[UNLOCKED] Episode 257 - Document Review (w/ Matt Taibbi)
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
To follow up this week's interview with Due Dissidence's Russell and Keaton about possible bias in Matt Taibbi's coverage of censorship, Bad Faith is making free Brie's interview with Taibbi on the heels of his Twitter Files exposé. Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast
This week, Briahna interviews Matt Taibbi about a narrow concern she's had with the Twitter Files archive: Despite the obvious value that Matt and other twitter files reporters have created by exposing links between the intelligence agencies and online censorship, is it fair to characterize Twitter's bias as against the right and indifferent to the left given how little we know about which documents have been turned over by Elon Musk and why? Unlike Musk, most whistleblowers are not the heads of the organizations they're informing on. Does Musk's investment in and control over Twitter demand more journalistic scrutiny? Is it possible to characterize the files reviewed so far without making broader claims about about the total archive that, at this point, can't be substantiated? Has there been sufficient inquiry into bias against the left, and has their been sufficient disclosure about the limitations Musk has put on the journalists who've been given access to the archive? It's a difficult and nuanced discussion.
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| 0:16.0 | . Okay, it's such a pleasure to have author, journalist, author of Hate, Inc., a book that I know |
| 0:40.7 | has been so formative to so many people who listen to this podcast in the Left Broadly, former |
| 0:44.9 | Rolling Stone journalist, former co-host, I guess, of useful idiots podcasts, or you're on a hiatus of |
| 0:50.8 | sorts. Matt Taibi, welcome to Bad Faith. Thanks so much for having me on, |
| 0:54.9 | Brianna. I'm a big admirer. Well, you know, the feeling's really mutual. I tell Katie this all |
| 0:59.7 | the time that, you know, useful idiots has been for years now one of the only podcasts that I never |
| 1:06.4 | miss and that I listen to every minute of. You're missed. Aaron's doing a great job, but obviously you've been up to some pretty important things outside of the podcasting world. |
| 1:16.7 | Principally that you are the primary journalist. |
| 1:19.9 | I don't know if you would frame it this way, but from the outside at least, the primary |
| 1:23.4 | journalist engaged with analyzing, going through, and publishing insights about this |
| 1:31.0 | treasure trove of documents that have been made available by Elon Musk, known as the Twitter |
| 1:36.0 | files. And in fact, as we were scheduling this, there was been a new Twitter files drop, |
| 1:41.2 | right? So maybe we should start with updating us on the latest, and then we can get |
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