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Project Censored’s mission is to promote critical media literacy, independent journalism, and democracy. We educate students and the public about the importance of a truly free press for democratic self-government. Censorship undermines democracy.

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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 18h
Dr. Austin Kocher (@austinkocher.com) returns to The Project Censored Show to discuss the Detention Mortality Map, a new tool to track deaths in ICE custody so that those the system tries to make disappear are not lost. www.projectcensored.org/the-detentio...
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The Detention Mortality Map
The Detention Mortality Map, deaths in ICE custody, medical neglect in detention centers, surveillance, and the profits of private prisons.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 18h
National Nurses (@nationalnurses.bsky.social) United President Cathy Kennedy joins the show to discuss purging Palantir: how nurses are fighting back against the AI giant’s push to enter hospitals and clinics. www.projectcensored.org/national-nur...
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National Nurses United: Purging Palantir
National Nurses United president discusses nurses’ fight against Palantir in healthcare, universal healthcare, and keeping ICE out of medical facilities.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 22h
The Detention Mortality Map (detentionmortality.com) covers ICE custody deaths back to 2003. On The Project Censored Show, I explained why it leaves out cause of death and unverified criminal history claims. www.projectcensored.org/the-detentio... @projectcensored.bsky.social
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Catch our conversation with Dr. Shir Hever about the most recent announcement by eleven EU nations that expressed their intent to restrict trade with illegal Israeli settlements, and what this means for Israel’s economy. www.projectcensored.org/what-trade-r...
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What Trade Restrictions for Israel Could Mean
The Project Censored Show speaks with Dr. Shir Hever about EU trade restrictions on illegal Israeli settlements, Israel’s economy, upcoming elections, and political change.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Eleanor speaks with Yair Dvir from B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, to discuss their report “The Elimination Project: Israel’s Dismantling of Palestinian Collective Life in the West Bank.” www.projectcensored.org/the-eliminat...
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The Elimination Project: Israel's Dismantling of Palestinian Collective Life
The Project Censored Show explores Israel’s dismantling of Palestinian collective life in the West Bank with Yair Dvir of B’Tselem and co-host Eleanor Goldfield.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Steve Macek unpacks the Trump administration’s efforts to rewrite history, from its campaign against the Smithsonian to the removal of exhibits, memorials, and other representations of slavery, civil rights, and marginalized communities. www.projectcensored.org/erasing-the-...
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Erasing the Record: The Trump Administration's Drive to Control US History
Lonnie Bunch’s Smithsonian departure comes amid Trump administration efforts to reshape how American history is presented, raising questions about museums, memory, and power.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mickey and Eleanor discuss how Congress is blackmailing universities to swear loyalty to Israel, the attacks on journalists abroad and at home, and how DHS is using a customs law to obtain the private data of journalists, non-profits, and unions. www.projectcensored.org/news-that-di...
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News That Didn't Make The News – University Pressure, DHS, and 9/11 Updates
Project Censored examines attacks on journalists and academic freedom, DHS surveillance, university pressure, and hidden 9/11 Ground Zero toxicity.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Eleanor sits down with journalist, researcher, and policy director Chip Gibbons (@chipgibbons.bsky.social) of Defending Rights & Dissent to discuss Trump's NSPM-7 memorandum, the latest in a long line of attacks on our basic constitutional rights. www.projectcensored.org/trumps-dicta...
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Trump's Dictator Toolkit
Explore Trump’s “dictator’s toolkit,” NSPM-7, and the history of attacks on constitutional rights with Eleanor Goldfield and Chip Gibbons.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As the government increases its use of AI, data documenting inequality is disappearing. avram anderson examines what that means for marginalized communities. www.projectcensored.org/look-upstrea...
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Look Upstream: AI, Federal Data, and the Politics of What Gets Counted
Explore how government AI expansion, data deletion, and automated decision-making threaten civil rights, accountability, and the visibility of marginalized communities.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Eleanor speaks with Ian Head from the Center for Constitutional Rights (@ccrjustice.org) about the death of the Freedom of Information Act. Ian outlines how law enforcement agencies avoid accountability and strategies to keep fighting for our right to know. www.projectcensored.org/the-death-of...
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The Death of Freedom of Information
Explore the erosion of the Freedom of Information Act, government transparency, and public accountability with Ian Head of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This week on the show, Eleanor sits down with Beryl Lipton from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to talk about the Drone-as-First-Responder Programs—which, yes, are as horrifying as they sound. www.projectcensored.org/drones-as-fi...
