The Guardian’s Summary of Julian Assange’s Interview Went Viral and Was Completely False

Julian Assange isa deeply polarizing figure. Many admire him and many despise him (into which category one falls in any given year typicallydepends on one’s feelings aboutthe subject of his most recent publication of leaked documents).

But one’s views of Assange are completely irrelevant to this article, which is not about Assange. This article, instead,is about areport published this week by The Guardian thatrecklesslyattributed to Assange comments that he did not make. This article is about...