{"slug": "wikileaks", "label": "WikiLeaks", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q359", "qid": "Q359", "description": "organization that publishes leaks provided by anonymous sources", "entries": 15, "years": 9, "span": [2006, 2024], "span_label": ["2006 CE", "2024 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 6}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 2}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "united-kingdom", "label": "United Kingdom", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pakistan", "label": "Pakistan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "afghanistan", "label": "Afghanistan", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 2006, "year_label": "2006 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 1", "text": "December 1 – WikiLeaks leaks Hassan Dahir Aweys' conspiracy to assassinate Somali government officials.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373069605#December", "title": "2006", "revid": 1373069605, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 2007, "year_label": "2007 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 7", "text": "November 7 – Whistleblower website WikiLeaks leaks the standard US army protocol at Guantanamo Bay.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370930640#November", "title": "2007", "revid": 1370930640, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 2008, "year_label": "2008 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 18", "text": "February 18 – WikiLeaks releases allegations of illegal activities carried out by the Cayman Islands branch of Swiss banking corporation Julius Baer; a subsequent lawsuit against WikiLeaks prompts a temporary suspension of the website, but uproar about violations of freedom of speech causes WikiLeaks to be brought back online.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372634791#February", "title": "2008", "revid": 1372634791, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 2009, "year_label": "2009 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 28", "text": "January 28 – WikiLeaks releases 86 intercepted telephone recordings of politicians and businessmen involved in the 2008 Peru oil scandal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367728140#January", "title": "2009", "revid": 1367728140, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2009, "year_label": "2009 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "October 20", "text": "October 20 – WikiLeaks leaked the membership listing of a radical political group known as the British National Party.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367728140#October", "title": "2009", "revid": 1367728140, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2009, "year_label": "2009 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "September 22", "text": "September 22 – WikiLeaks exposes the contents of Kaupthing Bank's internal documents prior to the Icelandic Financial Crisis. These documents showed suspicious amounts of money were loaned to bank owners, and debts being written off.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367728140#September", "title": "2009", "revid": 1367728140, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2010, "year_label": "2010 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 5", "text": "April 5 – Julian Assange leaks footage of a 2007 airstrike in Iraq titled \"Collateral Murder\" on the website WikiLeaks.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372829682#April", "title": "2010", "revid": 1372829682, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2010, "year_label": "2010 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 – WikiLeaks, an online publisher of anonymous, covert, and classified material, leaks to the public over 90,000 internal reports about the United States-led involvement in the War in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372829682#July", "title": "2010", "revid": 1372829682, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2010, "year_label": "2010 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "November 28", "text": "November 28 – WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked \"secret\" or \"confidential\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372829682#November", "title": "2010", "revid": 1372829682, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 2010, "year_label": "2010 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 22", "text": "October 22 – The 2010 Iraq War Documents leak occurs, being deemed the biggest US government leak in history. WikiLeaks being responsible for revealing 391832 documents concerning the 2003 Iraq War which revealed approximately 60% of the Iraqi deaths were civilian casualties, the Iraq War body count project showing the casualty percentage is closer to 80%.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372829682#October", "title": "2010", "revid": 1372829682, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2010, "year_label": "2010 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 22", "text": "September 22 – Anonymous initiates Operation Payback, a coordinated cyberattack on multiple corporations, law firms, and politicians over the banning of file-sharing websites such as LimeWire and The Pirate Bay and also the politicians and financial institutions against WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372829682#September", "title": "2010", "revid": 1372829682, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2011, "year_label": "2011 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 24", "text": "April 24 – The 2011 Guantanamo Bay files leak occurs, WikiLeaks and other organisations publishing 779 classified documents about Guantanamo Bay detainees, and it had been exposed 150 innocent citizens from Afghanistan and Pakistan were held in the camp without trial and detainees being as young as 14 years old.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372940525#April", "title": "2011", "revid": 1372940525, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2016, "year_label": "2016 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 7", "text": "October 7 – Three events that will play a significant role in the 2016 United States presidential election all take place on the same afternoon: (1) U.S. intelligence agencies publicly accuse the Russian government of using computer hacking to interfere with the U.S. election process; (2) The Washington Post releases a videotape showing candidate Donald Trump privately bragging about sexual improprieties; (3) WikiLeaks releases thousands of private emails from inside the political campaign of candidate Hillary Clinton.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373421880#October", "title": "2016", "revid": 1373421880, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2019, "year_label": "2019 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 11", "text": "April 11 – WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is arrested after seven years in Ecuador's embassy in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373255188#April", "title": "2019", "revid": 1373255188, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2024, "year_label": "2024 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "June 24", "text": "June 24 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves the United Kingdom after being freed from prison in a plea deal with the United States. He returns to his native Australia two days later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371869228#June", "title": "2024", "revid": 1371869228, "section": "Events › June"}}]}