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Re:Julian Assange Is Free by A1kmm on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @06:31PM (#40794439)
Wikileaks has also leaked things the Russian political establishment almost certainly doesn't like, e.g. https://wikileaks.org//spyfiles/russia/.

Apparently Wikileaks were given documents that had already leaked elsewhere before and refused to publish them because their purpose is novel leaks, not repeating leaks from elsewhere. That has been spun into a narrative that they refused leaks because they are biased, without much evidence.

When there are a lot of disingenuous arguments like this being made to discredit someone that turn out to be unreasonable once you dig a little deeper, like we see with Wikileaks and Assange, it generally is a strong suggestion someone is trying to manipulate people into believing a false narrative.

Re:Julian Assange Is Free by mullingitover on Friday June 28, 2024 @02:40PM (#40823680)
We knew the US wasn't happy with Assange when he landed in prison.

You know that Russia isn't happy with someone when they end up dead. If the Russian files that Wikileaks published didn't make Russia happy, Assange would be in a box right now, and not headed home.

Re:Julian Assange Is Free by teddyh on Friday July 05, 2024 @07:51AM (#40881921)
So, because Assange is not dead, he must be a “proxy Russian foreign intelligence operation”?