I'm not going to base my world view on random Guardian articles. That paper has shared made up fiction many times.

One of the authors of the article you cite alleged Paul Manafort visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy. That theory has been widely and effectively debunked.

But then you're a tabloid writer yourself, attracted like a fly to fly paper. Time to unfollow. Life is too short for such silly shallowness.