assange: The Untold Story by raverbashing on Sunday May 21, 2017 @11:16AM (#14387657)
Ah I agree :) But it had some impact at the time
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