Sites That Expose Corruption Under Attack, Journalism Not Tolerated Anymore (the Super-Rich Abuse Their Wealth and Political Power)
Two days ago: NYT publisher and chairman warns against ‘anti-press push’, talks AI
Hosted by the GSB's View From the Top speaker series, Arthur Gregg Sulzberger reflected on The New York Times’ digital transformation, its stance on artificial intelligence and the ethos of reporting in an era of political pressure.
Another target:
Before Thiel became the right-wing and right-hand man of Cheeto's military state he had attacked the press by subsiding lawsuits against publishers he didn't like. Those tactics aren't unprecedented; but Thiel, being a "broligarch" with billions of dollars, attracted a lot of attention when he did this to Gawker.
"JuristGate under siege," its author told me last week. "There have been efforts to have the sites taken down. Those efforts have been hinted at already."
"It is important to take frequent snapshots, especially at a time like this when there is hyper-sensitivity," he said. "They are terrified of a truth outbreak."
We can relate. The threats we got last week were sent both to me and to my wife.
"I'm just about to reveal that the deputy chief of fire prevention in the commune where the fire occurred is in the same political party as the prosecutor and the minister for public safety," we got told. "France was warned about incompetence in Valais before the fire."
This story has just come out. The JuristGate investigations are connected to some of the corruption we often cover here and sometimes overlap EPO issues.
There's a lot more coming soon. Sometimes, albeit not always, the harder people try to hide something, the more effective and important it is for the general public. █