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13 Oct, 7 tweets, 4 min read
Hey @netflix you wouldn't happen to be launching a propaganda operation about WikiLeaks three days before Julian Assange's court date on October 27th, would you?
I ask because it really seems like you are launching a propaganda operation about WikiLeaks three days before Julian Assange's court date on October 27th.
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I mean I guess maybe it could be a coincidence that you @netflix are launching a 130-minute smear job on Julian Assange three days before a crucial court date for Julian Assange. That's why I thought I'd ask.
Because I think if I wanted to launch a propaganda operation about Julian Assange three days before his court date on October 27th, I'd probably choose one so aggressively hostile that WikiLeaks had to publish a shot-by-shot refutation of it in 2013:
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The advantage to using that 2013 film to advance a smear campaign against Julian Assange ahead of a crucial court date would be that it works: it changes people's opinion of Assange and makes them despise him.
That is to say, it would be an advantage if your intention is to hurt public opinion of Julian Assange in the nation whose government is trying to extradite him immediately prior to a crucial date in that very extradition trial. But surely that is not your intention, @netflix?

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