Chicago City Wire

Illinois-based journalist Craig Newman, a former Chicago Sun-Times editor, was one of many who were censored by Twitter at the behest of federal spy agencies with no reasoning provided according to the latest installment of the Twitter Files.

Newman’s Twitter account was censored after allegedly being linked to Iranian interests.

“Then we saw ‘disinfo’ lists where evidence was even less clear. This list of 378 ‘Iranian State Linked Accounts’ includes an Iraq vet once arrested for blogging about the war, a former Chicago Sun-Times reporter and Truthout, a site that publishes Noam Chomsky,” reporter Matt Taibbi said in the latest installment of the Twitter Files.

Taibbi said the requests to censor those such as Newman were made with no context on how the alleged “disinformers” were engaging in manipulation.

“In some cases, state reports didn’t even assert misinformation,’” Taibbi tweeted.

Newman, who holds a master’s degree in education, is currently a teacher at Amundsen High School in Chicago.

In addition to his work at the Chicago Sun-Times Newman has worked for Crain’s Chicago Business and The Boston Globe.

His Twitter page and retweets show his mainly leftist attitude.

Ironically, Newman has written for The 74 on so-called “book bans” of objectionable material in school libraries in which he interviewed U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) who deemed those efforts “censorship.”

Newman’s profile page at Chicago Sun-Times lists links to around 50 articles he authored for the newspaper from 2011 to 2015.

His reporting history reveals a couple of tidbits in which he elevated domestic spying efforts of former president Barack Obama’s National Security Administration.

In two articles Newman wrote about the NSA. In one he reported on how Illinois’ Congressmen voted on the re-authorization of the secret collection of domestic phone records.

In another, he reported how former D.C. political director for Moveon.org Tom Matzzie live tweeted overhearing sensitive material from National Security Agency chief Michael Hayden on an Amtrak train.

Matzzie was discovered to be eavesdropping on the train by Hayden who confronted the reporter.

Taibbi has been the driving force behind the Twitter Files series.

The mainstream media has mostly ignored the revelations of social engineering via censorship and domestic spying as revealed by the Twitter Files.

Taibbi and other journalist compatriots – who mostly identify as classically liberal – have steadily released bombshell allegations in which intelligence agencies in the Biden Administration are shown to have censored truthful information regarding the Covid lab leak theory, tweets questioning the use of masks and vaccines and a variety of other issues in which spy agencies sought to control the national narrative.

The Twitter Files also show manipulation of social media posts regarding those not in support of the Ukrainian conflict.

Democrats last week interrogated Taibbi and others calling them “so-called” journalists and railing against the revelations without giving credence to the authoritarian and patently unconstitutional nature of the federal government’s behavior.

“Ranking member Plaskett, I’m not a so-called journalist. I’ve won the National Magazine Award, the I.F. Stone Award for independent journalism and I’ve written 10 books, including four New York Times best-sellers,” Taibbi told Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands).