A friend of mine is really into him
I was checking some of his stuff out and he seems to have some good opinions… he’s definitely against Trumps deportations and all that
but from what i’ve seen, he also seems to spout alot of Russian propaganda on the Ukraine topic and he makes crazy claims like “Biden pressuring tech people to censor COVID misinformation is just as egregious an attack on our democracy as anything Trump has done“
what are your thoughts?
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A friend of mine is really into him
I was checking some of his stuff out and he seems to have some good opinions… he’s definitely against Trumps deportations and all that
but from what i’ve seen, he also seems to spout alot of Russian propaganda on the Ukraine topic and he makes crazy claims like “Biden pressuring tech people to censor COVID misinformation is just as egregious an attack on our democracy as anything Trump has done“
what are your thoughts?
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I was a fan during the early days of the Snowden affair. I thought he was a journalist willing to put his neck out for civil liberties and hold power to account.
Since then, it’s become increasingly apparent that for whatever reason he is entirely a creature of Putin’s propaganda machine.
I don’t know who he is but he sounds like a complete idiot and/or grifter and I would advise against supporting or listening to anyone who pushes Russian talking points or makes idiotic claims like that.
He’s one of the very few actual journalists left…so naturally he will be hated by the political establishment.
Personally, I prefer Benn Bluewald
Definitely don’t like him at all, given that example you’ve given.
It’s classic bothsidesism that people use to justify their support for people they know are unjustifiable.
Unsound on Assad. Unsound on Ukraine. Total Tankie.
Kept going on Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon shows slagging off the evil ‘liberals’. Flirted with pro-Trump views. Their ally George Galloway did it explicitly.
I’m ‘not a fan’.
He’s hit or miss. He sees everything through the “American imperialism framework”. But ideological frameworks are always limiting and short-sighted.
Glen doesn’t care what happens to America. And I don’t care what happens to him. He’s also bought completely in on Russian propaganda. I heard an interview with him on Pod Save America. He isn’t against Trump, and in fact was being a little defensive of him in my view. Basically fuck Greenwald.
Grifter who went after the big bucks
Literally on the Kremlin payroll along with Benny Johnson. He and Taibbi are the biggest voices of the “ex-Left” desperately trying to whitewash the numerous Kremlin links to the Trump administration.
sometimes he puts out good stuff, but I think he can be a bit contrarian for the sake of it
I dont really know him but he sounds like a loser from this description.
If you want a laugh, look at his involvement with “The Twitter Files”… and then look into how Elon royally screwed him over by banning links to substack (Glenn’s bread and butter).
He strikes me as one of those “after Hitler our turn” socialists
I like Glen Greenwald, he is a legitimate journalist. He does not say things that cannot be backed up with evidence. By ‘Russian propaganda’ do you mean the side of the story US propaganda isn’t telling you? There are two sides to a story, and each side presents evidence that supports their claims. Your ‘crazy claim’ is absolutely backed by evidence that has been substantiated by multiple sources and presented as evidence in court. The evidence was not disputed, the judge ruled against the case saying that nobody was harmed.
He’s either a grifter or a moron.
Greenwald has imo a permanent anti-US hate bias, ever since 2013. During the Snowden affair, the Obama admin was freaking out over further leaks. Greenwald’s husband David Miranda was carrying a USB stick with classified US info, but was detained by the UK during a layover at London Heathrow airport. Eventually Miranda got released, but I think Glenn turned totally evil after that. I never paid attention to Glenn after Snowden because his articles dripped with bias.
Time does fly. I just found out David Miranda then became a Brazilian politician. He then died in 2023 of gastro infection.
His background is as a litigator, not a journalist.
Because of this, he approaches a story trying to convince the reader that he’s right rather than trying to discover the truth. This results in his “what if the US are the baddies” world view seep into everything he does.
I think he is a bit of a crank. He does have a few opinions that I think are valid which aren’t common elsewhere, but he’s kind of fallen down the contrarian rabbit hole where that seems more like a broken clock being right twice a day than any sort of special insight on his part. Essentially he’s always taking a counter majoritarian view without seeming to have any sort of basis other than it being counter majoritarian.
Caveat, because I think he is a bit of a crank I haven’t really been following him since after Snowden. This is more of just a vibes opinion than based on careful research and consideration.
Greenwald is what happens when reality catches up with an idealist, and instead of accepting that all positions, including their own, are nuanced with varying degrees of truth, they feel betrayed and feel justified in the throwing away of their own objectivity, eventually leading them to embrace forces and positions that were once antithetical to their original view.
Snowden, Assange, Greenwald… all started out as being objective with no issues pointing out corruption and wrongdoing regardless of someone’s political leanings and then all over time, all focused solely on the wrongdoings of the liberals or the left with not a word of critique for Russia, Putin, Trump, etc.
He is a bad faith Russian shill who is promoting many anti American conspiracy theories that motivate many on the left to hold anti interventionalist, anti American, and anti western values. The “war is always bad no matter what crowd” and “America is the great Satan” is who he panders to and makes worse with his bad faith spin he deceives people into believing is transparency. He panders and is bad faith. The same people who read manufacturing consent or simply watch the documentary love this guy because he tells them what they want. Greenwald is unique in that he is willing to go wherever his audience is at a time or whoever is paying him. He is not a free speech champion gainst the military industrial complex or whatever conspiracy theorists are heralding him as at any given time.
Total hack at this point. I can forgive people who are genuinely stupid, but he does not get the pass. He’s lived in Brazil for a long time and clearly speaks great Portuguese. He’s done reporting on corruption in Brazil, too. This is kind of a weird thing, but I scrutinize people who are bilingual harder than everyone else because when you’re bilingual you have the power to read about your own country from the outside perspective, so you don’t even have the excuse of the “fake news media”. Oh, and he’s a freaking LAWYER. The fact that he should know better on so many levels makes me consider him one of the snakiest grifters out there.
He had a free pass to being a celebrated journalist in the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks and instead he decided to throw it all away and become a Russian propagandist. It’s honestly kind of weird.
One of the few good American journalists left.
His tilt toward Russian propaganda and switching from liberal to conservative around the same time and manner as RT news made me question the whole Snowden affair to begin with.