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[–] DoYouNot@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (8 children)
[–] Shalakushka@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Assange got e-mails for both Republican and Democratic parties from a Russian hacker associated with the Kremlin and then specifically chose to withhold the Republican e-mails and release the Democratic e-mails. If he meant anything he said about transparency, he would have released everything, but that's not what he or his employers wanted. They wanted their puppet president in Trump, and Assange was happy to help like the Russian asset he is.

[–] ralphio@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why do people keep saying this? It doesn't even make sense. Why would the Russians give Assange the RNC emails if they didn't want them to be published? There is no evidence that I can find that the RNC emails were ever given to anyone.

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

That's because they didn't. What happened was someone subsequently released info about Russian corruption, and Wikileaks didn't publish it, citing the fact that Russian corruption was obvious and not newsworthy.

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