Lack Of Funding Forces WikiLeaks To Shut Down

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Some free content really doesn’t pay: WikiLeaks.org, the nonprofit whistleblower site that hosts leaked documents, closed down this month, despite having support from some major news organizations, including the Associated Press, the Hearst Corporation, Gannett (NYSE: GCI) and E.W. Scripps.

The site made a name for itself by running leaked and hacked documents, from Sarah Palin’s hacked Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) account, to documents related to toxic oil dumping in Africa. Like another wiki-site, Wikipedia, WikiLeaks, which is loosely based in Iceland, doesn’t run ads, but instead relies on donations to keep operating. It claims not to keep any stats on its traffic: “We do not keep any data on users or visitors so we just can

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