WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents. It is funded by donations and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources. It was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange, an Australian editor, publisher, and activist. Since September 2018, Kristinn Hrafnsson has served as its editor-in-chief. Its website states that it has released more than ten million documents and associated analyses. WikiLeaks' most recent publication of original documents was in 2019 and its most recent publication was in 2021. From November 2022, numerous documents on the organisation's website became inaccessible. In 2023, Assange said that WikiLeaks is no longer able to publish due to his imprisonment and the effect that US government surveillance and WikiLeaks' funding restrictions were having on potential whistleblowers.
Some of the key events about WikiLeaks
- 2006Released confidential documents exposing corruption in the Kenyan government
- 2007Published operating procedures for the Guantanamo Bay detention camp
- 2007Published classified procedures for Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay
- 2008Released documents revealing alleged illegal activities of Swiss bank Julius Baer
- 2008Released Sarah Palin's private Yahoo email account contents
- 2009Published over 500,000 pager messages related to the 9/11 attacks
- 2010Released the "Collateral Murder" video showing a US helicopter attack in Baghdad
- 2010Published the Afghan War Diary, a collection of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan
- 2010Released the Iraq War Logs, containing 391,832 reports documenting the Iraq War
- 2010Published classified US diplomatic cables in the "Cablegate" release
- 2010Published classified US military logs from the Afghanistan War
- 2010Released classified US State Department diplomatic cables
- 2011Released the Guantanamo Bay files, detailing the treatment of detainees
- 2012Published millions of Syrian political emails during ongoing civil conflict
- 2016Published emails and documents from the Democratic National Committee
- 2016Released nearly 20,000 emails from Democratic National Committee servers
- 2016Published emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman's personal Gmail account
- 2017Released CIA hacking tools and cyber weapons
- 2017Published confidential Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee documents
- 2019Released hundreds of thousands of chat messages from Russian officials and diplomats
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