History founding julian assange is a founding member of the wikileaks staff The inspiration for wikileaks was daniel ellsberg 's release of the pentagon papers in 1971 Assange built wikileaks to shorten the time between a leak and its coverage by the media. Wikileaks, media organization and website that functioned as a clearinghouse for classified or otherwise privileged information Wikileaks was founded in 2006 by australian computer programmer and activist julian assange. Wikileaks is a whistleblowing platform founded by julian assange
It was established to obtain and disseminate classified documents and data sets from anonymous sources and leakers. Wikileaks was already established as an online outlet for posting secret documents from anonymous leakers well before its massive disclosure of u.s Government and military information in 2010.
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