WikiLeaks is an international self-described not-for-profit organization that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news, sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers. Its website, launched in 2006 under The Sunshine Press organization, claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents within a year of its launch. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder, editor-in-chief, and director.
In November 2010, WikiLeaks collaborated with major global media organizations to release U.S. State department diplomatic cables in redacted format. The release was nicknamed CableGate referencing the Watergate scandal and implying that this release was as dramatic as the Presidential scandal.
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