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Drones as First Responders
Explore the dangers of Drone-as-First-Responder programs, AI surveillance, constitutional rights, and racial bias in policing with Beryl Lipton.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In her latest dispatch, Lily Minh Wass examines how Big Tech and AI companies use data collection, influencer campaigns, political spending, and increasingly personalized advertising to blur the line between organic information and paid influence.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"The digital platforms we rely on daily have built brand identities of convenience: Google for search, Meta for social connection—each touted as a “free” service. What these platforms demand of their users is more often left unsaid." Tap the link to read: www.projectcensored.org/the-next-dar...
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Kevin Gosztola joins the show to discuss defending free expression, confronting censorship in our own communities, and supporting local journalism amid the rise of news deserts. www.projectcensored.org/media-dictat...
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Media Dictates Democracy
Kevin Gosztola joins The Project Censored Show to discuss free expression, fighting censorship, local journalism, news deserts, and “being the media.”
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Dina Demetrius unpacks the legal battle over the $111 billion Paramount Skydance–Warner Bros. Discovery merger and what further media consolidation could mean for newsroom independence, journalists, and the future of CNN. www.projectcensored.org/paramount-wa...
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Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal on Ice
A landmark antitrust lawsuit challenges the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger, raising questions about media consolidation, CNN, CBS News, and competition.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New episode! Nora Barrows-Friedman of @intifada.bsky.social unpacks the Israeli government's continued violations of the so-called ceasefire, the escalation of settler violence in the occupied West Bank, and corporate media’s failure to adequately cover it. www.projectcensored.org/news-that-di...
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News That Didn't Make The News From Palestine
Get the latest Palestine news on Gaza, Hamas, Israel's ceasefire violations, settler violence in the occupied West Bank, and media coverage.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Eleanor speaks with Palestinian writer and researcher Nadine N. Sayegh about her latest piece on the normalization of the Israeli military's use of sexual violence. www.projectcensored.org/state-soldie...
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State, Soldiers, and Systematic Sadism
Explore the normalization of systematic sadism in the Israeli military, purple-washing, media bias, and accountability in this Project Censored interview.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Ed from DeFlock joins the show to discuss ALPRs – Automatic License Plate Readers - and the insidious way they circumvent our 4th Amendment right to be free from unlawful searches. www.projectcensored.org/alprs-the-su...
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ALPRs: The Surveillance State on Wheels
Discover how automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) fuel mass surveillance, buck Fourth Amendment rights, data share with ICE, and how people fight back.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Recently on the show, Eleanor speaks with Heidi Lim of AI Resist List about reframing the conversation around AI, and the possible futures that both buck the current iteration of AI and avoid the binary of anti-tech vs. pro-tech. www.projectcensored.org/reframing-ai...
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Reframing AI: Human Creativity as Resistance
Explore AI literacy, creative resistance, and how reframing better tech futures can move us beyond the pro- vs. anti-AI divide with Heidi Lim of AI Resist List.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
HERE'S WHAT CORPORATE MEDIA FAILED TO COVER THIS WEEK:
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This week on the Project Censored show, Mickey Huff speaks with media scholar Robin Andersen about her latest book, The Complicit Lens: US Media’s Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza. www.projectcensored.org/dont-say-isr...
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Don’t Say Israel: Analyzing and Combating Censorship and Propaganda
Explore U.S. media coverage of Israel's war on Gaza with Robin Andersen as she discusses The Complicit Lens, media bias, journalism ethics, and establishment news.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Recently on the Project Censored show, co-host Mickey Huff talks with media scholar Bill Yousman about press censorship, establishment propaganda, and attacks on academic freedom around issues pertaining to the war on Gaza. www.projectcensored.org/press-freedo...
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Press Freedom Under Pressure: Media, Academia, and Gaza
Media scholar Bill Yousman joins the Project Censored Show to discuss press censorship, academic freedom, campus politics, and the war on Gaza.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
NEW DISPATCH: Andy Lee Roth examines how reports of foreign influence campaigns targeting opposition to AI data centers could be used to discredit legitimate criticism of artificial intelligence. www.projectcensored.org/whose-ai-who...
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Whose AI? Whose Opposition?
Reports of foreign influence on AI data center protests raise a troubling question: Will valid criticism of artificial intelligence be discredited?
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Leonardo Flores joins the show again to talk about the fallout from the double earthquake in Venezuela. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MQe...
