Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored By The Intercept

Glenn Greenwald, the renowned journalist who broke the Edward Snowden NSA leak and co-founded The Intercept, goes into depth about the censorship of a story about Hunter Biden in the days before the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. After originally reporting this story in The Intercept (link below), the publication demanded he omit sections critical of Joe Biden. In response to this attempt at censorship, Greenwald resigned, and posted this article discussing the Hunter Biden story, its censorship by media and tech companies, and the broader issue of journalistic integrity when it comes to reporting on materials that were the result of hacking.

Greenwald focuses on the response that many news outlets had when this story broke. Almost unanimously, they brushed it off as potential “Russian disinformation”, without any proof. This is a frightening phenomenon, since the mere spectre of disinformation, a form of cyberwarfare, is turning American media into a propagandistic censorship machine. Greenwald borrows these final words from Matt Taibbi: “The whole point is that the press loses its way when it cares more about who benefits from information than whether it’s true.”

Original Intercept article: https://theintercept.com/2020/10/15/facebook-and-twitter-cross-a-line-far-more-dangerous-than-what-they-censor/