Jeremy Scahill is an investigative journalist and author who co-founded Drop Site News after departing The Intercept in July 2024. Jeremy Scahill's Twitter Score is 36 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #26,564 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Jeremy Scahill co-founded The Intercept alongside Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, a publication launched in February 2014 by First Look Media with $250 million in pledged funding from Pierre Omidyar. After unsuccessfully seeking to take over The Intercept's board, Scahill and Ryan Grim departed in July 2024 to co-found Drop Site News, an independent outlet focused on politics and war reporting.
Jeremy Scahill is the author of Blackwater and Dirty Wars, two books covering private military contracting and covert U.S. warfare. He previously worked at Democracy Now! as a senior producer and correspondent, and is currently affiliated with the Type Media Center as a Fellow. A peripheral crypto-adjacent note: per Axios reporting from December 2022, The Intercept had received funding from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, though this was an institutional grant to the outlet rather than any personal involvement by Scahill.
Jeremy Scahill has published 36,003 posts on the platform and has 428,631 followers as of August 2026. His account has been mentioned by 179 accounts, with 1,649 total mentions.
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