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Whitney Webb

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Whitney Webb
CitizenshipUnited States
OccupationsAuthor, podcaster
EmployerMintPress News
Notable workOne Nation Under Blackmail (2022)[1]
AwardsSerena Shim Award (2019)

Whitney Webb is an American author and podcaster.[2] She is based in Chile.[3]

Webb's work focuses on Jeffrey Epstein, intelligence agencies, military organizations, surveillance, and technology.[4][5] Her work has attracted criticism for promoting conspiracy theories.[6][7][8][9]

Webb's work has an audience on both the right and the left of the political spectrum.[10][11]

Career and writings

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Webb publishes through her website, Unlimited Hangout.[12] In his collection of political essays, C. J. Hopkins has referred to Unlimited Hangout as a "malinforma-tionist" publication.[13]

Webb is a former staff writer of MintPress News.[14] The German publication Telepolis wrote that Webb's reporting had faced scrutiny and mentioned criticism of outlets to which she had contributed, including MintPress News and Global Research, for political bias and speculative or conspiratorial framing.[15]

Views and reception

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Webb has questioned the conventional account of the September 11 attacks.[16] The Jewish Chronicle states that before the interview with Neil Oliver, Webb had written that the "official narrative" about 9/11 is "irrational."[5] Journalist Peter Bolton described her as one of the "9/11 Truthers" and said that left-wing 9/11 conspiracy theories, together with conspiracy theories on the political right, contributed to the political environment surrounding the rise of Donald Trump.[16]

In 2024, Neil Oliver, a presenter on GB News and former BBC presenter, interviewed Webb.[17][18][8] Webb stated that American organized-crime groups formed an alliance with U.S. intelligence during World War II (see: Operation Underworld) and that the CIA subsequently became part of this relationship. She characterized it as "essentially a meeting of the Italian mafia and the Jewish mob".[17] Cultural historian Matthew Sweet said that the interview presented a claim that a global oligarchy descended from the "Jewish mob" controlled world affairs and used false accusations of antisemitism to shield itself from criticism.[18][8] Webb later characterized her remarks about the crime syndicates as a rant.[18] The New World refers to Webb as a "conspiracy theorist".[8]

Journalist Park MacDougald wrote in 2025 that, through her books, Webb had expounded what MacDougald characterizes as "the more florid versions of the Epstein conspiracy theory", that Epstein worked for Mossad and secretly recorded prominent people in order to obtain compromising material that could be used to advance Israeli interests.[7]

In an October 2025 article in Skeptic, Mark Hoffer discussed conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein's alleged connections to intelligence agencies. Hoffer wrote that a frequently cited claim that former U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta had been told that Epstein "belonged to intelligence" originated with an anonymous source in a 2019 Daily Beast report and was subsequently denied under oath by Acosta. Hoffer described Webb as a "prominent conspiracist" who was "inspired to write two laboriously long volumes scrutinizing Epstein's supposed intelligence connections after coming across Acosta's purported 'belonged to intelligence' quote".[6]

Writing for the Australian Journal of Politics and History, Timothy Lynch cites Webb's article "From 'Spook Air' to the 'Lolita Express': The Genesis and Evolution of the Jeffrey Epstein-Bill Clinton Relationship" (published by The XYZ, 2019) as an example of how contributors of the far-right news website The XYZ, who have promoted antisemitism under the form of a "literally diabolical conspiracy", made a connection between Satanism, child abuse and Jewish financial malfeasance, as well as the activities of the Israeli government.[11]

A 2019 Black Agenda Report (BAR) article written by Webb, named "Saudi Arabia, Israel, US all Sought Bashir's Ouster: So how Real was the Sudan Revolution?", states that the Sudanese revolution was manufactured by Saudi Arabia, the US, and Israel.[19] Writing for Africa Is a Country, anthropologist Zachary Mondesire[20] critiques the piece, writing that the article ignores months of grassroots organizing and continuous popular protests by reducing the entire revolution to Omar Al-Bashir's ouster. According to Mondesire, Webb wrongly claims that Saudi and other Gulf nations' support for the Transitional Military Council (TMC) means outside powers created the revolution, confusing the military's leadership group with the grassroots public protest. Mondesire writes that "protests continued even after Al-Bashir had stepped down and the TMC had been established by military leadership." According to Mondesire, the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Israel support the continuance of Al-Bashir's policies. Mondesire also writes that the BAR's focus on opposing the Western empire has blinded it to real grassroots African uprisings, making the Black American Left dismiss African people as passive subjects, and that Webb's article is representative of this paradigm.[19]

