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Last Saturday, an anonymous poster and supposed "WikiLeaks Insider" dropped a bombshell on the Cryptome.org site claiming that the whistleblower site would soon be abandoned.
"Within the last few hours we have learned that WikiLeaks (Assange) will commit no more time and effort into restore our website," the self-title Insider wrote.
He went on to say that Assange would be "launching a completely new site hosted in Iceland." It all sounded pretty plausible, that is until Assange spoke up on his Twitter account.
"WikiLeaks will NOT be abandoned. Don't listen to disinfo being spread! We'll issue clarifications soon. Should've done earlier," Assante tweeted.
If that wasn't enough, TheNextWeb.com claims to have received official word from a WikiLeaks spokesman reiterating Assange's comments.
"We just read your story and can basically only make one common: Do not feed the troll. There is no substance to this posting at all. We will issuing a press release soon I think in order to address this bulls**t campaign once and for all," the spokesman said.
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Mighty BOB!
July 15, 2010 at 8:16pm
I didn't think the rumor was true. They had the head of Wikileaks on the Daily Show (or maybe it was Colbert, I don't recall which), and he didn't seem like the kind of guy who would give up that easily.
