Interesting that for the last 4 or 5 straight days, news articles have been coming out that a Russian plot to extricate Assange was foiled back back in on December 24, 2017 (Assange tweeted out a video of a "grab team" back in May that was dated that same date). Now today, after the plot was outed, Wikileaks announces a new editor-in-chief through their thought-to-be compromised Twitter account.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1045034219939016704