{"id":1528,"date":"2010-11-29T05:52:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T13:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2010-11-29T05:52:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T13:52:41","slug":"the-wikileaks-and-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"The WikiLeaks and News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. According to them it&#8217;s\u00a0 goal is to bring important news and information to the public. They\u00a0 provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to their\u00a0 journalists . The organisation was officially launched in 2007 and its <em>founder<\/em> is\u00a0 Julian Assange<\/p>\n<p>The organization has described itself as having been founded by  Chinese dissidents, as well as journalists, mathematicians, and start-up  company technologists from the U.S., Taiwan,  Europe, Australia, and South Africa.<sup id=\"cite_ref-aboutwikileaks_0-2\"><span> <\/span><span> <\/span><\/sup> Newspaper articles and <em>The New Yorker<\/em> magazine (7 June 2010) describe Julian Assange, an Australian journalist and Internet  activist, as its director.<\/p>\n<p>WikiLeaks has won a number of awards, including the 2008 <em>Economist<\/em> magazine New Media Award. In June 2009, WikiLeaks and Julian Assange won Amnesty International&#8217;s UK Media Award (in the  category &#8220;New Media&#8221;) for the 2008 publication of &#8220;Kenya: The Cry of  Blood\u00a0\u2013 Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances&#8221;, a report by the Kenya National  Commission on Human Rights about police killings in Kenya. In May 2010, the <em>New York Daily News<\/em> listed  WikiLeaks first in a ranking of &#8220;websites that could totally change the  news&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WikiLeaks\u00a0 Recently in News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday 28th Novembre 2010, Wikileaks began publishing 251,287 leaked  United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents  ever to be released into the public domain. The documents will give  people around the world an unprecedented insight into the US  Government&#8217;s foreign activities.<\/p>\n<p>The official Website address of\u00a0 WikiLeaks is<\/p>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/wikileaks.org\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/wikileaks.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. According to them it&#8217;s\u00a0 goal is to bring important news and information to the public. They\u00a0 provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=1528\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[207,463,9326,9327,9328,9329,9330,9331,9332,9333,9334,9335,9336],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-today","tag-current-affairs","tag-current-affairs-today","tag-julian-assange","tag-julian-assange-wikileaks-founder","tag-the-wikileaks","tag-who-is-the-wikileaks-founder","tag-wikileaks","tag-wikileaks-founder","tag-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange","tag-wikileaks-latest-news","tag-wikileaks-news","tag-wikileaks-recently-in-news","tag-wikileaks-website","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}