Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Collecting my checks from the Sulzberger dynasty (NYT). Laurene Powell-Jobs (Atlantic), MacKenzie Scott (countless left-liberal NGOs), Jeff Bezos (WP), Comcast Corp. (NBC/MSNBC), Warner Bros. Discovery Corp. (CNN), to write about the dangers of a billionaire's control of Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

In fact, some of the most sanctimonious leftist writers have been on the dole of Silicon Valley billionaires while attacking others for impure funding. That Musk's purchase of Twitter is some novel development - except for its potential to restore free speech - is laughable. https://t.co/4y7E9LB4kF — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@xavkoenig Because the current scheme is a censorship regime imposed on major social media platforms. Musk is promising to uproot that and instead allow free speech. If he's sincere and follows through, it will be important. If he isn't and doesn't, nothing will change. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The @GetCallin podcast I did last night on Homeland Security's creepy "Disinformation Board" and the equally creepy #Resistance cartoon they found to run it -- and how it's tied to panic over Musk/Twitter and the NYT pointless 3-part Tucker series -- can be heard at the link.👇 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The media meltdown over Musk's "threat" to restore free speech to part of the internet has been so funny so on multiple levels. Most amusing is watching employees at giant billionaire-controlled media corporations - NYT/WP/Atlantic/ CNN/NBC - fret about billionaire influence. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This WashPost article on billionaire control of media is hilarious. It starts off trying to pin it to Musk's purchase of Twitter, obviously has to acknowledge Bezos' ownership of that paper, and ends by noting that - from the NYT/Sulzbergers to Hearst - it's always been this way. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This is how war propaganda works. What is prohibited one week (Ukraine is really a proxy war between the US and Russia) becomes conventional wisdom the next. Just like it was standard for two decades in DC to say NATO expansion threatens Russia, then it suddenly became barred. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@OneRadChee 🤣🤣🤣🤣 - Zapping your extreme humiliation and stupidity from the world was a wise choice. https://t.co/xkFz15BXsi — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@caiobchi @getcallin @rumblevideo We are. I was just traveling the last week and am working on a new Rumble arrangement, so stay tuned. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Tonight at 7pm ET, I'll host my @GetCallin podcast on Homeland Security's new disinformation czar; the ongoing panic over Elon Musk & free speech on Twitter; and NYT "investigation" of Tucker Carlson: 3 seemingly disparate stories with a common theme: https://t.co/GBj23SmLic — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

That Trevor Noah is a threat to Biden or anyone else is one of the few funny things he's ever said. Ask Julian Assange what happens to journalists who are actually adversarial to the US Security State and reveals official crimes. The president Noah is praising has him in prison. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@OneRadChee Lula is out of prison and is able to run only because of my reporting, as he has repeatedly said, both publicly and privately. So I don't really think I'll have to run anywhere. https://t.co/2Pn7rHT9jG — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@OneRadChee "Anarchists" in defense of the honor and integrity New York Times. ✊ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@CWSheffield27 You chose to follow 49 people on the entire planet, one of whom is me, so your interest in my diary is evidently intense -- a bit creepy, given how you conceive of it, but flattering nonetheless. https://t.co/i6l6nEJbYq — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Even a decade ago, an endless three-part "investigative" series heavily promoted by the NYT, devoted to calling someone a racist and fascist over and over, would have destroyed anyone's reputation and career. Now, it doesn't matter - at all - because they only speak to liberals. https://t.co/kyDjHg3yMc — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

These are decadent French aristocrats gathered at a gala hosted by Marie Antoinette, proudly giggling and cackling at how hated they are by the hordes of peasants gathered outside the gates, but thinking they're too entitled and divine for it ever to matter. I guess we'll see: https://t.co/KJmm5O1xxD — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

But when your job title is "journalist" and you spend your time at Versailles-type parties hosted by billionaire magazine owners - dining, drinking and giggling with CIA Director and other US Security State operatives - of course these are the sorts of things you end up saying. https://t.co/GnhuZFuFMY — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

But that someone who is given the job title of "journalist" by the HR Department of Warner Bros. Discovery Corp. can read a story about Homeland Security creating a "Disinformation Board" and celebrate it as "common sense" shows not only why CNN is dying but why it deserves to. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The level of historical ignorance, sheer stupidity and corporate-serving malevolence required to believe the US Security State is trying to *combat* disinformation -- rather than aggressively spread it -- is so extreme that no words in the English language suffice to describe it: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @mtaibbi: I’m trying to point out to Democrats that they’re embracing the same ideas they claimed to denounce in the Bush years - mass s… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @aaronjmate: .@Trevornoah: "In America you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people in power uncomf… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @mtaibbi: The DHS “disinformation board” is a Dick Cheney wet dream. Mind-blowing that there are people who think this is a good idea. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Remember CNN+? If you were part of watching it collapse and die after only 22 days -- despite having a gigantic corporation pumping millions in promotion into it -- wouldn't you also be in panic, knowing the public doesn't trust you or care what you say, thus needing to censor? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I'll keep pointing it out: the leading agitators and activists for censorship are employees of media corporations -- in part because they believe only they can be trusted to speak, in part to eliminate competition as they collapse. @ElonMusk has forced them to say it explicitly: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @aaronjmate: https://t.co/6B4QVFSZvV — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @ReemAbulleil: Rafael Nadal weighs in on Wimbledon's decision to ban Russian & Belarusian players: "I think it's very unfair of my Russ… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This is the sick, toxic discourse which was instantly created -- and which almost every major US power center upheld -- that prevented anyone from questioning US policy in Ukraine. Now that we're sending *billions* and heavy weaponry, there's no dissent: https://t.co/O7Pysbj1AK — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

At the start of the war in Ukraine, the US Govt, the establishment wings of both parties, and the corporate media united to smear anyone questioning US policy as a traitor and a Kremlin agent. That, by design, made debate impossible. That continues as the US radically escalates: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @ChuckRossDC: Mayorkas is very bad at this. Here’s what the new head of the Disinformation Governance Board told NPR just last week http… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JonathanLanday He obviously only means that Presidents of the United States are inherently people of stature and significance when they speak on war. I know the convention in journalism is you have to call Trump a fascist and racist every time you mention his name but that's all Chomsky means. — PolitiTweet.org