I seem to remember Jeebus cheering on WikiLeaks during the run-up to the election. Wonder how he feels about them now?
Well, there was a time when it wasn’t clear WikiLeaks had an agenda or even a record favoring any particular nation or institution, and people could be forgiven for taking them at their word. That was, after all, the whole point of the operation – to build up a reputation for neutrality and truthfulness, so that they would be a better channel for distributing Russian propaganda than RT, Sputnik, and Pravda, which would be (and still are) more easily dismissed by Western audiences.
It’s basically the reputation equivalent to money laundering – reputation laundering. Obvious Russian state propaganda goes in, plausibly neutral news appealing to a conspiracy-minded Western audience comes out.