A Julian Assange interview with investigative journalist John Pilger posted on November 5, just three days before the U.S. presidential election, has become “ the most viral news interview on RT this year ,” according to an article posted to the Russian news network’s website. RT reports that the video of the interview with the founder and publisher of Wikileaks has been “clocking up millions of views across the channel’s social media platforms.” “The whistleblower sat down with Pilger to discuss the FBI’s 11th hour intervention in the Clinton email scandal, his life inside one room, and what he considers to be the ‘most significant’ email from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta,” the RT article says. “On Youtube, the exclusive premier of Pilger’s meeting with Assange went multi-platinum, so to speak, garnering more than 4 million views.” Full audio of talk by WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange at #FCM16 today https://t.co/xzNqbF1Y0w http://pic.twitter.com/BIRYM6rcxE — Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) November 26, 2016 One of the most watched clips from the interview concerns Assange’s claim that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knew Saudi Arabia and Qatar, two countries that are supposedly staunch U.S. allies in the region, had directly been funding and otherwise supporting Islamic State in Syria. That clip alone received almost 600,000 views in the first few days after it was posted. In the interview, Assange addresses questions on the
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