"One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth." ---> what is the truth?
"WikiLeaks has sustained and triumphed against legal and political attacks designed to silence our publishing organisation, our journalists and our anonymous sources."
"The broader principles on which our work is based are the defence of freedom of speech and media publishing, the improvement of our common historical record and the support of the rights of all people to create new history. We derive these principles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." ---> NEW history? other version of history?
"Our news stories are in the comfortable presentation style of Wikipedia, although the two organisations are not otherwise related." ---> what if people get the impression it IS wikipedia? how will they respond? will they be still able to distinguish reality from fiction?
"As the media organisation has grown and developed, WikiLeaks been developing and improving a harm minimisation procedure. We do not censor our news, but from time to time we may remove or significantly delay the publication of some identifying details from original documents to protect life and limb of innocent people."
---> Amnesty International expressed it concern about revealing identities of american informers in Afghanistan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/10/afghanistan-war-logs-wikileaks-human-rights-groups
"Better scrutiny leads to reduced corruption and stronger democracies in all society’s institutions, including government, corporations and other organisations." ---> what if a democracy gets destroyed by your leaks?
"WikiLeaks has provided a new model of journalism. […] We don’t hoard our information; we make the original documents available with our news stories. Readers can verify the truth of what we have reported themselves." ---> are you sure that average people are able to understand them properly?
"Our verification process does not mean we will never make a mistake, but so far our method has meant that WikiLeaks has correctly identified the veracity of every document it has published." ---> aren't the information too important and influential not to be 100% sure? what is this disclaimer for?
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