WikiLeaks: building transparency – Analysis of the video “Collateral Murder”

Abstract

This paper examines the communication strategy adopted by WikiLeaks at the time of the dissemination of the video “Collateral Murder” (3 April 2010), which denounces the behavior of the American air force during the war in Iraq and presents itself as a new instrument for global counter-information. Analyzing the ways in which the video was created based on records of military operations stolen from the USA itself, this article describes the counternarrative discovered by WikiLeaks, which presents its own structure as the true destinator of the values shared by global public opinion, while unmasking the USA as the anti-destinator.