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By staff writers
news.com.au
April 21, 2010
WHISTLEBLOWER website Wikileaks claims it has had its Facebook page deleted.
According to the WikiLeaks Twitter account, the website had more than 30,000 fans
at the time it was deleted.
The accompanying note read the page had been disabled because it "promotes illegal
acts".
However, another page claiming to be the official WikiLeaks page remains on
Facebook, with some 500+ fans.
That page says at the time of its launch on April 13, that it was "waiting for the
fans to be migrated from other pages".
A Facebook spokeswoman said the page with 30,000 members could have been taken down
for a number of reasons, most likely because it had received a complaint from a
member about objectionable comtent.
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She said such a complaint could take any length of time to action, depending on the
nature of what was being posted.
There had been no change in Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities that
would suddenly render the content of WikiLeaks’ page objectionable.
WikiLeaks' fame as an online publisher of sensitive government and business
documents has grown rapidly since it was launched in 2006.
Most recently, it found fame for posting US military footage of soldiers in a
helicopter circling a group of "non-hostile" men in Baghdad before opening fire on
them.
WikiLeaks posted a link to the footage on its Facebook site, then claimed Facebook
censored it, a claim which Facebook denied.
The site has been the target of several similar hush attempts since it was launched
in 2006.
One document posted on WikiLeaks outlines what it says is a US Intelligence plan to
destroy WikiLeaks.
It also claims online payment service PayPal had suspended its donation account and
frozen its assets on several occasions for "no obvious reason".
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