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Tag: The Intercept
Another Whistleblower Bites The Dust As The Intercept Adds A Third Notch To Its Burn Belt
The Intercept, which has long been associated with the documents shared by whistleblower Edward Snowden, has yet to fire any of the reporters responsible for these breaches that have seen two whistleblowers already imprisoned and third, Daniel Hale, likely to be imprisoned. Early Thursday morning, the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against Daniel Everette Hale Read More…
Omidyar’s Intercept Teams Up with War-Propaganda Firm Bellingcat
Despite promoting itself as an “independent” and open-source investigation site, Bellingcat has received a significant portion of its funding from Google, which is also one of the most powerful U.S. military contractors and whose rise to prominence was directly aided by the CIA. NEW YORK — The Intercept, along with its parent company First Look Media, Read More…
Bad Track Record Gets Worse As New Whistleblower Outed By The Intercept
“I am appalled that yet another whistleblower in touch with The Intercept has been outed and arrested. … [P]erhaps The Intercept should walk away from national security reporting before its lack of journalistic professionalism ruins any more lives.” — CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou MINNEAPOLIS – On Wednesday, Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) reported that former Minneapolis-based FBI agent Terry Read More…
FBI Whistleblower On Pierre Omidyar And His Campaign To Neuter WikiLeaks
FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds asserts Pierre Omidyar decided to create The Intercept not only to take ownership of the Snowden leaks but to also continue his blockade against WikiLeaks and to create a “honey trap” for whistleblowers. Mid-November, 2017 – The Daily Beast ran an exclusive report detailing how the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) was set Read More…
Four Viral Claims Spread By ‘Journalists’ On Twitter In The Last Week Alone That Are False
There is ample talk, particularly of late, about the threats posed by social media to democracy and political discourse. Yet one of the primary ways that democracy is degraded by platforms such as Facebook and Twitter is, for obvious reasons, typically ignored in such discussions: the way they are used by American journalists to endorse factually Read More…