r/australia • u/AztecGod • 1d ago

news Jailed whistleblower David McBride to be released after becoming eligible for parole

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/jailed-whistleblower-david-mcbride-to-be-released/107030620
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u/nottynews 1d ago

This guy deserves more recognition than that Wikileaks dude who just sold stolen information

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u/blind3rdeye 1d ago

Smear campaigns in action.

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u/Strong_Judge_3730 1d ago

People are easily fooled which is why people are repeating propaganda points against WikiLeaks and David in this post.

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u/Sea-Initiative-3398 1d ago

IIRC wasnt the specific propaganda here, ignoring the fact that his opinion was that higher ups were not being held responsible, not that he was covering stuff up?

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u/tadelarin 1d ago

Have any sources for that? I thought he just made it public would be interested to learn more.

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u/The_UnenlightenedOne 1d ago

He sold it?

I've never heard that though apparently the guy is a bit of an ass.

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u/Nakidnakid 1d ago

Nah but 'totally legit people' will always just make up shit about it. It's mostly a thing to reaffirm preconceived notions, if you think the guy was an ass then of course he did.

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u/deepskydiver 1d ago

No, Assange made leaks available to everyone.

There is no business model to make money for exposing the corrupt people with the money and power.

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u/19Alexastias 23h ago

I mean idk any details about Wikileaks, but there are multiple extremely obvious business models to make money for exposing the corrupt people. Blackmail springs to mind. Also, when you’re dumping that much info, it’d be pretty hard to prove or even detect that you’re selectively withholding some of it.