Glenn Greenwald Speaks: Bolsonaro Is Trying to Silence Me

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Glenn Greenwald Speaks: Bolsonaro Is Trying to Silence Me
The charges are “an obvious attempt to attack a free press in retaliation for the revelations we reported about... the Bolsonaro government,” Greenwald told The Daily Beast.
Lloyd Grove
Editor at Large

Famed journalist Glenn Greenwald on Tuesday reacted to the news that the Brazilian government has charged him with “cybercrimes” by railing against President Jair Bolsonaro’s regime and its attempts to silence the press.

The New York Times reported on Tuesday morning that Brazilian prosecutors alleged that Greenwald was part of a “criminal organization” that hacked into the cellphones of public officials and prosecutors. In multiple stories for The Intercept, which he co-founded, Greenwald published some of those leaked embarrassing messages and, per a criminal complaint, damaged the reputation of an anti-corruption task force.

“The Bolsonaro government and the movement that supports it has made repeatedly clear that it does not believe in basic press freedoms—from Bolsonaro's threats against Folha to his attacks on journalists that have incited violence to Sergio Moro’s threats from the start to classify us as ‘allies of the hackers’ for revealing his corruption,” Greenwald said in a statement to The Daily Beast.

Read more at: https://www.thedailybeast.com/glenn-greenwald-says-brazils-president-bolsonaro-is-trying-to-silence-him

The Intercept website:  https://theintercept.com/

It's not all bad leftist journalism but probably about 90% of it at least.