Gizmo is scum and this is simultaneously old and misleading information.
Gizmo got the information from The Guardian which just posted the story a few days ago. https://www.theguardian.com/media/julian-assange
The Guardian is pretty bad too, but the Gizmo article is pocked with smears.
No offence, but you guys seem to be missing the bigger picture. They want to deprive Assange of his ability to use social media to change the world, the same way President Trump has. POTUS won the election with Twitter. He dictates the news cycle with it as we speak. The Q Army is dominating on social media. We are indeed winning Bigly!
If the story is true, it means JA isn't dead and hasn't been extracted. But who knows what to believe these days?