Loading ...Twitter Files #15 — MOVE OVER, JAYSON BLAIR: TWITTER FILES EXPOSE NEXT GREAT MEDIA FRAUD – BY MATT TAIBBI
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1619029772977455105?
COMPLETE THREAD
WHAT A STORY OF COLLUSION AND CORRUPTION AND LYING TO THE PUBLIC! SO MUCH CORRUPTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this BY/FROM Taibbi, not about him as the fraud, by the way
Hamilton 68 was used as a source to assert Russian influence in an astonishing array of news stories: re Brett Kavanaugh or the Devin Nunes memo, the Parkland shooting, manipulation of black voters, “attacks” on the Mueller investigation…
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1619029891017756672
28.What makes this an important story is the sheer scale of the news footprint left by Hamilton 68’s digital McCarthyism.
27. Consortium editor Joe Lauria too was angered to find he was on the list, which targeted voices across the spectrum: “Organizations like Hamilton 68 are in business to enforce an official narrative, which means excising inconvenient facts, which they call ‘misinformation.’”
24. “When I was growing up, my father told me about the McCarthyite blacklist,” says Oregon native Jacob Levich. “As a child it would never have occurred to me that this would come back, in force and broadly, in a way… designed to undermine rights we hold dear.”
25. Even Twitter execs were stunned to read who was on the list.
Good Point Pedro re: Taibbi — I’ve updated the headline accordingly.