In the 2000s and 2010s, WikiLeaks was synonymous with whistleblowing. The nonprofit’s website was where information that someone somewhere didn’t want you to see was collected on the internet. In other words, it was the number one center of leaks. But now, most of this information seems to have been lost. The WikiLeaks website is full of broken pages, bug reports, and the number of documents it once hosted is dwindling at a noticeable rate.
Of the 65 internal links listed on the site’s central “Leaks” page, 20 are broken or redirect to error pages. On its 10th anniversary, the organization announced that it had published 10 million documents on the Internet. However, only about 3,000 documents are available on the site this week.
Additional issues with the site include a non-working search bar and a malfunctioning leak submission page. This page has reportedly been down since July.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is currently facing extradition from the UK to the US. Earlier this year, the UK government approved a US request that Assange be sent to the US on espionage charges. Assange responded by challenging the extradition approval from London, being held in a maximum security prison since 2019. Prior to his UK arrest in 2019, he had lived for nearly seven years at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
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