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Silencing the Whistle: The Intercept Shutters Snowden Archive, Citing Cost

April 5, 2019 staff 0

The closing of The Intercept’s Snowden archive will likely mean the end of any future publications, unless Glenn Greenwald’s rather absurd promise of finding “the right partner … that has the funds to robustly publish” is fulfilled.

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