WikiLeaks and some of its supporters say the organisation's publications have a perfect authenticity record. WikiLeaks won a number of awards in its early years and it has been commended for exposing state and corporate secrets, increasing transparency, assisting freedom of the press, and enhancing democratic discourse while challenging powerful institutions. During the campaign, WikiLeaks promoted conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party and the murder of the Seth Rich. These releases caused significant harm to the Clinton campaign, and have been cited as a potential contributing factor to her loss in the general election against Donald Trump. presidential election campaign, WikiLeaks released emails from the Democratic National Committee and from Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, showing that the party's national committee favoured Clinton over her rival Bernie Sanders in the primaries. WikiLeaks has also published documents exposing surveillance by the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and private corporations. WikiLeaks is known for publishing leaks such as diplomatic cables from the United States and Saudi Arabia, emails from the governments of Syria and Turkey, corruption in Kenya and at Samherji, a multinational fishing company based in Iceland. 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 including the Collateral Murder footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi Reuters journalists were among several civilians killed. Since September 2018, Kristinn Hrafnsson has served as its editor-in-chief. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder and director and is currently fighting extradition to the United States over his work with WikiLeaks.
Its website stated in 2015 that it had released online 10 million documents since beginning in 2006 in Iceland. WikiLeaks ( / ˈ w ɪ k i l iː k s/) is an international non-profit organisation that publishes news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources. English, but the source documents are in their original language
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