{"id":5818,"date":"2011-09-07T17:29:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T15:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5818"},"modified":"2012-12-11T19:04:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T18:04:25","slug":"financial-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5818","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks should be more transparent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at the financial statements of <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/\">Wikileaks<\/a> online and could not find them. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/en\/support-us\/fund\/about-greenpeace-fund\/financial-statements\/\">Greenpeace<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org\/en\/about\/accountability\">Oxfam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/wiki\/Financial_reports\">Wikipedia<\/a> and other NGOs that solicit money are very transparent about their financial situation. To me Wikileaks becomes much less credible if they do not have that level of transparency but yet they claim to bring transparency to the world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5818\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at the financial statements of Wikileaks online and could not find them. Greenpeace, Oxfam, Wikipedia and other NGOs that solicit money are very transparent about their financial situation. To me Wikileaks becomes much less credible if they do not have that level of transparency but yet they claim to bring transparency to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[619],"class_list":["post-5818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-wikileaks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Site Default\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5818\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.3\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Martin Varsavsky in English\" \/>\n\t\t<meta 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