15 Facts About The Intercept

The Intercept is an American non-profit news organization founded by Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Laura Poitras, and funded by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar.

The Intercept has published in English since its founding, and in Portuguese since the 2016 launch of the Brazilian edition staffed by a local team of Brazilian journalists.

The Intercept was founded by journalists Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill and filmmaker Laura Poitras.

In February 2016, The Intercept won a National Magazine Award for columns and commentary by the writer Barrett Brown, and it was a finalist in the public interest category for a series by Sharon Lerner called the Teflon Toxin, which exposed how DuPont harmed the public and its workers with toxic chemicals.

In May 2016, The Intercept won three awards at the New York Press Club Awards For Journalism.

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At the September 2016 Online News Awards, The Intercept won the University of Florida Award in Investigative Data Journalism for its Drone Papers series, an investigation of secret documents detailing a covert U S military overseas assassination program.

Politico notes that The Intercept has a tendency to write articles that speak negatively of Democrats.

The Intercept's noted that some of Thompson's work, most of it using public sources, was verifiable.

The Intercept had made up pseudonyms for some of his sources, whom he described as "poor black people who didn't want their names in the public given the situations" and would not have spoken with a reporter otherwise.

The Intercept was fired by The Intercept in early 2016 and, according to Reed, did not cooperate with the investigation into his actions.

In early June 2017, The Intercept published a National Security Agency document that asserts Russian intelligence successfully hacked an American voter registration and poll software company, and used information culled to phish state election officials.

The Intercept has been criticized for unprofessional handling of the document, and indifference to the source's safety.

The Intercept's said she was fired in relation to the Winner controversy.

The Intercept was asked to support his claims and innuendo about corrupt actions by Joe Biden with evidence.

In June 2019, The Intercept Brasil released leaked Telegram messages exchanged between judge Sergio Moro, prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol and other Operation Car Wash prosecutors.