WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange slams Wired magazine on Twitter (Josh Halliday)

Editor-in-chief of controversial whistleblowing website says US technology magazine 'has an agenda and is not to be trusted'

Oct. 19, 29010 (guardian.co.uk) -- The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has launched a verbal broadside against US technology magazine Wired, claiming the publication "has [an] agenda, doesn't check facts and is not to be trusted."

Assange, the editor-in-chief of the controversial whistleblowing website, also claimed the Condé Nast title is a "known opponent and spreader of all sorts of minsinformation about WikiLeaks", pointing to what he claimed were false reports in the magazine that the site was due to release as many as 500,000 classified US documents from the Iraq war online on Monday.

Kevin Poulsen, a senior editor at Wired, is "responsible for a tremendous amount of other completely false information [about] WikiLeaks", Assange alleged on Twitter.

Hours after WikiLeaks' combative dispatch, Poulsen hit back in a post on Wired's website. "Assange is notoriously sensitive to critical press," he wrote. "He has a strong personality, and at times his reaction reflects that."

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