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Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages

posted by chromas on Wednesday August 01 2018, @01:31PM   
from the delete-this dept.

takyon writes:

Activist publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter direct messages

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 Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential elections. "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.

Why would they do that?

Clinton: I don't recall joking about droning Julian Assange

Oh.

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• Re:What is to be learned? Re:What is to be learned? (Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Wednesday August 01 2018, @04:00PM (1 child)

  by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday August 01 2018, @04:00PM (#715749)

  It just so happened that said Reuters journalist had been telling a different story about the Iraq War than the US military wanted to be told.

  This being "most of the legacy media" and all the international reporters, pretty much ANY journalist getting waxed would qualify

  To be more specific about this: This particular journalist was not part of the Pentagon's "embedding" program, which was all about showing the story the Pentagon wanted told to the folks back home. Propaganda aimed at the US public is in fact an essential aspect of US military strategy, because the Pentagon firmly believes that the reason they lost the Vietnam War is that the US public learned the truth about what was going on and stabbed them in the back, and they're determined to do everything in their power to prevent that from ever happening again.

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  The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.

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• Re:What is to be learned? (Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:31PM

  by VLM (445) on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:31PM (#716195)

  To be more specific about this: This particular journalist was not part of the Pentagon's "embedding" program

  Oh god thats even worse. At least embedded guys are "known" so "yo our cameraman is over there don't shoot him" is a thing. But now you got randos running around in unknown locations with cameras (and don't forget ISIS propaganda videos... we're not the only side with cameras)

  Its kinda like re-enactors at a civil war camp public event ARE snake in the grass tools of the imperialistic state, but at least the cops are expecting black powder rifle and pistol dudes wandering around, so they're unlikely to be shot despite being government collaborators. Some rando who likes the civil war running around dark alleys at 2am while attending an event during the day is gonna get shot by the cops if he's brandishing his 1855 civil war navy revolver in that dark alley. And its not because the cops are evil or guns are bad, its because the guy is a crazy risk taking lunatic.

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