Everything about WikiLeaks
News leak publishing organisation
WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents from whistleblowers. 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. Kristinn Hrafnsson is 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 was 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. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: WikiLeaksA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Estrategias y razones del impacto de WikiLeaks en la opinión pública mundialInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: PurezaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: WikiLeaks: the illusion of transparencyCited 74 times
- Go sideways: Daniel Domscheit-BergA closely related topic
- Go sideways: List of material published by WikiLeaksA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
WikiLeaks: the illusion of transparency
Pirate culture and hacktivist mobilization: The cultural and social protocols of #WikiLeaks on Twitter
Peering into the Fog of War: The Geography of the WikiLeaks Afghanistan War Logs, 2004-2009
WikiLeaks, public diplomacy 2.0 and the state of digital public diplomacy
Whistle-blowing and the politics of truth: Mobilizing ‘truth games’ in the WikiLeaks case
The Emergence of a Freedom of Information Movement: Anonymous, WikiLeaks, the Pirate Party, and Iceland
From FOI World to WikiLeaks World: A New Chapter in the Transparency Story?
Human Rights and Hacktivism: The Cases of Wikileaks and Anonymous
🆕 Influential since 2022
Estrategias y razones del impacto de WikiLeaks en la opinión pública mundial
Whither WikiLeaks? The Case for the Critical Diplomatic History Method in American Empire Studies
CONCEPTUAL AMBUSH OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT: WIKILEAKS TODAY
Caso Wikileaks
Countersurveillance Between Criminalization and the Possibility of a New Counterpower: the Case of Julian Assange and Wikileaks
📚 Books worth reading
PurezaJonathan Franzen · 2015
Inside WikiLeaksDaniel Domscheit-Berg · 2011
The WikiLeaks FilesWikileaks, Julian Assange · 2015
WikileaksDavid Leigh, Luke Harding · 2011
The most dangerous man in the worldAndrew Fowler · 2011
CypherpunksJulian Assange · 2012
This machine kills secretsAndy Greenberg · 2012
WikiLeaks and the Age of TransparencyMicah L. Sifry, Micah Sifry · 2011
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- Daniel Domscheit-Berg Daniel Domscheit-Berg (German: [ˈdaːni̯eːl ˌdɔmʃaɪtˈbɛʁk, -ni̯ɛl -]; né Berg; born 1978), previously known under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, is a German…
- List of material published by WikiLeaks Since 2006, the document archive website WikiLeaks has published anonymous submissions of documents that are typically unavailable to the general public…
- Reception of WikiLeaks WikiLeaks, a whistleblowing website founded by Julian Assange, has received praise as well as criticism from the public, hacktivists, journalist organisations…
- Julian Assange Julian Paul Assange (/əˈsɑːnʒ/ ə-SAHNZH; né Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian programmer, editor, and publisher who founded WikiLeaks in 2006…
- United States diplomatic cables leak An incident, commonly referred to as Cablegate, began on 28 November 2010 when WikiLeaks began releasing classified cables that had been sent to the U…
- We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is a 2013 American independent documentary film about the organization established by Julian Assange, and people…
- Stratfor email leak WikiLeaks began publishing emails leaked from strategic intelligence company Stratfor on 27 February 2012 under the title Global Intelligence Files. By…
- Afghan War documents leak The Afghan War documents leak, also called the Afghan War Diary, is a collection of internal U.S. military logs of the war in Afghanistan published by…