Julian Assange Blasts 'Neocon' Daily Beast, Mangles Facts

[DonViejo]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday attacked The Daily Beast over a story documenting how Venezuela and Russia teamed up to push pro-Catalan fake news, tweeting: “How to get your country’s fake news into the US: just say ‘Russia’. Example from the neocon Daily Beast. A brazen false allegation (left) claiming a study (right) shows 97% of tweeters about #Catalonia come from Russia+Venezeula. Study states the opposite.” But in fact, the study found—as the Daily Beast reported—that just 3 percent of social media messages about Catalonia at the height of the separatist conflict were posted by real profiles, and its author concluded that Russian media sites had used bots to “invade” the “digital conversation about a regional political crisis in Spain.”


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https://www.thedailybeast.com/julian-assange-blasts-neocon-daily-beast-mangles-facts

[hlthe2b]

1. I can not believe Assange was EVER able to gain support and defenders

here and on other progressive sites--when he first emerged on he scene. He's truly proven himself to be an abysmal figure.

[Nitram]

5. Assange fooled me. I saw him as a progressive hero, exposing government mistakes and bad policies.

Turns out it was all one-sided, designed to damage the US and empower Russia. But we couldn't know that in the early days when he was exposing coverups of crimes during the Bush administration's Iraq War.

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Assange can go take long walk off short pier. . .

just sayin'

[Docreed2003]

3. Assange has come to the opinion that he is untouchable

Remember when tons of folks were Assange apologists here??? Oh he was trying to expose America’s hypocrisy.....oh wikileaks is a bastion for
Truth! Call me skeptical or a cynic but I never bought into that horse crap. Assange is motivated first and foremost by what can benefit Assange!! I’m so thankful that the veil has finally fallen and his true motivations have been exposed. Newsflash to the “leftists” who have advocated for Assange and apologized for his bullshit for years: This Guy IS NOT OUR FRIEND, he’s not interested in making our country better...this sick sexual abusing fuck cares only for himself, his own well being, and his own self promotion!

[jberryhill]

4. Yup

[Initech]

6. Julian Assange can go eat a steaming bag of rancid dog shit.