WikiLeaks is promoting a pirated copy of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, a bestselling book on Donald Trump’s first year in office. Yesterday, it tweeted a Google Drive link described as a full PDF of Fire and Fury. It deleted that tweet, but re-posted the link with an added degree of separation, saying that the book had “leak[ed] onto internet.” Google has since removed the file in question.

We don’t know exactly why WikiLeaks, whose stated specialization is publishing “censored or otherwise restricted” official documents, shared the text of a widely available published work. The White House has condemned Fire and Fury for its unflattering portrayal of Trump, and one theory holds that WikiLeaks is trying to sabotage the book’s commercial…

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