It'd be a valid self-own if they were lies.

Since the truth of them is in dispute, it comes off more as a list of nerves the media has struck on a very vain man.

But at least some of the "false and defamatory" items are definitely true. For example, he jumped bail, and the contributors who put up his bail forfeited their money. But Assange thinks that I am being defamatory for stating this true fact.