Not only is this hyperbole ("most humiliating in ages"? hardly!), but it gets the circumstances of what got provided wrong (WikiLeaks didn't publish these files).https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/939514422422319106 …
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Yes, I agree accuracy is important. That's why I'm trying to understand what specific claim or sentence in the story you're referring to that is inaccurate. The article is referring to what everyone referred to: WL's publication on Twitter of the link:https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/939214967210987520 …
The email is inaccurate. Wikileaks didn't, as far as is known, "upload" that information. Guccifer 2.0 is understood to have.
It's like the time when Wikileaks got held accountable for doxing a bunch of Turks when @NatSecGeek had uploaded data instead.
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Or when Wikileaks posted a link to Macron leaks emails even while saying it didn't know if they were accurate, and they got blamed rather than the 4Channers who uploaded them.
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Wikileaks makes a distinction between stuff they've vetted and posted and stuff they link to. This is a link to.
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I think the only material fact, which is stressed by the article, is that the email CNN pointed to was sent after - not before - WL publicly promoted those docs with a link. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/775823293781794816 … - I think it was clear but changed "published" to "promoted"
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"promoted" is accurate. Thanks for making the change.
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And one reason I'm harping on this, btw, is bc I think it is in some ways MORE newsworthy that an email from someone no one can ID promoted 2 RU-linked dumps.
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It is. I IDed him yesterday, and the email was published along with his address confirming the ID.
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Ah, thanks. Hadn't seen that.
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Again, I only re-uploaded it. It was first released by Phineas Fisher and uploaded by Cthulhu in response to WL dropping the files when told not to because Phineas was still in the system grabbing stuff. WL linked to the copy I re-uploaded, which Zeynep then misrepresented.
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Thanks for clarifying. Mostly just raised it, using shorthand, bc of the uproar that resulted bc of Zeynep's inaccuracy.
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