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Sadly, while Julian Assange is held up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London without internet, we have learned tragic news. The founder and director of WikiLeaks, Gavin Macfadyen, has died. At age 76, he was the the director of Wikileaks and also the founder of the Centre for Investigative Journalism. As RT reports, He was a mentor and friend to famous whistleblower and co-founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange, as well as the director of the publication. Paying tribute to their head, WikiLeaks published a post on the group’s Twitter account saying MacFadyen "now takes his fists and his fight to...

It’s now been just over a week since the Ecuadorian Consulate revoked Julian Assange’s internet access, following the leak of Hillary Clinton’s Goldman Sachs speeches. US Secretary of State John Kerry asked for Assange’s internet to be cut off and this was apparently acquiesced to by the Ecuadorian government. Since that time, the @Wikileaks Twitter account is widely believed to be run by a new voice. Long-time followers of the account have noted the change in tone. Now Julian Assange’s mentor, Gavin MacFadyen, founder of the Centre for Investigative Journalism and a @Wikileaks director, has been announced to have died...

Gavin MacFadyen has passed away. The Centre for Investigative Journalism tweeted the news about its founder on Saturday, after WikiLeaks created a stir when it tweeted a photo of MacFadyen without any explanation. How did the highly respected investigative journalist die? Here’s what we know so far. The Centre for Investigative Journalism posted an article on Saturday, October 22, about MacFadyen’s passing.The Centre did not, however, mention a cause of death. Wikipedia briefly had an edit which said he died after a “short illness,” but that edit was later taken down. MacFadyen founded the Centre for Investigative Journalism in 2003...

Earlier today, WikiLeaks tweeted a photo of an investigative journalist, Gavin MacFadyen, with no explanation or accompanying caption, and the tweet immediately began fueling Internet conspiracy theories. The tweet just featured a picture of the investigative journalist with no caption and no explanation. WikiLeaks later pinned the tweet. Why did WikiLeaks tweet this photo? It was later revealed that MacFadyen had passed away. Here’s what you need to know. pic.twitter.com/T2aisBvQDh — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 22, 2016