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Not two months after WikiLeaks began to release the cache of diplomatic cables allegedly leaked by Pvt. Bradley Manning, Al Jazeera entered into a leaking experiment of its own. Though it was quickly overshadowed by growing uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, “The Palestine Papers”1 — a release of more than 1,600 documents from a decade of internal Israeli-Palestinian negotiations — marked an important milestone for Arab media. It was the first time a major Arab publication had been involved in notable whistle-blowing since 1986, when Lebanese paper Al-Shiraa exposed the Iran-Contra Affair.
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York, J.C. (2013). The Internet and Transparency Beyond WikiLeaks. In: Brevini, B., Hintz, A., McCurdy, P. (eds) Beyond WikiLeaks. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137275745_14
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