Thread by @JimMoore1963

@abcnews That piece contains several errors, and repeats smears/slanders of #Assange that have been rebutted many times. The first paragraph and a half should have alerted you to fact-check.
Just because it was published first elsewhere doesn't absolve ABC of its editorial responsibility.

@abcnews Error 1: There were *no* Swedish charges, ever.
Error 2: JA sought and was granted Ecuadorian diplomatic protection to avoid extradition to the USA via Sweden.
Error 3: Manning already had access to the material she leaked. The password cracking was to try to cover her tracks.

@abcnews Error 4; It might be widely believed that WikiLeaks collaborated with Russia, but that's because media like the ABC keep widely repeating it. There is no proof and JA ans Russia deny it. Even USA tech experts believe it was an inside leak and not an outside hack.

@abcnews Error 5: WikiLeaks doesn't dump documents into the public domain without a rigorous editorial processes. The opposite is true. The one occasion WL did was only after The Guardian published the password to the unredacted docs in a book, and WL did to alert those named in the docs.

@abcnews Error 6: As I said above, ABC should've been alerted to question this article based on the first parahraph and a half.
A rudimentary search found this author made similar if not worse errors, smears and slanders in a 2017 article he wrote about Assange:
latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/…

@abcnews Error 7: #Assange wasn't ejected from.the Ecuadorian embassy, he was illegally arrested by UK police inside the embassy and forcefully carried out, after Ecuador had illegally rescinded his asylum.

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