How Assange and Wikileaks serve Russia’s interests

The Australian
9:20AM September 23, 2016

Julian Assange’s mental health is deteriorating ...

Assange’s predicament has not slowed him down.

In July WikiLeaks released a trove of from the Democratic National Committee, which, it is generally agreed, were hacked by Russian intelligence. The emails were an embarrassment to Hillary Clinton and boon for Donald Trump, who has made no secret of his admiration of Putin ...

“Social media gives foreign states, as well as any number of non-state private interest groups, the ability to influence public opinion by saturating the social cyber-sphere with carefully targeted information, misinformation, malicious gossip, innuendo or accusations, which are taken up by the mainstream media and which can spook our politicians against objective decision-making’’ ...

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