Jarod Richard

It's long past past time for congressional and DOJ investigations into the foreign ties of Drop Site News. Here's what we know: 🔸️It has at least two "reporters" on the ground in Iran who feed the site regime-approved disinformation and propaganda. 🔸️As I previously uncovered, It has employed at least three Gazan "journalists" with ties to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. 🔸️It recieved at least a $250,000 grant from Soros' Open Society to launch a middle east desk. 🔸️It's published by billionaire communist nepo baby Nika Soon-Shiong. 🔸️Drop Site frequently flies (or is flown?) to the middle east to interview the leaders of U.S.-designated terrorist organizations. And by "interview," i mean massage them for 2.5 hours at a time. In fact, co-founder Jeremy Scahill's first act at Drop Site was a multi-part series of sit-down interviews with senior leaders of both terror groups. 🔸️ Drop Site's MENA editor, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, filed a sympathetic dispatch from the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah after he was killed by Israel. 🔸️ Drop Site is fiscally sponsored by the Social Security Works Education Fund while it pursues its own 501(c)(3) status — an arrangement that reduces transparency and allows the outlet to obscure who its other funders are. Bonus: 🔸️Drop Site’s co-founder, Ryan Grim, has tweeted that "The U.S. is a rogue terror state and a cancer on the world" and called president Trump a terrorist.

Drop Site News reports on breaking events with clear sourcing and careful attribution, distinguishing between verified information and claims made by governments or state-linked outlets. In the post at issue (linked below), the information was explicitly identified as coming from Iranian state-linked media and framed as a claim, consistent with our standard editorial practice. Our coverage applies the same approach across all actors, including the United States, Israel, and Iran. In fast-moving conflicts, competing narratives are part of the story, and documenting what each side is saying is essential to understanding how events are being framed and interpreted in real time. As Drop Site reporter Ryan Grim wrote, “anybody who reads our Twitter feed knows that we regularly report official and semi-official statements… Our readers have enough sense not to believe everything every government says, but they do want to know what they’re saying in real time. Other readers, those not interested in knowing what governments adversarial to the U.S. are saying, have endless options to choose from, but we’re not one of them.” We do not limit our reporting to Western or allied sources. Providing visibility into claims made by all sides, with proper attribution, is a core part of our editorial approach. Regarding the reporting at issue, some have accused Drop Site of “promoting” Iranian propaganda for noting that U.S. forces were reportedly bombing areas where a missing airman was believed to be located. That element of the reporting, which we were among the first to surface, was later borne out by subsequent disclosures. Prior to that, we also reported information from journalist Jack Murphy—a U.S. military veteran—who said the recovery had been successful, with clear attribution. Our role is to provide audiences with the information needed to assess developments as they unfold. We do not withhold information from our audience merely because it comes from a source adversarial to the U.S. government, nor do we tell readers what to think. If this is the kind of journalism you think the world needs, link to subscribe is in our bio.

Iran’s position is that it has offered a reasonable path forward to end the war & says it remains open to negotiations with the U.S. But it says it will not accept ultimatums. If a deal happens imminently or in the near future, Iran says it will be because its bottom lines are met.

🚨A senior Iranian official told me that this proposal floated by the Pakistani PM for a temporary ceasefire is essentially the same as previous Trump attempts, which Iran has rejected. Iran has already delivered its terms for negotiating an end to the war. “A balanced proposal, endorsed by all mediators, has already been conveyed to the American side,” the official said. “Washington now has at its disposal all the elements required to reach a decision that will bring an end to the war.”

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There is no moral equivalence between the United States of America and the Iranian butchers who have terrorized the world for nearly 50 years. It's really easy (for sane people) to tell the good guys from the bad guys here.

💢 THREAD: Iranians form human chains around power plants and bridges as Donald Trump warns “a whole civilization will die tonight” As Trump issued his most explicit threat yet, videos circulating online show civilians gathering around power stations and key infrastructure across Iran in acts of solidarity ahead of his 8 PM deadline. 🎥 Kazerun Combined Cycle Power Plant (southern Iran)