When the global media machine decided to unleash its fury on Saudi Arabia in the wake of Jamal Khashoggi’s death, The Eastern Herald chose a different path. While Western newsrooms published editorial after editorial accusing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman without evidence, we refused to follow the herd. We refused to become another cog in a machine engineered to undermine Arab leadership under the false banner of press freedom.

We were not funded to do so. No one asked us to. But we knew the truth: that a sovereign state under........

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