At the time of posting, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been hospitalized inside Belmarsh prison and his health is steadily deteriorating. He faces extradition to the United States to face espionage charges and faces a 175 years prison sentence.
This brings us to to Deep Dives #15 and it's now more important than ever to dig deep into the material Wikileaks has made public. Deep Dives has previously hosted seven research challenges into the organization's archive and has uncovered a wide range of underreported articles thanks to Wikileaks.
It's time to get back to digging in the vaults and back to building an immutable collection of research on chain.
As is customary at #deepdives we're returning to the mountainous collection that makes up the Wikileaks archive. Arguably the most trusted publicly available archive and one of the largest collections of raw government documents, files, emails, and cables anywhere across the internet.
“WikiLeaks is a giant library of the world’s most persecuted documents. We give asylum to these documents, we analyze them, we promote them and we obtain more.”
Back in late 2016, Wikileaks revealed the existence of a little-known index that combines onsite and offsite resources relating to Wikileaks material. This invaluable tool helps make the mammoth amount of documents available on the Wikileaks website more accessible and systematic.
When engaging in research of government websites, intelligence agencies and whistleblower sites, such as Wikileaks, we strongly urge you to take all necessary precautions.
We recommend that you take the time to properly explore available privacy tools and VPNs.
Check out the inaugural Deep Dives Challenge for tips on protecting yourself, here.
Find an overlooked, underrated, underreported or obscure leak/ email/ cable/document/ court filing on a topic that interests you.
Build a post around your findings
Provide additional sources to make your case and strengthen your position
Explain the significance of the leak and why it’s an important piece of news that should be communicated to the public.
If you’re having trouble finding a focus, begin with a person, country or topic of interest such as; Clinton / Netanyahu / Gaddafi / Saudi Arabia / China / Chemical Weapons / Free Trade / Trafficking / etc.
You never know what will turn up!
Rules
Help spread the word, resteem this post
Limited to 2 contest entries per account
Submissions must be made in a separate post (not in the comments)
Submissions must be posted before the deadline (Monday, July 1st 2019, UTC 12.00.00PM)
This research challenge is open for three weeks
Use the lead tag “deepdives”
Your entry must include references to a document/documents found in the Wikileaks archive
Provide a link to the specific document or page
Make an attempt to keep your post concise and to the point
You may leave a link to your entry in the comments below
Please, do not plagiarize the work of others
Note: This round of Deep Dives is open for over three weeks. Also, contributors are allowed to make 2 entries during this extended challenge period!
Winners
The Winning Post Should
Meet the rules criteria
Winners will be announced 72hrs after the submission deadline
Well researched
Fully sourced
Clearly presented
Original Content (not widely reported on in the media)
Significance should be clearly articulated
3 Outstanding contributions will be acknowledged
Prizes
Liquid STEEM (or SBD) earned by the original contest post will make up the total rewards
Bonus @v4vapid & @ausbitbank upvotes and resteems for exceptional and/or original contributions
SP earned from challenge announcements and the winner’s announcements will go to the community account @deepdives
Contributions
Those that do not ‘win’ should not view their work and efforts as being wasted. All submissions are valuable and will be contributing to building a body of research on the blockchain. We hope that contributors support each other’s efforts wherever possible whether by sharing tips, links or through constructive feedback to their fellow researchers.
Recognize and reward high quality original content
Over time, Deep Dives aims to build a repository of high quality research and original content preserved on the blockchain.
We hope you join us in building this unique resource.
It truly is a community effort and your exceptional contributions are what fuels this project.
@v4vapid & 
@ausbitbank upvotes and resteems for exceptional and/or original contributions 
@deepdives 
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@krnel, 
@geke, 
@bifiracoil, 
@thoughts-in-time, 
@direrat, 
@an0nkn0wledge, 
@gregorypatrick, 
@deliberator, 
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@elchacal6, 
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@valued-customer, 