Julian Assange went from obscurity to global notoriety in 2010 as WikiLeaks published the Collateral Murder video, the war logs and the diplomatic cables. By December he was in a London court, Time readers had voted him Person of the Year, and Anonymous was attacking his critics.
- Role
- Founder and editor
- Organisation
- WikiLeaks
Known for in 2010
- Publishing the Afghan and Iraq war logs
- Cablegate (November 2010)
- Arrest in London (December 2010)
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WikiLeaks
Collateral Murder, the war logs and Cablegate
WikiLeaks defined the news in 2010. It published the Collateral Murder helicopter video in April, the Afghan War Diary in July, the Iraq War Logs in October, and began releasing US diplomatic cables...
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Cablegate: WikiLeaks begins publishing US diplomatic cables
WikiLeaks and five newspapers began releasing 251,287 US State Department cables. Within days Amazon, PayPal, Visa and MasterCard cut the site off, and its domain was dropped.
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Anonymous attacks PayPal, Visa and MasterCard for WikiLeaks
In Operation Payback, Anonymous volunteers used the LOIC tool to knock the websites of companies that had cut off WikiLeaks offline for hours.
