{"id":256533,"date":"2018-02-11T13:36:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T18:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=256533"},"modified":"2021-04-15T19:48:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:48:12","slug":"assange-mocks-newsweek-journalist-duped-by-fake-twitter-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/assange-mocks-newsweek-journalist-duped-by-fake-twitter-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Assange mocks Newsweek journalist duped by fake Twitter account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The world is full of fake \u201cjournalists\u201d just working for government propaganda. Never trust the media!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Julian Assange has issued a savage rebuke to Newsweek journalist Michael Hayden for being duped by a fake Twitter account impersonating the Wikileaks founder.<\/p>\n<p>Hayden had responded to a tweet supporting US president Donald Trump from Assange impersonator @TheRealJulian. The fake account wrote:\u00a0\u201cKeep doing what you\u2019re doing Mr. President and know that the entire world is behind you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the nature of the comment being completely out of character, Hayden took it at face value and he accused the Australian of being\u00a0\u201cone of those MAGA randos that rushes into Trump\u2019s replies to kiss up\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Assange responded with a filleting analysis of Hayden\u2019s journalistic professionalism and accused him of amplifying a\u00a0\u201cblack PR operation\u201d\u00a0against him.<\/p>\n<p>He also included a link to a Medium\u00a0blog\u00a0written by journalist Caitlin Johnstone which catalogues a range of fake Assange Twitter accounts and alleges that Twitter is\u00a0\u201cknowingly putting its foot on the brakes of Assange\u2019s Twitter presence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Newsweek journalist quickly deleted the tweet. He told RT.com that Twitter should verify Assange.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/418486-assange-newsweek-journalist-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/418486-assange-newsweek-journalist-twitter\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The world is full of fake \u201cjournalists\u201d just working for government propaganda. Never trust the media! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":327517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}