Wikileaks has been online for just over a decade releasing documents purported to show corruption by government officials or states and as a targeted information warfare tool in the 2016 election season. Emerging to the public eye most prominently for luring Bradley Manning to release US military documents to them including a video of two Reuters journalists killed by US gunship in Iraq, Wikileaks framed its document dumps as transparency versus corruption. However, by 2016, it had been honed to specialize in anti-US in focus and specifically the campaign of Hillary Clinton. By the summer of 2016, it was fully active in information warfare against one side of a national election. Additionally, the site was active in releasing detailed knowledge bases of the United States CIA in a release dubbed, “Vault7”, March 2017.

The organization has been controversial from the beginning with accusations of manipulation by the founder, Julian Assange. From coworkers like Daniel Domsheit-Berg to UK based Guardian news members have revealed that Assange frequently lied to the public about the size of the staff, contacts in the organization and the infrastructure of the data which was limited to a lone server that was always short of fail. While the public supporters would cry “they’re under attack” the truth according to the technical support worker Domsheit-Berg was closer to bad connection issues and shoddy equipment. According to Domsheit-Berg’s book Inside Wikileaks,

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