Tag: Matt Taibbi
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Musk, Taibbi See Apparent Falling-Out
by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 9, 2023) — On Saturday Twitter CEO Elon Musk took issue with a Substack post and tweets from journalist and “Racket” editor Matt Taibbi, who was the first, last and most frequent reporter of the “Twitter Files” made available by Musk himself after he purchased the company in late October. A…
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Taibbi to “Leave Twitter”
by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 7, 2023) — On Friday afternoon, independent journalist Matt Taibbi, editor of the new Substack publication “Racket News” and a member of the team publishing the “Twitter Files” beginning late last year, announced he will soon be “leaving Twitter” after an unnamed authority at the platform frowned upon his simultaneous use…
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How the Virality Project Threatens Our Freedom
by Dr. Joseph Mercola, ©2023 (Mar. 29, 2023) — As detailed in “Propaganda and Censorship Dominate the Information War,” we now have proof, courtesy of the Twitter Files, that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) partnered with a censorship consortium called the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) to censor…
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More from the Twitter Files: Congressionally-Requested Censorship
by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 4, 2023) — In Tuesday’s “Twitter Files” release by Matt Taibbi, he revealed that in the fall of 2017, as congressional and Special Counsel investigations ensued into alleged “collusion” between the Trump campaign and Russian government, two congressmen, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA28), pressured Twitter to produce…
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New “Twitter Files” Release
by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 3, 2023) — On Tuesday afternoon, independent journalist Matt Taibbi released a new batch of “Twitter Files” titled, “How Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In” revealing the company’s formation of a “Russia Task Force” in 2017. In previous releases, Taibbi illustrated extensive, long-running communication between Twitter and the FBI, CIA, DHS,…
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Taibbi Promises More “Twitter Files” Friday Involving U.S. Intelligence Community
by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 29, 2022) — In a single tweet Thursday afternoon, Matt Taibbi, one of the journalists releasing “Twitter Files” authorized by the company’s new owner, Elon Musk, pledged to publish additional “Files” in which more information regarding the relationship between the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and Twitter will appear. Taibbi is one…
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“Twitter Files” Journalist Terms “Hammer and Scorecard” “Fringiest Material”
by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 28, 2022) — In his Christmas Eve “Twitter Files” release, independent journalist Matt Taibbi provided as an example of “fringiest material” a screenshot from an October 31, 2020 article published by Mary Fanning and Alan Jones of The American Report promoting the claim, proffered by former government subcontractor Dennis Montgomery, that…
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New Christmas Eve “Twitter Files” Drop
by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 24, 2022) — On Saturday, Matt Taibbi, one of the journalists selected by new Twitter CEO Elon Musk to release the “Twitter Files” revealing the company’s decisions to suspend and “shadowban” certain accounts which it found objectionable as well as to take direction from the FBI and CENTCOM, posted a new…
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Twitter Files, Part 6 Released
by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 16, 2022) — At approximately 4:00 p.m. EST, Journalist Matt Taibbi released the sixth installment of “Twitter Files” from the company’s new CEO, Elon Musk, presented in Taibbi’s timeline in 45 tweets in backward chronological order. Tweet #24 shows coordination between a Twitter attorney working under former FBI General Counsel James…
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“TwitterFiles2” Released by Former New York Times Journalist Bari Weiss
by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 8, 2022) — Former New York Times writer Bari Weiss, who has since founded her own newspaper, The Free Press, has released documentation showing that Twitter employees maintained “secret blacklists” of accounts suppressed by such tools as “visibility filtering,” “do not amplify,” and “disabling engagements” among other techniques. Weiss’s revelations, provided…