Matt Taibbi
Cory amplifies 41×Broke the 'Twitter Files'; critic of the censorship-industrial complex and media accountability (Racket News).
Matt Taibbi is an investigative journalist and author known for muckraking financial reporting at Rolling Stone (the 'vampire squid' Goldman Sachs coverage, Griftopia). In December 2022 he was a lead reporter on the 'Twitter Files,' internal documents on content-moderation and government contacts released after Elon Musk's acquisition. He now runs the independent outlet Racket News on Substack.
Latest posts
There’s something new and frightening in the tone of the responses to Charlie Kirk’s killing … America’s really changed.
1y ago · 51,842 likes
The new documents released by @TulsiGabbard leave no doubt - none - that the @BarackObama White House invented a phony espionage scandal to hang on the incoming Trump administration. The sole question is, why? What idiot thought this would work, that it was a good idea?
1y ago · 66,391 likes
1.TWITTER FILES #19 The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories” https://t.co/v41dyC26ZR
3y ago · 74,311 likes
Congresswoman, how does badgering a non-MAGA, non-Republican journalist to give up a source constitute fighting “Extreme MAGA Republican lies”? Can you please identify something @ShellenbergerMD or I said that is extreme, a lie, or a conspiracy theory?
3y ago · 43,418 likes
The strongest case
Concentrated power (Wall Street, the security state, platforms acting under government pressure) escapes accountability when the press identifies with the powerful, so independent, document-driven journalism that follows the story regardless of partisan alignment is essential to expose collusion and censorship.
And against
Critics argue his Twitter Files reporting overstated a coordinated government 'censorship' operation, conflating routine moderation and lawful requests with unconstitutional coercion, and that his framing has grown congenial to a partisan audience.
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On the record: no documented legal record found in a primary source.