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Definition: WikiLeaks from The Macquarie Dictionary
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an organisation that publishes private, secret, or classified information on its internet website, such information being submitted by various anonymous sources; launched in 2006, claiming as its founders various journalists, dissidents, and computer technologists from a number of countries, including Julian Assange; originally used the wiki concept but later disallowed user editing or comment; in 2010 caused controversy when began publishing classified US diplomatic cables and US military archives relating to Iraq.

Etymology: trademark ; wiki + leak 708 + -s3


WikiLeaks

From Blackwell Encyclopedias in Social Sciences: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization
Julian Assange launched a Web site, WikiLeaks.org , in December 2006. Since its inception, WikiLeaks has been at the center of intense scrutiny by nation-state governments and corporations alike. WikiLeaks is a Web site that posts confidential and sensitive information. The aim is captured by the slogan “We open governments,” and the Web site states that “Publishing improves transparency, and this transparency creates a better society for all people. Better scrutiny leads to reduced corruption and stronger democracies in all society's institutions, including government, corporations and other organizations. A healthy, vibrant and inquisitive journalistic media plays a vital role in achieving these goals” (WikiLeaks 2010 ). The administrators of WikiLeaks have a clear goal: information that is deemed secret by nation-states should be open to the public, and this will lead to the strengthening of democracy. WikiLeaks depends upon individual users to submit information, documents, and…
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Full text Article WikiLeaks

From Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
An online, nonprofit organization that collects and publishes secret and classified documents from governments and organizations of various kinds, WikiLeaks was founded in 2006 by Australian-born Internet activist Julian Assange. The organization first came to international prominence in 2010 after…
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Full text Article Wikileaks

From Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies
A non-profit-making website created in 2007 by Australian Julian Assange and dedicated to leaking information to the public which has been withheld from it by governments, organizations and institutions. The website's mission statement says, ‘We believe that transparency in government activities…
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Full text Article WIKILEAKS

From Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence
Founded in 2006 as an Internet website in Iceland by an Australian, Julian Assange, WikiLeaks was intended to provide an opportunity for whistle-blowers to publish anonymously documents that exposed misconduct and crime. In April 2010, Assange acquired notoriety by releasing video footage that was…
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Written by Julian Assange and posted online in 2010, WikiLeaks Manifesto provides justification for the activities of WikiLeaks, a nonprofit organization founded by Assange in 2007 that reports classified information and news leaks, often from anonymous sources. The manifesto emphasizes technology's…
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Full text Article WikiLeaks: Primary Documents

From Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
According to its own Web site, WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit, online organization founded in 2007 that allows individuals and organizations to anonymously upload classified and secret documents for all to view. The organization's aim is to make governments, corporations, and other large institutions…
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Full text Article WikiLeaks

From Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
WikiLeaks is a non-profit, internet-based organization whose mission is to provide a forum for the anonymous publication of classified materials, news leaks, and whistle blowing for a global audience. This organization is responsible for a number of high-profile leaks focused on classified…
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Full text Article WikiLeaks

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Full text Article WikiLeaks

From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Diplomacy
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Full text Article WikiLeaks

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Full text Article MANNING, BRADLEY

From Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence
Born in Oklahoma in December 1987, Bradley Manning joined the U.S. Army in October 2007 and was posted to Iraq two years later as an intelligence analyst at Forward Operating Base Hammer, where he was given access to two classified Pentagon computer networks, the SIPRNet (the Secret Internet…
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