Re:Ola Bini, Swedish Software Developer with Ties to Assange...
by wybiral on Saturday April 13, 2019 @06:39PM
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> WikiLeaks rejects all submissions that it cannot verify. WikiLeaks rejects submissions that have already been published elsewhere or which are likely to be considered insignificant.
They published the PizzaGate conspiracy theory.
Re:Ola Bini, Swedish Software Developer with Ties to Assange...
by jm4 on Saturday April 13, 2019 @07:15PM
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They didn’t produce that story. It came from emails in the Podesta dump. Several of them were about “pizza” and other food items and they were very, very strange. They did not seem to be talking about food. In one of those there was a reference to different color handkerchiefs and one with a map on it. It appeared to be some sort of code speak because no one normal uses the English language the way those emails do. From there, some internet detective produced an alleged list of pedophile code words that included colors and foods and there was some overlap with some of the strangest emails in the dump. Then, someone alleged a link with a famous DC pizza joint.
Re:Ola Bini, Swedish Software Developer with Ties to Assange...
by wybiral on Saturday April 13, 2019 @07:24PM
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They put the conspiracy theory on their site [1], not just the emails. It says "speculative" now, but it's there.
Why don't they put all speculative stories related to candidates on their site?
From your article:
"“As far as we recall these are already public,” WikiLeaks wrote at the time.
"WikiLeaks rejects all submissions that it cannot verify. WikiLeaks rejects submissions that have already been published elsewhere or which are likely to be considered insignificant. WikiLeaks has never rejected a submission due to its country of origin,” the organization wrote in a Twitter direct message when contacted by FP about the Russian cache."
"A WikiLeaks spokesperson told the Daily Dot that no emails were removed from what the organization published. The spokesperson also suggested the Daily Dot was “pushing the Hillary Clinton campaign’s neo-McCarthyist conspiracy theories about critical media.”"