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Matt Taibbi on the Twitter Files
Matt Taibbi’s opening statement on the Twitter Files and the censorship industrial complex:”Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation requests from every corner of government, from the FBI, DHS, HHS, DOD, the Global Engagement Center at State, even the CIA.
For every government agency scanning Twitter, there were perhaps twenty quasi-private entities doing the same thing.”
Journalists reporting
Matt Gaetz, Matt Taibbi, and Michael Shellenberger talk about the FTC targeting journalists reporting on the Twitter Files:
Shellenberger MD:
“I never that would happen in the USA. I’ve visited a lot of authoritarian countries, and I never thought this would happen here.”
Matt gaetz:
“And the nexus to authoritarianism is the desire to control the nature of truth itself.”
Mtaibbi:
“This kind of thing where the government is looking for information about reporters is usually the canary in the coal mine that something worse is coming in terms of an effort to exercise control over the press.”