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So I hear a lot of sentiment elsewhere on the web that Assange/WL at some point became just Russian propaganda assets. HN seems to see him as a sort of flawed h

• danieltillett 8y ago
  There has been a high level smear campaign run against Assange for many years so you can't really trust anything you read. On top of this I think Julian has gone crazy - hard not to when you are locked up indefinitely and they really are out to get you. At this point almost anything could be true.
• burk96 8y ago
  Wikileaks has been criticized for primarily leaking information from NATO aligned governments with a noticeable lack of Russian leaks. On top of that, during the 2016 election he supposedly had access to both the DNC emails and a set of RNC emails. Yet only the DNC emails were published. I don't know if either view is completely correct, it really is a manner of optics. If it is true that Assange has held back information on the Russian government or the RNC, this flaw would make sense from a survival standpoint for him. And even if he was doing it purely out of a survival strategy, would it not make him some sort of Russian asset in a bit of an abstract way?