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307. What is a Whistleblower? Are Whistleblowers Heroes or Villains? (English Vocabulary Lesson)

24 min • 29 juli 2024

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks and leaker of government secrets, has been in the news again recently as he tries to stop his extradition to the USA.

Reading about Assange made think in general about whistleblowers. What is a whistleblower? Is Julian Assange actually a whistleblower, or is he something different? And are people who reveal secret information heroes or villains?

Let’s discuss this, and learns some very useful legal vocabulary, in today’s episode of Thinking in English!

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VOCABULARY LIST

Extradition (noun): The process of sending someone from one country to another to face criminal charges.
Classified (adjective): Officially secret and accessible only to authorized people.
To accuse (verb): To charge someone with an offense or crime.
Whistleblower (noun): A person who exposes information or activity within an organization that they believe to be illegal, unethical, or not correct.
Hacking (noun): The act of gaining unauthorized access to data in a system or computer.
To leak (verb): To intentionally disclose confidential information to the public.
To expose (verb): To reveal or make something known that was previously hidden or secret.

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