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[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're right, it does not mean the mission of WikiLeaks changed. It clearly hasn't. They still have never had to retract a single document or story.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But weren’t some of the Clinton email leaks proven to be planted?

[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
  1. The Clinton emails were first released by the State Department under FOIA. (WikiLeaks were first to publish the different archives of the Podesta email leak and the DNC email leak.) Both WL and the Wall Street Journal each made the Clinton emails into a searchable database.
  2. WikiLeaks has never had to retract a single document or story.
[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago

Ah, I was confusing the fact that the right wing internet trolls planted faked emails among the Wikileaks dump. Misremembered