Michael Schaefer discusses Webb in the chapter "Fear of a 'scientific-technological elite': from Eisenhower's to Biden's farewell addresses – a useful category or obfuscating rhetorical device?" in the 2026 book Rise of the Digital Technocracy. Schaefer describes Webb as a "marginalized voice" who writes about technocracy.[12] He writes that Webb "was among the first to uncover connections between DARPA-funded projects and the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus."[21] Schaefer groups Webb with James Corbett, Ryan Christián and Patrick Wood as a "loose collection of independent researchers" with differing political ideologies.[22]

Telepolis also wrote that journalist Glenn Greenwald had criticized Webb for "unreliable reporting". According to Telepolis, a central theme of Webb's work is that U.S. technology-based security policies are contributing to a surveillance state developed by individuals with connections to U.S. and Israeli intelligence services.[15]

Musa Khan Jalalzai states that Webb has been correct about certain surveillance activities of the UK's GCHQ.[23]

References

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  1. ↑ Kuzmarov, Jeremy (1 December 2023). Warmonger: How Clinton's Malign Foreign Policy Launched the US Trajectory from Bush II to Biden. SCB Distributors. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-949762-77-8.
  2. ↑ Skambraks, Ole (9 February 2026). "Die Überlegenheit des Unmoralischen: Die Epstein-Files sind nur die Spitze des Eisbergs". Berliner Zeitung (in German).
  3. ↑ "Whitney Webb". The Real News Network. 15 August 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2026.
  4. ↑ "Jeffrey Epstein is plural: An autopsy of the liberal world order". Middle East Monitor. 8 February 2026. Retrieved 19 August 2026.
  5. 1 2 Pope, Felix (19 August 2024). "Neil Oliver interviews conspiracy theorist who claimed 'Jewish mob' run the world". The Jewish Chronicle.
  6. 1 2 Hoffer, Mark (2 October 2025). "Did Jeffrey Epstein "Belong to Intelligence"?". Skeptic.
  7. 1 2 MacDougald, Park (17 July 2025). "What the Epstein Fight Is Really About". The Free Press.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "The Shit List 2024". The New World. 27 November 2024.
  9. ↑ Sommer, Will (24 July 2025). "MAGA Inches Closer to a Ghislaine Maxwell Alliance". www.thebulwark.com.
  10. ↑ Legge, Melissa F.; Inyang, Elizabeth; Stokes, Jonathan (21 November 2025). "20-minute neighbourhoods, criticisms, conspiracy theories, and health: a critical discourse analysis". BMC Public Health. 25 (1) 4093. doi:10.1186/s12889-025-25416-y. PMC 12639678. PMID 41272528.
  11. 1 2 Lynch, Timothy (2026). "Significant Far-Right Challenges to Australian Society? The XYZ and AustraliaOne". Australian Journal of Politics & History. n/a (n/a) ajph.70094. doi:10.1111/ajph.70094. ISSN 1467-8497.
  12. 1 2 Schaefer, Michael (15 July 2026). "3: Fear of a "scientific-technological elite": from Eisenhower's to Biden's farewell addresses – a useful category or obfuscating rhetorical device?". In Robson, Garry; Wordliczek, Łukasz (eds.). Rise of the Digital Technocracy: Global Power and Local Resistance in a Post-Democratic World. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 54, 98–102. ISBN 978-1-0353-9043-4.
  13. ↑ Hopkins, C. J. (29 April 2025). Fear and Loathing in the New Normal Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. IV (2022–2024). Simon and Schuster. p. xiii,129. ISBN 978-1-5107-8393-5.
  14. ↑ "Socialist Viewpoint ... news and analysis for working people". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 21 August 2026.
  15. 1 2 Fess, Philipp (31 August 2025). "2 Kinder tot: Melania Trump verlangt Überwachung bis ins Wohnzimmer" [Two children dead: Melania Trump demands surveillance extending into the living room]. Telepolis (in German).
  16. 1 2 Bolton, Peter (11 September 2023). "Why Criticize 9/11 Conspiracy Theories?".
  17. 1 2 Robertson, Adam (19 August 2024). "YouTube blocks Neil Oliver video amid 'antisemitism' claims". The National.
  18. 1 2 3 Leask, David (18 August 2024). "Neil Oliver video blocked by YouTube over antisemitism claims". The Times.
  19. 1 2 Mondesire, Zachary (July 2019). "What role for the Black American Left on Sudan?". africasacountry.com.
  20. ↑ "Zachary Mondesire | The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  21. ↑ Schaefer 2026, p. 102.
  22. ↑ Schaefer 2026, p. 100.
  23. ↑ Jalalzai, Musa Khan (1 April 2021). Manage Deaths Instead of Managing Life: The UK Governments Failure to Protect Communities and Care Homes during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. p. 107. ISBN 978-93-90439-79-9.
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