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As I’ve alluded to on here before after 11 years I’m leaving The Intercept to help launch a new platform, Drop Site News. It’s a bittersweet moment for me since I helped start The Intercept and really I grew up there.

But I’m excited about helping start another new independent news outlet with my old colleagues Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill. We are reader funded on Substack and I hope you will consider becoming a paid supporter so that we can continue to do the reporting that we did at TI for so many years: https://www.dropsitenews.com

Less than a month into its launch Drop Site News is already banned from access in Pakistan. You can still access it via VPN but it’s a signal of how much our reporting has infuriated the military government there.

I’m banned from lots of countries by the way everyone seems to be mad at me but I take that as a sign that my stories hit hard — a bit of a badge of honor. Onwards!

Writer, podcaster, and commentator on foreign affairs and politics. Runs /dropglobalnews

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Ty for your work!

Out of interest - how do you know/find out you’re banned from a country?

We got a notice from them telling us we’d be banned and then we got some people over there to confirm it’s true

like from a government email or a letter?