Politics Buzz Mastercard may have virtually bankrupted Wikileaks, but that hasn't erased the impact they've made so far. To find out more on how to help Wikileaks, visit Wikileaks.org/support.
Culture Buzz The News of the World/Rupert Murdoch/phone hacking scandal is going to make for an awesome movie (one that will hopefully be scripted by Aaron Sorkin, directed by Stephen Frears and called something like “Citizen Murdoch” or “Hacked: A Tale Of Power And Tragedy.”). Here's my casting wishlist. Since you are a very opinionated internet, surely you have your own ideas as to who should play Rebekah Brooks, Hugh Grant, Wendi Deng, et al. Play casting couch in the comments!
Major credit card companies have withheld over $15 Million in donations to WikiLeaks. So this parody ad on behalf of WikiLeaks kind of wrote itself.
“There are some people who don't like change. For everyone else, there's WikiLeaks.” Brilliant.
Politics Buzz Newly released documents from WikiLeaks shed new light on the prisoners and operations of Guantánamo. Here's a quick guide to reading.
Wikileaks is super hot on the BuzzFeed Network right now. Here's all the best viral buzz on Wikileaks.
Julian Assange shakes his WikiLeaks to Rebecca Black. It's a Friday “Friday” Dance-A-Thon with Julian Assange, Thom Yorke and Hassan Baba!
Here's footage of the WikiLeaks honcho heating things up on a dance floor in Reykjavík, Iceland. Perhaps the one thing Julian Assange would like to keep hidden from the public. And, naturally, there's already a remix.
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/22/wikileaks-cables-cause-...
Recently released WikiLeaks cables suggest the ruling party in India paid for votes to ensure a nuclear deal with the U.S.
A true story about Julian Assange being an ungrateful and rude couch surfer, reenacted. He left WikiLeaks stains all over the furniture.
Bank of America is super hot on the BuzzFeed Network right now. Here's all the best viral buzz on Bank of America.
Among the recent, Egypt-related Wikileaks is this document from 2008 revealing that the State Department asked YouTube to unban videos by an Egyptian blogger depicting police abuse. Gawker has suggested that the blogger in question was probably Wael Abbas, who is profiled in this New York Times piece. (Via TechCrunch.)
Culture Buzz A site that lets you paint the WikiLeaks founder by numbers. You can color him an enemy of the state or a digital revolutionary or a Larry King. Make your own here!
Politics Buzz The U.S. Justice Department has ordered Twitter to hand over data associated with multiple user accounts, in preparation for legal action related to Wikileaks.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/22/julian-assange-m...
Also compares himself to Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Jews.
http://www.slate.com/id/2278906/
Assange may be less a revolutionary martyr and more a creep.
http://www.businessinsider.com/confirmed-bank-of-america-...
Even more good publicity for Bank of America.
http://dealbreaker.com/2010/12/julian-assange-has-a-treat...
Bank of America, come on down!
http://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-america-registers-...
In anticipation of the WikiLeaks, no doubt.
Uh oh, WikiLeaks has published Santa's naughty list. Man, these kids are so f*cked.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-12-17...
Bradley Manning, who allegedly leaked hundreds of thousands of secret government documents to Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks, turns 23 in jail Friday.
A street artist is posting stills around San Francisco from the WikiLeaked “Collateral Murder” video as seen through the eyes of Master Chief. This is a Halo: Breach of security!
Culture Buzz In Fox News' coverage of Operation Payback, Glenn Beck displayed a casual ignorance of Anonymous, equating them with Wikileaks while asserting that physical violence was the inevitable outcome (video below). Now Anonymous has issued an open letter in response.
For when you don't want your wiki to leak. Sounds convincing to me. Try and top that Kotex!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-12-14...
The openness and transparency WikiLeaks has given us is invaluable—which is why I’m donating $20,000 to get its founder out of jail.