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How can anyone BELIEVE Taibbi with a straight face?  He wants to play investigative journalist, he has full access to Twitter's internal files, records, emails and reports, yet hasn't posted a damn thing about the *actual* Russian troll farms, Internet Research Agency, the server farms running bots, how Twitter is *still* failing to counter them, and how about all of the sketchy things that have happened SINCE Musk took over - bullying and unjustified firings (lawsuits abound), rents and bills not paid, disgusting bathrooms for lack of janitorial staff, essential Twitter services like MFA broken, and worse yet Twitter banning watchdogs keeping tabs on far right extremism like Chad Loder, at Elon Musk's personal behest.  If you can't coherently speak to any of those things then there's your answer how we can indeed, with a straight face, question the legitimacy of what Taibbi is peddling.[/quote]

"Don't write about what you want, write about what I want!"[/quote]

Come on, man.  Taibbi's reporting is akin to a version of the Lord of the Rings being about a happy-go-lucky dude named Smeagol who found a beautiful ring that made him happy, but then a criminal gang of evil hobbit thugs came and stole it from him and that's the entire story, start to finish, not a single other thing to discuss and how dare you ask.[/quote]

I don't understand.  Taibbi wrote about one specific set of events concerning Hamilton68 and their engagement with Twitter.  Yet you insist that his writing cannot be credible unless he ALSO covers the lack of janitorial staff at Twitter.  Like, why? What is this mysterious insistence that you cannot possibly entertain a story about one event at a company unless it also covers EVERYTHING else?[/quote]

Because it's dishonest.  It's a lie of omission.  And, we aren't talking about some irrelevant random details, we're talking about critical context of what was going on at the time relative to Russian trolls, bots and influence operations.   Again, was the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy just about some guy named Smeagol who got rolled by thugs?  Nothing else in the story was relevant or meaningful in any way?

If you can't acknowledge and admit this, then [b]you aren't even qualified to be having this discussion[/b].[/quote]

Really? Go ahead and cancel my Paypal and Youtube accounts while you're at it - this seems to be the current fashion.[/quote]

Ah, I see you are trying to plead an insanity defense in your support for Taibbi.[/quote]

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