Matt Taibbi, one of the journalists Elon Musk handpicked to disseminate the so-called Twitter Files, found himself flailing Thursday when confronted by MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan over the key errors in his reporting.
, found himself flailing Thursday when confronted by MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan over the key errors in his reporting.
“You said the EIP was founded as a response to the government dropping its proposal for a disinformation governance board,” the MSNBC host declared while displaying Taibbi’s tweet on the topic. “It wasn’t, it was formed two years earlier. You suggest it was government funded, even though during the 2020 election you’re covering, it wasn’t.”
While Taibbi initially owned up to the CISA error, he attempted to defend the “22 million tweets” claim, prompting Hasan to retort that it was the total for all tweets the agency mapped. In the end, he explained, they only flagged to Twitter a few thousand as misinformation prior to the 2020 election.
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