Greenwald leaves Guardian for new venture backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar

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Greenwald leaves Guardian for new venture backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar

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Pierre coming under fire from the right over this entire scenario.

Somewhere there may be a drone with his picture loaded into the kill on sight program?

The Case for Arresting Glenn Greenwald

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The acid test for Ebay founder's investigative news venture - who will cover Silicon Valley?

Summary: Pierre Omidyar is investing $250m in a news venture that focuses on investigative reporting. Who will cover Silicon Valley and his pals in the industry?

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Absolutely scathing article!

Long, with much, much to absorb.

The Extraordinary Pierre Omidyar

Teaser:

Ah yes, the fabled "civic-minded billionaire" - you'll find him two doors down from the tooth fairy.

For extra points check the realtime insider trading page for ebay, see how much Pierre is dumping/disposing. Pretty clear he doesn't care about ebay except to fund whatever his other projects are, and he has no faith in it's future

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Another article that shows Pierre might not be such a good guy.

Keeping Secrets: Pierre Omidyar, Glenn Greenwald and the privatization of Snowden's leaks

http://pando.com/2013/11/27/keeping-secrets/

Teaser:

Omidyar invested in a third-world micro-loans company whose savage bullying of debtors resulted in mass suicides. Rather than acknowledge this tragedy, Omidyar Network simply deleted reference to the company from his website when the **** hit the fan.