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“Julian has been indicted for receiving, possessing and communicating information to the public of evidence of war crimes committed by the U.S. government,” his wife, Stella Assange, said. “Reporting a crime is never a crime.”

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Working with the russians at Russian Today (a known propagandist channel) is not a crime, but it shows everything you need to know about Assange.

Assange is a piece of shit hypocrite. He was more into the aesthetic qualities of being an "anti-US contrarian" as opposed to a journalist (real journalists don't work at Russia Today) or a human rights activist (Assange definitely doesn't care about the millions whose lives were ruined by the russians).

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

If assange wanted everyones support, he shouldnt have made his outlet so crazily right wing.

It started out more neutral, but when you do things like not release the RNC emails after releasing DNC emails, then youre agenda is clear and youre not the "pure source of information" or whatever he thought he was

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Well, to be fair, his biggest leak was probably about the Iraq war, which was an RNC adventure. Though as time went on, it did seem that he started to align with Kremlin social media campaigns.

It's impossible to tell if this was because he always was working with them as sources or if he was driven to Russia as an out due to being hunted by the west.