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WikiLeaks (/ ˈ w ɪ k i l iː k s /) is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents. It is funded by donations [13] and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources. [14] It was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange. [15] Kristinn Hrafnsson is its editor-in-chief.
It was founded by Assange in 2006 and lists several international media organisations among its co-publishers, research partners and funders. What is WikiLeaks and why did it get Julian Assange in ...
The diplomatic crisis between Ecuador and the United Kingdom in 2012 refers to the crisis that occurred when the Ecuadorian government clashed with its counterpart in the United Kingdom over the protection provided by Ecuador to the creator of the WikiLeaks website Julian Assange, at its embassy in the United Kingdom, when he was under house arrest in London awaiting extradition to Sweden ...
The founding of Wikileaks in 2006 is followed by coverage of several key events: its 2009–2010 leaks about the Icelandic financial collapse, Swiss banking tax evasion, Kenyan government corruption, toxic-waste dumping, Chelsea Manning's communications with Adrian Lamo, the release by Wikileaks of the Collateral Murder video, the Iraq War ...
Among the most potent in the cache of files published by WikiLeaks was video of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack by American forces in Baghdad that killed 11 people, including two Reuters journalists.
Jeremy Alexander Hammond (born January 8, 1985), also known by his online moniker sup_g, [1] is an American anarchist activist and former computer hacker from Chicago.He founded the computer security training website HackThisSite [2] in 2003. [3]
Beginning on November 28, 2010, WikiLeaks had been publishing classified documents of detailed correspondence—diplomatic cables—between the United States Department of State and its diplomatic missions around the world. On 1 September 2011, it released all of the Cablegate documents in its possession without redaction.
The newspaper stated that the source of the information was a report by Kroll commissioned by the Kenyan government which was sent to WikiLeaks. [2] Corruption was a major issue in the election that followed, which was marred by violence. According to Assange, "1,300 people were eventually killed, and 350,000 were displaced.