ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the politics of specific instances of leaktivism. It explains central issues and themes in leaktivism, which emerged in the examination of cases in own scholarship, in order to cut through the fog of vast amounts of knowledge generated by information from large volumes of empirical data. The two debates, transparency versus secrecy and openness versus control, tend to dominate discussions on leaktivism throughout the WikiLeaks saga and polarize transnational publics, even providing one of the examples of affective politics and the polarization of global public opinion over both the organization. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said at the time that there's 'no proof whatsoever' that Moscow was involved. DCLeaks broke out in June 2016 with leaks of military and government emails in the United States, which the American intelligence community and private security firms attributed to Russian intelligence undermining the 2016 US elections.
