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The Independent is owned by Saudi/Russian investors now:

>Owner(s)

>Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel

>Alexander Lebedev

>Evgeny Lebedev

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Independent

Related articles:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40762906

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/oct/19/independent-de...

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Friendly reminder that the UK government once leaked material about foreign spying activities through the Independent and pretended it was Snowden's fault in an attempt to discredit him. I considered them to have zero journalistic ethics after that.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-uk-...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/23/uk-gov...

The Independent used to have a chum box on its page.

Whatever money it made for them, it made me associate that with their work, which I don’t think was that great to begin with.

Their website is now just an ad vehicle too. Giant videos that take up half the screen even when you scroll past them and don't watch them? Yep, I'm leaving.

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