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Crowdleaks states it's objective as providing a being a means for any one and every one of the crowd to pass information to the whole crowd. Underlying this philosophy is that journalism does not require any professional journalistic or reporting experience, only a sincere interest in the news and the state of global affairs. Crowdleaks' articles are not created by a single author. Each article is a collaborative effort, engaging multiple readers in the writing process. Anyone interested may contribute, propose changes, and ultimately affect the way news is reported. In order to achieve this goal they allow anyone to volunteer to help by writing articles, translating articles, fact checking, editing articles and promoting the website. Currently they are only pursuing translation into the following languages: German, Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian.

Organisation
Crowdleaks is a group of journalists, translators, lawyers, programmers, system administrators. They state that they are 'a group that believe that journalism shouldn’t be restricted to those who make a living from it. They go on to state that they have an editing team, a translation team and a technical team.

Crowdleaks operate a hierarchy in that someone who has put in an unspecified quantity of work can be nominated to become part of the core team which allows them to get an equal say in the direction of the organisation, it also gives them a measure of responsibility for maintaining Crowdleaks. Any member of the core team can propose a vote and 2/3rds in favour is required for a vote to pass

HBGary, Wikileaks, Bank of America, Hunton & Williams
Mining the leaked HBGary and HBGary Federal emails Crowdleaks researchers discovered information suggesting that HBGary, HBGary Federal, Bericho Technnology, Palantir had been retained by solicitor firm Hunton & Williams acting on behalf Bank of America, and the Chamber of Commerce to discredit Wikileaks and it's supporters .. This notable research received a great deal of ongoing coverage from news agencies around the world including, the BBC, Forbes and The Guardian.