Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder more accustomed to publishing others’ secrets, has apparently become the subject of a new leak that shows him favoring the Republican Party a year before Donald Trump was elected. In a private Twitter chat group, Assange called Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton a “bright, well-connected, sadistic sociopath” and said, “We …
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A British judge has upheld the outstanding arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange despite his requests last month for it to be dropped. Judge Emma Arbuthnot dismissed calls from Assange’s lawyers at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court, saying, “I am not persuaded the warrant should be withdrawn,” Bloomberg reports. Julian Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London …
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WikiLeaks tweeted on Sunday and later deleted a link to Michael Wolff’s book about US President Donald Trump’s first year in office. The link leads to a PDF stored in Google Drive, which includes the entire text of “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” a new book about the president that Trump dismissed last week as a “pile …
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Sweden has dropped a rape investigation against Julian Assange, potentially paving the way for the WikiLeaks founder to finally leave self-imposed exile. Prosecutors began investigating Assange in 2010. Two years later, he sought sanctuary in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and has lived in the tiny building ever since. In that time, WikiLeaks has continued to release classified information, prompting …
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Think the CIA is the only government agency that could be listening in? Governments the world over are playing the “fear card” with their citizens, pushing through “extremely intrusive” surveillance laws that are a major threat to privacy. That’s the verdict of the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to privacy, Joseph Cannataci, who has released a scathing report …
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“What is special about WikiLeaks is that it’s not just another damn story, it’s not just another damn journalist putting their damn byline, advertising themselves and their position on another damn story.” That’s the assessment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who appeared in Sydney over the weekend (albeit via video link) for a wide-ranging discussion on the failings of modern …
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Got climate data? Worried the new US president might want to vaporize it? WikiLeaks says it’s ready to help. As scientists and others ponder the possibility of President Donald Trump’s administration removing climate data stored on US government websites, Julian Assange & Co. took to Twitter on Wednesday to offer WikiLeaks as an alternative spot for publication. “Do you have …
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Samsung is ready to reveal some more details on why its Galaxy Note 7 have been exploding, but there’s a bigger mystery at hand: Why are so many people still using the potentially fiery phones? Verizon reported that thousands of its customers could still be holding onto their Galaxy Note 7 devices, even after Samsung held a worldwide recall and …
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President Obama’s farewell speech dominated Twitter and Facebook feeds Tuesday night, and when the dust settled, one question was still on people’s minds: #WheresSasha? The younger first daughter was missing from the address in Chicago, leaving many to wonder where she was instead. White House officials gave an answer that would make parents proud and students groan. Social Cues is …
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Twitter is pouncing on another typo in Donald Trump’s tweets. In mid-December, there was “unpresidented” when Trump meant “unprecedented.” On Wednesday, the president-elect misspelled the name of WikiLeaks’ founder in a rather interesting way. Social Cues is our look at what’s trending across social media. Here’s what people are talking about on Twitter and Facebook this Wednesday: Julian Assuage: While …
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