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Venezuela’s Earthquake Aftermath: Recovery Amid Sanctions and Propaganda
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Project Censored's 50th anniversary donation campaign is still going! Help us reach our goal of $10,000. Donors of $100 or more will receive an exclusive Project Censored 50th anniversary hat featuring our new logo. Tap here to donate: www.project-censored.org/50th-donatio...
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Robin Andersen examines how corporate media's reliance on official Israeli narratives has helped obscure evidence of war crimes, making the genocide in Gaza one of the most documented—and most contested—atrocities in history. www.projectcensored.org/israel-accou...
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Why Can’t We Hold Israel Accountable for Its Genocide in Gaza? It’s the Media…
UN report details alleged atrocities against Palestinian children as the article examines media coverage, Israeli denials, and evidence from Gaza.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg for The Appeal reported that the DOJ eliminated funding for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center, ending key protections against sexual violence in US prisons. www.projectcensored.org/doj-funding-...
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DOJ Funding Cut Leaves Inmates More Vulnerable to Sexual Violence
On April 23, 2025, Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, a reporter for The Appeal, broke the story that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) would be cutting all funding
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
As independent journalism faces mounting political and economic pressure, we need your support now more than ever. Help us reach our $10,000 goal to sustain our work promoting independent journalism and advancing critical media literacy. Tap here to donate: www.project-censored.org/50th-donatio...
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Martha Dimitratou, Caspar Pisters, and Lotje Beek join Eleanor to discuss Meta's ongoing censorship of LGBTQ+ voices and how activists are fighting back through alternative forms of organizing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqql...
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LGBTQ Organizing Beyond Meta’s Censorship
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Shealeigh Voitl and Andy Lee Roth unpack how AI search overviews and chatbots are quietly becoming gatekeepers of information, steering users away from independent journalism while presenting AI-generated narratives as objective and authoritative. www.projectcensored.org/frame-checki...
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Frame-Checking Generative AI’s Role in Transmitting News
AI search overviews can mislead users with bias, errors, and missing context. Learn how AI shapes news consumption & what you can do about it.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Dr. Austin Kocher returns to discuss underreported immigration stories. From overcrowded court hearings and expedited deportations to the appointment of handpicked immigration judges, Kocher examines how the system is being reshaped in real time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgT7...
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Is the Immigration Court System Turning Into an Assembly Line for Deportation? With Austin Kocher
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
In a new op-ed for @truthout, Andy Lee Roth argues that corporate media's framing of the Musk-Altman lawsuit as an elite rivalry obscures deeper questions about how AI is reshaping social power and whose interests the technology ultimately serves. truthout.org/articles/cor...
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Corporate Media Covers AI as a Contest of Elites. In That Framing, We All Lose.
Reporting on Elon Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit said it would “shape the future” — but never covered whose futures are at stake.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that 88 profitable corporations—including Tesla, Palantir, and Citigroup—paid no federal income taxes in 2025, despite collectively earning $105 billion in profits. www.projectcensored.org/corporations...
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88 Corporations Paid No Federal Income Tax in 2025 Thanks to Trump
Tesla, Palantir, and other profitable corporations paid no federal income taxes in 2025 under Trump-era tax breaks.
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Panamerican Dispatch @padispatch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"This is a nightmare scenario, & the nightmare is here." A must read from @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social @therealnews.com about the state of free speech & media in the United States, today. #freespeech #media @projectcensored.bsky.social therealnews.com/the-war-on-o...
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The war on our sight
“It is not an accident that the richest, most powerful, and most sociopathic people in the world—from Trump to Musk to Bezos—are gobbling up and taking control of our media ecosystem while they're gob...
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What happens when the AI technologies shaping public discourse are rewarded for telling people what they want to hear? Lily Minh Wass examines how generative AI fuels a culture of sycophancy, where user approval is prioritized over the truth. www.projectcensored.org/the-sycophan...
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The Sycophancy Machine
AI chatbots are becoming digital sycophants. Explore the risks of flattery, misinformation, and rising technofascist politics.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
As the United States nears its 250th anniversary, historian Dr. Gerald Horne joins the show to examine the stories excluded from the nation's official history and explain why they still matter today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpOF...
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Who Gets Left Out of America's Origin Story? America at 250, with Gerald Horne
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A report by Lachlan Hyatt for High Country found that tribal wildfire programs receive less than half the per-acre funding of the US Forest Service, despite facing more fires per 100,000 acres. www.projectcensored.org/funding-fail...
