ICIJ’s censorship of Panama Papers. All data should be released and without redaction of documents

WikiLeaks took to Twitter to criticize ICIJ’s and other media organisations’ censorship of Panama Papers archive data. Organisations and journalists control the content of the leak and don’t release full data archive without redaction yet.

The massive archive contain more than 11.5 million financial data leaked from Mossack Fonseca, an Panama-law firm. The archive is controlled by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and Süddeutsche Zeitung, and hundred of reporters who’ve been selected to write about the content of the archive.

On last week ICIJ’s director told DW that they would reject all requests from organisations, authorities and journalists who wants access to the documents:

ICIJ, and its parent organization, the Center for Public Integrity, are media organizations shielded by the First Amendment and other legal protections from becoming an arm of law enforcement.

This message is for ICIJ staff. If you receive millions documents, a huge archive, you must release this archive and without any redaction. There is no transparency when only group of journalists have got access to leaked documents. Transparency is when every man have got access to the data, to all documents without redaction or modification.