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False Plagiarism Accusation Against Shaun King Shows Dangers of Online Mob Journalism
What explains why so many journalists spewed a career-destroying accusation without bothering to check if it was true?
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is one of the three co-founding editors of The Intercept. He left The Intercept in October 2020.
Greenwald is a journalist, constitutional lawyer, and author of four New York Times bestselling books on politics and law. His most recent book, “No Place to Hide,” is about the U.S. surveillance state and his experiences reporting on the Snowden documents around the world. Prior to co-founding The Intercept, Greenwald’s column was featured in The Guardian and Salon.
He was the debut winner, along with “Democracy Now’s” Amy Goodman, of the Park Center I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism in 2008, and also received the 2010 Online Journalism Award for his investigative work on the abusive detention conditions of Chelsea Manning. For his 2013 NSA reporting, he received the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting; the Gannett Foundation Award for investigative journalism and the Gannett Foundation Watchdog Journalism Award; the Esso Premio for Excellence in Investigative Reporting in Brazil (he was the first non-Brazilian to win); and the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award. Along with Intercept co-founder Laura Poitras, Foreign Policy magazine named Greenwald one of the top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013. The NSA reporting he led for The Guardian was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service.
Greenwald is a journalist, constitutional lawyer, and author of four New York Times bestselling books on politics and law. His most recent book, “No Place to Hide,” is about the U.S. surveillance state and his experiences reporting on the Snowden documents around the world. Prior to co-founding The Intercept, Greenwald’s column was featured in The Guardian and Salon.
He was the debut winner, along with “Democracy Now’s” Amy Goodman, of the Park Center I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism in 2008, and also received the 2010 Online Journalism Award for his investigative work on the abusive detention conditions of Chelsea Manning. For his 2013 NSA reporting, he received the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting; the Gannett Foundation Award for investigative journalism and the Gannett Foundation Watchdog Journalism Award; the Esso Premio for Excellence in Investigative Reporting in Brazil (he was the first non-Brazilian to win); and the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award. Along with Intercept co-founder Laura Poitras, Foreign Policy magazine named Greenwald one of the top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013. The NSA reporting he led for The Guardian was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service.
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After Vote to Remove Brazil's President, Key Opposition Figure Holds Meetings in Washington
The U.S. stance on Brazil’s turmoil has been overlooked — until now.
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To Protect Hillary Clinton, Democrats Wage War on Their Own Core Citizens United Argument
Clinton supporters now echo the Supreme Court’s conservative justices: “Expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.”
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Exclusive Interview by Glenn Greenwald With Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva
Facing the worst scandal of his political career, including a criminal investigation, Lula is more defiant than ever, clearly planning his next presidential run.
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A Key Similarity Between Snowden Leak and Panama Papers: Scandal Is What's Been Legalized
“The deeper scandal is what’s legal, not what’s not,” the ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer said of the NSA revelations. The same is true of the corrupted political and legal systems exposed by the Panama Papers.
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Fighting Israeli Occupying Forces Is "Terrorism." Boycotting Is "Anti-Semitism." What's Allowed?
All forms of resistance to Israeli occupation — violent and nonviolent — are deemed illegitimate.
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Complying With Israeli Censorship Order, NYT Conceals Name of Soldier Who Shot Wounded Palestinian
That Israeli courts are protecting a soldier charged with murder by censoring media outlets is disturbing for all sorts of reasons.
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Highlighting Western Victims While Ignoring Victims of Western Violence
What’s the impact of believing that only They, but not We, engage in civilian-killing violence?
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New Film Shows Real-Time, Inside Account of the University of Missouri Student Protests
<em>Concerned Student 1950,</em> filmed by three university juniors, allows viewers to observe the evolution of the protest in real time and judge for themselves what was at stake.
Brazil Is Engulfed by Ruling Class Corruption — and a Dangerous Subversion of Democracy
Western media are depicting street protests as a noble populist uprising. The facts are much more complicated.