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Julian Assange: ‘When You Read a Newspaper Article, You Are Reading Weaponized Text’
breitbart ^ | LUCAS NOLAN

Posted on 02/21/2017 5:08:21 AM PST by davikkm

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange recently discussed the topic of “fake news” and how WikiLeaks’ pure data-driven approach has prevented them from becoming “weaponized text.” CNET reports that Assange appeared via video-link in a discussion with Australian comedian Chas Licciardello in Sydney, Australia this week. During the interview, Assange discussed the idea of “fake news” and how WikiLeaks’ refusal to editorialize their content and rather provide pure data to the public has allowed them to publish facts without bias.

“What is special about WikiLeaks is that it’s not just another damn story,” said Assange, “it’s not just another damn journalist putting their damn byline, advertising themselves and their position on another damn story.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 4thestate5thcolumn; assange; fakenews; newspaper
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1 posted on 02/21/2017 5:08:21 AM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm

Vault 7..??


2 posted on 02/21/2017 5:13:46 AM PST by gaijin
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To: davikkm

When just about every member of the establishment across the world wants to get rid of Assange (preferably kill him, you know-—Hillary with her Drone comment), we have to seriously question their allegations about him. We owe Assange a lot——he revealed information about crooked Hillary in time to make the correct decision at the polls in November 2016. God bless Julian Assange!


3 posted on 02/21/2017 5:22:32 AM PST by davikkm
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To: gaijin

What exactly does your comment, if it can rightly be called that, even mean?


4 posted on 02/21/2017 5:23:27 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: davikkm
"When You Read a Newspaper Article,..."

Mark Twain: "If you do not read the newspapers, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you are misinformed".

Will Rogers: "The problem ain't the things we don't know. The problem is the things we know that just ain't so".

5 posted on 02/21/2017 5:24:57 AM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
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To: All
Trump's DOJ needs to investigate this:

ITEM---Journalists Dined at Top Clinton Staffers Homes
Days Before Hillary's announcement of her candidacy

Wikileaks via Breitbart ^ | October 17 2016 | Ezra Dulis / FR Posted by grey_whiskers

ITEM..... Several top journalists and TV news anchors RSVPed “yes” to attend a private, off-the-record gathering at the New York home of Joel Benenson, the chief campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton, two days before she announced her candidacy in 2015, according to emails Wikileaks published from John Podesta’s accounts.

ITEM---The guest list for an earlier event at the home of John Podesta was limited to reporters who were expected to cover Clinton on the campaign trail. --snip--

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ITEM---Wikileaks revealed earlier that late night talk host Stephen Colbert, and his team at Comedy Central, were making TV episodes at the request or order of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) back in April of 2013.

So, viewers thought they were vote-smart because they’re informed by a comedian, yet same said comedian was doing Hillary’s bidding the whole time.

ITEM----I hope talk hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Maher, Seth Myers, Trevor Noah and Conan O’Brien have their lawyers on retainer and speed dial.

ITEM....because if the Trump Administration uncovers that the DNC and the Clintons were directly working with any member of media and their writing staff during the 2016 Presidential election, they could be charged with violating Federal election laws.

6 posted on 02/21/2017 5:33:05 AM PST by Liz (Coulters La: the MSM's delay in reporting a perp means the less likely its a white Christian)
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To: davikkm

The media are ministers of propaganda.


7 posted on 02/21/2017 5:38:29 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Love your neighbor as you love yourself.)
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To: davikkm

He’s right.

We were all supposed to remain asleep in 2016.

Instead we elected Trump.

500 newspapers supported Hillary.

They were all WRONG!

The purpose of journalism today is not to report, but to mold opinion.

And mold it to the shapes dictated the Deep State.

IF you told me this 20 years ago, I would have thought you to be nuts.

Now I know it is the truth.

That is why sites like FreeRepublic are so important.

Otherwise the propaganda would be unopposed.

If Goebbels were alive today, he would be delighted.


