It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.

That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.

My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like.

These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them.

WikiLeaks is a source protection organization. We are famous for never having exposed one of our sources over 10 years. That's why sources trust us and they come to us.

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.