Posted on Mar 10, 2023
Matt Taibbi scorched in hearing for skipping Trump push to censor Chrissy Teigen in Twitter...
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Taibbi — armed with files released to him by CEO Elon Musk — late last year tried to make a case in his so-called "Twitter Files" expose that the imagined deep state was censoring right-wing content on the site. The most dramatic situation, however, turned out to be Trump's demand to remove Teigen's 2019 tweet calling the then-president a "p*ssy a** b*tch."
Taibbi was asked by Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) in the hearing on Twitter documents and content moderation: “My question in the Twitter Files, did Elon Musk or Twitter provide you with that exchange with Chrissy Teigen?”
Taibbi began to reply: “No, but that’s probably because the searches that I was making…”
Taibbi was asked by Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) in the hearing on Twitter documents and content moderation: “My question in the Twitter Files, did Elon Musk or Twitter provide you with that exchange with Chrissy Teigen?”
Taibbi began to reply: “No, but that’s probably because the searches that I was making…”
Matt Taibbi scorched in hearing for skipping Trump push to censor Chrissy Teigen in Twitter...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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What offends me about this whole 'Twitter thing' is not that the requests came from Republicans or Democrats, but that the government suppressed speech at all.
Republicans and Democrats are both going to cherry-pick whatever information makes "their side" look better and ignore anything that doesn't. It's the 'nature of the beast'. You don't blame a dog for peeing on a fire hydrant, it's just being a dog. I don't like it, but I expect it from both sides in order to score "political points".
Do we deserve better? Absolutely. Will we ever get better? Highly unlikely.
Republicans and Democrats are both going to cherry-pick whatever information makes "their side" look better and ignore anything that doesn't. It's the 'nature of the beast'. You don't blame a dog for peeing on a fire hydrant, it's just being a dog. I don't like it, but I expect it from both sides in order to score "political points".
Do we deserve better? Absolutely. Will we ever get better? Highly unlikely.
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