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We know that the executive branch of the government essentially had their boot on the neck of these people at Twitter.

Hello and welcome to Marshall Matters with me, Winston Marshall for The Spectator.

Today I'm in New York speaking with David's Weig, musician, author, novelist, lecturer,

but crucially for this interview, one of the journalists behind the Twitter files.

David, thank you so much for spending this next hour or so

discussing all these things. Glad to be here. I want to get into the Twitter files, and at the

moment, it's being debated in Congress, as I understand, with the House Oversight and

accountability committee, and specifically some of your work has been debated or looked into. We'll get into that and the significance of that. And I'm curious to

ask about the Twitter Files experience itself. But before that, I think it's worth understanding

why you were invited. And I think it's because of your reporting through COVID. So there are a few

issues through COVID that made you sort of a heterodox journalist, really. I'm wondering if you

could tell me a little bit about some of those topics. Sure. Yeah. Well, the Twitter files were

happening. Matt Taibi was, you know, had put out at least one or a few. And then

I saw that Barry Weiss was also invited to, you know, to go to Twitter and report. And, you know,

and she now has kind of a media empire. So it's not just Barry, but it's, you know, a variety of

journalists who work for or with her. So I knew Barry and some editors who knew her and I, and I emailed them and said, hey, you know, a variety of journalists who work for or with her. So I knew Barry and some editors

who knew her and I, and I emailed them and said, hey, you know, I noticed you guys have access

to the Twitter files. I just want to suggest a few things, you know, and I was very sheepish. I almost felt

apologetic. I was like, just in case, you want to look into X, Y, or Z related to COVID, here's what I would do.

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