Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
JD Vance, by claiming that the decision by Twitter and Facebook to censor Hunter Biden’s dick pics in 2020 would justify the Vice President not certifying Joe Biden’s win, asserts that according to his own standarda, he and Trump cannot legitimately win this election, because they in fact asked tech companies to “censor” the stolen JD dossier.
Because Trump has so successfully bullied journalists not to cover the Russia Russia Russia story, Vladimir Putin’s clear outreach to Trump this election has gone largely ignored. Now that Bob Woodward has revealed that Trump has spoken with Putin around seven times in since he left office, that needs to change.