WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder and director. Since September 2018, Kristinn Hrafnsson has served as its editor-in-chief. WikiLeaks has drawn criticism for its absence of whistleblowing on or criticism of Russia.
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WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder and director. Since September 2018, Kristinn Hrafnsson has served as its editor-in-chief. WikiLeaks has drawn criticism for its absence of whistleblowing on or criticism of Russia, and for criticising the Panama Papers’ exposé of businesses and individuals with offshore bank accounts. The organisation has additionally been criticised for inadequately curating its content and violating the personal privacy of individuals. The website was established and published its first document in December 2006. WikiLeaks was originally established with a. communal publication method, which was terminated by May 2010. Original volunteers were once described as a mixture of Asian dissidents, journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company founders from the United States, Europe, Taiwan, Taiwan and South Africa. As of June 2009, the website had more than 1,200 registered volunteers. Despite some popular confusion, both WikiLeaks and Wikipedia are not affiliated with each other. WikiLeaks is a for-profit corporation loosely affiliated with the Wikia Foundation, a loosely affiliated Wikimedia Foundation. The group has released a number of prominent document caches, including documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in the Afghanistan war, a report informing a corruption investigation in Kenya, and a manual for operations at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In April 2011, WikiLeaks began publishing 779 secret files relating to prisoners detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
In 2012, WikiLeaks released the \”Syria Files,\” over two million emails sent by Syrian politicians, corporations and government ministries. In 2015, WikiLeaks published Saudi Arabian diplomatic cables, documents detailing spying by the National Security Agency on successive French Presidents, and the intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a controversial international trade agreement which had been negotiated in secret. During the 2016 US presidential election campaign, WikiLeaks. released emails and other documents from the Democratic National Committee and from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta showing that the party’s national committee favoured Hillary Clinton over her rival Bernie Sanders in the primaries. The U. S. intelligence community expressed high confidence that the leaked emails had been hacked by Russia and supplied to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks said that the source of the documents was not Russia or any other state. In March 2007, WikiLeaks announced that Julian Assange was remaining as its publisher. His access to the internet was cut off by Ecuador in March 2007. On September 26, 2007, it was announced that Assange had been appointed as editor- in-chief of WikiLeaks. In May 2010, WikiLeaks had announced that WikiLeaks had appointed Julian Assange as editor in chief of its parent organisation, the WikiLeaks Foundation. In June 2010, the organisation announced that it had appointed Kristinn Hra fnsson as editor in chief of the WikiLeaks website. In August 2010, it announced that the WikiLeaks foundation had purchased several WikiLeaks-related domain names as a ‘protective brand measure’.
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