Non-Profit Organizations: Wikileaks By Julian Assange

WikiLeaks is a non-profit organization founded in 2006 where one of the founders is Julian Assange founded with a purpose of publicizing the apparent war transgressions of the United States, particularly the treatment of Guantanamo war prisoners. Other exposures were done through the Afghan diary in 2010, and the exposure of governments of their misdemeanor and misconduct which would have never been known since were government secrets. Regarding employees, WikiLeaks has run on volunteers especially from the Asian origin. The company is run by an advisory board made of Assange and the deputy Jash Vora and another seven members (Domscheit-Berg, Klopp, & Chase, 2011). By 2009, the company had registered more than 1200 volunteers through their

Therefore, when information is shared it may result to the citizen not trusting its government. This may bring up uprising which affects the social, economic and the political status of a country. Investigative journalism needs to be conducted in a manner where information is collected without compromising any of the people involved (Tanner & Richardson, 2013). Therefore, when there is for a journalist to be able to show how the information was accessed. Unfortunately, that is not the case with WikiLeaks because the information is accessed in a manner that is not known or clear and no one can be traced to show where the information originated. Thus, the ethical issue that WikiLeaks has is whether it is doing the right thing by providing information that states would have preferred to be confidential and whether the information is beneficial to the public.

The current society is perceived to be free, and thus, people in a free society need to know the truth despite the fact that the truth becomes treason. Thus, the existence of an organization such as WikiLeaks is that it is incredibly beneficial to the society. Truthfully, for democracy to function, there is the need for the general public to know what their government is doing publicly and secretly. This is where WikiLeaks comes in where there has been the debate on whether what its function is legal or illegal and unconstitutional by releasing

Therefore, it shows that the United States will side with a dictator such as President Mugabe and not a leader fighting corruption and enhancing democracy among the Zimbabweans. Thus with the help of WikiLeaks, one can know the truth about the nation. In the same case, Tsvangirai may present himself as a leader that would change the outcome but again with the information provided to the United States by the diplomats indicate that there is a weakness that would affect the country if they were to choose him as the next president of the