Matt, I saw your interview with Brianna on Bad Faith. I'm amazed you were able to keep your cool with her non-stop badgering. I could tell you were frustrated with her interrogation. Bravo for not going off on her. I think she's just jealous that she didn't get the story. And probably still angry at Twitter for helping to take down Bernie. That's besides the point of the Twitter files. You rock Matt!!!!
Looking forward to further analysis. One unknown is did this actually impact anything of importance given how few people probably paid attention to Twitter posts by those that Twitter may or may not have removed. Compare this to the huge impact of the lies put out in 2020 by Fox News (as proven by the current defamation lawsuit), OAN and NewsMax. So far the only really effective disinformation and misinformation campaign is the one that makes millions of people and the majority of Republicans believe that Trump won in 2020. They believe in massive voter fraud and machines switching votes. A smaller group believe that Democrats and Tom Hanks eat babies and drink their blood and are pedophiles. A smaller group believe in lizard people and dog men. That is some good old world changing disinformation.
NBC news cultist.. or..? Or is it your job to gas light and sew discord amongst people, with scripted talking points for info warfare & propaganda? Either way it’s disingenuous and distracting from the seriousness of the information Matt has been disseminating. Lies you are talking about from 2020 which are? Because if you are talking about the election being stolen, and it was, and no, that does not have anything to do with the outcome of the election... because obviously election was stolen first then media reported on it. Defamation lawsuit by whom? Dominion? Pfft! Worst excuse for an election system company there is.
Are you REALLY looking forward to further analysis? Really? I really doubt it because then you’d have to come up with some more bullshit to throw into the pot here for stirring!
Your comment proves my point. I’ve been a supporter of Matt for way many years than you. Rolling Stone, buying his books. Sorry that you’ve been deceived by media and your own internet research.
What policies have been implemented on behalf of the lizard people btw? As far as I know not one right wing conspiracy has the backing of the media, every institution of government, and the all important funds to pass legislation and convince people of the absolute need for.....
Could it be global thermonuclear war? Oh no, let's concentrate on flat earth freddy with 14 followers. Or how about the mentally challenged pizza gate/q anon/Jan 6th crowd?
Will you look at a mushroom cloud on the horizon and say
"At least we got rid of Trump, along with any semblance of ethics..."
W administration and Cheney were the ones claiming mushroom clouds if we didn’t invade Iraq. Everything I wrote is true. I’m not a recent Matt fanboy. I have been reading him for decades and buying his books. I’m waiting for something significant to come out of his latest efforts other than proving that Twitter management didn’t stand up to the government.
I distinctly recall an episode of Meet the Press interviewing then VP Cheney. He claimed he was certain about WMD. I remember him getting strong flack from Russert (not sure). I remember wanting to puke. I recall thinking Cheney was full of s..t. Also heard media saying he was full of S..t. At the time I was a working mom, busy, and watched only MSM. Also heard the guy (cant recall the guys name) who was once in charge of overseeing WMD neutralization in Iraq on Maddows radio program, where he outlined it was impossible for Iraq to have WMD at that time. My husband, friends and I were all aghast when news broke of “Shock and Awe”. Not sure why people think everyone believed WMD BS.
I understand the Twitter files. Government interference and badgering Twitter into censoring users. Other government agencies doing the same, perhaps for what they thought were in the national interest, but done with extreme incompetence. Again, Twitter did not push back hard enough. Did this impact anything other than Twitter feeds read by a small number of people? I haven’t seen it, only fear of some grand conspiracy controlled by someone or organization. Weigh this against the proven lies and misinformation spread about the 2020 election that millions still believe and the conspiracy to overturn the election that lead to the Jan 6 attack on the Capital. These are facts.
Who sold the wmd idea? Ny times, cnn, Washington post, and your absolute favorite fox.
You went through the litany of absolute conspiracy theories that the left leaning media has pushed. Picked 1 that has a republican partner - and ignored the info laundering that took place.
