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...

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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This week, Kristi Rudelius-Palmer and William Fernekes of Human Rights Educators USA (HREUSA) discuss the growing importance of human rights education amid attacks on academic freedom and rising authoritarianism. www.projectcensored.org/media-dictat...

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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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...

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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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...

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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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...

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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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...

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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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...

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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HERE'S WHAT CORPORATE MEDIA FAILED TO COVER THIS WEEK:

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...

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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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...

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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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...

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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Leonardo Flores joins the show again to talk about the fallout from the double earthquake in Venezuela. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MQe...

Venezuela’s Earthquake Aftermath: Recovery Amid Sanctions and Propaganda

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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...

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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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-...

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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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...

LGBTQ Organizing Beyond Meta’s Censorship

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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...

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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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...

Is the Immigration Court System Turning Into an Assembly Line for Deportation? With Austin Kocher

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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...

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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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...

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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"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...

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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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...

The Sycophancy Machine

AI chatbots are becoming digital sycophants. Explore the risks of flattery, misinformation, and rising technofascist politics.

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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...

Who Gets Left Out of America's Origin Story? America at 250, with Gerald Horne

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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...

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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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...

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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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...

Understanding Hondurasgate, with José Luis Granados Ceja

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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...

Abolition, Anti-Racism, and Defining Expertise, with MiDian Shofner

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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...

The Ethics and Exploitation of Photojournalism, with Michelle Eid

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