1/12/23 Matt Taibbi on the Twitter Files, Russiagate and Government Censorship

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This week on Antiwar Radio, Scott talks with Matt Taibbi about the latest batch of Twitter Files, released seconds before Taibbi jumped on the line. To start, Scott asks Taibbi to respond to the claim he’s become a right-winger. They then dig into the new Twitter Files thread which details the company and government’s response to Tweets relating to Russiagate. Taibbi frames this new drop in the context of all that’s been revealed so far and explains the overarching theme—that the government made a clear shift from monitoring online platforms to working to control what is said on them. Discussed on the show: “Twitter Files #14 THE RUSSIAGATE LIES” (Twitter) Buying the War (IMDb) Matt Taibbi is a journalist, author and political commentator. Subscribe to his Substack publication: TK News and follow him on Twitter @mtaibbi. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	For Pacifica Radio, January 12th, 2023.
0:05.0	I'm Scott Horton.
0:08.0	This is Anti War Radio. All right, shall welcome the show, it is anti-war radio. I'm your host Scott Horton,
0:25.8	I'm editorial director of anti-war.com, an editor of the new book Hotter than the Sun,
0:31.1	time to abolish nuclear weapons. You can find my full
0:34.3	interview archive more than 5,800 of them now going back to 2003 at Scott
0:39.5	Horton.org and at YouTube. YouTube. dot Horton's show.
0:44.0	And you can't follow me on Twitter at Scott Horton Show because I'm banned again.
0:48.0	But it wasn't the feds, it was just tattletale, wannabe Stasi in the peanut gallery out there that got me banned this time I think
0:57.0	But anyway
0:58.8	Introducing our guest today. It's the great Matt Taaebe the author of many of the Twitter files and
1:05.8	he's author of course of the great book Hate Inc and along with the greatness of his journalism comes all of the horrible and terrible
1:16.1	character assassinations against him.
1:18.4	So I'm very happy to have you back on the show and I really appreciate you making time
1:22.1	for me and for my audience here today
1:23.8	Matt welcome.
1:24.8	No thanks I actually had to hustle to upload the latest Twitter files right to the second before coming on with you today.
1:35.5	So I'm really glad to be on.
1:37.8	And I'm going on about the news that you've been banned.
1:41.7	I'm going to have to look into that.
1:45.6	Yeah you know it would be nice if I could say that like obviously the feds got me
1:50.9	because I'm so great on their war waco or something but instead
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