Julian Assange
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Julian Assange is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist born in 1971 who became internationally known for his work in digital journalism and information disclosure. His activities have generated significant debate about transparency, national security, and freedom of the press.
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- 1971-07-03
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Acting · Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Julian Paul Assange (/əˈsɑːnʒ/ ə-SAHNZH;[3] né Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher, hacker, and cypherpunk activist. He has a previous conviction for hacking, dating back to 1996. He founded WikiLeaks in 2006; the organisation came to international attention in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. After the…
Known for
- The Six Billion Dollar Man — Self2025
- Julian Assange: Silenced2025
- Ithaka — Self (archive footage)2022
- Der Fall Assange: Eine Chronik2021
- Julian Assange: Chronik einer Spionageaffäre2021
- Julian Assange: The Price of Truth — Self (archive Footage)2021
- Wikileaks – USA against Julian Assange2020
- The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange2020
- The Assange Story — (archive)2020
- XY Chelsea — Self (archive footage)
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Julian Paul Assange (/əˈsɑːnʒ/ ə-SAHNZH; né Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, programmer, and publisher who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from Chelsea Manning, a United States Army intelligence analyst: footage of a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad showing war crimes committed by the U.S. Army, U.S. military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and U.S. diplomatic cables. Assange has won over two dozen awards for publishing and journalism.
Assange was raised in various places around Australia until his family settled in Melbourne in his middle teens. He became involved in the hacker community and was convicted of hacking in 1996. Following the establishment of WikiLeaks, Assange was its editor when it published the Bank Julius Baer documents, footage of the 2008 Tibetan unrest, and a report on political killings in Kenya with The Sunday Times. Publication of the leaks from Manning started in February 2010.