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by anextio 1925 days ago
This is wrong and a total mischaracterization. It *was* an opinion piece that they blocked:

From Greenwald's resignation blog post [1]:

> The latest and perhaps most egregious example is an *opinion column* I wrote this week which, five days before the presidential election, is critical of Joe Biden, the candidate who happens to be vigorously supported by all of the Intercept editors in New York who are imposing the censorship and refusing to publish the article unless I agree to remove all of the sections critical of the candidate they want to win.

Additionally, the emails he published between himself and the editors indicates specifically the claims they wanted him to remove, which did not include any factually inaccurate claims [2]:

> But your memo *doesn't identify a single factual inaccuracy*, let alone multiple ones. And that's why you don't and can't identify any such false claims. And that, in turn, is why your email repeatedly says that what makes the draft false is that it omits facts which -- as I just demonstrated -- the draft explicitly includes.

[1] https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-int...

[2] https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito...