Whitney Webb is an American author and podcaster.^[2][3] She has written for MintPress News, and her work has also appeared in EcoWatch and Global Research.^[4][5] She is based in Chile.^[6] In 2019, she received the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.^[4]

Webb's work focuses on Jeffrey Epstein, intelligence agencies, military organizations, surveillance, and technology.^[7][3][8] Her work has attracted criticism for promoting conspiracy theories.^[9][5]

Webb has written for MintPress News.^[4] The outlet has been described as part of a pro-Russian disinformation ecosystem.^[10][11] Webb's work has also appeared in Global Research.^[6] According to The New York Times, Global Research is a Canadian group which poses itself as a think tank but largely promotes pro-Russian conspiracy theories (also described as serving "no other purpose but to push pro-Kremlin content" by the U.S. State Department^[12]), and has been exploited by actors linked to the Chinese state.^[13][14][15]

Webb is the author of One Nation Under Blackmail, published by TrineDay in 2022.^[16] TrineDay was founded by Kris Millegan, who has called himself a conspiracy theorist and is described by The New York Times as a "publisher of conspiracy books".^[17][18]

In One Nation Under Blackmail, Webb argues that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell had connections to Israeli intelligence and that Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell, facilitated Epstein's involvement with intelligence-linked activities during the 1980s. The book draws in part on claims made by former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe, including allegations connecting Epstein to arms dealing and the Iran–Contra affair.^[2]

Webb also publishes through Unlimited Hangout.^[16] Schaefer refers to Unlimited Hangout as Webb's site.^[3] In his collection of political essays, C. J. Hopkins has referred to Unlimited Hangout as a "malinforma-tionist" publication.^[19] Webb is also a contributor to The Last American Vagabond founded by Ryan Christián.^[20] In the article "Strategic Information Operation in YouTube: The Case of the White Helmets", Nazim Choudhury, Kin Wai Ng and Adriana Iamnitchi write that The Last American Vagabond is a channel "known for promoting conspiracy theories".^[21]

Webb has questioned the conventional account of the September 11 attacks.^[8] Journalist Peter Bolton described her as one of the "9/11 Truthers" and argued 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.^[22] The Anti-Defamation League has listed Webb among figures it says have promoted claims that Zionists were responsible for the September 11 attacks.^[23][24]

In 2024, Neil Oliver, a presenter on GB News and former BBC presenter, interviewed Webb.^[25] Webb argued 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".^[8] 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 accusations of antisemitism to shield itself from criticism.^[8] Webb later characterized her remarks about the crime syndicates as a rant.^[25]

Journalist Park MacDougald wrote in 2025 that, through her books, Webb had promoted a 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.^[5]

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" whose account relied on this premise.^[9]

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 XYZ, who have promoted a "literally diabolical conspiracy" as a form of antisemitism, made a connection between Satanism, child abuse and Jewish financial malfeasance, as well as the activities of the Israeli government.^[26]

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?", claims that the Sudanese revolution was manufactured by Saudi Arabia, the US, and Israel.^[27] Writing for Africa Is a Country, anthropologist Zachary Mondesire^[28] critiques the piece, arguing 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 notes that protests persisted even after Al-Bashir left power and that 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.^[27]

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.^[3] He writes that Webb "was among the first to uncover connections between DARPA-funded projects and the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus."^[29] Schaefer groups Webb with James Corbett, Ryan Christián and Patrick Wood as a "loose collection of independent researchers" with differing political ideologies.^[30]

Edward Curtin, a former professor at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts,^[31] wrote that Webb was a diligent researcher who relied on publicly available information. Curtin argued that, although Webb drew connections between Epstein and Israeli intelligence, her claims were more limited than those advanced by commentators such as Philip Giraldi.^[32]

The German publication Telepolis wrote that Webb's reporting had faced scrutiny and noted criticism of outlets to which she had contributed, including MintPress News and Global Research, for political bias and speculative or conspiratorial framing. It also reported 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.^[33]