BREAKING: Wikileaks Retweets Some Boring-Ass Voicemails
Wednesday evening, several news outlets announced that Wikileaks had JUST RELEASED 29 new Democratic National Committee voicemails, a brilliant bit of counter-programming against tonight’s Democratic convention events if true.
BREAKING: WikiLeaks releases hacked audio recordings of Democratic National Committee voicemails. https://t.co/fy965Kf5lt
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) July 28, 2016
JUST IN: Wikileaks releases alleged voicemail/audio recordings from the Democratic National Committee
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) July 28, 2016
BREAKING: WikiLeaks Releases Hacked DNC Voicemails: https://t.co/Da0l9Mamhi
— Fox Nation (@foxnation) July 28, 2016
The only problem was that those 29 voicemails were leaked and announced with the rest of initial email dump on Friday, with WikiLeaks merely reposting a link to the audio files Wednesday night.
#DNCLeaks: Full audio of 29 DNC voice messages https://t.co/TTyre5UIOD
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 22, 2016
RELEASE: The DNC recordings https://t.co/OIv1xjpp6c #DNCLeak #DNCinPHL
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 27, 2016
Recordings: https://t.co/TTyre5UIOD
In fact, true to the voicemail genre, the ones obtained by WikiLeaks were boring as hell, apparently drawn from messages sent to DNC headquarters—not between staffers. Arguably the juiciest of the lot are from angry supporters complaining about perceived preferential treatment for the candidates.
Passionate Clinton supporter calls DNC (audio file #16014) to demand that Sanders be stopped #DNCLeak https://t.co/TTyre5UIOD
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 28, 2016
I guess you haven’t gotten enough of that from your college friends on Facebook, then it is BREAKING.
