What happened to the Snowden archive
A retrospective traces how the Snowden archive was shared among journalists and why publication stopped in 2019 despite hundreds of thousands of unpublished documents.
The last Snowden document was published on 29 May 2019 by The Intercept, and no outlet, journalist, or institution has released further documents since. The piece recounts how Edward Snowden distributed the Pandora archive of roughly 50,000 documents to journalists in 2013, with copies reportedly still held by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and other unnamed holders. The archive is estimated at hundreds of thousands of documents, and neither Greenwald nor Poitras has explained the seven-year publication hiatus.
- Final Snowden document published by The Intercept on 29 May 2019
- Pandora archive of roughly 50,000 documents was shared with backup holders in 2013
- Greenwald and Poitras say full archive copies still exist with unreported material
- Archive reportedly runs to hundreds of thousands of documents
From the original article
14 min read at libroot.orgThe last document from the Snowden archive was published on 29 May 2019. The Guardian stopped publishing documents in February 2014, Der Spiegel in January 2015, and The New York Times and ProPublica in August 2015. After that, only The Intercept was still publishing documents, with only a few exceptions, until it closed its archive in March 2019.
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