presidential election campaign, WikiLeaks released emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and from Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, showing that the party's national committee had effectively acted as an arm of the Clinton campaign during the primaries, seeking to undercut the campaign of Bernie Sanders. WikiLeaks has also published documents exposing corruption in Kenya and at Samherji, cyber warfare and surveillance tools created by the CIA, and surveillance of the French president by the National Security Agency. It published thousands of US military field logs from the war in Aghanistan and Iraq war, diplomatic cables from the United States and Saudi Arabia, and emails from the governments of Syria and Turkey. It released footage of the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike, titling it Collateral Murder, in which Iraqi Reuters journalists and several civilians were killed by a U.S. WikiLeaks has released document caches and media that exposed serious violations of human rights and civil liberties by various governments. In 2023, Assange said that WikiLeaks is no longer able to publish due to his imprisonment and the effect that US government surveillance and WikiLeaks' funding restrictions were having on potential whistleblowers. From November 2022, numerous documents on the organisation's website became inaccessible. WikiLeaks' most recent publication of original documents was in 2019 and its most recent publication was in 2021. Its website states that it has released more than ten million documents and associated analyses. Since September 2018, Kristinn Hrafnsson has served as its editor-in-chief. It was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange, an Australian editor, publisher, and activist, who is currently challenging extradition to the United States over his work with WikiLeaks. It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources. It is a non-profit and is funded by donations and media partnerships. WikiLeaks ( / ˈ w ɪ k i l iː k s/) is a media organisation and publisher of leaked documents.
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