Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files

So here’s the deal. If you think the Twitter Files are still something legit or telling or powerful, watch this 30 minute interview that Mehdi Hasan did with Matt Taibbi (at Taibbi’s own demand):

Hasan came prepared with facts. Lots of them. Many of which debunked the core foundation on which Taibbi and his many fans have built the narrative regarding the Twitter Files.

We’ve debunked many of Matt’s errors over the past few months, and a few of the errors we’ve called out (though not nearly all, as there are so, so many) show up in Hasan’s interview, while Taibbi shrugs, sighs, and makes it clear he’s totally out of his depth when confronted with facts.

Since the interview, Taibbi has been scrambling to claim that the errors Hasan called out are small side issues, but they’re not. They’re literally the core pieces on which he’s built the nonsense framing that Stanford, the University of Washington, some non-profits, the government, and social media have formed an “industrial censorship complex” to stifle the speech of Americans.

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For anyone that actually delved into the Twitter Files or listened to Taibbi's embarrassing testimony before Congress, then this shouldn't come as news.

In short, Taibbi is either an idiot who didn't understand what he was reading or he was intentionally lying (which could cause him some legal issues if proven) but either way his Twitter Files narrative is complete bunk.

But don't take my word for it. Taibbi's bumbling and stumbling is linked in the article I provided for all to see.

In other Twitter censorship news, Elon currently has Twitter set so you can't retweet or reply to any tweet that contains a Substack link. So far he has not explained the reason for this censorship.

so the communications he posted weren't real? That's odd.

So some British talking head says there is no Deep State
and you seriously just fall for that propaganda?

Shellenberger: What we saw was a huge amount of FBI communications to Twitter. We saw the former Deputy Chief of Staff, the former General Counsel showing up at Twitter right at the critical period. So I find a lot of suspicious activity. I find it very suspicious and unresolved. Taibbi: We do know that there was a teleporter communication that had 10 documents in it just before the story broke.

stefanik.house.gov... -attack-on-free-speech

Maybe try and do some real sourcing instead of
MSM talking points from the likes of "Act Blue"
or Lincoln Project.

a reply to: network dude

The ones he cherry picked and completely misinterpreted?

All the U.S. Government Agency involvements were proven real with certified documents.

More lies generating to cover it up as some cases are ready to prove 1st Amendment illegal violations in the form of companies acting as extensions of government agencies 😁

a reply to: Xcalibur254

And now Matt Taibbi has announced he's leaving Twitter because of the Substack censorship.

You can't make this # up.

L.ao are u serious?

A few spelling mistakes and you believe the Twitter files are dismantled???? Mistakes Matt acknowledged and said he needed to fix but Hassan REFUSED to let him talk?

This is why there can be no debate or common ground w leftists anymore

They are completely devoid of ANY TRUTH or objectivity. They don't care about ANYTHING that disrupts their narrative

I maintain this is why we are looking at a national divorce or worse

a reply to: ManBehindTheMask

He confused a non-profit group with a government agency and overstated the amount of tweets that actually had action taken against them by over 7,000 times the actual amount. And those that did have action against them were reported by private institutions in over 99% of instances.

What exactly is left?

a reply to: Xcalibur254

So no government entities pressured Twitter to take down posts? WHo theh F is Elvis Chan? Who the F is Jen Psaki?

Cool story bro.

a reply to: Xcalibur254

Some of the comments are great!

Re: Re:
CIS is literally funded by DoD and DHS. You can google this in about 7 seconds.

Re: CIS and its “independence”
Why did the author conveniently leave out that the totally independent and harmless nonprofit CIS actually gets its funding from DOD and DHS?

www.influencewatch.org...

Seems to undermine his claim that “ Having CISA report tweets to Twitter was a key linchpin in the argument that the government was sending tweets for Twitter to remove. But it wasn’t the government, it was an independent non-profit.” If the non-profit is funded by the government.

Do these people think we are too dumb to google who finds these “independent non-profits”?


Re:
The government hired people to do their work in order to not get in conflict with first amendment. It’s obvious at this point. Sometimes the pressure that was put on them was even blatantly visible from the messages twitter.com...

Re: Re:
What exactly is the difference if it’s an official government CISA making the request or a government funded CIS “independent nonprofit” making the request?

