The WikiLeaks AMA is now live at Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5c8u9l/we_are_the_wikileaks_staff_despite_our_editor/

by rahrahrah • 10 years ago

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goshx• 10 years ago

It seems to me they are shooting themselves in the foot with this AMA.

The person answering the question is showing a lot of contradictions in how they don't think anyone should control information and then goes and say they control how and when to release stuff for maximum impact.

That's pretty scary because it shows that they can manipulate what is to be released or not, depending on their own interests.

Like claiming they don't have a goal to support a candidate but made sure to time the release of stuff against Hillary for "maximum impact". That's BS.

rahrahrah• 10 years ago

There's more. That person said that WikiLeaks doesn't know who their sources are, but in an interviews Julian Assange said that their Podesta source wasn't Russian. They can't really check that they're not Russian if they don't know who they are. I'm not saying it's relevant for the content of the e-mails, but it's relevant to judge what WikiLeaks' agenda really is.

But you know, what I take from this is that WikiLeaks is just another publisher. Like any publisher you can't take what they say mindlessly. This means that, so what if WikiLeaks just publishes according to their own interests? You should remind yourself of that. It doesn't detract from the fact that the things they're publishing are true and relevant.

nisa• 10 years ago

It seems to me they are shooting themselves in the foot with this AMA.

Honestly they are doing this quite effectively for a while now. I'm in support of their cause and I think they got a lot of unwarranted hate against them and they likely don't cooperate with Russia and the leaks are legit (this was also proven due to DKIM signatures), but:

Whoever is in charge is their Twitter account is an idiot. They pandered clearly to the Trump/Alt-Right crowd in a lot of tweets that were clearly partisan. They retweeted Alt-Right accounts and rode happily on the hate train. Some tweets were either stupid or deliberate unclear like that Tweet citing Clinton talked to Jews - likely someone just shortened the name of that Jewish Charity Organisation to which the talk in question was given but the impact and harm was done.

They should know how this works and they could have kept a lot more distanced and calm in their communications. That they didn't manage to do that is a valid reason for some of the hate and criticism they got.

The media just looked at their Twitter and saw partisan cheering and often unclear statements.

I support their cause, but they really harmed - or better: destroyed their public reputation in this election.

The WikiLeaks AMA is now live at Reddit

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