Glenn Greenwald leaves "The Intercept" after a dispute over articles about Joe and Hunter Biden

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The well-known US journalist Glenn Greenwald has dropped out of the investigative journalism project "The Intercept", which he co-founded, in a dispute over an article about the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

The editorial board of the investigative website had refused to publish the article unless he removed "all critical sections" about Biden, Greenwald said on Thursday.

"The Intercept" defended itself against the allegations and accused Greenwald of reproducing "dubious allegations" of the campaign by US President Donald Trump.

Greenwald said he wanted to publish an article on "The Intercept" in which he accused newsrooms of having a positive bias against Biden.

Greenwald has now published a draft of the article himself. Specifically, it is about the distant reporting of corruption allegations against Biden's son, which the conservative tabloid "New York Post" had published.

The "Post" reports immediately met with great skepticism.

The online networks Twitter and Facebook restricted the distribution of the article and pointed out unanswered questions about the truthfulness of the article.

However, the 53-year-old Greenwald declared that "The Intercept" was shaped by "the same tendencies of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity" as the national press.

"The Intercept" protested: Greenwald was "an adult person who had a tantrum".

"While he accuses us of political bias, it was he who tried to recycle the dubious claims of a political campaign - the Trump campaign - and sell them as journalism."

Pulitzer Prize winner Greenwald founded The Intercept website in 2014 with two other journalists.

Before that he worked for the British newspaper "The Guardian".

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