Freddie Sayers

London

Editor-in-Chief at UnHerd

Publisher of @Spectator, @UnHerd, @Apollo_magazine; Editor-in-Chief @UnHerd; CEO, OQS Media. [email protected]

Articles

Robert Kennedy Jr: America needs a revolution

Nov 14, 2024 | unherd.com | Freddie Sayers

2024 electionAmericaCIAPoliticsRFK Jr.United StatesUS For decades, as a scion of the Kennedy family and environmental litigator, Robert F. Kennedy Junior was considered an establishment hero. In recent years, however, his rhetoric against Covid lockdowns and vaccines â culminating in him making a comparison with Anne Frank and the Holocaust at a vaccine mandate rally â sealed his reputation among most commentators as irresponsible and potentially dangerous.
Defending Liberalism, Talking My Sordid Work History, and Taking Shots at a Professional Placekicker

Jun 24, 2024 | nickgillespie.substack.com | Nick Gillespie |Winston Marshall |Sohrab Ahmari |Freddie Sayers

When I started this Substack, I intended it to be a repository for non-Reason-related writings and appearances that had nowhere else to be shown.
Britain doesn't want to go to war

Jun 5, 2024 | unherd.com | Freddie Sayers

ConservativeGeneral Election 2024IsraelLabourPoliticsUKUkraine The differences between the two main parties in the UK on most foreign policy questions are matters of almost imperceptible nuance. As we were reminded in the first election debate, both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are united in their support for Ukraine, are committed to Israel’s continued right to self-defence and share an increasingly hawkish attitude towards China.
How ‘fighting disinformation’ turns into political censorship

May 8, 2024 | almendron.com | Freddie Sayers

UnHerd, the Britain-based publication I lead, published an investigation on April 17 into a transatlantic organization called the Global Disinformation Index. We revealed that, having received money from the U.S. State Department, as well as the British, German and European Union governments, the GDI issues what amount to blacklists of news publications, on highly tendentious grounds, that online advertising exchanges then consult and can use to justify turning off ad revenue.
Fighting ‘disinformation’ can mean censorship, as we learned at UnHerd - The Washington Post

May 7, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Freddie Sayers

Freddie Sayers is the editor in chief of UnHerd. UnHerd, the Britain-based publication I lead, published an investigation on April 17 into a transatlantic organization called the Global Disinformation Index.
Inside the Disinformation Industry

Apr 19, 2024 | realcleardefense.com | Freddie Sayers

Inside the Disinformation Industry A government-sponsored agency is censoring journalism... Alongside George Soros’s Open Society Foundation, the GDI receives money from the UK government (via the FCDO), the European Union, the German Foreign Office and a body called Disinfo Cloud, which was created and funded by the US State Department. Read Full Article »
Inside the disinformation industry

Apr 16, 2024 | unherd.com | Freddie Sayers

CensorshipdisinformationJournalismMisinformationnoneSociety “Our team re-reviewed the domain, the rating will not change as it continues to have anti-LGBTQI+ narratives… The site authors have been called out for being anti-trans. Kathleen Stock is acknowledged as a ‘prominent gender-critical’ feminist.” This was part of an email sent to UnHerd at the start of January from an organisation called the Global Disinformation Index.
Ratings agency put us on blacklist for views about gender

Apr 16, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Freddie Sayers

When do policies designed to combat “disinformation” do more harm than good? Almost every time, I told a parliamentary inquiry into the future of news yesterday. The internet teems with claims and ideas, some dubious and downright false. But the risks of censorship are greater: attempts by government and big tech to control the narrative and shut down ideas or questions they don’t like invariably foster more mistrust.
16 April 2024 - The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology - Oral evidence

Apr 16, 2024 | committees.parliament.uk | Freddie Sayers |Katie Harbath

Communications and Digital Committee takes evidence from former NCSC chief, UnHerd and other industry expertsThe Communications and Digital Committee continues its inquiry into the future of the news. Professor Ciaran Martin, former head of the National Cyber Security Centre; Freddie Sayers, CEO of UnHerd; and other experts discuss the challenges posed by mis/disinformation and the appropriate level of response by industry and government.
Andrew Sullivan: What I got wrong about Trump

Feb 2, 2024 | unherd.com | Freddie Sayers

Andrew Sullivan is one of America’s best known political observers and writers. He is an independent-minded conservative who supported Obama, was a leader of the gay marriage movement, and has since argued forcefully against Donald Trump. His Substack is one of the most popular in the world. He recently did that rare thing among public intellectuals and revisited his earlier opinions about the former president. I wanted to know: which ones does he now think were wrong?