Internet users have fired up in regard to the revelation of secret documents from Panama based Mossack Fonseca, by an anonymous insider. Over year of investigation by the International Consortium for Investigative Journalism and their 200 global partners have shed light on the dark sight of rich and powerful world leaders use offshore tax havens to hide their vast wealth.
The revelation marks the biggest leak in the history contains 11 million confidential documents worth of 2.6 terabytes. It is even larger than the U.S. diplomatic cables released by Julian Assange led WikiLeaks in 2010, and the secret intelligence documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013.
The leak unveils secret offshore holdings from 128 politicians around the world that includes 12 current and former world leaders. The popular hashtag #PanamaPapers getting 160M impression and 9754 tweets are circulated per hour. We plunged into Twitter and here are the top 20 tweets circulating in the social media revealing global corruption.
Here are the famous politicians in ‘the Wikileaks of the mega-rich’ #PanamaPapers https://t.co/Ll2wyPj9KC pic.twitter.com/hRzKA0arBP
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 3, 2016
BREAKING: The #PanamaPapers – Politicians, Criminals and the Rogue Industry That Hides Their Cash https://t.co/LDcslHoLAb
— ICIJ (@ICIJorg) April 3, 2016
The moment Iceland’s prime minister walked out of an interview because of a tax haven question #panamapapershttps://t.co/NdoDdxnSq6
— Publimetros (@publimetros) April 4, 2016
#4Corners: Who are the key players identified in the #PanamaPapers leak? via @ICIJorg: https://t.co/YJ29O1CXMy pic.twitter.com/ceASCAIGCc
— 4corners (@4corners) April 4, 2016
"Sometimes it's about tax, sometimes about corruption" – @robertnpalmer of @Global_Witness on the #panamapapers https://t.co/OCHsvDO5jd
— Victoria Derbyshire (@VictoriaLIVE) April 4, 2016
Guardian front page, Monday 4 April 2016: The secret $2bn trail of deals that lead all the way to Putin pic.twitter.com/WGU2uDgNUD
— The Guardian (@guardian) April 3, 2016
#PanamaPapers breaks the Internet with revelations of global corruption https://t.co/yD7PeyhX5a pic.twitter.com/xJI3y3Qpiz
— Mashable (@mashable) April 4, 2016
Leaked files from Panama firm Mossack Fonseca reveal how world's wealthy hide their moneyhttps://t.co/P9Bd4wyx6Q https://t.co/lP3D86UHRy
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) April 3, 2016
For today’s #panamapapers bombshell, @rentvchannel dares to focus on the real news: Jackie Chan’s offshore dollas. pic.twitter.com/e2mGq98lYm
— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) April 4, 2016
All information on the biggest data-leak: https://t.co/KsSuPDHG3F #panamapapershttps://t.co/Glg7u0LnQl
— Süddeutsche Zeitung (@SZ) April 3, 2016
Biggest leak in the history of data journalism just went live, and it's about corruption. https://t.co/dYNjD6eIeZ pic.twitter.com/638aIu8oSU
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) April 3, 2016
#PanamaPapers: A day before, Mossack Fonseca warned clients, now says exposé an attack https://t.co/fICUECBMir pic.twitter.com/KLGzzvjkXw
— The Indian Express (@IndianExpress) April 4, 2016
#TopStory | #PanamaPapers leak reveals tax haven links of Indian celebrities, politicianshttps://t.co/mLqa5K7vUh pic.twitter.com/ibz6ldMBtQ
— News18 (@CNNnews18) April 4, 2016
#PanamaPapers Criminales, políticos y negocios turbios que esconden sus fortunas https://t.co/B9gPKPSTh2 pic.twitter.com/zrTU1qzmY6
— Aristegui Noticias (@AristeguiOnline) April 3, 2016
Tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur les #PanamaPapers https://t.co/f6jBWXvhjb sur les @decodeurs pic.twitter.com/skWUvQNkAw
— Le Monde (@lemondefr) April 4, 2016
Cameron promised and has failed to end tax secrecy and crack down on 'morally unacceptable' offshore schemes, real action is now needed
— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) April 3, 2016
Countries with officials implicated in the #panamapapers span the globe. Scale is pretty incredible. pic.twitter.com/OJzzkfnzPP
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) April 4, 2016
2.6TB data leak reveals tax, investment and corruption among world leaders: https://t.co/2swErHRDaK #PanamaPapers pic.twitter.com/wGfG6WQK1J
— Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) April 4, 2016
#PanamaPapers : "You're talking about a massive number of people who are hiding money of one type or another." https://t.co/nCla7BvLFS
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) April 4, 2016