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Wikileaks deployed an extensive and rigorous redaction process that met or exceeded journalistic standards. You can read more about it here: https://assangedef
by the_optimist 5y ago
Wikileaks deployed an extensive and rigorous redaction process that met or exceeded journalistic standards. You can read more about it here:
https://assangedefense.org/hearing-coverage/wikileaks-redaction-process-and-the-unredacted-cables/ https://assangedefense.org/hearing-coverage/wikileaks-redact...
- varjag 5y agoWikileaks is one man with a few cult followers. Any feel-good standard they put in place can be overridden at his whim. There are enough ex-cultist testimonies to that effect.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoYou could comfortably say something analogous about the UK's tabloid press. The Daily Mail is sued - and loses - so regularly management seem to consider it a legitimate business expense.
- varjag 5y agoSorry I'm not the one to defend Daily Mail.
- mhh__ 5y agoDidn't they release the CC details of a bunch of democrat donors unredacted?
- ggrrhh_ta 5y agothey didn't. A journalist of one of the main news media that had access to the raw data published the key to decrypt the raw data.
- mhh__ 5y agohttps://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/7/22/12259258/wikileaks-leaked-democratic-national-committee-emails-personal-information https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/7/22/12259258/wik... ?
- ggrrhh_ta 5y agoDo you mean the emails that were made available in the form of thousands of PDFs by the US State Department as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request and that wikileaks made searchable? That is a different case: https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/?q=&mfrom=Hillary+Clinton&page=6&#searchresult https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/?q=&mfrom=Hillary+Clint...