The Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has apparently deleted his Twitter account. @JulianAssange, suddenly went dark between 12-1am on Christmas Eve, sending social media into a frenzy speculations.
Gizmodo website noted that the leader of disgraced transparency organization had not tweeted since Friday. The Internet Archive have been preserving snapshots of Assange’s twitter account once every hour since mid-September.
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Conspiracy theories claimed that Twitter may have shut down Assange page. But Gizmodo noted evidence points to Assange deleting it himself.
Twitter may have taken out Assange account as part of the social media platform’s recent cleanse of seditious posts, most of the far right.
Some speculated that it was a move to silence Assange ahead of a big emergence of WikiLeaks.
The official account of Wikileaks itself remains online and has commented on the disappearance of its founder: “@JulianAssange physical situation at the embassy remains unaltered”
Despite some oddities from the US Navy and Twitter today and increased physical surveillance @JulianAssange‘s physical situation at the embassy remains unaltered–confined without charge in violation of two UN rulings requiring the UK to set him free.https://t.co/ne7cQ2Uryw
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) December 25, 2017
The US Navy tweet:
This morning, an inadvertent keystroke by an authorized user of the U.S. Navy Office of Information’s Digitial Media Engagement Team caused the trending term “Julian Assange” to be tweeted from the Navy’s official Twitter account (@USNavy). (1/2)
— U.S. Navy (@USNavy) December 25, 2017
Here a screenshot of the deleted @USNavy Christmas tweet about @JulianAssange. Note the use of quotation marks.https://t.co/Asfw6cH6C7 pic.twitter.com/7Gg6mVOoCx
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) December 25, 2017
That’s funny! “Fishy” “Navy”!!
— cindy coleson (@cindy4u98) December 25, 2017
Photo: Cancillería del Ecuador/ Flicker / Wikipedia
