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https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/journos-attack-reporter-matt-taibbi-for-exposing-musks-twitter-files/

Mainstream news reporters in lockstep with Democratic strategists rushed to social media to smear journalist Matt Taibbi as a sad fraud as he released his bombshell report on political censorship at Twitter. Matt Taibbiwhat sad, disgraceful downfall, Daily Beast columnist and New York Times contributor Wajahat Ali posted. Selling your soul for the richest white nationalist on Earth. On Friday, billionaire Elon Musk who vowed to give the social media giant a free-speech overhaul when he bought it last month released to Taibbi a shocking collection of inside correspondence proving that Democrat insiders leaned on Twitters censors to suppress The Posts coverage of Hunter Bidens laptop ahead of the 2020 presidential election. While Ali was hitting send, Dem pollster Matt McDermott tweeted a nearly identical put-down.

Matt Taibbi always was, and still remains, a fraud, McDermott wrote. Doing PR for the richest person in the world should come as no surprise. The Democrats words appeared to have been cut-and-pasted from a tweet NBCs Ben Collins had posted moments before. Imagine throwing it all away to do PR work for the richest person in the world, Collins wrote. Humiliating shit. Dozens of journalists including MSNBCs Chris Hayes, NBCs Brandy Zadrozny, and the New Republics Jacob Silverman and Democrat partisans piled on, drawing the scorn of investigative reporter Glenn 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, Greenwald posted. Meanwhile, Yoel Roth, Twitters former head of trust and safety who left the company when Musk completed his takeover, accused the sites new owner of endangering the censors. Publicly posting the names and identities of front-line employees involved in content moderation puts them in harms way and is a fundamentally unacceptable thing to do, Roth posted Friday on Mastodon, the Twitter-like site where many Musk opponents have decamped.

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