WikiLeaks | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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WikiLeaks


00:03:16 1 History
00:03:25 1.1 Staff, name and founding
00:05:18 1.2 Purpose
00:07:41 2 Administration
00:13:58 3 Legal status
00:14:53 3.1 Potential criminal prosecution
00:17:36 3.2 Use of leaked documents in court
00:18:36 4 Financing
00:24:26 5 Leaks
00:24:35 5.1 2006–08
00:26:50 5.2 2009
00:28:56 5.3 2010
00:33:09 5.4 Diplomatic cables release
00:35:21 5.5 2011–2015
00:39:31 5.6 2016
00:42:59 5.7 2017
00:46:20 5.8 Claims of upcoming leaks
00:48:41 6 Authenticity
00:50:47 7 Promotion of conspiracy theories
00:50:58 7.1 Murder of Seth Rich
00:52:05 7.2 Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton
00:52:49 8 Controversy
00:52:58 8.1 Allegations of anti-Americanism
00:53:49 8.2 Allegations of anti-Clinton and pro-Trump bias
00:57:25 8.2.1 Correspondence between WikiLeaks and Donald Trump Jr.
00:59:18 8.3 Allegations of Russian influence
01:06:06 8.4 Allegations of anti-semitism
01:07:16 8.5 Exaggerated and misleading descriptions of the contents of leaks
01:08:50 8.6 Inadequate curation and violations of personal privacy
01:14:50 8.7 Internal conflicts and lack of transparency
01:17:36 8.7.1 Non-disclosure agreements
01:18:16 8.8 Lawsuit by the Democratic National Committee
01:19:04 9 Reception
01:19:13 9.1 Awards and praise
01:19:21 9.1.1 From interested parties
01:20:16 9.1.2 Support for good use of free speech
01:21:00 9.2 Public positions By U.S. politicians
01:22:13 9.3 Concerns from U.S. government
01:23:48 9.4 Campaigns to discredit Wikileaks
01:24:25 9.5 Spin-offs
01:26:02 9.6 In popular culture



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WikiLeaks () is an international non-profit organisation that publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media provided by anonymous sources. Its website, initiated in 2006 in Iceland by the organisation Sunshine Press, claims a database of 10 million documents in 10 years since its launch. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder and director. Kristinn Hrafnsson is its editor-in-chief.The group has released a number of prominent document dumps. Early releases included documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in the Afghanistan war and a report informing a corruption investigation in Kenya. In April 2010, WikiLeaks released the so-called Collateral Murder footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi journalists were among those killed. Other releases in 2010 included the Afghan War Diary and the "Iraq War Logs". The latter allowed the mapping of 109,032 deaths in "significant" attacks by insurgents in Iraq that had been reported to Multi-National Force – Iraq, including about 15,000 that had not been previously published. In 2010, WikiLeaks also released the US State Department diplomatic "cables", classified cables that had been sent to the US State Department. In April 2011, WikiLeaks began publishing 779 secret files relating to prisoners detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.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. These releases caused significant harm to the Clinton campaign, and have been attributed as a potential contributing factor to her loss. The U.S. intelligence community expressed "high confidence" that the leaked emails had been hacked by Russia and supplied to WikiLeaks, while WikiLeaks denied their source was Russia or any other state. During the campaign, WikiLeaks promoted conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. In private conversations from November 2015 that were later leaked, Julian Assange expressed a preference for a GOP victory in the 2016 election, explaining that "Dems+Media+liberals woudl [sic] then form a block to reign [sic] in their worst qualities. With Hillary in charge, GOP will be pushing for her worst qualities, dems+media+neoliberals will be mute." In s ...