Left-wing journos have slammed reporter Matt Taibbi after he released evidence of collusion between Twitter executives and the Biden campaign team seeking to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story in the run-up to the 2020 Presidential election. DailyMail.com has more.
Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of Twitter, gave Taibbi access to the documents, which he began to publish excerpts of on the social media site on Friday evening.
The documents included internal Twitter emails appearing to show staffers removing tweets showing a nude Hunter Biden at the behest of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.
Taibbi, a podcaster and former Rolling Stone correspondent, came under heavy criticism from top journalists at NBC News, MSNBC, the Daily Beast, and elsewhere, who accused him of doing “PR work” and committing journalistic malfeasance.
“Matt Taibbi… what sad, disgraceful downfall. I swear, kids, he did good work back in the day,” tweeted Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali.
“Should be a cautionary tale for everyone. Selling your soul for the richest white nationalist on Earth. Well, he’ll eat well for the rest of his life I guess. But is it worth it?” he added.
NBC News Senior Reporter Ben Collins wrote: “Imagine throwing it all away to do PR work for the richest person in the world. Humiliating s**t.”
Mehdi Hasan, the MSNBC host, had a similar criticism, tweeting: “Imagine volunteering to do online PR work for the world’s richest man on a Friday night, in service of nakedly and cynically right-wing narratives, and then pretending you’re speaking truth to power.”
NBC Senior Reporter Brandy Zadrozny offered more nuanced critique of Taibbi’s analysis.
Zadrozny pointed specifically to Taibbi’s conclusion that Democrats had “more channels” to lobby Twitter employees for content moderation than Republicans, because the staff’s political donations overwhelmingly went to Democrats.
“To leap to political contributions as the reason the right was more often reported for rule breaking is just bad reasoning and really bad reporting. Good thing this guy doesn’t have an editor,” tweeted Zadrozny.
One widespread criticism of Taibbi’s report centred on a list of tweets that were apparently deleted at the behest of Biden’s campaign, which Taibbi failed to reveal showed nude photos of Hunter, in violation of Twitter’s own policies.
Taibbi could not immediately be reached for comment on Saturday.
On the other side, prominent journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is frequently critical of the mainstream media, praised the files as “extraordinary documents” that show “the extreme pressure and collusion between liberal Twitter execs and Dem Party leaders to censor reporting on Biden”.
Greenwald slammed journalists who criticised Taibbi’s release as “the little employees of media corporations who don’t do any reporting – just tattling on powerless citizens to get them censored”.
“The reason these people insist Taibbi’s story is trivial is they will not and cannot recognise any scandalous or improper behaviour by leading Dem politicians. Ask them to name any. Any critique of leading Dems is automatically, to them, a fraud, a ‘nothingburger’,” wrote Greenwald.
“The whole sleazy, in-group liberal gang from NBC, Daily Beast, etc – all the censorship advocates who think censorship advocacy is somehow compatible with journalism – are furious that the the acts of their Dem Party allies in getting the Biden story censored are being exposed,” he also tweeted.
Musk also criticised the way much of the media covered of the files.
“Rather than admit they lied to the public they’re trying to pretend this is a nothingburger,” he said. “Shame on them.”
For more on this story, see this piece in the New York Post, and, for a compendium of all the most hysterical, over-the-top reactions from liberal journalists to Taibbi’s revelations, see this piece by Caleb Howe in Media-ite.
You can read Matt Taibbi’s now infamous Twitter thread here.
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I was going to say “unbelievable!” – but unfortunately it’s only too believable.
My reaction was far harsher and very sweary. The bowdlerised version is: “You’ve got to be chuffing joking, all they’re doing is extracting the urine”.
Has anyone else clocked that Keir tweeted yesterday that he intends to make Britain grow by making it an investment hub for the world, citing as an example … Black Rock.
So now we can see farmers are intended to be taxed off the land, which is then sold to Black Rock at high prices (putting the remainder of farmers out of business) for housing, wind-farms or Big Food production.
Such corporations are, as we all know, leaders of innovation in enterprise almost as much as Collective Farms were. And so the country will grow, at least for the 0.1%.
