WikiLeaks
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| June 2024 | Julian Assange pled guilty to one count of violating the Espionage Act, was sentenced to time served, and agreed to instruct WikiLeaks to destroy or return unpublished documents. |
| 2023 | Julian Assange stated that WikiLeaks is no longer able to publish due to his imprisonment, US government surveillance, and funding restrictions. |
| November 2022 | Numerous documents on WikiLeaks' website became inaccessible. |
| August 2022 | Four of Assange's American lawyers and journalists filed a lawsuit against the CIA, Mike Pompeo, UC Global, and David Morales over the surveillance. |
| July 2022 | Joshua Schulte was convicted of sending the Vault 7 documents to WikiLeaks, which originally leaked in 2017. |
| 2021 | WikiLeaks published a searchable library of 17,000 documents from right-wing groups HazteOir and CitizenGo, which were originally briefly available online in 2017 before being removed due to legal action. |
| October 2021 | Assange's lawyers introduced alleged CIA kidnapping and assassination plots during a London High Court hearing. |
| April 2021 | A sting operation revealed allegations of a pro-Assad conspiracy involving WikiLeaks, Russian diplomats, and Julian Assange's lawyer Melinda Taylor attempting to undermine the OPCW's investigation. |
| 2020 | The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange documentary by Juan Passarelli is released. |
| December 2020 | A Secret Australia: Revealed by the WikiLeaks Exposés book is published, containing 18 essays about WikiLeaks' impact on Australian media and government. |
| June 2020 | The Department of Justice filed an indictment against Julian Assange, including allegations of conspiring and attempting to recruit Anonymous and LulzSec hackers. |
| June 24 2020 | A superseding indictment was filed against Assange, adding to previous allegations. |
| 2019 | Julian Assange was removed from the Ecuadorian embassy, arrested by London Metropolitan Police, and faced an unsealed U.S. indictment. |
| 2019 | Tulsi Gabbard spoke out about the 'chilling effect on investigative journalism' following the U.S. government's reclassification of WikiLeaks from 'news organization' to 'hostile intelligence service' and Assange's arrest. |
| 2019 | WikiLeaks published its most recent original documents. |
| November 2019 | WikiLeaks released an email from an unnamed OPCW investigator alleging a cover-up of discrepancies in the 2018 Douma chemical attack investigation, challenging the organization's official report. |
| November 12 2019 | WikiLeaks published the Fishrot Files, a collection of documents exposing potential corruption in Namibia's fishing industry, detailing how Samherji, an Icelandic company, allegedly paid officials to acquire fishing quotas. The files were provided by Jóhannes Stefánsson. |
| September 26 2019 | El País reported that UC Global had spied on Assange for the CIA during his time in the Ecuadorian embassy. |
| July 30 2019 | Democratic National Committee lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice by Judge John Koeltl. |
| April 2019 | WikiLeaks declared it would initiate legal action against The Guardian after successfully raising a $50,000 legal fund to support the lawsuit. |
| April 16 2019 | Mairead Maguire accepted the 2019 GUE/NGL Award for Journalists, Whistleblowers & Defenders of the Right to Information on behalf of Julian Assange. |
| April 11 2019 | Julian Assange was charged in a computer hacking conspiracy. |
| April 10 2019 | WikiLeaks claimed to have uncovered an extensive surveillance operation against Assange while he was in the Ecuadorian embassy. |
| January 2019 | WikiLeaks sent journalists a 'confidential legal communication' listing 140 things not to say about Julian Assange, which was subsequently leaked online. |
| 2018 | The Atlantic published an analysis suggesting significant changes in WikiLeaks' operations since the publication of Collateral Murder, with a senior editor noting the organization had become less straightforward. |
| 2018 | Distributed Denial of Secrets, a whistleblower site, was founded, known for publishing internal police documents (BlueLeaks) and data on various topics including Russian oligarchs and shell companies. |
| 2018 | Wau Holland Foundation reimburses Sunshine Press Productions for WikiLeaks' publications, public relations efforts, and provides $50,000 for legal expenses in the Democratic National Committee v. Russian Federation lawsuit. |
| 2018 | 'Tens of thousands' of files from WikiLeaks laptops were leaked to the Associated Press. |
| November 2018 | WikiLeaks announced plans to sue The Guardian for libel over a report claiming Paul Manafort had secret talks with Julian Assange during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. |
| November 2018 | An accidental filing indicated undisclosed charges against Julian Assange. |
| October 2018 | Documents released by Ecuador confirmed discussions about giving Assange a diplomatic posting in Russia, which Britain refused. |
| September 28 2018 | WikiLeaks released information about a dispute over a commission payment in a France-UAE arms deal between Nexter Systems and the United Arab Emirates, involving allegations of broker Abbas Ibrahim Yousef Al Yousef claiming he was underpaid by $40 million for his role in a 1993 arms deal involving 46 armoured vehicles and 388 Leclerc combat tanks. |
| September 26 2018 | Julian Assange appointed Kristinn Hrafnsson as editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, while Assange continued as its publisher. |
| July 2018 | The Mueller investigation indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers for hacking and leaking the Podesta emails. |
| June 22 2018 | WikiLeaks published documents containing personal details of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees scraped from LinkedIn, aiming to increase accountability regarding ICE's border policies, particularly the separation of children from parents at the US border. |
| April 2018 | WikiLeaks offered a $100,000 reward for confidential information about the alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria. |
| April 20 2018 | Democratic National Committee filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Russia, Trump campaign, WikiLeaks, and Julian Assange. |
| February 2018 | Leaked conversations revealed Assange expressing a preference for a Republican victory in the 2016 election, claiming that Clinton's presidency would silence opposition. |
| February 8 2018 | The UK Supreme Court unanimously allowed a WikiLeaks-leaked diplomatic document to be admitted as evidence, ruling that because the document had been widely disseminated, it had lost its typical Vienna Convention protections. |
| 2017 | Russian diplomats reportedly had secret talks with people close to Julian Assange about helping him flee the UK, with Russia as a potential destination. |
| 2017 | Newt Gingrich, who previously called for Assange to be treated as an 'enemy combatant', praised him as a 'down to Earth, straight forward interviewee'. |
| 2017 | WikiLeaks' website traffic was diverted through DNS hijacking. |
| 2017 | In an interview with Amy Goodman, Assange compared the 2016 presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, stating he would 'prefer neither'. |
| December 2017 | WikiLeaks confirms raising at least $25 million in Bitcoin donations. |
| November 2017 | Secret correspondence between WikiLeaks and Donald Trump Jr. is revealed, showing active solicitation of campaign cooperation and strategic communication attempts. |
| November 9 2017 | WikiLeaks began publishing Vault 8, releasing source code and analysis of CIA software projects, specifically the source code and development logs for Hive, a covert CIA communications platform. |
| October 2017 | Julian Assange announces that WikiLeaks has made a 50,000% return on Bitcoin investments. |
| September 2017 | WikiLeaks released 'Spy Files Russia', exposing how Peter-Service, a Saint Petersburg-based technology company, assisted state entities in gathering detailed mobile phone user data through the national online surveillance system SORM. |
| August 16 2017 | US Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher visited Assange, allegedly offering a presidential pardon conditional on Assange stating Russia was not involved in the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leaks. |
| May 5 2017 | WikiLeaks posts links to the leaked Macron campaign emails, publicizing them through the #MacronLeaks hashtag, just three-and-a-half hours after the first tweet with the hashtag appeared. |
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