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If you read WikiLeaks' Twitter posts from September and October, you'll see that they definitely took a side in the election.

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I think your point would be stronger if your comment included a few links to the tweets in question.

Twitter's mobile interface really isn't made for looking at tweets from months ago. If I accidentally tap on a tweet and click back, I'm brought back to today's tweets.

Here's a blog post where Assange days Hillary Clinton shouldn't be President: https://wikileaks.org/hillary-war/

I can't manage to copy links to individual posts without losing my place in the timeline, but there were a number of retweets of non-WikiLeaks related posts about Clinton. They also retweeted this tweet from when Clinton appeared with Pussy Riot in 2014:

https://mobile.twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/45213072969...

There's nothing wrong with WikiLeaks supporting a candidate in the election. I do think it's wrong to pretend they're neutral or unbiased.

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