Double Down News (DDN) is a British alternative media outlet founded in 2017 by Yannis Mendez.^[1] Funded through Patreon, it produces interviews, films and short films from a left-wing perspective.^[2]

DDN contributors have included former Daily Telegraph journalist Peter Oborne, Guardian columnist George Monbiot,^[3] Darryl McDaniels,^[4] Chris Packham,^[5] Ken Loach,^[6] Guz Khan,^[7] Nabil Abdul Rashid,^[8] Owen Jones,^[9] David Graeber,^[10] John McDonnell,^[11] Peter Jukes,^[12] and Matt Kennard.^[13]

In August 2017, DDN published a video related to "Traingate", when Jeremy Corbyn had been accused of lying about a Virgin train being full and him being forced to sit on the floor. Jasper Jackson of the New Statesman reviewed that though its video "tells a convincing and detailed account of the whole affair", and reflects poorly on mainstream media reporting, the video was misleading. It presented widely broadcast footage as "never-before seen" and does not disclose that the videomaker capturing footage for Corbyn was a director of DDN.^[14]

In October 2018, due to a "violation of community standards", Facebook removed a DDN video featuring Monbiot talking about the alleged atrocities of Christopher Columbus.^[15] It was restored the following day, accompanied by an apology.^[3]

In October 2022, it published a video by Oborne talking about the Conservative Party having been taken over by the super rich who pushed for tax cutting policies which was in the mini budget and then a U-turn was made by Liz Truss's government.^[16]