Project Censored

By Shealeigh Voitl In 2024, Project Censored introduced Beyond Fact-Checking: A Teaching Guide to the Power of News Frames to critically analyze narrative strategies media outlets use to present news stories. Framing shapes how we understand these stories by emphasizing certain aspects and downplaying others, ultimately promoting a particular interpretation…... Read more

In October 2024, New York prosecutors set the groundwork for filing criminal charges against major fossil fuel companies for their significant role in contributing to the climate crisis. A fifty-page report released by Public Citizen and endorsed by New York officials detailed “admissible evidence, possible charges, and legal issues” pertaining…... Read more

Medicaid “unwinding” is affecting over 20 million Americans—predominantly Americans with disabilities. In April 2023, after the continuous enrollment provisions ended—which had previously allowed people to remain on Medicaid temporarily during the COVID pandemic, regardless of changes in their income—many states began reevaluating people’s Medicaid coverage, according to Daniel Chang for…... Read more

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire private contractors to “monitor and locate ‘negative’ social media discussion” about the federal agency, according to February 2025 articles by Sam Biddle for The Intercept and Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams. Biddle and Wilkins reviewed ICE documents that cited increased threats to…... Read more

In the first half of the program, co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Leyna Quinn-Davidson, the Fire Network Director for the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources about the confluence of issues that are quite literally fueling the fires in LA County. Leyna highlights how we have to shift our... Read more

What happens when wealthy investors buy up local news outlets? Well, in addition to gradually shutting them down and restricting what they report, ironically creating news deserts, they can also memory hole online news archives. For the first part of the program, Mickey Huff is joined by investigative reporter Peter... Read more

The US military is taking the old adage “sex sells” to another level by using sexually suggestive social media posts on TikTok and Instagram—known as thirst traps—in an effort to recruit members of Generation Z in response to military recruitment numbers falling below goals in recent years. The main subject…... Read more

In the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, online abortion services are facing global censorship on social media platforms. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Google have all allegedly restricted digital access to reproductive health organizations, according to a November 2023 report by…... Read more

Working in the United States is becoming more dangerous, and Black and Latiné workers in particular are at heightened risk of being killed or injured on the job, according to recent studies reported on by Truthout and Peoples Dispatch. According to a February 2024 report for Truthout by Tyler Walicek,…... Read more