WikiLeaks says hundreds of doctors demand Julian Assange’s release—including ‘Dr. Boner 69’

WikiLeaks claimed on Monday that more than 300 doctors signed an open letter calling for the release of its founder Julian Assange. Yet its list of signatories appears to have been trolled, including a “Dr. Boner 69.” The online leak-publishing organization stated this week that healthcare professionals from over 35 countries petitioned both the U.S. … Read more

WikiLeaks quietly launches new submission portal and it doesn’t even seem to work

WikiLeaks quietly launched a new document submission portal for whistleblowers after its previous portal was offline for months. But it appears the new submission system doesn’t even work. The new portal, discovered this week by Emma Best, co-founder of the journalism collective DDoSecrets, was never publicly announced by WikiLeaks. Hosted on what’s known as an … Read more

Submitting docs to WikiLeaks is seemingly impossible amid uptick in hacktivism against Russia

The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to a prominent surge in hacktivism across the globe, yet the transparency organization WikiLeaks has seemingly made it impossible to provide them with any leaks. Ukraine last week took the unusual step of asking for volunteers from the country’s hacker underground in an effort to protect critical … Read more