meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Pushback with Aaron Mate

Matt Taibbi on the Twitter files

Pushback with Aaron Mate

Pushback with Aaron Maté

News

4.7594 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Matt Taibbi joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté to discuss his reporting on internal Twitter files exposing US government pressure on the social media giant to validate Russiagate propaganda — and censor dissenting voices. Guest: Matt Taibbi, https://taibbi.substack.com/. Support Pushback: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hey everybody. Welcome to the gray zone. It's me, Max Blumenthal, here with my colleague and co-host, Aaron Mate. And we've got a special guest today through I think needs no introduction. And we're just going live as well on Rockfin so everyone can watch this at

0:22.9

rockfin.com at Max Blumenthal. We've got Matt Taibi with us, journalist Matt Taibi. That's pretty

0:30.1

much all the introduction I need and Matt Taibee.com. Welcome, Matt Taibee. How you doing?

0:36.7

Thanks for having me, Max. Aaron, good to see you again. Good to see you too.

0:41.9

Well, Matt, you've been in the news a lot. I saw the British tabloid, the sun. I guess it's a

0:47.6

Murdoch tabloid, had an article, who is Matt Taibi? Really? Yeah, I think it was published in the last 48 hours.

0:56.0

So soon you're going to have paparazzi.

0:59.0

You might already have that.

1:00.0

But I mean, this is, you know, what you've been doing is huge.

1:04.0

I'm sorry much of the left is ignored it.

1:06.0

I don't know why.

1:07.0

But we're definitely paying close attention to it at the gray zone.

1:10.0

The Twitter files

1:11.3

you've been covering, I think, have vindicated a lot of things that Aaron and I have been saying

1:15.8

and revealed some new details that are explosive and hilarious. Yeah, it's hard to say which is

1:23.4

which, which is more, right? Sometimes you don't know whether to laugh or or be horrified

1:30.7

but or or both but uh i would say like the first thing for me was that it was just very

1:36.9

psychologically um helpful because i thought i was crazy for all these years and the first time

1:43.9

i started seeing these files, you know, in print saying all these things

1:48.8

that I think we all suspected.

1:51.4

It was really a relief.

1:53.5

So.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Pushback with Aaron Maté, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Pushback with Aaron Maté and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.