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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

Russiagate target Kilimnik speaks out on ‘spy’ claims, Trump-Russia conspiracy theories

Challenged on Syria cover-up, OPCW chief lies and US-UK-France evade

At UN, ex-Colin Powell aide calls out ‘egregious’ OPCW Syria cover-up

REDLINES

Gaza resistance: beginning of the end for apartheid Israel?

USAID admits to Venezuela regime change fraud

US escalates in Ukraine battleground

ESPAÑOL

Cómo medios financiados por EEUU incitaron un golpe de estado en Nicaragua

Cómo USAID, fachada de la CIA, creó el aparato mediático anti-sandinista en Nicaragua

Chile gira a la izquierda para re-escribir su constitución pinochetista – y las empresas norteamericanas quieren su cobre

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