10 11 The Intercept The Intercept The Intercept The Intercept is an award-winning news organization dedicated to holding the powerful accountable through fearless, adversarial journalism. Its in- depth investigations and unflinching analysis focus on politics, war, surveillance, corruption, the environment, technology, criminal justice, the media, and more. The Intercept gives its journalists the editorial freedom and legal support they need to expose corruption and injustice wherever they find it. The Intercept was launched in 2014 to provide the kind of independent journalism missing from many mainstream media outlets and is singularly focused on bringing to light hidden truths that the public has a right to know. In 2020, The Intercept defended democracy with a relentless pursuit of the truth, navigating a pandemic and meeting the moment of racial reckoning with the same ideals upheld since its inception. A TIMELINE OF IMPACT In Iowa, How Bernie Sanders Won a Trilingual Satellite Caucus The video on Bernie Sanders’s ground game in Iowa followed a young Latina volunteer as she attended a satellite caucus with mostly Latino and Sudanese immigrants. The piece saw high traffic across platforms and on social media; the video was shared and amplified by prominent figures including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders himself. Date: February 6, 2020 Link: https://theintercept.com/2020/02/06/iowa-satellite-caucus-immigrants-bernie-sanders/ Zoom Meetings Aren’t End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing Who’s on the line? Despite Zoom’s claims that their meetings used end-to-end encryption, The Intercept’s security team discovered that these claims were false. The scoop was picked up all over the world and led to an overhaul of Zoom’s privacy commitments and policies. In August 2021, Zoom reached an $85 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit for lying about end-to-end encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google. Date: March 31, 2020 Link: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/ As Coronavirus Spread, Financial Services Contractor Told Warehouse Workers They Aren’t Allowed to Get Sick Illustration: The Intercept
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