Wikileaks Political Bias

The cluster focuses on accusations of Wikileaks' selective publishing and political motivations, especially withholding Russia-related leaks during the 2016 US election and perceived bias favoring Trump over Clinton.

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theverge.com US PR RNC foreignpolicy.com twitter.com wikileaks.org CCC WikiLeaks NYT wikileaks assange leaks trump leaked documents releases manning jr organizations

Sample Comments

chris11 Apr 11, 2019 View on HN

This has definitely happened. Wikileaks refused to release info on Russia during the 2016 election. Wikileaks may have started out with good intentions, but it seems to be making some explicitly political actions.https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...<a

Kristine1975 Aug 10, 2016 View on HN

Indeed. You might be interested in this article about Wikileak's recent activities: https://theintercept.com/2016/08/06/accusing-wikileaks-bias-...

rtra Nov 29, 2010 View on HN

Do you have reasons to suspect that wikileaks has withheld leaked non-US documents?

longlivegnu Apr 17, 2015 View on HN

Wikileaks has been like this for a while

scoot_718 Dec 30, 2020 View on HN

That looks more like Wikileaks cares about who it is damaging to.

donky_cong Dec 28, 2011 View on HN

Where is WikiLeaks when its needed

nsajko Jul 13, 2015 View on HN

Wikileaks' purpose is to publish leaked data, not tamper with it.

ceejayoz Apr 27, 2017 View on HN

Not shocking, considering Wikileaks being anti-leaks when they affected Trump. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/817322050297745408

travmatt Jun 25, 2020 View on HN

Don’t worry, he doesn’t publish everything he’s given.https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/9/9/12864328/wiki...

higherpurpose Jul 13, 2015 View on HN

Because Wikileaks is out to get you.