Activist publishes 11,000 WikiLeaks Twitter direct messages
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Activist publishes 11,000 WikiLeaks Twitter direct messages
The messages show that WikiLeaks wanted the GOP to defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
An activist has published 11,000 direct messages on Twitter between the WikiLeaks account and a group of its supporters.
The direct messages were published by Emma Best on her own website. Her Twitter account states that she is a journalist on the East Coast. Best has been critical of WikiLeaks and has advocated for government transparency.
Some of the direct messages were previously published, but this is the first time all of the direct messages have been posted.
The messages show that WikiLeaks wanted the GOP to defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
"We believe it would be much better for the GOP to win," the WikiLeaks account states to a supporter named "Emmy B" in one of the messages from 2015.
Another Twitter message from the WikiLeaks account describes Clinton as a "bright, well-connected, sadistic sociopath."
WikiLeaks had been accused of bias against Democrats during the presidential race because of its release of hacked documents from the Democratic National Committee.
Critics believe that the documents released by the group were consistently helpful to President Trump 's campaign.
Best said in an exchange with the website Motherboard that she released the messages because she wanted to show how WikiLeaks was working with other online entities to shape public discussions.
“The idea was that the attitudes and behavior of WL [Wikileaks] behind closed doors is relevant, especially their coordination of PR, propaganda and troll ops through assets that are public supporters but not publicly known to take cues from WL," Best told Motherboard in a Twitter direct message.
Micah Lee, a technologist and journalist at The Intercept, confirmed to Motherboard the veracity of the message repository that Best published, saying that the cryptographic hash on her file matched his.
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Wikileaks has lost all credibility. I remember it's beginnings and so many people thought it would be a force for good.
I think the cause was always to foment anarchy. Assange has an anarchist background.
Now some people believe Wikileaks is in league with Putin.
I wonder who runs them now. Who is actually behind all of it.
Assange can't do it all on his own being locked in an embassy.
Funny it says in the article that they are going to kick him out soon and he will have to find another place to go.
Ecuador cut off his internet access in March. He's persona non grata in the embassy and they're now trying to evict him.
That's not so easy to do after the previous president of Ecuador had granted him asylum. But since that time Ecuador has learned that Assange has seriously abused their generosity and hacked the embassy computers.
Nice link. It seems Ecuador is getting tired of him.
Unsustainable. They will cut him off.
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