Lebanon Debate
Lebanon Debate is a private news portal established by Michel Kanbour on July 15, 2010. It offers breaking, local, international political news, and miscellaneous news about tourism, technology, and interior design. The website is designed to produce its own news and deliver brief information gathered through monitoring other media outlets without any additional analysis. The Editor-in-Chief is Fadi Eid. On February 3, 2019, members of the military police raided the office of "Lebanon Debate" in Jal El Dib, and stayed there for about two hours, after the government's commissioner to the military court, Judge Peter Germanos, issued a month-long search and investigation warrant against the owner of the website, Michel Kanbour, because of news published on the website. In 2023, the news site was accused of spreading misinformation and accordingly was involved in a series of public and legal disputes with the Lebanese Forces and Free Patriotic Movement. Kanbour was detained and questioned by the authorities for a number of hours in November of that year.
Audience Share
526,944uniquebrowsers
Ownership Type
Private
Geographic Coverage
National
Content Type
Free
Ownership Structure
Lebanon Debate is directly owned by Michel Kanbour.
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General Information
Founding Year
2010
Affiliated Interests Founder
Founder and general manager of LebanonDebate.com
Affiliated Interests Ceo
Founder and general manager of LebanonDebate.com
Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief
Fadi Eid
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2024 and 2021 data on shareholder fractions, company information, revenue, and management are acquired by the collaborative investigative efforts of SEEDS for Legal Initiatives and the Samir Kassir Foundation. Audience share data is unavailable for online outlets.
