WikiLeaks

Ever since the site was created in 2006 by computer programmer and activist Julian Assange, WikiLeaks data dumps have received massive public attention from around the world. It’s worth a whole section but in the interest of clarity, here’s a snapshot of what the whistleblowing website covers, plus examples in each category.

• Intelligence: This series, which is organized into sub-categories, gathers classified information about the infrastructure, practices, policies and implementations the intelligence industry and U.S. government use to spy on citizens, foreign governments (even allies) and intergovernmental departments.

• Global Economy: A range of detailed information pertaining to global high-stakes topics, most recently including the internal campaign emails of the 2017 French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron (who is now president).

• International Politics: Most prominent in this section is the confidential reports leaked from the United Nations that chronicle corrupt practices from sexual abuse to financial fraud. There’s also an email archiveof the communications of Turkey’s Justice and Development party, documents about European Union-led military operations regarding refugee boats, and more.

• Corporations: Inside the scandals and coverups involving major corporate entities including a dossier about the infamous Sony hack, records regarding global surveillance malware vendor Hacking Team, an archive of taped material showing insight into a corruption scandal involving two former U.S. presidents, and more.

• Government: This category broadly embroils all of the previous sections combined.

• War & Military: Largely, this section is made up of documents, revelations, reports and archives of classified U.S. military ops in Iraq and Afghanistan. There’s also a trove of witness accounts and records about the inner-practices of the U.S.’s nightmarish detention facility in Guantanamo.

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