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The Guardian’s Summary of Julian Assange’s Interview Went Viral and Was Completely False
Those who want to combat Fake News should stop aggressively spreading it when it suits their agenda. Julian Assange is a deeply polarizing figure. Many admire him and many despise him (into which category one falls in any given year typically depends on one’s feelings about the subject of his most recent publication of leaked documents). But one’s views of Assange are completely irrelevant to this article, which is not about Assange. This article, instead, is about a report published this week by The Guardian that recklessly attributed to Assange comments that he did not make.
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This journalist is exposing rather than espousing lies?
What a novel concept.
All the media have their own agenda to promote, which is why one needs to read from as many sources as possible. I worked with one professor who once told me, "my best advice to you, leweb, is to assume by default that everything you see printed is false, regardless of whether you like it or not". He was talking about the scientific literature, but this applies to pretty much everything.
I do hope The Gaurdian has something to say about this. If this is true, Jacobs should be publicly disowned by them and fired.
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