Matt Taibbi's Twitter Files and the Fight Over Big Tech Censorship
Showing 3 Matt Taibbi videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Journalist Matt Taibbi's Twitter Files reporting, which Tucker Carlson credits with exposing FBI collaboration with Twitter to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election, remains contested territory years later, with critics like Destiny arguing the documents actually show no direct government coercion and that Twitter's moderation decisions stemmed from genuine concerns about Russian disinformation and policy violations rather than a coordinated censorship campaign. Michael Shellenberger, discussing the same free-speech landscape with a college audience, identifies Taibbi alongside Glenn Greenwald and other traditionally left-leaning journalists as unlikely allies on free expression, noting the political landscape has scrambled enough that some of his strongest civil-liberties allies now come from the further left rather than mainstream liberalism. Alex Marlow separately criticizes major media outlets and tech platforms for what he calls years of dehumanizing rhetoric toward conservatives that he connects to the broader climate surrounding Charlie Kirk's assassination.