Julian Assange, a forty year old man born in his native country of Australia on the 3rd July 1971, is the editor in chief of Wikileaks. As a youth, he did computer programming and was a hacker, and now he tours around the world giving talks on subjects such as free press. He has received a number of awards and nominations, including the 2009 Amnesty International Media Award.
His job has, as mentioned above, brought him rewards, but it has also cast him, unfairly or fairly, in a bad light; he received much of the blame for the Wikileaks crisis in 2010, when the latter site released details of UN diplomatic circles and comments. Also, he has faced extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault.
Assange is currently planning to write an autobiography, but says that he is only doing this to keep himself afloat financially.
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