Truthdig is an American alternative news website that provides a mix of long-form articles, blog items, curated links, interviews, arts criticism, and commentary on current events that is delivered from a politically progressive, left-leaning point of view.
[1] The site focuses on major "digs" that purport to look beneath headlines to reveal facts overlooked or not reported by mainstream media.
[4] On March 11, 2020, nine employees of Truthdig signed a statement announcing a work stoppage to protest what they described as "unfair labor conditions and the effort by the publisher, Zuade Kaufman, to remove the site's founding Editor-in-Chief and co-owner Robert Scheer".
[citation needed] Significant contributors to Truthdig have included William Blum, Noam Chomsky, Juan Cole, animator Mark Fiore, Amy Goodman, Sam Harris, Chris Hedges, Kamin Mohammadi, Greg Palast, Carrie Rickey, Émile P. Torres, and Gore Vidal.
[12] In 2015, an Association for Computing Machinery conference paper determined that users of the NewsTrust website considered Truthdig a "most trusted" political news source with a "left" viewpoint.