Glenn Greenwald: We investigate one of the worst media disinformation campaigns in modern US political history. In the weeks leading up to the 2020 election, most media outlets peddled the CIA lie that materials on Hunter Biden's laptop - raising questions about lead candidate Joe Biden's activities in Ukraine and China - were "Russian disinformation » acted, meaning that the documents were fake and forged by Russia. It was clear from the start that this was a genuine data archive and that lies were being spread. Yet even now that The New York Times, The Washington Post, and a reporter from Politico have confirmed the archive as authentic, these media outlets still refuse to retract this destructive lie or acknowledge the evidence.
This video was produced by Gleen Greenwald and posted to his channel on Rumble on March 30th, 2022. acTVism Munich translated it into German and republished it to contribute to opinion-forming on this topic in German-speaking countries.
Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional scholar, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and the author of several best-selling books, including Global Surveillance: The Snowden Case, American Intelligence, and Its Aftermath (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro's Brazil» (2021). Greenwald, named one of The Atlantic's 25 Most Influential Political Commentators, Newsweek's Top 100 American Opinion Writer, and Foreign Policy's Top 2013 Global Thinkers of XNUMX, is a former attorney for constitutional and civil rights issues.
He was a columnist at The Guardian until October 2013 and co-founder and former editor of The Intercept, which he left in 2020. He is now an independent journalist and writes for Substack. He has received numerous awards for his reporting, including the 2013 Polk Award for National Security Reporting, the Online News Association's 2013 Premier Investigative Journalism Award, the Esso Award for Excellence in Reporting (the Brazilian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize), the Pioneer 2013 Electronic Frontier Foundation Award and the 2019 Vladimir Herzog Special Prize for his work on the Vaza Jato series. He also received the first annual IF Stone Award for Independent Journalism in 2009 and an Online Journalism Award in 2010. In 2013, Greenwald directed the Guardian's reporting, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Outreach, and his work was featured in the 2014 film Citizenfour, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary.