Glenn Greenwald
Cory amplifies 553×Surveillance, press freedom, and anti-censorship — reported the Snowden files, now hosts System Update.
Glenn Greenwald is a lawyer-turned-journalist who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporting on Edward Snowden's NSA disclosures and co-founded The Intercept in 2014 (which he left in 2020 over an editorial-independence dispute). He has since built an independent operation, hosting the 'System Update' show and publishing long-form journalism, now re-based on Substack (cross-posted to his Locals community).
Latest posts
We're very excited to be returning to @Substack after 3 great years of doing our live nightly show, System Update, on @rumblevideo. I'm particularly happy to be getting back to written reporting and long investigations. We'll have our first up today. https://t.co/XPhI354NA4 https://t.co/VeBtoM9C26
8mo ago · 2,568 likes
The Italian journalist who posed this obviously reasonable question to an EU official about Israel, Gabriele Nunziati, was just fired by the Nova news agency in Rome for the crime of asking it. The most notable aspect of this event is that it's now utterly unsurprising:
11mo ago · 60,743 likes
Threatening to have your husband deport an American citizen because he criticized you in a TV debate, and more so because he criticized the foreign country you love so deeply, is about as twisted and authoritarian a mindset as you'll find.
12mo ago · 39,840 likes
Imagine going from the world's most powerful empire to whatever this is in just a few decades. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 The way Sir Kier happily and eagerly jumps up when called, then slinks back once quickly dismissed, all by someone who doesn't know his name.... https://t.co/1IYirFC3ph
1y ago · 33,866 likes
The strongest case
State and corporate power expand fastest when a compliant press stops scrutinizing them, so the core job of journalism is adversarial: expose mass surveillance, censorship pressure, and official secrecy regardless of party, and defend civil liberties and free expression even for speech you find repugnant.
And against
Critics argue his adversarial posture has calcified into reflexive anti-establishment contrarianism in which he downplays or 'both-sides' genuine bad actors, prioritizing points against mainstream media over proportionate treatment of the facts.
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On the record
In January 2020, Brazilian federal prosecutors charged Greenwald with cybercrimes over his reporting on leaked 'Operation Car Wash' messages. In February 2020 a Brazilian federal judge declined to proceed, citing a Supreme Court injunction protecting the reporting, and the case did not move forward. [source]