The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is currently being held prisoner at the 'Her Majesty's Prison Belmarsh', a category A men's prison in London.
The longtime editor-in-chief of Wikileaks is facing extradition to the United States where he will face charges relating to espionage. Assange was forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy and arrested by UK police on April 11th, 2019.
Assange is being persecuted for his journalistic activities that include publishing information related to US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Welcome to Deep Dives #18. This is the 9th Deep Dives research challenge with a spotlight on the Wikileaks archive. Many under-reported articles have been produced by Deep Dives researchers on a variety of topics originating from material found in the archive.
It's time to get back to digging in the vaults and back to building an archive of research on the blockchain.
The Wikileaks archive is arguably the most trusted publicly available archive and one of the largest collections of 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 our Resources for Researchers post for tips on protecting yourself online and resources for diggers.
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, reblog 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
(UTC - Monday, June 8th 2020, UTC 11.59.00PM)
This research challenge is open for THREE weeks
Please make sure to post or cross-post to the “deep dives community" page
Indicate that your post is a DD18 entree in the title of your post (so we don't miss it)
Your entry must include references to a document/documents found in the a publicly available 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
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
*Winners will be announced within a week of the submission deadline
Prizes
1st Prize = 30 Hive
2nd Prize = 12.5 Hive
3rd Prize = 7.5 Hive
The current prize pool is 50 Hive to be divided between the top 3 submissions.
Winning posts will be Pinned and Featured on the Deep Dives Community page
HP earned from challenge announcements and the winner’s announcements will go to the community account Hive 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.
Good luck and happy digging!
Deep Dives Community
Contributors
Be sure to check out some of the great work done by Deep Dives contributors over the last several months. Past winners and contributors include:
Be sure to check out some of the great work done by Deep Dives contributors. Past winners and contributors include:
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.
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