Thread by @ElizabethleaVos

The @Guardian’s Reputation In Tatters After Forger Revealed To Have Co-Authored #Assange Smear

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"Regular followers of WikiLeaks-related news are at this point familiar with the multiple serious infractions of journalistic ethics by @lukeharding1968 and the #Guardian, especially (though not exclusively) when it comes to Julian #Assange and #WikiLeaks."

"However, another individual at the heart of this matter is far less familiar to the public. That man is @VillaFernando_, a prominent Ecuadorian political activist and journalist, director of the USAID-funded NGO Fundamedios and editor of online publication FocusEcuador."

Most readers are also aware of the Guardian’s recent publication of claims that #JulianAssange met with former Trump campaign manager #PaulManafort on three occasions. This has now been definitively debunked.

Fidel Narvaez, the former Consul at Ecuador’s London embassy between 2010 and 2018, who says #Manafort has never visited the embassy during the time he was in charge there.

This is in addition to the lack of record of such visits in the embassy logs, etc.
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In May, @DisobedientNews reported on the Guardian’s hatchet-job relating to ‘#OperationHotel,’ or rather, the normal security operations of the embassy under former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa.

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That hit-piece, co-authored by Harding and Dan Collyns, asserted among other things that (according to an anonymous source) Assange hacked the embassy’s security system.

The allegation was promptly refuted by Correa as “absurd” in an interview with The Intercept, and also by WikiLeaks as an “anonymous libel” with which the Guardian had “gone too far this time. We’re suing.”

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A shared element of The Guardian’s ‘#OperationHotel’ fabrications and the latest libel attempting to link Julian Assange to Paul Manafort is none other than Fernando #Villavicencio of FocusEcuador.

In 2014 Villavicencio was caught passing a forged document to the Guardian, which published it without verifying it. When the forgery was revealed, the Guardian hurriedly took the document down but then tried to cover up that it had been tampered with by Villavicencio.