IngWikiLeaks metung yang internacional a agumangbayung media ae para tubu, at aguman a mibubulalag kareng mabibieng documentung ibat kareng e pepakilalangpanibatan ning balita ampongleak. Palakad ne ning The Sunshine Press ing kayang karinan-Aptas o website, a[1] Kilub ning pabanua ning kayang pamilauk, atin neng database a maigit 1.2 miliun documentu.[2] Lalarawan ing kayang sarili a tetag de kanu deng sasalungat king kapamahalan ning China, kayabe la reng periodista, ampong start-up company technologist ibat kingEstados Unidos,Taiwan,Europa,Australia, ampongSouth Africa.[1] Lalarawan ne ning pahayagangThe Guardian iJulian Assange, metungAustralianongInternet activist), antimong director.[3]
Sinambut neng mapilang galal ing WikiLeaks, kayabe ya ing 2008Economist magazine New Media Award.[4] Aniang Junio 2009, ing WikiLeaks ampo i Julian Assange sinambut langAmnesty International UK Media Award (king categoriang "New Media") para king pamibulalag na aniang 2008 ning "Kenya: The Cry of Blood – Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances",[5] metung a ulat ningKenya National Commission on Human Rights tungkul kareng pamakamate ning policia king Kenya.[6] Aniang Mayo 2010, linista ne ningNew York Daily News ing WikiLeaks a mumuna king pamituki-tuki da reng "websites that could totally change the news".[7] Sinuporta ya ing Russia king WikiLeaks ampo ing kayang talatátag a iJulian Assange kapamilatan ning pamipahayag a i dapat yang mirinanNobel Peace Prize i Assange, king miliari kaibat ning pamikalat da rengUnited States diplomatic cables leak.[8]
Aniang Abril 2010, miglual yang video ing WikiLeaks ibat kingincidenti aniang 2007 nung nu pete dong fuerzang Americanu deng in Iraqi civilians ampong periodista king karinan-Aptas o website a maki lagiungCollateral Murder. Aniang Julio ning banua, pepalual ne ning WikiLeaks ingAfghan War Diary, metung a pamitipun da reng maigit 76,900 documentu tungkul kingGuerra king Afghanistan a e sadiang makalual king malda.[9] Aniang Octubre, miglual la ing grupung alus 400,000 documentung ausan dangIraq War Logs kayantabe la reng mangaragul a agumang pang-mediang pang-negocio. Aniang Noviembre 2010, migumpisa yang maglualU.S. State department diplomatic cables ing WikiLeaks.
Aniang mumuna, metung yang user-editablewiki site ing WikiLeaks, oneng kinimut ya paras king istilong mas tradicional a limbagan, at e ne tatanggap comento o pamagbayu o pamaniusug. Maliari yang akua ing karinan kareng dakal a server ampong miayaliwangdomain name kaibat ning mapilangdenial-of-service attack ampo ing kayang pamikawani kareng miayaliwangDomain Name System (DNS) provider.[10][11]
VideoArchived Disyembri 17, 2010 at theWayback Machine of Julian Assange on a panel at the 2010 Logan Symposium in Investigative Reporting at the UC Berkeley (18 April 2010)
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