What is WikiLeaks?
What is WikiLeaks?
What is Wikileaks? WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists (our electronic drop box).
Is WikiLeaks no longer trying to be transparent?
The Sunlight Foundation, an organisation that advocates for open government, said that such actions meant that WikiLeaks was no longer striving to be transparent but rather sought to achieve political goals.
What happened to WikiLeaks in 2010?
On 22 January 2010, the Internet payment intermediary PayPal suspended WikiLeaks’ donation account and froze its assets. WikiLeaks said that this had happened before, and was done for “no obvious reason”. The account was restored on 25 January 2010.
Does WikiLeaks have documents of ultra-conservative Catholic organizations Hazte Oir and CitizenGo?
“Exclusive: Wikileaks reveals the internal documents of the ultra-conservative catholic organizations Hazte Oir and CitizenGo”. Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian).
The UK Information Commissioner has stated that “WikiLeaks is part of the phenomenon of the online, empowered citizen”. In 2010, an Internet petition in support of WikiLeaks attracted more than six hundred thousand signatures.
In 2010 WikiLeaks posted a flurry of documents—almost half a million in total—relating to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. While much of the information was already in the public domain, the administration of Pres. Barack Obama criticized the leaks as a threat to U.S. national security.
What did WikiLeaks do to Sony?
The following April, WikiLeaks published more than 200,000 of the stolen documents in a searchable database, a move that was immediately criticized by Sony.
Could WikiLeaks founder be charged under Espionage Act?
^ Nakashima, Ellen; Markon, Jerry (30 November 2010). “WikiLeaks founder could be charged under Espionage Act”. The Washington Post. Retrieved 5 December 2010.