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Bucky

(55,334 posts)
Wed Aug 28, 2024, 04:23 PM Aug 28

Does someone have a couple good sources debunking Matt Taibbi?

Looking for facts & documented inconsistencies, not just "he's changed since the anti-war days"

I'm googling around too, but I'm involving the DU Hive Mind in my quest to win an argument

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Does someone have a couple good sources debunking Matt Taibbi? (Original Post) Bucky Aug 28 OP
Debunk or discredit? TheProle Aug 28 #1
Near as I can tell, he's pushing Russian propaganda Bucky Aug 29 #4
If it's re Twitter censor requests, Trump White House regularly asked for blm Aug 28 #2
Thanks! Bucky Aug 29 #5
Emptywheel LessAspin Aug 28 #3
Excellent source, thanks Bucky Aug 29 #6
pre-Elon LessAspin Aug 30 #7
Here are links to Marcy Wheeler's articles on Taibbi. She calls him MattyDickPics Nevilledog Aug 30 #8
what a cretin Coexist Aug 30 #9

TheProle

(2,921 posts)
1. Debunk or discredit?
Wed Aug 28, 2024, 04:25 PM
Aug 28

Can't really debunk the man as he obviously exists. Does your wining your argument rely on demonstrating sloppy or biased journalism, or something else?

Bucky

(55,334 posts)
4. Near as I can tell, he's pushing Russian propaganda
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 10:33 AM
Aug 29

But the argument I was having was with a smarter casting person who obsessed on CIA influence in American mainstream journalism -- which is incontrovertible, but involves a good bit of cherry picking.

blm

(113,796 posts)
2. If it's re Twitter censor requests, Trump White House regularly asked for
Wed Aug 28, 2024, 05:05 PM
Aug 28

Posts about him be removed, while Biden WH requests were to remove disinformation on Covid 19.

Twitter granted requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign to remove content in 2020, report says
https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-granted-requests-from-trump-white-house-biden-remove-posts-2022-12

Twitter Kept Entire ‘Database’ of Republican Requests to Censor Posts
Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" focus on Democrats, but former administration officials and Twitter employees say Trump’s team and other Republicans routinely demanded posts be taken down
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-trump-twitter-files-collusion-biden-censorship-1234675969/

Bucky

(55,334 posts)
6. Excellent source, thanks
Thu Aug 29, 2024, 10:35 AM
Aug 29

I just hate reading Twitter, unfortunately. It was a cesspool before Elon bought it.

But I'll give the guy a looksee

LessAspin

(1,385 posts)
7. pre-Elon
Fri Aug 30, 2024, 11:34 AM
Aug 30

Twitter was a cesspool. Musk has turned it into 4chan on steroids

MATT TAIBBI IS FURIOUS THAT ELECTION INTEGRITY PROJECT DOCUMENTED HOW BIG TRUMP’S BIG LIE WAS

April 7, 2023/56 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election /by emptywheel

As you’ve no doubt heard, Taibbi went on Mehdi Hasan’s show yesterday and got called out for his false claims.

After the exchange, #Matty made a show of “correcting” some of his false claims, which in fact consisted of repeating the false claims while taking out the proof, previously included in the same tweet, that he had misquoted a screen cap to sustain his previous false claim...

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/04/07/matt-taibbi-is-furious-that-election-integrity-project-documented-how-big-trumps-big-lie-was/


This was from over a year ago and to your point about Twitter the disingenuous and dubious claims Musk and Taibbi made back then seem mild compared to what it has become. Dis/misinformation and just pure hate speech is off the charts now. On a plarform that already skewed right..

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-admits-bias-in-algorithm-for-rightwing-politicians-and-news-outlets





https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/inciting-rioters-in-britain-was-a-test-run-for-elon-musk-just-see-what-he-plans-for-america
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