{"id":41380,"date":"2018-12-06T19:54:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T00:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41380"},"modified":"2018-12-06T19:54:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T00:54:39","slug":"the-guardians-reputation-in-tatters-after-forger-revealed-to-have-co-authored-assange-smear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41380","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian\u2019s Reputation In Tatters After Forger Revealed To Have Co-Authored Assange Smear"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/2018\/12\/the-guardians-reputation-in-tatters-after-forger-revealed-to-have-co-authored-assange-smear\/\">The Guardian\u2019s Reputation In Tatters After Forger Revealed To Have Co-Authored Assange Smear<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Regular followers of WikiLeaks-related news are at this point familiar with the multiple serious infractions of journalistic ethics by Luke Harding and the Guardian, especially (though not exclusively) when it comes to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. However, another individual at the heart of this matter is far less familiar to the public. That man is Fernando Villavicencio, a prominent Ecuadorian political activist and journalist, director of the USAID-funded NGO Fundamedios and editor of online publication FocusEcuador.<\/p>\n<p>Most readers are also aware of the Guardian\u2019s recent publication of claims that Julian Assange met with former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort on three occasions. This has now been definitively debunked by Fidel Narvaez, the former Consul at Ecuador\u2019s London embassy between 2010 and 2018, who says Paul Manafort has never visited the embassy during the time he was in charge there. But this was hardly the first time the outlet published a dishonest smear authored by Luke Harding against Assange. The paper is also no stranger to publishing stories based on fabricated documents.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Disobedient Media reported on the Guardian\u2019s hatchet-job relating to \u2018Operation Hotel,\u2019 or rather, the normal security operations of the embassy under former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. That hit-piece, co-authored by Harding and Dan Collyns, asserted among other things that (according to an anonymous source) Assange hacked the embassy\u2019s security system. The allegation was promptly refuted by Correa as \u201cabsurd\u201d in an interview with The Intercept, and also by WikiLeaks as an \u201canonymous libel\u201d with which the Guardian had \u201cgone too far this time. We\u2019re suing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian\u2019s Reputation In Tatters After Forger Revealed To Have Co-Authored Assange Smear Regular followers of WikiLeaks-related news are at this point familiar with the multiple serious infractions of journalistic ethics by Luke Harding and the Guardian, especially (though not exclusively) when it comes to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. However, another individual at the heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15091,18022,23387,2001,23386,6917,880],"class_list":["post-41380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-disobedient-media","tag-elizabeth-vos","tag-fernando-villavicencio","tag-julian-assange","tag-luke-harding","tag-the-guardian","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41381,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41380\/revisions\/41381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}