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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It’s like Julian Assange is memory-holed already.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For real hey,
Snowden, meanings, Aaron Schwartz (rip)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

And then there are those who don’t get whacked or politically persecuted, only cancelled. The people who got Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction wrong are still prominent today, while those who got it right have never worked in the industry again, like Chris Hedges and Phil Donahue.

Like, of course US journalists toe the party line: you get promoted for doing it and you get permabanned like Chris Hedges if you question it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Same in France,
Investigation journalist or activists jailed or in justice for nothing except emarassing the power and the business.

Cf to start,
Reflet.info, laquadrature.net

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Or even the cases of Steven Donziger or the stuff Ralph Nader went through in his heyday.