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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has imposed a complicated embargo on the media organizations he shared millions of Stratfor emails with causing confusion and at least a few mixups, The Atlantic Wire has learned.

Before sharing its cache of documents taken from the global intelligence firm Stratfor, WikiLeaks made the 25 or so media entities it collaborated with agree to a publishing schedule embargoing certain topics and coverage areas beyond Monday's announcement of the project. Media organizations are prohibited from covering Stratfor-related emails related to specific countries, such as Israel, Turkey, India and Afghanistan until an agreed upon date, a senior editor at a publication collaborating with WikiLeaks tells us. The idea is that media organizations in smaller countries with less resources that are collaborating with WikiLeaks get a fair shot at covering the stories that involve their country.

In addition to that concern, the embargo also placed a hold on certain topics, such as Occupy Wall Street, the hacker collective Anonymous and Julian Assange himself. Thus far, Monday's approved topics were the United States, China, Europe and Latin America, which sort of makes sense given the number of stories on Hugo Chavez. Today, the approved topics including Anonymous and Occupy Wall Street.