recently i visited the wikileaks site to find all the leaks and i saw that there's no leaks after 2018. does anyone knows why?

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i wonder if assange would go down the same path again. if it was worth it to him personally. i guess we will never know honestly what he would answer

First of all, I am happy to see Assange is not going to serve a life sentence in jail. However, as we are all aware of the abolishing leaks, broken links, and inaccessible files, as well as inactive moderation, I wanted to ask about the future of the WikiLeaks Foundation. Do you think there will be a website that operates as a half data lake half leaks media agency that will channel the hacktivist initiative?

I vaguely remember during this whole saga (and sometime before the Ecuador embassy) that Wikileaks asked the US government to help redact/curate, but the US government flatly refused because they didn't want to legitimize Wikileaks as a news organization (at which point Wikileaks/Assange started facing more precariousness / less funding and losing allies in the established fourth estate, and thus acting more "recklessly") but I can't find this information anywhere.

I remember I used to quote an article as well, but it's like this news item has been scrubbed from the internet. Does anyone know what I'm referring to?

edit: found it! "The State Department refused a request from WikiLeaks to help redact sensitive information before the documents were released in November"...thank you u/SSAUS

I just watched the Fifth Estate, it talks about how Julian Assange started WikiLeaks and it's early days. My question was how did he afford to go around the world as often as he did? How did he even afford to go so long without pay and before he amounted such a net worth?