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Sep 27, 2018 12 tweets 3 min read
Amazing series of libels in the Daily Mail and others (seemingly coming from bad journalism at AP and the Guardian, some the mail's own invention) . We go through them as a lesson in why people detest the press (thread) 1/
@Geordie_Greig @geordiegreig Here is the article. First of note what is missing. That the UN has twice ruled that the UK is in violation of international law and must free and compensate Assange. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty, etc. also. 2/ justice4assange.com dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6….
Sep 8, 2018 5 tweets 2 min read
Lessons learned for Amnesty's statement. AI, which is HQ'd in UK had been bizarrely silent compared to rivals @HRW, etc Supporters made many complaints and moved to protest at regional offices e.g Australia. Bolder new Amnesty leadership @kuminaidoo appointed August 1. Since March 31 Assange's legal team had made an explicit effort to encourage supporters to make 'human rights'' groups (specifically Amnesty) live up to their claimed principles (rather than their government funding). Many did, including #Unity4J.
Mar 22, 2018 13 tweets 4 min read
There is something very odd about the Joseph Mifsud story and the role of the UK in the 2016 US presidential election:
(thread) 1/ Boris Johnson met with Misfud on 19 Oct 2017 (Politico) politico.eu/article/boris-…

But who's the guy on the right?
Mar 2, 2018 5 tweets 2 min read
Here's NBC fake news reporter Ken Delanian pushing claimed Mueller innuendo about WikiLeaks. Delanian launched the fake news story about WikiLeaks and Donald Trump Jr. Previously disowned by LA Times after he was caught letting CIA approve his drafts The failure to discipline Delanian for proven cases of fake news after his previous outing as a CIA collaborator is effectively Operation Mocking Everyone, NBC. carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_a…
Feb 18, 2018 6 tweets 2 min read
Buried in the Mueller astro-turfing indictment is something that we have long suspected. The Internet Research Agency's "troll farm" is geared to develop audience in socially active communities (e.g through aligned memes), in order to spam them on behalf of anyone willing to pay: Before advertising networks can advertise they must build audience. How much of IRA's activities were simply trying to build audience by gaining followers using tweets and memes likely to be shared in those communities?
Feb 14, 2018 10 tweets 4 min read
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.
Feb 7, 2018 6 tweets 2 min read
The ever credible Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny:

Received an email from the FBI about me.
Totally can't remember what it contained.
Deleted all copies.

Video in English and Swedish: