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CounterPunch began as a newsletter, established in 1994 by the
Washington, D.C.-based investigative reporter
Ken Silverstein.
[5] He was soon joined by
Alexander Cockburn and then
Jeffrey St. Clair, who became the publication's editors in 1996 when Silverstein left.
[6][7] In 2007, Cockburn and St. Clair wrote that in founding
CounterPunch they had "wanted it to be the best muckraking newsletter in the country", and cited as inspiration such pamphleteers as
Edward Abbey,
Peter Maurin, and
Ammon Hennacy, as well as the socialist/populist newspaper
Appeal to Reason (1895–1922).
[8] When Alexander Cockburn died in 2012 at the age of 71, environmental journalist
Joshua Frank became managing editor and Jeffrey St. Clair became editor-in-chief of
CounterPunch.
[9][10]
During the 2016 presidential election,
CounterPunch published a piece attributed to Alice Donovan,
[11] who purported to be a freelance writer but US intelligence officials alleged to be a pseudonymous employee of the Russian government.
[12] Donovan was tracked by the
FBI for nine months, as a suspected fictitious persona created by the
GRU.
[12][13] In late November 2017, after CounterPunch had published several more pieces by Donovan,
The Washington Post contacted Jeffrey St. Clair about her. The co-editor said that Donovan's pitches did not stand out amongst the pitches that
CounterPunch received daily
[12] and began making inquiries. He asked Donovan to substantiate her identity by sending a photo of her driving license but she did not.
[12] On the same day
The Washington Post article was published on Donovan, St. Clair and Frank published a piece stating that
CounterPunch only ran one article by Alice Donovan during the 2016 election, which was on cyber-breaches of medical databases. Donovan was also exposed by the newsletter as a serial plagiarizer.
[11] CounterPunch removed all of the articles from their site.
[14] In a January 2018 follow-up article, St. Clair and Frank exposed a network of alleged trolls that operated a site called Inside Syria Media Center, promoting a pro-
Bashar al-Assad and pro-Russian view of the
Syrian Civil War. St. Clair and Frank speculated that
the website was connected to the same network of trolls as Alice Donovan, which was later confirmed by the Atlantic Council and other researchers.
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