Panama Papers

== Leak and leak journalism ==
[[Gerard Ryle]], director of the ICIJ, called the leak "probably the biggest blow the offshore world has ever taken because of the extent of the documents".<ref name="BBC: reveal">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-35918844 |access-date=April 3, 2016 |title=Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens |last1=Bilton |first1=Richard |date=April 3, 2016 |work=BBC News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404000944/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-35918844 |archive-date=April 4, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Edward Snowden]] described the release in a Twitter message as the "biggest leak in the history of [[data journalism]]".<ref name="TwittEdw">{{cite web |last=Snowden |first=Edward |author-link=Edward Snowden |title=Biggest leak in the history of data journalism just went live, and it's about corruption |url=https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/716683740903247873 |publisher=Twitter |access-date=April 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404224243/https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/716683740903247873 |archive-date=April 4, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> The ICIJ also said that the leak was "likely to be one of the most explosive [leaks of inside information in history] in the nature of its revelations".<ref>{{cite news |author1=<!-- None specified --> |title=A new ICIJ Investigation Exposes a Rogue Offshore Industry |url=https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160403-new-icij-investigation-exposes-rogue-offshore-industry.html |access-date=April 27, 2016 |work=[[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists]] |publisher=[[Center for Public Integrity]] |date=April 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404144326/https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160403-new-icij-investigation-exposes-rogue-offshore-industry.html |archive-date=April 4, 2016 |url-status=live |via=the [[Wayback Machine]]}}</ref>

"This is a unique opportunity to test the effectiveness of [[leaktivism]]", said [[Micah M. White|Micah White]], co-founder of [[Occupy Wall Street|Occupy]], "... the Panama Papers are being dissected via an unprecedented collaboration between hundreds of highly credible international journalists who have been working secretly for a year. This is the global professionalization of leaktivism. The days of WikiLeaks amateurism are over."<ref name=micah>{{cite news |last=White |first=Micah |title=The Panama Papers: leaktivism's coming of age |series=Comment is Free |work=The Guardian |date=April 5, 2016 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/commentisfree/2016/apr/05/panama-papers-leak-activism-leaktivism |access-date=April 6, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405232525/http://www.theguardian.com/news/commentisfree/2016/apr/05/panama-papers-leak-activism-leaktivism |archive-date=April 5, 2016 }}</ref>

[[WikiLeaks]] spokesperson [[Kristinn Hrafnsson]], an Icelandic investigative journalist who worked on [[Cablegate]] in 2010, said withholding some documents for a time does maximise the leak's impact, but called for full online publication of the Panama Papers eventually.<ref name="BelfastTelegraphWikiLeaks">{{cite news |title=Panama Papers: WikiLeaks calls for data leak to be released in full |url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/panama-papers/panama-papers-wikileaks-kristinn-hrafnsson-calls-for-data-leak-to-be-released-in-full-34601909.html |work=The Belfast Telegraph |date=April 5, 2016 |access-date=April 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407224038/http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/panama-papers/panama-papers-wikileaks-kristinn-hrafnsson-calls-for-data-leak-to-be-released-in-full-34601909.html |archive-date=April 7, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> A tweet from WikiLeaks criticized the decision of the [[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists|ICIJ]] to not release everything for ethical reasons: "If you censor more than 99% of the documents you are engaged in 1% journalism by definition."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Welle (www.dw.com)|first=Deutsche|title=WikiLeaks slams 'Panama Papers' trickle-down strategy {{pipe}} DW {{pipe}} April 7, 2016|url=https://www.dw.com/en/wikileaks-slams-panama-papers-trickle-down-strategy/a-19170435|access-date=August 19, 2022|website=DW.COM|language=en-GB}}</ref>

The whistleblower reported that the murder of journalists [[Daphne Caruana Galizia]] in 2017 and [[Murder of Ján Kuciak|Ján Kuciak in 2018]] due to their investigations of the Panama Papers had deeply affected him and called upon the European Union to deliver justice.<ref>{{cite web |title=Daphne's death affected me deeply – secret source behind Panama Papers leak |date=July 22, 2022 |url=https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/daphne-s-death-affected-deeply-secret-source.969848 |access-date=October 18, 2022}}</ref>