Reports on Big Tech | The Grayzone

Facebook hires ex-NATO press officer and social media censor Ben Nimmo as intel strategist

Alan MacLeod·February 9, 2021

Nimmo has previously worked for NATO and the Integrity Initiative, a covert UK govt troll farm. His move... Read More

Twitter Latin America coordinator exposed as right-wing operative, amid anti-AMLO social media purge

Ben Norton·January 24, 2021

While Mexico’s progressive President AMLO challenges the Big Tech corporation’s growing censorship, Twitter Latin America’s public policy head... Read More

‘Green’ billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary

Max Blumenthal·September 7, 2020

The Michael Moore-produced ‘Planet of the Humans’ faced a coordinated suppression campaign led by professional climate activists backed... Read More

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Twitter spreads paid US gov’t propaganda while falsely claiming it bans state media ads

Ben Norton·August 10, 2020

Twitter says it bans ads from state-affiliated media outlets. However, US government propaganda organs like Voice of America’s... Read More

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Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO

Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal·June 11, 2020

Wikipedia has become a bulletin board for corporate and imperial interests under the watch of its Randian founder,... Read More

Wikipedia deprecated The Grayzone censorship

Wikipedia formally censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing

Ben Norton·June 10, 2020

On Wikipedia, a small group of regime-change advocates and right-wing Venezuelan opposition supporters have blacklisted independent media outlets... Read More

FBI launches open attack on ‘foreign’ alternative media outlets challenging US foreign policy

Gareth Porter·June 5, 2020

Under FBI orders, Facebook and Google removed American Herald Tribune, an alternative site that publishes US and European... Read More

Acronym group that sabotaged Iowa caucus birthed by billionaire who funded Alabama disinformation campaign

Max Blumenthal·February 6, 2020

Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman funded the creation of ACRONYM, the group that sabotaged the Iowa caucus results,... Read More

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Billionaire pro-Israel Buttigieg backer Seth Klarman funds group behind Iowa’s disastrous voting app

Max Blumenthal·February 4, 2020

Behind the app that delayed Iowa’s voting results is a dark money operation funded by anti-Bernie Sanders billionaires.... Read More

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Under US pressure, social media companies censor critical content and suspend Venezuelan, Iranian, and Syrian accounts

Ben Norton·January 12, 2020

As the US escalates its hybrid wars, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are suspending accounts and censoring content that... Read More

PayPal blocks donations to The Grayzone that mention Iran (and free speech)

Ben Norton·January 9, 2020

Small donations to The Grayzone were delayed and reversed by PayPal because they mentioned the word “Iran” in... Read More

PUSHBACK

At UN, Aaron Maté debunks OPCW’s Syria lies and confronts US, UK on cover-up

Former hostage responds to top diplomat calling Al Qaeda a US ‘asset’ in Syria

As US continues New Cold War, Russia and China forge new ties

REDLINES

US escalates in Ukraine battleground

Vijay Prashad explains Myanmar coup

UN expert details crushing human toll of US sanctions on Venezuela

ESPAÑOL

En sádico manual de sanciones, enviado de Biden para Irán se jacta de privar de alimentos a los civiles, aumentando la desigualdad iraní

El ‘embajador virtual’ de EEUU tiene una cumbre de golpistas venezolanos antes del reconocimiento a Guaidó de Biden

Respaldado por EEUU, el candidato ‘ecosocialista’ de Ecuador, Yaku Pérez, apoya golpes de estado y ayuda a la derecha

Big Tech

Top 12 The Grayzone stories of 2020: From Assange persecution to Bolivia coup defeat, corporate war on free speech to OPCW cover-up

‘Green’ billionaires behind professional activist network that led suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary

Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO

Wikipedia formally censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing

FBI launches open attack on ‘foreign’ alternative media outlets challenging US foreign policy

Acronym group that sabotaged Iowa caucus birthed by billionaire who funded Alabama disinformation campaign

Billionaire pro-Israel Buttigieg backer Seth Klarman funds group behind Iowa’s disastrous voting app

Under US pressure, social media companies censor critical content and suspend Venezuelan, Iranian, and Syrian accounts

PayPal blocks donations to The Grayzone that mention Iran (and free speech)

Anti-war activist visited by police after posting embarrassing AOC video

Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to “weaken Russia,” leaked docs reveal

“Wipe out China!” US-funded Uyghur activists train as gun-toting foot soldiers for empire

‘Independent’ report claiming Uyghur genocide brought to you by sham university, neocon ideologues lobbying to ‘punish’ China

Pentagon campaign to recruit Vietnam as military ally against China exposed delusions of US war strategy

Biden isn’t ending the Afghanistan War, he’s privatizing it: Special Forces, Pentagon contractors, intelligence operatives will remain

Bellingcaught: Who is the mysterious author of Bellingcat’s attacks on OPCW whistleblower?

Kamala’s KHive trolls boosted by bots while media defends harassment campaigns

US State Department accusation of China ‘genocide’ relied on data abuse and baseless claims by far-right ideologue

Western govt contractor entrapped British scholar in sting operation to cover up Syria corruption scandal

China detaining millions of Uyghurs? Serious problems with claims by US-backed NGO and far-right researcher ‘led by God’ against Beijing

Questions about BBC producer’s ties to UK intelligence follow ‘Mayday’ White Helmets whitewash

Lokman Slim’s war: The life and mysterious death of a Western collaborator in Lebanon

As US continues New Cold War, Russia and China forge new ties

Chomsky on the ‘joke’ of ‘Russian interference’ and the savagery of US sanctions