Glenn Greenwald resigns from Intercept after Biden story censored by editors
The investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald has resigned abruptly from the Intercept, the news website he co-founded, and accused the organization of seeking to censor him over a planned article critical of the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden.
Greenwald, who was a vital part of the Guardian US team that broke the Edward Snowden whistleblower story in 2013, released a statement online that blasted the editors of the Intercept as being in hock to Biden and the Democratic party.
Glenn Greenwald on why he resigned from the Intercept: https://t.co/9i43bgwKds
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) October 30, 2020
“The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression,” he wrote in a lengthy resignation post.
Emails With Intercept Editors Showing Censorship of My Joe and Hunter Biden Article
There's no reason for anyone to have to decide who to believe. Feel free to see for yourselves what really happened:https://t.co/99KIZnqonP
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 29, 2020
Greenwald is a vocal critic of the US media and American politics, with an abrasive style that has won him many admirers as well as a legion of critics. Recently, he has been especially critical of media coverage of the Russian attempt to interfere with the 2016 US election and has been criticized by some left-wing commentators for appearing on Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s show.
He co-founded the Intercept in 2014 with investment from the tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar. The website rapidly established itself as a scrappy online news organization that could punch above its weight on some issues, especially cybersecurity, politics and tech and corruption in Brazil, where Greenwald lives.
Greenwald said the site no longer carried out the mission that he had intended when it was founded, which was to amplify voices rarely heard in American journalism. In his resignation statement Greenwald said: “The current iteration of The Intercept is completely unrecognizable when compared to that original vision.”
>> Draft of Greenwald’s Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored By The Intercept
List of questions @ggreenwald sent the Biden campaign. pic.twitter.com/civKyypfXk
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) October 29, 2020
>> My Resignation From The Intercept