Michael Weiss is an American journalist and author. Weiss is a senior editor for The Daily Beast, a consulting executive editor at Coda Story, a columnist for Foreign Policy, an author and a frequent national security analyst and contributor for CNN.
Weiss has served as co-chair of the Russia Studies Centre at the neoconservative British foreign policy think tankHenry Jackson Society. Weiss currently serves as the editor-in-chief for the online magazine Interpreter, which translates and analyzes Russian news, and senior editor of The Daily Beast, a regular columnist for Foreign Policy magazine. In 2015, he co-wrote the book with Hassan Hassan. In 2010, Weiss criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron after Cameron, during a speech delivered in Ankara, referred to Gaza as a "prison camp". Weiss wrote that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan "is the man whom David Cameron was out to please... Brutal occupation of Cyprus, subjugation of a Kurdish minority in everything from politics to linguistics, and ongoing denial of the Armenian genocide are evidently Maastricht-compatible initiatives to the new British prime minister". In November 2014, Weiss published a special report in his online magazine the Interpreter that accused Russia of waging "propaganda and disinformation" campaigns. Weiss's report included recommendations on how to confront Russian propaganda which included creating an “internationally recognized ratings system for disinformation.” The recommendations were criticized in an article written by James Carden in the politically progressive outlet The Nation as a "censorship campaign."; Weiss would subsequently feud publicly In March 2015, in an article cowritten with Michael Pregent, Weiss accused Iran-backed Iraqi Shia militias of committing extensive atrocities against Sunni civilians in the course of their war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, including "burning people alive in their houses, playing soccer with severed human heads, and ethnically cleansing and razing whole villages to the ground." Weiss and Pregent suggested that "Iran's Shi'ite militias aren't a whole lot better than the Islamic State." In 2016, Weiss called Russia a terrorist state and said that "Russian corruption has been described as one of the country’s chief exports". Weiss joined CNN in April 2017.
