inform

To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).

To communicate knowledge to.

For he would learn their business secretly, / And then inform his master hastily.

I am informed thoroughly of the cause.

To impart information or knowledge.

To act as an informer; denounce.

To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).

His sense of religion informs everything he writes.

WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

Bleak Crags, and naked Hills, And the whole Prospect so inform and rude