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BreakThrough News
Independent news agency based in the United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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BreakThrough News (BT News or BTN) is an alternative[1]: 58 online media and news outlet based in New York City.[2][3][4][5][1]
In association with Watermelon Pictures, BTN produced the 2025 documentary film The Encampments about the 2024 Palestine solidarity encampments at Columbia University and other pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses.
BTN leadership are almost all leaders in the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL).[6] In 2023, BTN's anchors were PSL co-founders Brian Becker[7] and Eugene Puryear,[7][8] and Rania Khalek;[7][8] its editor-in-chief was PSL central committee member Ben Becker;[6][8] and its secretary was Claudia De la Cruz.[7] BTN works closely with Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and has often hosted Tricontinental founder Vijay Prashad.[7] Other frequent contributors include Abby Martin, Kei Pritsker,[7] and Katie Halper.[9]
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In early 2020, BTN began posting to Instagram and YouTube.[7] In June 2020, BTN's founders registered BreakThrough Media (BT Media) as a non-profit organization.[10]
In 2025, BTN and Watermelon Pictures together produced the documentary film The Encampments about the 2024 Palestine solidarity encampments at Columbia University and other pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses.[11][12]
Criticism
In 2022, the Newlines Institute described BreakThrough News as denying the persecution of Uyghurs in China and BTN contributor Rania Khalek as an "apologist" for former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad with links to Russian State-funded media.[13]
In 2023, The Daily Beast contributor William Bredderman argued that BreakThrough News is part of a "pro-Russia, pro-China news network" funded by the American businessman Neville Roy Singham.[7]
The NCRI published a report May 2024 citing Bredderman entitled "Contagious Disruption: How CCP Influence and Radical Ideologies Threaten Critical Infrastructure and Campuses Across the United States," stating that BreakThrough News is part of what it calls the 'Singham network,' which it describes as "a wide range of nonprofits, alternative media outlets, and donor organizations that have been funneling undisclosed funds and disseminating CCP-supported agendas and narratives into the United States since at least 2017."[14]
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