WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is stateless no more. On Thursday, Ecuador revealed that it had extended citizenship to Assange, a controversial figure who moved into London’s Ecuadorian embassy to evade extradition to Sweden back in 2012. Assange alluded to the citizenship status with a Twitter post depicting him in an Ecuadorian football jersey. Read More
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Julian Assange’s Twitter account goes offline, returns
It’s a Christmas miracle of sorts. Julian Assange’s Twitter account disappeared from the site, returned, and now there’s a bouncing baby Corgi up top. The account appears to have gone offline around 7:00/8:00PM ET on Christmas Eve, a silent night for the Wikileaks founder. Attempts to access the page overnight were met with a “Sorry, that page doesn’t… Read More
Julian Assange has apparently deleted his Twitter account in a Christmas mystery
WikiLeaks founder and notorious Ecuadorian embassy resident Julian Assange has seemingly deleted his Twitter account, throwing his supporters into a frenzy of speculation on Christmas Day.
A search on desktop for his account, @JulianAssange, turned t…
Donald Trump Jr. leaked his own DMs with WikiLeaks
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Donald Trump Jr. seems to have told himself that if he just shouts “NOTHING TO SEE HERE LIBS” every time his name pops up in the news, his legal troubles will vanish.
On Monday, following an article in The Atlantic that described direct messages on Twitter between WikiLeaks and the president’s oldest son, Trump Jr. tried to mitigate the news by … simply leaking those DMs to the world himself, sharing out the messages in a series of tweets.
Here is the entire chain of messages with @wikileaks (with my whopping 3 responses) which one of the congressional committees has chosen to selectively leak. How ironic! 1/3 pic.twitter.com/SiwTqWtykA
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 14, 2017 Read more…
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WikiLeaks messaged Donald Trump Jr. throughout the 2016 election and beyond — and often, even if the president’s eldest son rarely responded.
The Atlantic found the organization was sending direct messages to Trump Jr.’s Twitter account for 10 months, up until July 2017. Writer Julia Ioffe discovered them after the messages were turned over to Congress as part of the investigations into Russian involvement in the election.
And, yeah, they make WikiLeaks seem pretty desperate.
The messages asked Trump Jr. to publicly share stories and information. At one point, the organization asked for Trump’s tax returns. Read more…
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View More Super thirsty WikiLeaks slid into Donald Trump Jr.’s DMs4 hacks that totally embarrassed the US government
Cyberattacks are a fast-growing and increasingly dangerous threat to modern society, especially when they target the highly sensitive information stored within government databases. Four recent attacks have made the U.S. government seem, at best, unpr…
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