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Greenwald resigns from The Intercept

On 29 October 2020 Glenn Greenwald resigned from The Intercept, which he had co-founded, and from its parent company First Look Media.

Glenn Greenwald (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 29 October 2020 Glenn Greenwald resigned from The Intercept, which he had co-founded, and from its parent company First Look Media. He said editors had censored an opinion article on Joe Biden in breach of his contractual editorial freedom. Editor-in-chief Betsy Reed disputed his account, calling it a disagreement over the role of editors.

Who was responsible

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  • Glenn Greenwald

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    Greenwald resigns from The Intercept. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

What changed

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Evidence

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  1. 1.theintercept.com — sourcetheintercept.com · verified
  2. 2.smh.com.auchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: greenwald+intercept+resign · verified
  3. 3.mercurynews.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: greenwald+intercept+resign · verified
  4. 4.consequences and surrounding contextGlenn Greenwald · verified

Causal path

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Factrail. (2026). Greenwald resigns from The Intercept. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/greenwald-resigns-from-the-intercept-2020-10-29

https://factrail.ai/facts/greenwald-resigns-from-the-intercept-2020-10-29

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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