Matt Taibbi’s #TwitterFiles Part 19 takes deep, disturbing look at ‘The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine’

Twitchy ^ | 3/17/23 | Matti Taibbi

[CFW]

1.TWITTER FILES #19 The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories”

[CFW]

The next "Twitter File" has been released by Taibbi. As in the past, he first posts the info on Twitter. I assume he will soon follow-up by posting an article on his substack page. Racket News -- https://www.racket.news/

This latest thread concentrates on the lies regarding Covid and the left's attempt to censor opinions of those that disagreed with the government narrative.

[canuck_conservative]

As in the past, he first posts the info on Twitter

that was the deal Musk made to gain access, any news he finds has to be posted on Twitter first

the Dems in that committee were quite upset over that last week

[euram]

I’m still waiting for the J6 Twitter Files and the Russian Collusion Twitter Files. The Twitter Files on the Russian Bounty Hoax would also be nice.

[yelostar]

He's an odd fellow - this Taibbi.

Wrote a book...published in 2017:

Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus is a non-fiction book by Matt Taibbi about Donald Trump and the 2016 United States presidential election. The book contains illustrations by Rolling Stone artist Victor Juhasz. Taibbi's choice of title for the book was motivated by Trump's marketing style and is wordplay based on the name of American horrorcore band Insane Clown Posse. His work was inspired by Hunter S. Thompson, who had previously published Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.

Taibbi begins the work by quoting from his 2008 book, The Great Derangement, asserting he predicted the onslaught of fake news and the beginnings of the alt-right in society. He argues such societal factors helped set the tone for a climate in which Trump could ascend to the presidency. Taibbi writes that Trump's prior experiences in reality television gave him the tools to triumph in an era of post-truth politics. He criticizes the media for its coverage of Trump, describing how the candidate's inflammatory campaign rhetoric led to increased publicity. The book documents a chronology of the author's thoughts over time as he begins to realize Trump's increasing chances of success. Taibbi reflects back on the events after the election, concluding Trump won because he was able to harness the power of television.

[StAnDeliver]

This drip. drip. drip. was a ridiculous, nonsensical way to do this, and it was intentional.

[AndyJackson]

I would like to train AI on the twitter files and then run everything said by government officials since the beginning of GWB through the AI machine and find out if anything that has been told to us registers as true.

[CFW]

“that was the deal Musk made to gain access, any news he finds has to be posted on Twitter first”

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A simple business decision. Musk would be foolish to give the info to Taibbi and then let Taibbi use it to direct eye-balls away from Twitter and instead to his own substack site.

It makes for a bit of weird reading, but I’ve gotten used to the style.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[one guy in new jersey]

Sounds as if Taibbi is personally steadily going broke processing/digesting and expatiating on these materials, which are probably more voluminous than he expected.

Other than that, though, don’t you think this step-by-step technique toward relative transparency is better for Musk’s purposes than releasing undifferentiated his many gigabytes/petabytes of raw documentary information all at once?

[Pollard]

Very readable version with option for pdf creation/download; https://en.rattibha.com/thread/1636729166631432195