Reports on Big Tech - The Grayzone

Twitter partners with UK govt-backed, CIA-linked Reuters to censor alternative views

Ben Norton·August 4, 2021

Twitter is collaborating with Reuters, a CIA-linked media outlet that also participates in a covert UK information warfare... Read More

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

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