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The frenetic mass media propaganda campaign against Julian Assange was easily the creepiest and most Orwellian thing I've ever witnessed. And now it is silent. It did its job and then disappeared, before the public could really notice what was happening. It's absolutely stunning.
You wouldn't know it now, but between late 2016 and Assange's arrest this site was full of blue-checkmarked narrative managers falling all over each other to be the first to come up with the day's hottest smear painting a heroic journalist as a villain. Day after day after day.
Smearing Assange was one of the easiest ways for an aspiring journalist to show current and prospective employers that you're on the side of the empire. It was a soft target you could kick to signal that you'll say whatever the Pentagon wants so you can climb the media ladder.
The smear campaign pervaded every political faction in every part of the US-centralized power alliance. Where they couldn't get away with smearing him they circulated rightist psyops about Trump and Assange secretly working together and the extradition actually helping Assange.
The overwhelming majority of mainstream opinions about Assange are the result not of his work or the life he's lived, but of a concerted propaganda campaign which took place between late 2016 and Assange's arrest in April 2019. People just aren't aware they've been propagandized.
Yes, much of the groundwork for this smear campaign was done years earlier. All the liberals who were upset about Clinton's loss eagerly lapped up previous smears about sexual assault etc that were resurrected and recirculated with virulent aggression. https://twitter.com/rosendo_joe/status/1345474769911738369?s=20
The smear campaign went silent so quickly because it is now impossible to paint yourself as a brave up-punching journalist while smearing someone who is being openly prosecuted for journalism. So they've slinked off into the shadows, hoping we'll forget what they did.
Let's not.
Let's not.
God. Thank you. Yes, that's a shining example of what the mass media culture was like during that period. https://twitter.com/SunsetOstriches/status/1345477490517499905?s=20
