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According to The New Yorker, when WikiLeaks posted its first document in December 2006, "Assange and the others were uncertain of its authenticity, but they thought that readers, using Wikipedia-like features of the site, would help analyse it. ... The document's authenticity was never determined, and news about WikiLeaks quickly superseded the leak itself."[1] When someone said they were misidentified in a Julius Baer document as having a secret Swiss bank account Assange and Domscheit-Berg added a caveat to the document saying, "according to three independent sources" the information might be false or misleading. Domscheit-Berg later wrote that they made up the "three independent sources" and that the source had "included some background information he had researched about the bank's clients" that misidentified a Swiss account holder as a German man with a similar name.[2][3]
Daniel Domscheit-Berg wrote that before WikiLeaks started working with media partners most verification of submissions was doing Google searches.[2][3] According to the Columbia Journalism Review, Assange "outsourced the burden of verification" of the Afghan War documents leak, the Iraq War documents leak and Cablegate to the New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel.[4][5] Yulia Latynina alleged in The Moscow Times that WikiLeaks associate Israel Shamir concocted a leaked diplomatic cable for publication in the pro-Putin Russian Reporter in December 2010.[6][7][8]
In 2012, WikiLeaks released a statement about the Syria Files saying that:
In such a large collection of information, it is not possible to verify every single email at once; however, WikiLeaks and its co-publishers have done so for all initial stories to be published. We are statistically confident that the vast majority of the data are what they purport to be.[9][10][11]
In September 2016, The Daily Dot reported that WikiLeaks' Syria Files excluded "records of a €2 billion transaction between the Syrian regime and a government-owned Russian bank," citing court documents.[12] Softlem (talk) 12:38, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
- ^ Khatchadourian, Raffi (7 June 2010). "No Secrets: Julian Assange's Mission for total transparency". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 27 August 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
- ^ a b Zetter, Kim. "WikiLeaks Defector Slams Assange In Tell-All Book". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
- ^ a b Domscheit-Berg, Daniel (2011). Inside Wikileaks : my time with Julian Assange at the world's most dangerous website. Tina Klopp, Jefferson S. Chase. New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-0-307-95191-5. OCLC 701412231.
- ^ "How WikiLeaks Outsourced the Burden of Verification". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
- ^ Renner, Nausicaa. "The symbiotic relationship between WikiLeaks and the press". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
- ^ Tiku, Nitasha (14 December 2011). "WikiLeaks May Employ an Anti-Semitic Holocaust Denier". New York. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ^ Moynihan, Michael (2010-12-14). "Assange's Extremist Employees". Reason.com. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
- ^ von Twickel, Nikolaus (10 December 2010). "Putin Bristles Over Leaked U.S. Cables". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
- ^ Greenberg, Andy. "WikiLeaks Announces Massive Release With The 'Syria Files': 2.4 Million Emails From Syrian Officials And Companies". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
- ^ Abad-Santos, Alexander (2012-07-05). "WikiLeaks Might Not Even Know What's In 2.4 Million Syrian E-mails". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
- ^ Somaiya, Ravi (2012-07-05). "WikiLeaks Releasing Trove of Syria Documents". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
- ^ Cameron, Dell (2016-09-09). "WikiLeaks release excludes evidence of €2 billion transfer from Syria to Russia". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 2022-12-07.