‘Twitter Files’ Reporter Bails on Twitter After Elon Makes It ‘Unusable’

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On Friday, one of Musk’s handpicked Twitter Files disseminators turned his back on the social media site. The Chief Twit, meanwhile, quickly unfollowed him.

 

Matt Taibbi, one of Elon Musk’s handpicked disseminators of the so-called “Twitter Files,” informed his readers on Friday that he was ditching Twitter after the Chief Twit restricted links to Substack this week.

 

On Friday, Twitter began preventing users from engaging with tweets that contained links to Substack articles, blocking any likes, retweets and comments from these posts. Additionally, users were unable to pin any tweets to the top of their profile if they included a Substack link.

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-files-reporter-matt-taibbi-bails-on-twitter-after-elon-musk-makes-it-unusable

 

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MSNBC Host Makes Matt Taibbi Squirm Over His ‘Twitter Files’ Errors

 

 

Matt Taibbi, one of the journalists Elon Musk handpicked to disseminate the so-called Twitter Files, found himself flailing Thursday when confronted by MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan over the key errors in his reporting.

 

At one point in the heated and lengthy interview, which spanned more than 20 minutes, Hasan brought up some glaring mistakes within Taibbi’s reporting on the supposed anti-conservative censorship and government interference that took place within Twitter prior to Musk’s purchase of the platform.

 

Hasan continued: “You say they labeled 22 million tweets as misinformation in the run-up to the 2020 vote—they didn’t. They flagged 3,000 election misinformation tweets for labeling, so you were only 21,997,000 off.”

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-host-mehdi-hasan-makes-matt-taibbi-squirm-over-his-twitter-files-errors

 

 

 

[bamnutsak]

Taibi didn't seem ready, or committed, to be Elon's tool.