Double Down News

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Double Down News
Type of site
News & Media Outlet
Founder(s) Yannis Mendez
URL www.doubledown.news
Launched2017
Current statusActive

Double Down News (DDN) is a British alternative media outlet founded in 2017 by Yannis Mendez. [1] Funded through Patreon, it produces interviews, films and short films from a left-wing perspective. [2]

DDN contributors have included former Daily Telegraph journalist Peter Oborne, Guardian columnist George Monbiot, [3] Darryl McDaniels, [4] Chris Packham, [5] Ken Loach, [6] Guz Khan, [7] Nabil Abdul Rashid, [8] Owen Jones, [9] David Graeber, [10] John McDonnell, [11] Peter Jukes, [12] and Matt Kennard. [13]

In August 2017, DDN published a video related to "Traingate", when Jeremy Corbyn had been accused of lying about a Virgin train being full and him being forced to sit on the floor. Jasper Jackson of the New Statesman reviewed that though its video "tells a convincing and detailed account of the whole affair", and reflects poorly on mainstream media reporting, the video was misleading. It presented widely broadcast footage as "never-before seen" and does not disclose that the videomaker capturing footage for Corbyn was a director of DDN. [14]

In October 2018, due to a "violation of community standards", Facebook removed a DDN video featuring Monbiot talking about the alleged atrocities of Christopher Columbus. [15] It was restored the following day, accompanied by an apology. [3]

In October 2022, it published a video by Oborne talking about the Conservative Party having been taken over by the super rich who pushed for tax cutting policies which was in the mini budget and then a U-turn was made by Liz Truss's government. [16]

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