How do we at Project Censored identify and evaluate independent news stories, and how do we know that the Top 25 stories that we bring forward each year are not only relevant and significant but also trustworthy? The answer is that every candidate news story undergoes rigorous review, which takes…
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The Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction was created to protect children from being abducted and taken away from their home countries. But, as Misha Valencia observes in a July 20, 2020 WhoWhatWhy article, abusers are now using this treaty as a way to manipulate the courts…
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Juvenile justice reform continues to be ignored throughout the United States, despite President Biden’s campaign pledge to close youth prisons and establish a $100 million fund for youth and communities. Shani Saxon’s interview for ColorLines with a juvenile justice advocate, Liz Ryan, highlights some of the underreported issues that incarcerated…
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Researchers at the University of Oldenburg in Germany have concluded that pollution-related darkening of coastal waters in the world’s oceans poses a serious threat to ocean food chains. Since 2016, researchers with the Coastal Ocean Darkening Project at the University of Oldenburg have been investigating how pollution and runoff alter…
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In an October 2020 article published by the Intercept, Sam Biddle reported on racial bias at Dataminr, a New York company that monitors Twitter for “suspicious behavior,” which it reports to law enforcement agencies. According to Biddle’s report, Dataminr’s Twitter surveillance program “targets communities of color.” Sources directly familiar with…
Major Christian organizations, including the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the Fellowship Foundation, have together spent close to a quarter of a billion dollars over the past 13 years campaigning against LGBTQ and abortion rights, according to a report by the United Kingdom–based political website openDemocracy. Matt Tracy, Gay City…
The violent insurrection of January 6th, 2021, when supporters of Donald Trump unlawfully occupied the US Capitol building, threatened members of Congress, and temporarily derailed certification of the presidential election, has prompted a new wave of federal anti-terrorism statues targeting domestic terrorism. As Alex Emmons of the Intercept and independent…
Driven by demand in European Union countries, the southern United States is now the world’s largest producer and exporter of the wood pellets used to produce biomass energy, Danna Smith reported for Truthout in September 2020. Despite popular beliefs that solar and wind power are its main sources of renewable…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, women of color who are survivors of sexual violence have faced disproportionate hardships compared to white women survivors, ColorLines’s Shani Saxon reported in November 2020. Saxon’s report focused on the findings of a study, “Measuring the Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Survivors of Color,” conducted by the…
In February 2021 independent news sources such as Progressive Soapbox, The Convo Couch, Franc Analysis, and Hannah Reloaded were demonetized by YouTube, the latest instance of YouTube penalizing independent and alternative voices by removing entire channels or videos with no explanation, raising concerns over censorship on the platform. YouTube told…