You're either not commenting in good faith, or you're writing the new david sirota script called
Or the misinformation campaign on trump Russia collusion, 2 weeks to flatten the curve, lockdowns have no cost, safe and effective vaccines, Havana syndrome, pee tape, Jan 6th was an insurrection, Ukraine has a nazi problem, oops - no nazi problem, weapons of mass destruction, warrantless wiretapping, outing cia agents,
I am waiting for a counter-point from Taibbi. Probably in vain. Meanwhile saw elsewhere this info about the GEC. It was created by Congress half-heartedly. It is underfunded, lacks the authority to carry out its mission, whatever that mission is, and has no clear strategy. The head of the GEC is called the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. This position has been vacant 44% of the time since the GEC came into existence in October 1999, often leaving it often leaderless. Other agencies have counter-misinformation functions including the CISA at Homeland Security, the Pentagon and Office of the Director of National Intelligence. There is feuding going within the GEC and between these departments over turf and mission. The GEC has a staff of 147 people compared to CISA with about 2500 employees. I am looking for some statistics saying the GEC's influence on the media is limited, or not. Mostly, the conservative media is onto this one with a vengeance (now) including Taibbi, very dramatic, using terminology such as blacklisting. Liberal media, not so much.
And none of that would have happened, if indeed it did, or was caused by a Covid conspiracy, because some knuckleheads Twitter feed was suppressed? That is quite the insane connection. No more please.
If by knuckleheads you mean any scientist, economist, sociologist, public policy advisor that had any other message than masks/mrna/lockdowns.
That's the very crux of what you apparently don't understand.
When you suppress free speech you make decisions without all the information available. Inconvenient ideas lie at the very heart of the scientific / socratic method.
If the goal was to save lives, and we could have made better decisions with more information, then the suppressed ideas (great barrington for example) could have saved millions of lives - twitter/youtube/facebook/google/apple supply the world with 90% of all available information.
They all put their finger on the scale to get that $$$.
Millions more believe in 2016 election conspiracy that is pushed from the "small number of Twitter users" to nyt, wapo, msnbc, NBC, cbs,PBS, npr - every news outlet that isn't fox.
What policies are based on right wing conspiracy exactly?
We have safe and effective vaccines that people believed would prevent the spread pushing at risk people taking unknown chances based on a known lie.
How many people died because of that lie? How many people died of starvation because we shut down the world economy for 2 years?
Could someone possibly transcribe these interviews into written form?
And what about a counter-point argument of these claims about the GEC, also in writing? That way, skeptical readers like me could make up their own minds.
Wondering what Matt's sources think might happen if the ten biggest federal contractors had their boards of directors replaced with people chosen at random, like jurors, and instructed to act in the public interest.
To include an organization in this monologue such as the Free Palestine movement with the implication that the main target is/was everyone, and not only conservatives, is ludicrous.
The "threat" to the left is still Trump. By the left I include progressives, globalists, socialists (much overlap here).
They got such a shock in 2016 that they decided to use the power of government to shut up any conservative voice, in the end even president Trump. Trump is an existential threat to their plans.
They were so comfortable in their bubble that they never thought this would come out. Musk buying Twitter changed everything.
It's the left, your side Matt Taibbi, that you should be pointing fingers at.
While much I agree with you, it is unfortunate but the left and right are really working as one much more than anyone wants to believe. Much of what we see and hear, even from the guys with hard hitting truths blasted on Twitter is theatrical in nature. I am a conservative, but if these guys really wanted something done, it would have been long ago. We don’t even need a federal government if all we get are these clowns in DC now. They have been loaded up in the car ready to go WITH ALL OUR MONEY, and valuables for a long time! They are just waiting for the the green light signal... so until that happens they will quell their boredom with poking us with sticks and throwing stones at us....just killin time.
In your simplistic logic Twitter shuts down some users and millions starve, plus all kinds of other awful things. Therefore before the Twitter actions there was no starvation or other problems.
