Mr. Wood said he approached the Peace Data editors in June after seeing a link on their website commissioning new writers. Writers were paid through electronic systems, though Mr. Wood said he volunteered to write and was not paid. The first article Mr. Wood wrote, which was focused on the top 1 percent of American wealth, was his pitch and idea. But when he submitted the story, he said, he was asked to cut significant portions, including one section tying Mr. Trump to the economic elite. “It was just a paragraph or two, not serious, but I wondered why they wanted it cut,” said Mr. Wood.

Source: New York Times September 02, 2020 22:36 UTC