Yes I saw that. The visit from Fink, the visit just before the budget was announced from Gates…and we know where Starmer’s allegiances lie anyways as he told us ages ago. The writing’s on the wall. He’s a duplicitous shyster, with no other intention then screwing over the British public in order to ingratiate himself to his overlords.
It’s the WEF plan.
Is there any legal way to call elections now?
And in response to Two Tier Free Gear Never Here call for growth it has now slumped to 0.1% with an expectation that in the last quarter the economy will shrink as the private sector responses to the Thieves tax theft and cost increases. With business sentiment in retreat since the election, reinforced by the budget, contraction of the economy in the first quarter of 2025 will deliver a recession. The May elections look more interesting by the week.
Apparently Black Rock via proxies is buying up large tracts of farming land in Ukraine since hostilities kicked off.
I wonder if Ukraine being reduced to rubble requiring inward investors to rebuild gives Black Rock an opportunity, heroically, to lead the investment surge and acquire more land, and that prolonging the conflict is good for business… as it were? Or am I being cynical?
Unbelievable.
Endless, massive, stupid, incompetent, incoherent, corrupt, grafting, grifting, money laundering government.
The lust for ever more state control ends up in such lunacy.
I am sure the Fake News media is all over this……
The Tories would not have gone down the IHT route to corporatise farming but they almost certainly would have knelt to the approaches of Blackrock in other ways.
I think Robert Jenrick needs to stfu and crawl back under a suitable rock. Look at the article, at least one of these appalling wastes of our money goes back to 2012. The Tories are mired in exactly the same filth as the current socialist scumbags. This is globalists trying to destroy our country and he was just as big a suck up to them as Cameron, May and Sunak
British Farmers Crushed Foreign Farmers Helped
This is yet more evidence that we don’t have a government of and for our people – we have a government of and for the globalists, on the one hand, and the anti-white madleft, on the other.
What they are doing is more or less what you’d do if your aim was to destroy this country – its culture, economy and people.
Yes, this is what “Stealth Genocide” looks like, and Ethnic Europeans are the target.
Why? Because White People are the only things standing in the way of the Globalist Enslavement of the Rest of Humanity.
If only the Rest of Humanity, now some 93% of all humans on the planet, would wake up and stop helping the Globalists exterminate us, the 7%.
It is a good method to find parity between certain amounts of money in order to understand what is really going on. For example in 2020 the average person lost or is in the process of losing about forty percent of what they have and the elite and enriched themselves to precisely the same amount. And that is on top of the enormous debt that we were all saddled with in 2008. Very difficult situation that cannot be resolved without the help of very disruptive circumstances.
Sir Steel Knarmer is playing a blinder , the freak thinks his Tri Lateral WEF Overlords will reserve a seat at their top table for him once he completes his given mission of reducing the UK to a mere emptied out shell ! Muppet !!!
Yes, Bunter is still waiting for his top table job for doing the globalists bidding. How on earth is the poor fellow going to pay for the upkeep of a ten bedroomed Cotswold Manor House ( where did that money come from) private school fees, luxury holidays, pony lessons etc from writing a column in the Daily Fail?
My goodness this I triggering me! It is such n unjust tax and then to hear our tax money is used to fund foreign farming.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7uBYCJlmtZ0
One report from the farmers’ protest.
I thought Rupert Lowe’s comments were spot on:
Reform UK lashes out at Labour’s ‘disgusting’ £500m foreign farmers’ stash – ‘A spit in the face!’
“Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has lashed out at Labour’s “disgusting” £536million foreign aid stash for overseas farmers.
The Great Yarmouth MP, who has a farming background, reacted with fury after it was revealed Labour was splashing cash on farmers in Africa, Asia and South America.”
Lowe said: “Just when I think my disgust with this Government has peaked – £536 million being sent to foreign farmers, their assault on British farmers might raise £520million.”
“I could not care less about Brazilian and Rwanda farmers. Not our problem. A spit in the face for British farmers.”
He added: “Not a penny of British taxpayer money should be given to foreign farmers. It is not our problem.”
Lowe later confirmed he had penned a letter to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office “requesting that the minister takes steps to ensure foreign farmers do not receive a penny of British taxpayer money”.”
Somebody is going to get a PhD by making a study of Labour and how adept it is at making enemies of nearly every sector of society, by almost comical unenforced errors, own goals and shooting itself in the foot.