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| Subject: Julian Assange is rallying behind Catalan separatists Sun Oct 01, 2017 7:59 pm | |
| WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has seized on a historic independence referendum set for Sunday in the Spanish region of Catalonia, using his Twitter account to pump out a pro-separatist narrative aimed at villainizing the Spanish central government and celebrating Catalan nationalism.
Assange, for all intents and purposes, has become the independence movement's chief international spokesman. The vast majority of his tweets this month, in many cases written in Spanish and Catalan, have centered around promoting Catalan secessionism and "self-determination" as a bulwark against Madrid's "repression."
Russian news agency Sputnik has helped, too -- and has taken notice of Assange's tweets.
The outlet posted 220 stories about the Catalan independence movement between September 11 and 27, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, most with false or misleading headlines and a clear pro-independence bias. The outlet's headlines gave "more prominence to Assange" than either Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont or Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/julian-assange-rallying-behind-catalan-081000718.html |
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| Subject: Re: Julian Assange is rallying behind Catalan separatists Sun Oct 01, 2017 8:55 pm | |
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