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Glenn Greenwald
Personal blog · greenwald.substack.compolitics
Glenn Greenwald's personal blog at greenwald.substack.com covers politics. Since 2020, 203 different Hacker News readers have linked it 334 times, most often “Emails with Intercept Editors Showing Censorship of My Joe Biden Article”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it, 7 are critical?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Glenn Greenwald's Substack for commentary on censorship, big tech, press coverage and Assange, mostly cited as a source. Several commenters push back on specific posts.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- Recommended as an in-depth analysis, and as a piece on censorship by tech companies.
- Criticised for · 7 comments
- Called ranting with little substance, repeating RT propaganda, misrepresenting events, and aged badly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Independent, unencumbered analysis and investigative reporting, captive to no dogma or faction. Click to read Glenn Greenwald, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- Emails with Intercept Editors Showing Censorship of My Joe Biden Article19 people · 21 mentions · first linked 2020-10-29
- Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored by the Intercept17 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2020-10-29
- My Resignation from the Intercept14 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2020-10-29
- How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler9 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2021-01-12
- NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2021-02-07
- MSNBC Admits Maddow Not a Real Source of Information9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2021-06-24
- Commandeering Facebook8 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2021-10-05
- The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-02-17
- Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor,Threatening First Amendment6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-02-20
- The Media Lied Repeatedly About Officer Brian Sicknick's Death6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-04-20
What Hacker News says?
To extend your analogy, the players on the field only have so much they can do--Trump included. Might be worth asking who is in the owner's box, who is betting on the game, and why are we in the stands cheering so aggressively for either side in the first place. With Trump out in January, I hope more people are critical and skeptical of the various institutions in our country that wield the actual power. For a more…
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on “Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.”Submitted My Resignation from the Intercept as a story · 1441 points
HN discussionDid the president merely tap into this simmering sentiment, or did he inflame it? Recently, Glenn Greenwald wrote about the reluctance of large news organizations to even mention the Hunter Biden laptop story. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-int... As someone who sees this story as hard to believe for a number of reasons, the broad resolve among large news organization to avoid that story ra…
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on “Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.”Submitted How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler as a story · 1060 points
HN discussionIt's crazy to me that people _still_ don't know that it's been confirmed by a "reliable" news source. The veracity of the NY Post story wasn't controversial, just the effect it would have on getting Biden into the White House. The corporate press ran cover for the Biden family to get the outcome they wanted in the 2020 elections. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-nyt-now-admits-the-bide...
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on “Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private”Submitted NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur as a story · 452 points
HN discussionThe ACLU has had a bit of a paradigm shift recently, from "defend any speech" to "defend any speech we do not think is abhorrent". That's not necessarily a bad change, or a good change, depending on where you stand. I am just wanting to point out that the ACLU isn't necessarily "remaining", more "reinventing" these days. Here is a fresh Glenn Greenwald writeup on it (which is just one opinion, of course): https://gr…
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on “YouTube-dl's repository has been restored”Submitted Greenwald: Yesterday Journalists Spread a Significant Lie All over Twitter as a story · 204 points
HN discussionAlready happened: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-court-ruled-rachel-maddow...
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on “US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent”Submitted Former officials say big tech monopoly power is vital to national security as a story · 180 points
HN discussionhttps://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale...
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on “Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked”Submitted Definitive Account of the CIA/Media/BigTech Fraud as a story · 142 points
HN discussionThe problem is that this is very hard to prove since government is a black box. Take this example where Pelosi, one of the richest members of Congress has personal calls with Tim Cook where she also holds her most worth stock of 17%: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/nancy-and-paul-pelosi-makin...
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on “Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources”Submitted Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor Its Writers as a story · 126 points
HN discussion>The Pulitzer-winning journalist burned Reality Winner. Completely and totally factually false. He had nothing to do with that story, it's editing and saw it for the first time when it was published. >The Pulitzer-winning journalist supported the 2nd Iraq War. Huh? I don't believe he was a journalist or a writer at all at the time of the Iraq war. You can't commit a failure of journalism when you're not publishing a…
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on “My Resignation from the Intercept”Submitted CIA Document from WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light on U.S. Politics and Wars as a story · 115 points
HN discussionPeter Maas request for edits was reasoned and fair. Greenwald is off his rocker on this. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito...
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on “My Resignation from the Intercept”Submitted Congress demands tech CEOs censor the internet even more aggressively as a story · 103 points
HN discussionI thought Peter Maas email (that Greenwald posted) asking him for edits was very good. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito... Greenwald’s piece has some good points about lazy and biased journalism on the Hunter Biden story, but goes off the rails when he misrepresents what actually happened with Joe Biden firing the Ukraine prosecutor.
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on “My Resignation from the Intercept”Submitted Greenwald: The Leading Activists for Online Censorship Are Corporate Journalists as a story · 99 points
HN discussion>For the same reason that the NY Times suddenly publishing a front-page article on the 26 women who have accused Trump of rape [1] the week before the election would be a blatant partisan hack move. What are you talking about??! That story was reported EVERYWHERE. If it was 'old news' why was it reported EVERYWHERE? The fact that it didn't change the election outcome (which is what you're really complaining about) i…
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on “My Resignation from the Intercept”Submitted The ACLU, Prior to Covid, Denounced Mandates and Coercive Measures for Pandemics as a story · 78 points
HN discussionI believe the links was added a little while after the initial post. Here it is: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito... I'm surprised Greenwald is using these as evidence of censorship, given the opening line of the memo directly contradicts his claim: "there is some I agree with and some I disagree with but am comfortable publishing ." [emph added]
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on “My Resignation from the Intercept”Submitted Ongoing Death of Free Speech: ACLU Lawyer Cheers Suppression of a New Book as a story · 68 points
HN discussionMy conclusion is making sense of both of these. Why didn't I believe Greenwald initially? Well, I have had the dubious pleasure of seeing many people behave badly and then play the morally-outraged victim to try to legitimize it. There's a particular way they write and talk, and Greenwald's description of events reeked of it. The Intercept's response made a few jabs but it didn't level any particular wild accusation…
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on “My Resignation from the Intercept”Submitted The U.S. Inability to Count Votes Is a National Disgrace. and Dangerous as a story · 68 points
HN discussionJust posting a link to the story since I didnt see it elsewhere in this thread: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...
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on “My Resignation from the Intercept”Submitted New York Is Using Race to Determine Access to Covid Treatments as a story · 62 points
HN discussion> https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid- ... This is why the Intercept didn't want to run Glenn's story. Intercept's decision has nothing to do with this nbc article. Here's the emails exchange between Greenwald and Intercept editors: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito...
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on “My Resignation from the Intercept”Submitted Recall the Forced Landing of Bolivia's Plane to Find Snowden as a story · 59 points
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