Glenn Greenwald resigns from The Intercept over article critical of Joe Biden
- Prize-winning journalist who broke Edward Snowden story accuses news outlet he founded of censorship after it refuses to publish his piece
- Article accuses news outlets of pro-Biden bias in their coverage of corruption allegations against former vice-president’s son in recent New York Post story.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald said Thursday he had resigned from The Intercept after the US investigative media outlet refused to publish his article critical of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Greenwald, one of the first journalists to report on the Edward Snowden documents on US mass surveillance, said he was leaving the website he started in 2014 with two other journalists.
“The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden,” Greenwald said in a blog post.
Greenwald’s article accuses news outlets of pro-Biden bias in their stand-offish coverage of corruption allegations against the former vice-president’s son in a recent New York Post story.
The New York Post accused Hunter Biden of monetising access to his father in improper business dealings in Ukraine.
Twitter restricted the article’s spread amid questions over the “origins of the materials” on which it relied, including emails apparently sourced from a laptop left by Hunter Biden at a Delaware repair shop last year.