What Happened to the Snowden Archive

Edward Snowden distributed approximately 50,000 classified documents to journalists starting in 2013, with multiple news outlets including The Guardian, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, and The Intercept publishing revelations over several years. The last document from the Snowden archive was published on May 29, 2019, when The Intercept released its final batch, and no outlet has published any documents from the archive since then. Snowden strategically shared encrypted copies of the material with multiple journalists and organizations to prevent a "single point of failure," though it remains unclear whether all holders of the copies can actually access the encrypted documents.