This week on System Update, Glenn reports on Dept of Agriculture documents obtained via FOIA that reveal how factory farm industry groups surveil and malign industry critics. Glenn also talks to Crystal Heath, a bay-area veterinarian who has been the target of a vicious persecution campaign waged by the industrial agriculture lobby for having spoken out about mistreatment and abuse of animals. Follow Crystal Heath on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drcrystalheath Follow Glenn Greenwald on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald Read Glenn’s work: https://theintercept.com/staff/glenn-greenwald/ System Update: https://theintercept.com/staff/systemupdate/ Previous episodes: https://interc.pt/30Ot2s3 Subscribe to our channel: https://interc.pt/subscribe Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro Sequence 00:00:10 Glenn's Monologue 00:25:23 Conversation with Crystal Heath 00:49:53 End Credits

This week on System Update, Glenn Greenwald talks to Shant Mesrobian, formerly with the Obama 2008 campaign and current co-host of ‘The Backchannel’, about the disdain establishment liberals and mainstream journalists express for Joe Rogan, and how his platform has been growing in importance despite this. Follow Shant Mesrobian: https://twitter.com/ShantMM The Backchannel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBackchannel Follow Glenn Greenwald on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald Read Glenn’s work: https://theintercept.com/staff/glenn-greenwald/ System Update: https://theintercept.com/staff/systemupdate/ Previous episodes: https://interc.pt/30Ot2s3 Subscribe to our channel: https://interc.pt/subscribe Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro Sequence 00:00:10 Glenn's Monologue 00:12:30 Conversation with Shant Mesrobian 01:09:28 End Credits