The Twitter Files and Matt Taibbi Go Viral and Divide the Internet

Revealing documents behind the Hunter Biden Laptop Saga — PR for the world’s richest man or exposing election manipulation?

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First and foremost, I love Matt Taibbi. I had a Rolling Stone subscription when I was in high school and vividly remember devouring his articles on the financial crisis and wondering how to pronounce his last name. He’s an excellent journalist, I think he’s an honest actor, and although I’m no longer a paid subscriber to his Substack, I still occasionally check out his work.

He’s catching a TON of heat these days for reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and social media suppression of the story. Some think he’s doing the bidding of and image-washing Elon Musk while others claim he’s offering an inside and important look at one of the biggest election meddling scandals in US history.

And others focus solely on Taibbi himself.

To say his lack of standing by Team Blue ruffles feathers — particularly his work on the QAnon-level bullsh*t that was Russiagate — is the understatement of the decade. People hate him for it. Liberal voters fell so deep into that wormhole that they denied an election for four years and then were shocked and appalled that…