Glenn Greenwald Quits The Intercept

by | Oct 29, 2020

This morning Glenn Greenwald announced he is quitting The Intercept, the publication he co-founded in 2013.

Greenwald had been increasingly at odds with most of the staff over their embrace of RussiaGate and the “pathologies, illiberalism, and repressive mentality” of the outlet.

“The final, precipitating cause is that 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.”

Read the rest of the article at Greenwald’s new home at Substack.