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'''WikiLeaks''' is an international non-profit organization that publishes news leaks<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ifla.org/publications/what-is-the-effect-of-wikileaks-for-freedom-of-information |title=What is the effect of WikiLeaks for Freedom of Information? |last=Karhula |first=Päivikki |date=5 October 2012 |publisher=International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions |access-date=11 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630172755/http://www.ifla.org/publications/what-is-the-effect-of-wikileaks-for-freedom-of-information |archive-date=30 June 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> and classified media provided by anonymous sources.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/wikileaks/ |title=WikiLeaks |work=The New York Times |access-date=17 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130094619/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/wikileaks/index.html |archive-date=30 January 2016}}</ref> Its website, initiated in 2006 in [[Iceland]] by the organisation Sunshine Press,<ref>{{cite web |last=Chatriwala |first=Omar |title=WikiLeaks vs the Pentagon |url=http://blogs.aljazeera.com/blog/americas/wikileaks-vs-pentagon |publisher=Al Jazeera |date=5 April 2010 |access-date=27 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209163305/http://blogs.aljazeera.com/blog/americas/wikileaks-vs-pentagon |archive-date=9 February 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> stated in 2015 that it had released online 10 million documents in its first 10 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wikileaks.org/What-is-WikiLeaks.html |title=What is Wikileaks |website=WikiLeaks |access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref> [[Julian Assange]], an Internet activist, is generally described as its founder and director.<ref name="McGreal">{{cite news |last=McGreal |first=Chris |title=Wikileaks reveals video showing US air crew shooting down Iraqi civilians |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/05/wikileaks-us-army-iraq-attack |access-date=15 December 2010 |work=The Guardian |date=5 April 2010 |place=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110626230310/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/05/wikileaks-us-army-iraq-attack |archive-date=26 June 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> Since September 2018, Kristinn Hrafnsson has served as its editor-in-chief.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.apnews.com/df4b97d353c34ce4baa02f671dd6321b|title=WikiLeaks names one-time spokesman as editor-in-chief|work=Associated Press|access-date=26 September 2018|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Bridge">{{cite news|last=Bridge|first=Mark|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/loss-of-internet-forces-assange-to-step-down-from-wikileaks-editor-role-q8ndg5jkc|title=Loss of internet forces Assange to step down from Wikileaks editor role|work=The Times|date=27 September 2018|access-date=11 April 2019|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

WikiLeaks has variously described itself as an organization of journalists, political activists,<ref name=":502">{{Cite magazine |title=Exposed: Wikileaks' secrets |language=en-GB |magazine=Wired UK |url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/exposed-wikileaks-secrets |access-date=13 March 2022 |issn=1357-0978}}</ref> mathematicians, and start-up company technologists,<ref name="aboutwikileaks2">{{cite web |date=28 February 2012 |title=About WikiLeaks |url=https://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/WikiLeaks:About |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410065353/https://wikileaks.org/wiki/WikiLeaks%3AAbout/ |archive-date=10 April 2014 |access-date=5 December 2012 |publisher=WikiLeaks}}</ref> an intermediary between sources and journalists,<ref>{{Cite news |date=2010-12-07 |title=What is Wikileaks? |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-10757263 |access-date=2022-05-01}}</ref> an advocacy group for sources,<ref name="Khatchdourian" /> and a public intelligence agency.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-11-14 |title=Assange a bigger fish for Manning prosecutors |url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/assange-a-bigger-fish-for-manning-prosecutors-20130726-2qq1h.html |access-date=2022-05-01 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114163442/https://www.theage.com.au/national/assange-a-bigger-fish-for-manning-prosecutors-20130726-2qq1h.html |archive-date=14 November 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=WikiLeaks:About - WikiLeaks |url=https://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks:About |access-date=2022-05-01 |website=www.wikileaks.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=WikiLeaks - WikiLeaks responds to espionage act indictment against Assange: Unprecedented attack on free press |url=https://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-response-espionage-act.html |access-date=2022-05-01 |website=wikileaks.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-04-15 |title=WikiLeaks and the Lost Promise of the Internet |url=https://www.lawfareblog.com/wikileaks-and-lost-promise-internet |access-date=2022-05-01 |website=Lawfare |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Fisher |first1=Rogene |last2=Cohen |first2=Noam |date=2010-04-05 |title=Group Releases Classified Video of 2007 Baghdad Attack |url=https://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/group-releases-classified-video-of-2007-baghdad-attack/ |access-date=2022-05-01 |website=At War Blog |language=en-US}}</ref>

