In relation to the Intercept's article today (see thread):
- the editorial propriety of letting Micah F Lee, of all people, instrumentalize the Intercept to further his obsessive, obscenity laden campaign against WikiLeaks must be questioned. Lee was formally behind cutting off WikiLeaks' US tax deductible donations.
- after I wrote to the FPF board last year on that serious subject, Lee has become hysterical. The conflict of interest is obvious. Such a story should have been given to someone else. By failing to do so the story's credibility has been marred.
- here is the letter to the board on the financial threat to WikiLeaks together with the full context (as you expect and love from us) pastebin.com/raw/qnB5gMam
- the fragments referencing Lee are below, but I do recommend reading the whole letter. Bonus for John Perry Barlow fans.
- the fragments referencing Lee are below, but I do recommend reading the whole letter. Bonus for John Perry Barlow fans.
WikiLeaks cannot confirm any Twitter supporter group messages
- @WikiLeaks does not retain such messages
- WikiLeaks has not been contacted by the authors
- the article claims the group was a "low security group" for "supporters" and was not set up by WikiLeaks.
- @WikiLeaks does not retain such messages
- WikiLeaks has not been contacted by the authors
- the article claims the group was a "low security group" for "supporters" and was not set up by WikiLeaks.
- there are dozens of such groups, full of people's freewheeling banter and quips, but even the funniest do not represent editorial policy.
- the @WikiLeaks account is run by a rotating staff as has been repeatedly stated over the years: twitter.com/search?f=tweet…
- basic fact checking would have shown this. another example: the article uses messages from late Oct 2016 when I infamously had no internet access.
- basic fact checking would have shown this. another example: the article uses messages from late Oct 2016 when I infamously had no internet access.
Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks mintpressnews.com/fbi-whistleblo…
On Poitras newsweek.com/wikileaks-atto…
- the article changes the context of its quotes even compared to the clearly highly selective claimed excerpts Lee placed on Document Cloud: documentcloud.org/documents/4378…
