Wikileaks

secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources, news leaks,

and whistleblowers.

2006.





The website published its first document in December 2006.

from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa.”
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in a private conversation as "the heart and soul of

this organisation, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organiser, financier, and all the rest".

Assange is an Australian publisher, journalist, software developer and Internet activist.
He has represented Wikileaks in public since January 2007.

in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the

Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behaviour in their governments and corporations.

journalists are not jailed for emailing sensitive or classified documents,

as happened to Chinese journalist Shi Tao, who was sentenced to 10 years in 2005 after publicising an email from Chinese officials about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

about 800 people who worked occasionally, none of whom were

compensated.

The expenses per year are about €200,000, mainly for servers and bureaucracy, but would reach €600,000 if work currently done by volunteers were paid for.

public donations. Its main financing methods include conventional bank transfers

and online payment systems.

Wau Holland Foundation, one of the WikiLeaks' main funding channels, stated that they received more than €900,000 in public donations between October 2009 and December 2010, out of which €370,000 has been passed on to WikiLeaks.

other ("wiki" is not a brand name).

But Wikimedia Foundation, did

however purchase several WikiLeaks-related domain names (including wikileaks.com and wikileaks.net) as a "protective brand measure" in 2007.

exposure and retribution, whistleblowers can leak to WikiLeaks, which then

leaks to the press for them.

Kenyan leader Daniel arap Moi.
2008: WikiLeaks released allegations of illegal

activities at the Cayman Islands branch of the Swiss Bank Julius Baer.
2008: the membership list of the far-right British National Party was posted to WikiLeaks.

and businessmen involved in the 2008 Peru oil scandal.
July: Site

released a report relating to a serious nuclear accident that had occurred at the Iranian Natanz nuclear facility in 2009.
October: Publishing of Joint Services Protocol 440, a British document advising the security services on how to avoid documents being leaked was published by WikiLeaks.

Counterintelligence Analysis Report discussing the leaking of material by WikiLeaks

and how it could be deterred.
April: In April, a classified video of the 2007 Baghdad airstrike was released, showing two Reuters employees being fired at, after the pilots mistakenly thought the men were carrying weapons, which were in fact cameras.
October: Publishing of Joint Services Protocol 440, a British document advising the security services on how to avoid documents being leaked was published by WikiLeaks.

Wikileaks was planning another “megaleak” in 2011, from inside the

private sector, involving “a big US bank” and revealing an “ecosystem of corruption”.

As a result, Bank of America’s stock price fell by 3% after this announcement.