Julian Assange never accepted the ethics of journalism
Drawing support from the far left and right, the Wikileaks founder was more international political actor than reporter.
Over his 12 years of imprisonment, as his leaks of state secrets faded into history, Julian Assange became a Rorschach test of ideology.
Initially a martyr of the left, for undermining public support for US foreign policy, Assange morphed into an unexpected hero of the libertarian right. An opponent of what they call the “deep state,” Assange’s cause was and is celebrated by Tucker Carlson, Robert F. Kennedy, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nigel Farage, the US Libertarian party and others.
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