Man does that middle one fucking hurt
ML Publishing right now is bullshit tbh. Just pick some obscure field, slap a NN on it and boom you've got novel work.
Assange seems likely to me to be a white/gray hat from the Australian wing of the anti-cabal league.
I don't remember the sauce exactly, but iirc he's from a family with vague ties to the Kidmans? and popa kidman was a very, very bad dude. Or maybe it was some semi-cult thing? Anyway, I posit that him creating wikileaks, either intentionally or unintentionally, was really just a cover for disclosing that which needed to be disclosed, but legally couldn't be disclosed because the good guys play by the rules.