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>Is it this one
Nope.
That's anotherkind of fallacious reasoning, even tho similar.
The fallacy that I'm talking is about putting trust into someone for information.
In who do you put trust in for information ?
People ? Or Information ?
People can lie about there motives and Information can be made from scratch.

Now lets say that I am your attacker, I can't say that what you say is false because it's obvious that I'm lying, but I still do it because obviously some people will believe it.
How do I, the attacker, make people who are less inclined to believe something that I say, to change their minds ? How to I make people believe a piece of information that I want them to believe ?

One of them is to create a false opponent, or use one that already exist that will believe and spread information that the person will gain access to information that was secret.

For example: a user from 8ch says that X piece of information or thread subject is worth debating because on 4ch it was censored.

That's why the sentence "If I were lying, no one would be trying to silence me" is a logical fallacy and I'm not directing what I said on Assange but on the quote.

The quote: "the enemies of my enemies are my friends" is a good example to resume the problem. It's not because the enemies of your enemies that they are necessarily your friends/trustworthy.

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