No, and not my point. The government didn’t mandate that Twitter do their bidding. Unlike Putin our government didn’t shut anyone down or legislate prison sentences for violators. Our government has long tried to control the media behind the scenes and openly, such as restricting reporting during the Iraq war as opposed to Vietnam. Twitter colluded with the government on this through cooperation. Why? Probably the same reason Fox pushed the Big Lie, to protect their brand.
Matt, I saw your interview with Brianna on Bad Faith. I'm amazed you were able to keep your cool with her non-stop badgering. I could tell you were frustrated with her interrogation. Bravo for not going off on her. I think she's just jealous that she didn't get the story. And probably still angry at Twitter for helping to take down Bernie. That's besides the point of the Twitter files. You rock Matt!!!!
Thank you -- and - another two outstanding -- OK three, no five:
https://rumble.com/v2b8hek-former-us-mercenary-in-ukraine-talks-war-crimes-and-cia-involvement-rt-excl.html
Former US mercenary in Ukraine talks war crimes and CIA involvement | RT exclusive (Mar. 1, 2023)
John McIntyre: Former Mercenary in Ukraine / RT Interview -- OUTSTANDING
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https://thedreizinreport.com/2023/03/05/dreizin-on-belief-and-unbelief/ -- March 5, 2023
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US lab designed/created Corona virus – DARPA document
https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/sars-cov-wiv?r=byea&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
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Gaetz: Republicans Need To DEFUND Every Politicized Government Agency!
https://rumble.com/v2blqic-gaetz-republicans-need-to-defund-every-politicized-government-agency.html
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Tucker Carlson Features Jimmy Dore's Anti-War Rant! – OUTSTANDING !!!
https://rokfin.com/post/125855
Matt Taibbi—“let the ever more sophisticated machinery of digital deprivation, do the rest”
Matt, im fuming listening to brianna joy gray try to "bring up the real criticism " of your Twitter files coverage.
She's making the classic Christian argument that the absence of evidence isn't the evidence of absence.
It is sickening to me that she spent 30 minutes complaining about the existence of the flying spaghetti monster....
"I only have limited resources and time...." yes Briana, reality exists.
Seriously matt, you're far more patient than I am. She's too smart to not know how weak the argument is....
100%!!!!!
Looking forward to further analysis. One unknown is did this actually impact anything of importance given how few people probably paid attention to Twitter posts by those that Twitter may or may not have removed. Compare this to the huge impact of the lies put out in 2020 by Fox News (as proven by the current defamation lawsuit), OAN and NewsMax. So far the only really effective disinformation and misinformation campaign is the one that makes millions of people and the majority of Republicans believe that Trump won in 2020. They believe in massive voter fraud and machines switching votes. A smaller group believe that Democrats and Tom Hanks eat babies and drink their blood and are pedophiles. A smaller group believe in lizard people and dog men. That is some good old world changing disinformation.
NBC news cultist.. or..? Or is it your job to gas light and sew discord amongst people, with scripted talking points for info warfare & propaganda? Either way it’s disingenuous and distracting from the seriousness of the information Matt has been disseminating. Lies you are talking about from 2020 which are? Because if you are talking about the election being stolen, and it was, and no, that does not have anything to do with the outcome of the election... because obviously election was stolen first then media reported on it. Defamation lawsuit by whom? Dominion? Pfft! Worst excuse for an election system company there is.
Are you REALLY looking forward to further analysis? Really? I really doubt it because then you’d have to come up with some more bullshit to throw into the pot here for stirring!
Dr. Boog is probably an employee at the GEC or some other govt propaganda agency.
Your comment proves my point. I’ve been a supporter of Matt for way many years than you. Rolling Stone, buying his books. Sorry that you’ve been deceived by media and your own internet research.
🤥😂🤣
Do you believe trump colluded with russia? 2 weeks to flatten the curve? Safe and effective vaccine? Pee tape? Havana syndrome?
Santa?
What policies have been implemented on behalf of the lizard people btw? As far as I know not one right wing conspiracy has the backing of the media, every institution of government, and the all important funds to pass legislation and convince people of the absolute need for.....
