Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb has been a professional writer, researcher and journalist since 2016. She has written for several websites and, from 2017 to 2020, was a staff writer and senior investigative reporter for MintPress News. She currently writes for her own outlet Unlimited Hangout and contributes to The Last American Vagabond and MintPress News.

The Trust Project: Big Media and Silicon Valley’s Weaponized Algorithms Silence Dissent

Given the Trust Project’s rich-get-richer impact on the online news landscape, it is not surprising to find that it is funded by a confluence of tech oligarchs and powerful forces with a clear stake in controlling the flow of news.

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作者 Whitney Webb

After the failure of Newsguard -- the news rating system backed by a cadre of prominent neoconservative personalities -- to gain traction among American tech and social media companies, another organization has quietly stepped in to direct the news algorithms of tech giants such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. Though different from

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两党对特朗普侵略性伊朗政策的支持揭示了俄罗斯之门的空洞

虽然俄罗斯经常成为推动军国主义政策的有用“笨蛋”，但这些政策实际上使俄罗斯受益并避免美国政客和媒体的强烈反对的奇怪时刻让人们难得一睹冷战2.0背后的真正动机。

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作者 Whitney Webb
Putin Russiagate Feature

In early May, MSNBC news host Rachel Maddow -- known as one of the top promoters of the new Cold War and Russiagate in American media -- emphatically endorsed regime change in Venezuela after she claimed that President Donald Trump’s hawkishness towards the South American country had changed, all because of a single phone call with his Russian

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MintCast采访电影制作人罗比马丁：新保守主义的残局

MintCast与纪录片导演和音乐家罗比·马丁谈论新保守派，他们在创建俄罗斯之门中的隐藏角色以及他们对美国及其他地区的最终目标。

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作者 Alan Macleod
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MintCast co-hosts Alan MacLeod and Whitney Webb recently spoke to Robbie Martin (@FluorescentGrey), a filmmaker whose recent documentary series A Very Heavy Agenda explores how prominent Bush-era neo-conservatives have continued to dominate the Washington foreign policy debate and have been instrumental in creating and fomenting Russiagate and Cold

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博尔顿声称伊朗海上破坏活动，但其他证据仍然存在

在美国的布雷船和潜水员在同一地区进行演习以致发生了所谓的破坏事件之后几周才对伊朗提出指控。

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作者 Whitney Webb
Artemis Trident 19 | Feature photo

ABU DHABI, U.A.E. -- On Wednesday, National Security Advisor John Bolton told a group of reporters in Abu Dhabi that “naval mines almost certainly from Iran” had been used to conduct the alleged “sabotage” attack on four commercial vessels off the coast of the United Arab Emirates’ port of Fujairah earlier this month. “There is no doubt in

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Microsoft’s ElectionGuard a Trojan Horse for a Military-Industrial Takeover of US Elections

“The fact that we are handing over the keys of American democracy to the military-industrial complex — it’s like giving the keys to the henhouse to a fox and saying, ‘here come in and take whatever you want.’ It’s obviously dangerous.” — Investigative journalist Yasha Levine

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作者 Whitney Webb
ElectionGuard | Voting Machines

Earlier this month, tech giant Microsoft announced its solution to “protect” American elections from interference, which it has named “ElectionGuard.” The election technology is already set to be adopted by half of voting machine manufacturers and some state governments for the 2020 general election. Though it has been heavily promoted by the

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MintCast第3集：伊朗，切尔西曼宁，ElectionGuard和使馆保护集体

MinCast主持艾伦麦克劳德和惠特尼韦伯讨论本周的头条新闻，包括美国试图升级伊朗局势，切尔西曼宁的不公正再次入狱，微软新的ElectionGuard产品以及委内瑞拉大使馆保护集团的第一手资料。亚历克斯鲁宾斯坦。

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MinCast hosts Alan MacLeod and Whitney Webb discuss the week’s top stories, including U.S. attempt to escalate the situation in Iran, the unjust re-imprisonment of Chelsea Manning, Microsoft’s new ElectionGuard product and get a first-hand account of the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective from Alex Rubenstein. Segment 1: Is a War with Iran

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泄露的外交电报表明沙特对斯里兰卡复活节爆炸事件有所了解

新的证据表明，沙特阿拉伯政府不仅预见到了残酷的爆炸事件（并没有阻止他们），但可能在流血事件中起到了更积极和直接的作用。

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作者 Whitney Webb
Zahran Hashim

COLOMBO, SRI LANKA -- A leaked Saudi diplomatic memo obtained by Lebanese outlet Alahed News claims that the government of Saudi Arabia had foreknowledge of the Easter bombings that occurred last month in three cities on the island nationof Sri Lanka, killing nearly 300 and wounding over 500 more. The contents of the memo, which additionally

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