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[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

How is he a Russian spy?

Wiki leaks are published for all to view, not just Russia.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn’t characterize him as a Russian spy, more of an asset. Wikileaks selectively released information rather than being the safe harbor for all intelligence leaks that they purported to be.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago

I don't agree with the root comment, but Wikileaks has repeatedly ignored leaks of Russian classified info and many of their sources appear to be Russian Intelligence.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

GRU basically runs WikiLeaks.

[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Lmao. I wasn't born yesterday. There's been years of news on this. That's an extremely poor attempt at gaslighting.

[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There's been years of propaganda on this.

A guy embarrasses the richest and most powerful people in the world by telling you the dirty secrets they were hiding from you. And when they tell you that it's the messenger who's the enemy, you believe them SMH.

If you're against wikileaks, you're against the rights of journalists and you're opposed to the freedom of information.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Nope. If NYT wants to publish stuff about warrantless wiretapping that's fine. More power to them.

WikiLeaks edited video and text content from day 1. The US Army caught them out several times by just releasing the full video. They didn't even try with the DNC emails, they put sensational headers on them had nothing to do with what was written in the email. Then there's the revelations of the GOP and RUS hacks which somehow have yet to see the light of day.

So yeah after that fumbling attempt at creating propaganda it wasn't exactly a surprise to find out the Russian GRU were essentially running the site by the mid 2010's. Assange went beyond journalism and into foreign agent territory when he edited his stuff out of truthfulness and selectively released documents to influence American politics.

So no you don't get to tie him to investigative journalism like the Panama Papers.