Could it be global thermonuclear war? Oh no, let's concentrate on flat earth freddy with 14 followers. Or how about the mentally challenged pizza gate/q anon/Jan 6th crowd?
Will you look at a mushroom cloud on the horizon and say
"At least we got rid of Trump, along with any semblance of ethics..."
W administration and Cheney were the ones claiming mushroom clouds if we didn’t invade Iraq. Everything I wrote is true. I’m not a recent Matt fanboy. I have been reading him for decades and buying his books. I’m waiting for something significant to come out of his latest efforts other than proving that Twitter management didn’t stand up to the government.
Who pushed wmd? Bush administration by itself? What journalists questioned the narrative and weren't immediately fired?
I distinctly recall an episode of Meet the Press interviewing then VP Cheney. He claimed he was certain about WMD. I remember him getting strong flack from Russert (not sure). I remember wanting to puke. I recall thinking Cheney was full of s..t. Also heard media saying he was full of S..t. At the time I was a working mom, busy, and watched only MSM. Also heard the guy (cant recall the guys name) who was once in charge of overseeing WMD neutralization in Iraq on Maddows radio program, where he outlined it was impossible for Iraq to have WMD at that time. My husband, friends and I were all aghast when news broke of “Shock and Awe”. Not sure why people think everyone believed WMD BS.
If you don't understand the significance of the Twitter files, your mind is not functioning properly...
I understand the Twitter files. Government interference and badgering Twitter into censoring users. Other government agencies doing the same, perhaps for what they thought were in the national interest, but done with extreme incompetence. Again, Twitter did not push back hard enough. Did this impact anything other than Twitter feeds read by a small number of people? I haven’t seen it, only fear of some grand conspiracy controlled by someone or organization. Weigh this against the proven lies and misinformation spread about the 2020 election that millions still believe and the conspiracy to overturn the election that lead to the Jan 6 attack on the Capital. These are facts.
So it's ok for a government to censor as long as they have outsource deniability?
I don't think you understand anything...
Will you respond to the litany of msm conspiracy that has affected the world in catastrophic fashion at any point?
Russiagate, covid, ukraine...
Take your pick...
Where is the proof of a conspiracy that affected the world in catastrophic fashion? Matt isn't claiming that.
Thats absolutely obfuscation.
Who sold the wmd idea? Ny times, cnn, Washington post, and your absolute favorite fox.
You went through the litany of absolute conspiracy theories that the left leaning media has pushed. Picked 1 that has a republican partner - and ignored the info laundering that took place.
You're either not commenting in good faith, or you're writing the new david sirota script called
"Don't look in the mirror."
Willfully ignorant, I hope you're getting paid...
Or the misinformation campaign on trump Russia collusion, 2 weeks to flatten the curve, lockdowns have no cost, safe and effective vaccines, Havana syndrome, pee tape, Jan 6th was an insurrection, Ukraine has a nazi problem, oops - no nazi problem, weapons of mass destruction, warrantless wiretapping, outing cia agents,
I am waiting for a counter-point from Taibbi. Probably in vain. Meanwhile saw elsewhere this info about the GEC. It was created by Congress half-heartedly. It is underfunded, lacks the authority to carry out its mission, whatever that mission is, and has no clear strategy. The head of the GEC is called the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. This position has been vacant 44% of the time since the GEC came into existence in October 1999, often leaving it often leaderless. Other agencies have counter-misinformation functions including the CISA at Homeland Security, the Pentagon and Office of the Director of National Intelligence. There is feuding going within the GEC and between these departments over turf and mission. The GEC has a staff of 147 people compared to CISA with about 2500 employees. I am looking for some statistics saying the GEC's influence on the media is limited, or not. Mostly, the conservative media is onto this one with a vengeance (now) including Taibbi, very dramatic, using terminology such as blacklisting. Liberal media, not so much.
https://mountainrunner.us/2022/09/noonecares/
2019 9.5 million died of starvation.
2020 into 2021 23.5 million died of starvation as the world economy shut down.
The vast majority were black and brown.
