This Day in Wikileaks - Understanding Julian Assange and the US MediaHome Geopolitics This Day in Wikileaks – Understanding Julian Assange and the US Media Computer programmer and activist Julian Assange created WikiLeaks in 2006, but he did not begin to receive media attention until December 2007, when he posted the US Army manual detailing the preferred treatment of Guantanamo Bay prisoners. The next year, WikiLeaks garnered further press coverage when it publish
