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"He's being punished because he did the right thing" - Stella Assange speaking to the Luxembourg Parliament on the persecution of Julian Assange (odysee.com)

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Stella Assange speaking to the Luxembourg Parliament on the persecution of Julian Assange

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[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Essentially their policy of leaking everything and anything tended to mostly apply to the US and allies of the US. This would then expose collaborators in places like Belarus and place their lives in danger. Wikileaks would say this was in the name of transparency. However in cases where they were dealing with information being leaked from Russia they would be more careful to editorialize the leaks and protect identities.

Then, aside from that, Assange partook in activities that completely deviated from journalistic protocol and entered the territory of espionage. In particular dealing with the case of chealsea manning, in her communications with Assange, Assange actively aided Chelsea in ways to access restricted information in a way that broke the law. Russian asset or not, that's a big nono.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Manning's account should reasonably be called into question, not least because she refused to testify against Assange in 2019 (and was subsequently jailed for 10 months and fined a quarter million).

WikiLeaks' audience has always been primarily English-speaking, as such their focus is going to be on news related to English-speaking countries. While you're drawing a difference between two different countries, that could just as easily be explained by a difference in time - people criticised them for their releases in Belarus as being careless and putting lives at risk, so with their later releases around Russia they were more careful.

I just feel like you never would have this impression if you'd just read WikiLeaks' publications, press releases and social media posts, as well as any other sources on the topics they cover, rather than reading articles about WikiLeaks itself. You would only think WikiLeaks is pro-Russia if you follow a pre-constructed narrative and frame the evidence in a particular way. It's very murky overall, but I don't think that viewpoint lines up objectively.