Thread by @caitoz

Remember the time the Daily Mail ran an Assange smear featuring a photo of a clean bathroom and a dish he was actively using titled "ASSANGE INSIDE HIS FETID LAIR: REVEALED, THE FULL SQUALID HORROR THAT DROVE THE EMBASSY STAFF TO FINALLY KICK HIM OUT"?
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…

It just shows so much about the power of narrative. They took a picture of a COMPLETELY CLEAN BATHROOM and a plate he was LITERALLY PRESENTLY EATING OFF OF, and because they captioned it with "SQUALID HORROR" and "FETID LAIR" people actually believed it showed evidence of that.

Just click this link and scroll through all the people sharing the Daily Mail article on Twitter as though it shows evidence of Assange being a bad houseguest at the embassy:
twitter.com/search?q=https…

A clean bathroom. And a dish he was currently using. They're basically going "Look at Julian Assange. He EATS and POOPS. Isn't that DISGUSTING?? Have you ever thought about how DISGUSTING that is???"

And people bought it. They swallowed it hook, line and sinker. I had people in my mentions sharing that article at me like "Hurr hurr, looks like your guy is a bit of a disgusting pig." And it just showed normal living behavior, overlaid with narrative spin. That's all it was.

I love how they posted photos of normal stuff as evidence that he was smearing feces on the walls and leaving dirty underwear all over the embassy, like there wouldn't have been photos of that if it had actually happened. People are so very, very gullible.