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Getting dumps and sitting on them/grooming/timing releases during the election, their twitter jumping on the Sweden bashing bandwagon [1-3] (because Assange was accused of rape there?), linking back to old Prism dumps after Trump tweets about wiretapping after reading an Infowars "article" [4] and speculating about it [5], etc etc.

I'm not sure if he's buttering up the administration to get out of Ecuador, but regardless, I trusted Wikileaks when they were [input] -> check for mostly pertinent info/responsible leaking -> [output].

The concept of wikileaks is crucial to a democracy, I'm just not sure that Assange's current Wikileaks is that thing anymore.

[1] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/838287615929499648

[2] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/837686443329859585

[3] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/837269295797309441

[4] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/838298128419852288

[5] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/838648893436903424



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