“KEEP US STRONG, HELP WIKILEAKS KEEP GOVERNMENTS OPEN,” Wikileaks says on its website. Since 2006, Wikileaks has been known as an organization that leaks government secrets. After its initial launch, it published 1.2 million documents in its first year. Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, said Wikileaks is an international non-profit organization that publishes private, secret and classified media documents from anonymous sources and information leaks. Although Julian Assange is described as the founder of Wikileaks, the founders of Wikileaks are Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and technologists from several countries, including the United States. Last year, the New York City Daily News cited Wikileaks as the first website "that could completely change the news." Wikileaks stated that "its main interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also hope to be useful to people in all regions who wish to expose unethical behavior in their country. governments and corporations". In other words, Wikileaks is described as the world's first stateless news organization. Nevertheless, Wikileaks stresses the governments of many countries when their secrets are published on Wikileaks without their knowledge. For these governments, especially the United States, Wikileaks is a terrorist organization that causes their companies to spiral out of control. Many Americans support Wikileaks because they believe it is protected by the First Amendment, and the right to free speech. freedom of the press. many lawmakers have discussed curtailing the First Amendment to prevent Wikilea...... middle of document......>.Warman, Matt. "What is Wikileaks? " Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph Online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph - Telegraph. October 23, 2010. Web. May 5, 2011. "Pentagon Papers". New York Times. 2010. Web. May 10, 2011. Shachtman, Noah " Wikileaks shows that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction continues in Iraq - with surprising results. Web May 10, 2010. Stoddard, Aimee Larsen "Wikileaks religious documents anger Scientologists and Mormons (LDS). Suite101.com." Suite101.com: online magazine and writers' network. June 30, 2010. Web. May 11. 2011. .