Social media lit the fire on Friday after images of journalist Glenn Greenwald performing intimate acts fled online. In a Declaration published on XGreenwald confirmed that it was him in the videos, saying that he had been published “without my knowledge or my consent” and that the reason was “in a maliciously political manner”.
Greenwald, 58, was a dispute lawyer who went to online journalism with his blogs on national security issues following attacks by the World Trade Center 2001. He drew international attention in 2013 with a series of reports to The guardian Based on the information of the entrepreneur and denunciator of the National Security Agency Edward Snowdenwho has disclosed classified documents on global surveillance programs.
Greenwald was part of a team that awarded the Pulitzer price for coverage in 2014. He co -founded Interception In 2014, with the investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill and the documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras – who helped break the story of Snowden – Until his resignation in 2020 On what he said, they are attempts to censor his criticism of the presidential candidate then Democrat Joe Biden. He has since been published on SupportOr It has 324,000 subscribers.
Hollywood has lived in interest in Greenwald since he has increased in the world’s importance. CitizenfourDocumentary of Poitras 2014 on the Snowden affair, won the Academy Prize for the best documentary operation. The story was then dramatized in 2016 Snowin which Zachary Quinto played Greenwald. Greenwald’s book 2014, No room to hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the American surveillance state, was optionized that year by Sony Pictures, but no cinematographic adaptation emerged from the agreement.
Greenwald politician, David Miranda, Died in 2023 at 37 from complications involving gastrointestinal infection. The couple adopted two sons, brothers of Maceió, Brazil, in 2018.
Addressing the flight, Greenwald wrote on X: “As for the content of the videos: I have no embarrassment or regret about them. Videos represent consenting adults engaged in intimate actions in their privacy. They all display fully consensual behavior, injuring anyone.
“Obviously, this can be uncomfortable and unpleasant when your private behavior is made public against your will – that is why behavior is private in the first place – but the only reprehensible act here is the criminal and malicious publication of videos to try to slander the perceived political enemies and to advance a political agenda,” he said.