“We have made the planet inhospitable to human life.” That’s what the lead researcher in Project Censored’s number one story this year said. He wasn’t talking about the climate catastrophe. He was talking about so-called “forever chemicals,” per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), linked to prostate, kidney and testicular cancer and additional health risks, and the […]
Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
The Billionaire’s Press Dominates Censorship Beat
Since its founding in 1976, Project Censored has been focused on stories โ like Watergate before the 1972 election โ that aren’t censored in the authoritarian government sense, but in a broader, expanded sense reflective of what a functioning democracy should be, censorship defined as “the suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by any […]
Project Censored
Every year since 1976, Project Censored has performed an invaluable service โ shedding light on the most significant news that’s somehow not fit to print. Censorship in an authoritarian society is obvious, from a distance, at least. There is a central agent or agency responsible for it and the lines are clearly drawn. That’s not […]
Censored 2020: Through the Looking Glass
Every year, Project Censored scours the landscape for the most important stories that the mainstream corporate media somehow missed and every year the task seems to get a bit stranger. Curiouser and Curiouser, as suggested in the subtitle of this year’s volume of its work, Censored 2020: Through The Looking Glass, which includes its full […]
The Real Fight Against Fake News
Fake news is not a new thing. With the return of its annual list of censored stories in Censored 2019: Fighting the Fake News Invasion, Project Censoredโs vivid cover art recalls H.G. Wellsโ War of the Worlds. The situation today may feel as desolate as the cover art suggests. โBut Censored 2019 is a book […]