8 posted on 02/21/2017 5:53:33 AM PST by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: davikkm

Assange is correct. Modern warfare is electronic, cyber, and psychological operations. Psy-ops spreads misinformation via media and social outlets

This is what’s going on...the media and fifth column have declared war on the United States.


9 posted on 02/21/2017 6:01:40 AM PST by ryderann
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To: Liz

    Read #6 again and memorize those items.


10 posted on 02/21/2017 6:03:41 AM PST by ptsal
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To: davikkm
Wikileaks Is 'Very Happy' About Fake News: Julian Assange

"The Wikileaks founder is scathing about the "weaponised text" of the global news media, but when it comes to fake news and scandal, Julian Assange has a different view."

11 posted on 02/21/2017 7:06:15 AM PST by blam
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We should come to the US for Free Speeck and the Freedoms of the Press. Yea right!


12 posted on 02/21/2017 7:08:02 AM PST by keving (We the People)
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To: davikkm

We should come to the US for Free Speech and the Freedoms of the Press. Yea right!w


13 posted on 02/21/2017 7:08:27 AM PST by keving (We the People)
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To: exit82
"IF you told me this 20 years ago, I would have thought you to be nuts."

Click on my name and see the bumper sticker on the left side of my truck, it's been there for sixteen years. Thanks for joining the battle.

14 posted on 02/21/2017 7:08:47 AM PST by blam
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To: davikkm; WildHighlander57; LucyT; SE Mom; Qiviut

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3527300/posts?page=5#5

Well, here’s a little interesting reading until/if Wiki posts something:

TRANSCRIPT: FBI Insider Offers New Info/Data On 4Chan
Posted on February 20, 2017 by State of the Nation
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=66615

“Vault 7 refers to the FBI data vault containing information about the 7th floor group. This data vault is currently only accessible via direct personal access. It is literally a server room in a bomb/electromagnetic proof vault with zero outside access connections.”

More at the link.

5 posted on 2/20/2017, 9:01:11 PM by Qiviut


15 posted on 02/21/2017 7:13:31 AM PST by maggief
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To: blam

Hi,blam!

Nice dogs.


16 posted on 02/21/2017 7:13:39 AM PST by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: maggief

My, my, my...


17 posted on 02/21/2017 7:26:56 AM PST by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: maggief; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; TWhiteBear; WildHighlander57; Velveeta; Sal; ...

Julian Assange: ‘When You Read a Newspaper Article, You Are Reading Weaponized Text’

Article, # 3 , # 6, # 15 , and other comments.

Thanks, Maggie.

18 posted on 02/21/2017 3:32:33 PM PST by LucyT
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To: LucyT; little jeremiah; stephenjohnbanker; TigersEye; Fred Nerks; 2ndDivisionVet

‘When You Read a Newspaper Article, You Are Reading Weaponized Text’>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes. Weaponized text is now known as “fake news.”

But its real name is propaganda. Much of it jingoistic, liberal fascist utopian tripe.

I have been waiting for more than 20 years for the world to end according to the Chicken Little schools of liberal utopian fascism. Now it is THEIR sick little world that is at an end, and so they mean to plague us further.

The country is fed up with them. Soon they will be getting their ideological , supercilious arses kicked from here to hell and gone.And that will not be too soon.

In particular, Chuck the Schmuck Shumer’s new role as the Torquemada of the Liberal Fascist Inquisition party’s Senate Star Chamber, is about to be whacked. I look forward to seeing that. I carefully watch Senate Leader McConnell’s smooth sneak up on them technique.We saw a little of it when he nailed Elizabeth Warren, and that’s where it will begin.Justy give them enough rope.


19 posted on 02/21/2017 3:49:27 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: LucyT; SE Mom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y0aaq-5noM

FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Testifies that FBI is in Possesion of Dennis Hastert Rape Videos


20 posted on 02/22/2017 6:06:25 AM PST by maggief
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