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Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

15 Apr

https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1382713472056709123

"It was a blockbuster story....The Kremlin had spread money around [Afghanistan] for militants to kill US forces. It sparked a massive outcry from Democrats...But on Thursday, the Biden Admin. announced that U.S. intelligence only had “low to moderate” confidence in the story."

https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1382713472056709123

Remember this as you watch cable stars claiming to be "journalists" yet again treat a U.S. intelligence agency assertion, completely unaccompanied by evidence, as Truth.

This, apparently, is what they mean by "Real Reporting™": blind faith in CIA pronouncements.

There's a new government report out today that makes a claim about Russiagate: the eternal crack pipe of the corporate media. The claim has no evidence: just a CIA/DHS assertion.

Just watch how many media figures on Twitter are now treating it as Gospel: not to be questioned.

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Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

15 Apr

https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1382477293797400581

This is an incredibly important and illuminating thread, brilliantly constructed, showing how the NYT/CNN/MSNBC/WPost axis spoke about Trump's attempt to withdrawal from Afghanistan in the exact opposite way as they are depicting Biden's. Just look for yourself at what they are:

https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1382477293797400581

@NewYorker

Let me add one amazing example. Look at this:

On the left, beloved liberal @NewYorker writer @sbg1 warned *just 6 months ago* that opposition by Generals to Trump's withdrawal announcement was some grave crisis. *Today*, she heralds Biden as courageous for defying his Generals!

These media people are absolutely craven and bereft of principles. They deserves the loss of trust and scorn the public harbors from them. They don't even realize they're doing it: they think they're honest reporters. That's why there's no self-critique.

axios.com/media-trust-cr…

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Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

12 Apr

https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1381427518947876870

1/ This predictably viral tweet from a Georgetown #Resistance Professor is an obvious distortion. In fact, it attributes to me a view -- that nobody can form judgments absent formal charges -- that I *explicitly* rejected. What's needed aren't formal charges but *evidence*:

https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1381427518947876870

2/ All anyone has to do is read my article to see how many lies are circulating on Twitter, to the point of, again, trending. I explicitly said we *don't* need trials to form judgments - just *evidence* (which we have with Hunter's business deals but not Gaetz's private life):

3/ I only made two points: 1) we should wait for evidence before assuming guilt, particularly for grave accusations; and 2) it's difficult to reconcile moral condemnation here with prevailing left-wing views on sex work, drug use, and bodily autonomy. You can hear it right here:

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Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

12 Apr

@benyt

Among the many interesting points about Substack in @benyt's article -- including why it's such a threat to corporate journalists -- is the fact that it's now offering prominent trans writers huge advances beyond what they earn, and they're taking them.

nytimes.com/2021/04/11/bus…

@benyt

The person who originated the narrative that Substack and many of its writers are transphobic is now claiming both the NYT & @benyt are transphobic because of the article they wrote on the controversy, even though the article featured a trans couple getting $600k from Substack.

@benyt

That the NYT & @benyt are transphobic in general, or that this article is in particular is, is facially laughable. It's good to remember how some people casually and recklessly hurl this accusation, or weaponize it to smear people or just for fun:

nytimes.com/2021/04/11/bus…

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Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

11 Apr

Due Process, Adult Sexual Morality and the Case of Rep. Matt Gaetz

greenwald.substack.com/p/due-process-…

The Florida Congressman has not been charged with, let alone convicted of, any crimes. No evidence has yet been presented. But in many circles, his legal and moral guilt are assumed. The reaction to this case raises important questions of political, legal and cultural judgments.

All or some of these accusations against Rep. Gaetz very well may be true and, one day — perhaps imminently — there will be ample publicly available evidence demonstrating this.

But that day has not yet arrived. That should matter for how the case is discussed.

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Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

9 Apr

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1380613507335487489

This is the reason that leaders around the world -- Merkel, Macron, AMLO and numerous others -- objected so loudly when Silicon Valley removed Trump from the internet, even as US journalists swooned. They see that this kind of oligarchical censorship is anti-democratic tyranny:

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1380613507335487489

If Google's policy -- that you get banned for saying *anything* about COVID-19 that deviates from the views of WHO, Dr. Fauci & friends -- were in place in March, 2020, then you'd have been banned for *urging people to wear masks*. That's when WHO/Fauci were anti-mask.

Listen to Mexican President López Obrador after tech monopolies banned Trump in January, 2021, warning of the serious dangers posed by online censorship to basic democracy and its ability to survive -- warnings repeated by Germany, France & EU officials: