A Twitter account purporting to belong to Ecuador’s newly promoted overseas minister has falsely reported Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s demise, acknowledging the information is “unconfirmed.” It’s not clear who’s behind the report.
A just lately created Twitter account supposedly belonging to Ecuadorian FM Manuel Mejía Dalmau posted an “URGENT” message on Wednesday declaring “diplomatic sources in London” had reported “the information of the demise of Julian Assange,” the Wikileaks founder’s associate Stella Moris revealed on Wednesday, posting a screenshot of the tweet that famous the report was “unconfirmed.”
Julian simply spoke to his solicitor. He’s okay. However I’ve simply been by hell. If this account actually belongs to Ecuador’s new International Minister I demand a proof. pic.twitter.com/SpLeiLSqQp
— Stella Moris #DropTheCharges (@StellaMoris1) March 17, 2021
Moris shortly dismissed the rumor, saying Assange had spoken to his lawyer Gareth Peirce and confirming he was “okay.” Nonetheless, she added that she’d “been by hell” and demanded a proof from Ecuador’s FM – the alleged proprietor of the @MejiaDalmauEc account that posted, then deleted, the tweet containing the “unconfirmed” information of Assange’s passing.
One other person identified that Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno had referenced a unique Twitter account solely in a publish on Monday during which he congratulated Mejía Dalmau on his promotion to Minister of International Affairs.
Moreno had tagged an account, @MANUELMEJIAD, created in November 2010 whose tweets have been protected. That account had simply 128 followers and adopted 40 folks as of Wednesday afternoon, whereas the newer account that shared the false information of Assange’s demise had been created in February 2021 and adopted a whopping 1,973 customers, although its personal comparatively anemic follower depend included simply 234 customers. Each accounts featured photographs of Mejía Dalmau in a blue-grey swimsuit with a purple tie.
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Assange’s extradition to the US to face espionage and hacking fees was blocked in January after a decide dominated the Wikileaks founder’s life could be in danger. Whereas Decide Vanessa Baraitser aligned herself with US authorities’ claims that the writer’s choice to launch rigorously vetted labeled paperwork despatched to him by army intelligence analyst Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning in 2010 and 2011 didn’t qualify as journalism, Baraitser cited proof introduced about Assange’s psychological well being in arguing it could be “oppressive to extradite him to the US.”
Afterward Wednesday afternoon, the FM account that revealed the “unconfirmed” information of Assange’s demise had been deleted.
The Wikileaks founder has been locked up within the UK since April 2019, when the Ecuadorian authorities that had granted him asylum in its London embassy rescinded that supply, permitting British police to bodily take away him from the premises.
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