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Funding Failures Fuel Wildfire Risk on Tribal Lands
Underfunded tribal wildfire programs face worsening fires as climate change, outdated funding formulas, & staffing shortages threaten Native lands.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The richest 1 percent globally have gained more than $33.9 trillion over the past decade, while America's wealthiest billionaires accumulated hundreds of billions more under Trump-era policies, according to reporting by Jake Johnson for Common Dreams. www.projectcensored.org/top-1-percen...
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The 1 Percent Get Richer Under Trump, Ordinary Americans Pay
Wealth inequality is widening as reports show the richest 1%—including US billionaires—gaining trillions while ordinary Americans see little benefit.
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
José Luis Granados Ceja recently joined the show to discuss HondurasGate, the ongoing plot to oust leftist governments in Latin America, and what these escalations mean for people across the Americas, including in the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcqs...
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Understanding Hondurasgate, with José Luis Granados Ceja
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Recently on the show, MiDian Shofner unpacks antiracism, abolition, and what it means to be an expert in building alternatives to our cruel system. MiDian calls on us to linger in the reality of this country and where to look for solutions that benefit the people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mdV...
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Abolition, Anti-Racism, and Defining Expertise, with MiDian Shofner
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KPFA Radio @kpfa.org · 29/05/2026
The headlines they missed. The stories they buried. The music they forgot. Friday on KPFA: Democracy Now!, A Rude Awakening, Project Censored, Pacifica Evening News, and History of Funk. Powered by listeners. Not corporations. Full Schedule @ kpfa.org #kpfa @projectcensored.bsky.social
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This week on the show, researcher and editor Michelle Eid discusses the politics of photojournalism, the harms of extractive reporting, and how visual framing can reinforce stereotypes while distancing audiences from ongoing atrocities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIUV...
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The Ethics and Exploitation of Photojournalism, with Michelle Eid
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Mischa Geracoulis examines how media coverage of the 1984 Bernie Goetz shooting normalized victim reversal. The piece connects Reagan-era media narratives to today's reactionary politics, aggressive policing, anti-immigrant crackdowns, and pro-war propaganda. www.projectcensored.org/ersatz-fear-...
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From Ersatz Fear to Epic Fury
How the Bernie Goetz subway shooting fueled media-driven victim reversal, racial prejudice, and today’s outrage politics in America.
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Photojournalism News @pjournalismnews.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
PROJECT CENSORED: What The Media's Not Telling You About Lebanon youtu.be/GeWFO7XYbfY?... @projectcensored.bsky.social @afeefness.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #pressfreedom
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What The Media's Not Telling You About Lebanon, with Afeef Nessouli
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Kevin Gosztola @kgosztola.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"What we need is a truly independent free press reporting factually, transparently, and ethically in the public interest,” says @projectcensored.bsky.social's Mickey Huff. “[N]ot one owned by corporate conglomerates and big tech mogul billionaires blasting oligarchic propaganda and AI slop.”
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Project Censored At 50 (And The Media That Can Save Us)
“What we need is a truly independent free press reporting factually, transparently, and ethically in the public interest,” says Project Censored's Mickey Huff
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
4 stories corporate media failed to cover this week:
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Journalist Afeef Nessouli joins the show to talk about the situation in Lebanon, and how corporate media deliberately flattens and dehumanizes in service of US-Israeli regional goals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeWF...
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What The Media's Not Telling You About Lebanon, with Afeef Nessouli
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In an excerpt from "The Judgment of Gender" for @msmagazine.com, Allison T. Butler revisits Sinéad O’Connor, examining how corporate media sensationalized and redirected attention from her SNL protest to spectacle, rather than addressing the abuse she exposed. msmagazine.com/2026/03/24/s...
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Sinead O’Connor Was Right: It’s Time to Revisit Some of Pop Culture’s Most Maligned Women
Sinead O’Connor was right: An excerpt from Allison T. Butler's The Judgment of Gender: How Women Are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This week on the show, Eleanor speaks with Michael and Em of Project Saltbox about their DHS data analysis, including the ICE Warehouse Tracker. They expose unsafe detention plans, community impacts, and how data can help resist this expanding system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhN4...
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Tracking ICE Warehouses and the Fallout, with Project Saltbox
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Project Censored @projectcensored.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Now available from The Censored Press: "The Judgment of Gender: How Women Are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture" by media scholar Allison T. Butler. www.project-censored.org/shop/p/judgm...
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