9/28/23 Matt Taibbi on the Origins of Russiagate and Government Censorship’s Legal Challenge

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 1 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Matt Taibbi was back on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the origins of Russiagate and the major First Amendment case in front of the Supreme Court. They start with Russiagate and talk about what we know and don’t know about the DNC hack that the corporate press said was undoubtedly perpetrated by the Russian Government. Taibbi then draws on his experience reporting on the extensive government involvement in bringing about censorship on social media to analyze the corresponding case in front of the Supreme Court. Discussed on the show: Insane Clown President by Matt Taibbi Hate Inc. by Matt Taibbi “The Supreme Court Will Rule on Censorship” (Racket News) “Forget Collusion. Was "Interference" Also Fake News?” (Racket News) Matt Taibbi is a journalist, author and political commentator. Subscribe to his Substack publication: Racket 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, September 28th, 2023.
0:05.0	I'm Scott Horton.
0:08.0	This is anti a war radio.
0:14.0	I'm your host Scott Horton.
0:24.8	I am editorial director of anti-war.com and I'm the author of Enough Already, Time to End of War on Terrorism.
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0:44.2	All right, introducing once again, the great Matt Taibi.
0:47.8	He is at racket. News, and he and his guys do some great work over there.
0:54.0	I'll tell you what welcome back to the show Matt how are you sir?
0:57.0	Great how's it going Scott thanks for having me on
1:00.0	thanks for the kind words.
1:01.0	Yeah absolutely I'm doing good and happy to have you here.
1:04.2	And so a few different things to talk about.
1:06.7	But first, let's start with, I guess, sort of, kind of the basis of all of this censorship
1:12.0	in the first place.
1:13.0	I know you've told the story.
1:14.0	It really kind of started as trying to deprogram people
1:19.0	who had signed up for Obama's caliphate in Syria and then but their second job basically was
1:28.0	controlling the narrative on Russiagate and you have this great new piece at racket.
1:32.4	news about how the very core, the very basis of the Russia Gate hoax,
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