Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext...
by echelon on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:16PM
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The last US presidential election cycle really soured public opinion on Assange.
After the Hillary email leaks, Democratic Party rhetoric turned against Assange. Many in the party hold him culpable for Trump's election.
I don't know if he was favoring one party or the other (as some Democrats purport), or if he was a Russian mouthpiece, or if he was just leaking the information that came to him unbeknownst to the state actors at play.
He lost a lot of the goodwill he built, and that put him in a very dangerous spot.
After the Hillary email leaks, Democratic Party rhetoric turned against Assange. Many in the party hold him culpable for Trump's election.
I don't know if he was favoring one party or the other (as some Democrats purport), or if he was a Russian mouthpiece, or if he was just leaking the information that came to him unbeknownst to the state actors at play.
He lost a lot of the goodwill he built, and that put him in a very dangerous spot.