The group has released a number of prominent document caches that exposed serious violations of human rights and civil liberties to the US and international public.<ref name=":47">{{Cite web |title=Reporters Sans Frontières - Open letter to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange: ''A bad precedent for the Internet's future'' |url=http://en.rsf.org/united-states-open-letter-to-wikileaks-founder-12-08-2010,38130.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815072941/http://en.rsf.org/united-states-open-letter-to-wikileaks-founder-12-08-2010,38130.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-08-15 |access-date=2022-05-01 }}</ref> Early releases included documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in the Afghanistan war,<ref>{{cite news |last=Joseph |first=Channing |title=Wikileaks Releases Secret Report on Military Equipment |url=http://www.nysun.com/foreign/wikileaks-releases-secret-report-on-military/62236/ |work=The New York Sun |date=9 September 2007 |access-date=28 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221133936/http://www.nysun.com/foreign/wikileaks-releases-secret-report-on-military/62236/ |archive-date=21 February 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> a report about a corruption investigation in Kenya,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://qz.com/africa/1594656/the-kenyan-roots-of-julian-assanges-wikileaks/ | title=It all started in Nairobi: How Kenya gave Julian Assange's WikiLeaks its first major global scoop | first=Abdi Latif | last=Dahir | date=13 April 2019 | access-date=20 April 2019 | publisher=Quartz Africa}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/aug/31/kenya.topstories3 | title=The looting of Kenya | first=Xan | last=Rice | date=31 August 2007 | access-date=20 April 2019 | work=The Guardian}}</ref> and an operating procedures manual for the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.<ref name=Wired20071114>
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|url=https://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/11/gitmo#|title=Sensitive Guantánamo Bay Manual Leaked Through Wiki Site|magazine=[[Wired magazine]]|author=Ryan Singel|date= 14 November 2007|access-date=14 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140210123003/http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/11/gitmo|archive-date=10 February 2014|author-link=Ryan Singel}}</ref><ref name=AssociatedPressWikileaksDeltaSOP20071114>
{{cite news |url= http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hMWigm_hQ2FTGealn3uipPxbD2PAD8STS7JG2|title= US: Leaked Gitmo Manual Out of Date|publisher=Associated Press|date = 14 November 2007|access-date = 14 November 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118160838/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hMWigm_hQ2FTGealn3uipPxbD2PAD8STS7JG2
 |archive-date = 18 November 2007
}}</ref> In April 2010, WikiLeaks released the ''Collateral Murder'' footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi Reuters journalists were among several civilians killed. Other releases in 2010 included the Afghan War Diary and the "Iraq War Logs". The latter release allowed the mapping of 109,032 deaths in "significant" attacks by insurgents in Iraq that had been reported to Multi-National Force, including about 15,000 that had not been previously published.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/oct/23/wikileaks-iraq-data-journalism |title=Wikileaks Iraq: data journalism maps every death |work=The Guardian |place=London |date=23 October 2010 |access-date=26 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110107113804/http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/oct/23/wikileaks-iraq-data-journalism |archive-date=7 January 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/oct/25/wikileaks-iraq-data |title=Wikileaks Iraq: what's wrong with the data? |work=The Guardian |place=London |date=25 October 2010 |access-date=26 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130609222435/http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/oct/25/wikileaks-iraq-data |archive-date=9 June 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> 

During the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 U.S. presidential election campaign]], WikiLeaks [[2016 Democratic National Committee email leak|released emails and other documents]] from the [[Democratic National Committee]] and from [[Hillary Clinton]]'s campaign manager, [[John Podesta]], showing that the party's [[Democratic National Committee|national committee]] favoured Clinton over her rival [[Bernie Sanders]] in the [[2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries|primaries]], leading to the resignation of DNC chairwoman [[Debbie Wasserman Schultz]] and an apology to Sanders from the DNC.<ref name=":20">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/11/01/why-its-entirely-predictable-that-hillary-clintons-emails-are-back-in-the-news/ |title=Why it's entirely predictable that Hillary Clinton's emails are back in the news |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> 

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