The "covid will kill you" conspiracy directly starved 13 million more people (95% black and brown) than the year before and any year since 2003.
I would say double the holocaust of starvation deaths is a catastrophe, and the covid narrative was a conspiracy....
And none of that would have happened, if indeed it did, or was caused by a Covid conspiracy, because some knuckleheads Twitter feed was suppressed? That is quite the insane connection. No more please.
BTW, you hear that 13.5 million more people starved to death and you can't be bothered to look into it?
Good luck!
If by knuckleheads you mean any scientist, economist, sociologist, public policy advisor that had any other message than masks/mrna/lockdowns.
That's the very crux of what you apparently don't understand.
When you suppress free speech you make decisions without all the information available. Inconvenient ideas lie at the very heart of the scientific / socratic method.
If the goal was to save lives, and we could have made better decisions with more information, then the suppressed ideas (great barrington for example) could have saved millions of lives - twitter/youtube/facebook/google/apple supply the world with 90% of all available information.
They all put their finger on the scale to get that $$$.
Good luck changing your name again😘
Millions more believe in 2016 election conspiracy that is pushed from the "small number of Twitter users" to nyt, wapo, msnbc, NBC, cbs,PBS, npr - every news outlet that isn't fox.
What policies are based on right wing conspiracy exactly?
We have safe and effective vaccines that people believed would prevent the spread pushing at risk people taking unknown chances based on a known lie.
How many people died because of that lie? How many people died of starvation because we shut down the world economy for 2 years?
Dirty.
We need a decentralized safe haven for whistleblowers. Like this:
https://joshketry.substack.com/p/why-not-a-decentralized-safe-haven
Could someone possibly transcribe these interviews into written form?
And what about a counter-point argument of these claims about the GEC, also in writing? That way, skeptical readers like me could make up their own minds.
Just saw this: https://www.foxnews.com/media/federal-trade-commission-demands-elon-musk-identify-journalists-access-twitter-files
Excellent response by Elon Musk & Matt T.! And oh no another Nina.
Matt, just a general thank you!
State Sponsored Religion? https://substack.com/inbox/rec/106075354
That is as dangerous a thing as all the rest! We CANNOT allow state religion. Must keep church and state separate!
... and I am a Christian
Wondering what Matt's sources think might happen if the ten biggest federal contractors had their boards of directors replaced with people chosen at random, like jurors, and instructed to act in the public interest.
To include an organization in this monologue such as the Free Palestine movement with the implication that the main target is/was everyone, and not only conservatives, is ludicrous.
The "threat" to the left is still Trump. By the left I include progressives, globalists, socialists (much overlap here).
They got such a shock in 2016 that they decided to use the power of government to shut up any conservative voice, in the end even president Trump. Trump is an existential threat to their plans.
They were so comfortable in their bubble that they never thought this would come out. Musk buying Twitter changed everything.
It's the left, your side Matt Taibbi, that you should be pointing fingers at.
While much I agree with you, it is unfortunate but the left and right are really working as one much more than anyone wants to believe. Much of what we see and hear, even from the guys with hard hitting truths blasted on Twitter is theatrical in nature. I am a conservative, but if these guys really wanted something done, it would have been long ago. We don’t even need a federal government if all we get are these clowns in DC now. They have been loaded up in the car ready to go WITH ALL OUR MONEY, and valuables for a long time! They are just waiting for the the green light signal... so until that happens they will quell their boredom with poking us with sticks and throwing stones at us....just killin time.
In your simplistic logic Twitter shuts down some users and millions starve, plus all kinds of other awful things. Therefore before the Twitter actions there was no starvation or other problems.
No, and not my point. The government didn’t mandate that Twitter do their bidding. Unlike Putin our government didn’t shut anyone down or legislate prison sentences for violators. Our government has long tried to control the media behind the scenes and openly, such as restricting reporting during the Iraq war as opposed to Vietnam. Twitter colluded with the government on this through cooperation. Why? Probably the same reason Fox pushed the Big Lie, to protect their brand.