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Why The World Needs WikiLeaks

Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006 to provide whistleblowers an anonymous way to publish documents exposing unethical behavior, corruption, and wrongful acts by governments and corporations to reveal truths that could advance democracy. WikiLeaks publishes classified media and documents from anonymous sources to shine light on what is really happening behind closed doors.

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Why The World Needs WikiLeaks

Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006 to provide whistleblowers an anonymous way to publish documents exposing unethical behavior, corruption, and wrongful acts by governments and corporations to reveal truths that could advance democracy. WikiLeaks publishes classified media and documents from anonymous sources to shine light on what is really happening behind closed doors.

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Why the world needs

WikiLeaks?
Who is Julian Assange?

•An Australian
editor, publisher
and activist who
founded WikiLeaks
in 2006
What is WikiLeaks?
• WikiLeaks is a whistleblowing
website that was founded by
Julian Assange in 2006.
• Its purpose was to provide
whistleblowers with a
medium to publish their case
to the general public and
preserve their identity.
What is WikiLeaks?
• According to Margaret Rouse (2010),
WikiLeaks is an independent, non-
profit online media organization
that publishes submissions of
otherwise unavailable documents
from anonymous sources.
• The WikiLeaks website was launched
in 2006 by the Sunshine Press.
Why the world needs WikiLeaks?
• It has many benefits and can help the progress of
democracy.
• This can help to reveal what is really happening behind
the governments and corporations.
• It can reveal their unethical behavior.
• It also exposes corruption and wrongful acts of the people
in any government and corporations.
• It can reveal the truth about their leaders and what their
governments is actually doing with their money.

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