Do you people not notice the pattern of filtering propaganda through benign sounding “nonprofits” all of whom are funding by the government? Have you ever heard of a “shell company” in your life?

How did our esteemed author fail to mention that this “independent nonprofit” is funded by the Dod and DHS?

Do these people think we can’t spend 5 seconds googling the funding sources?

I've seen this clown on the Bill Maher show more than once. He's such a buffoon; a true paragon of ignorance. He got completely owned in that interview. Gotta give him props for having the testicular fortitude to sit through the complete dismantling of his Twitter Files and having enough honor to put his stupidity on full display.

a reply to: Xcalibur254

Haha, no sympathy for the self admitted sexual harassing hack. Elon just unfollowed him on Twitter. Wonder how messy their break up will be.

a reply to: frogs453

I'm envisioning something similar to the MTG/Laura Loomer break up that's currently going on.

a reply to: Xcalibur254

So here's another one of his dismantlings, I'm telling you he is going to win an award for investigating journalism if he keeps this up.



They pander to their audience just like Fox, Tucker, and Hannity pander to thier audience.

news.yahoo.com...

A few hours later, Taibbi once more expressed his frustration with Hasan.

“Part of the job is facing critics and making corrections when appropriate. This is how we arrive at truth in a free press system. I went on @mehdirhasan today to defend the #TwitterFiles precisely because MSNBC hasn’t engaged in this process across years of Russiagate reports,” Taibbi wrote.

“For @mehdirhasan to gloat over two minor errors, while dismissing both the substance of censorship story in the #TwitterFiles and the fact that those stories exposed significant uncorrected mistakes by his own network, is incredible. I stand by my work.”

A similar sentiment was expressed by Lee Fang, an investigative journalist with the Intercept and fellow Twitter Files reporter, who criticized Hasan for getting lost in the weeds of acronyms and missing the broader point about government censorship and free speech.

“This is a particularly stupid gotcha given that CIS was the gov contractor working for CISA/DHS to help facilitate social media takedown requests — Mehdi focuses on a minor error while obscuring the big picture to defend the Department of Homeland Security’s overreach,” Fang tweeted on Thursday night.

The MSNBC anchor further accused Taibbi of lying “under oath” when testifying before Congress in March.

For the Record

Hasan's show is the 21st-ranked show on MSNBC with an audience of 667,000 people...

this suggests this was definitely a try at pandering to your audience and it sounds as if it worked...



Mendi Hasan's show is the #241 ranked show, literally behind ESPN's Pickleball...LOL Pickleball

Yep, the deep state is in cleanup mode so they're gonna throw money around to make these things disapear.

I trust Taibi and the twitterfiles and not this guy.

originally posted by: Xcalibur254
a reply to: frogs453

I'm envisioning something similar to the MTG/Laura Loomer break up that's currently going on.

Right? And Ali Alexander just called MTG a " sex and roid addict employing a pederast to do her dirty work". Twitter today is just about as funny as ATS usually is.

a reply to: Xcalibur254

How many tweets had action taken against them? Is that where you think this hinges?

ONE is too f'n many, k.

Nobody cares about anyone's "interpretation", we're perfectly capable of doing that ourselves, we don't need "interpreters" and their talking point BS.

a reply to: Xcalibur254

Thats cute. Taibbi has been exposing that MSNBC clown.

Link

Nice try though

originally posted by: WeDemBoyz
I've seen this clown on the Bill Maher show more than once. He's such a buffoon; a true paragon of ignorance. He got completely owned in that interview. Gotta give him props for having the testicular fortitude to sit through the complete dismantling of his Twitter Files and having enough honor to put his stupidity on full display.

Back here in the real world, Mahdi gets his due.

And his reponse? Furious blocking!

Nice shoes.

a reply to: putnam6

Once again, Taibbi overstated the amount of tweets that were reported for possible action by a factor of 7,000. Of the less than 3,000 tweets that were reported, less than 1% were reported by the government, and 16% were reported by CIS.

The tweets that were primarily reported were tweets engaged in outright illegal activity (impersonating public officials, phishing schemes, etc.) and then it was still Twitter's decision to take action.

And action doesn't even mean the tweet was removed. Twitter may have just flagged it for monitoring.

How insidious.