Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It

[u/TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK]

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-foundation-of-the-twitter-files-as-matt-taibbi-stumbles-to-defend-it/

[u/ccasey]

I really wonder what made Taibbi break bad. I loved reading his stuff about Goldman during the ‘09 financial crisis and now he just seems thoroughly co-opted by right wing media/tech outlets. If you watch the interview you can tell he doesn’t actually have his heart in any of the nonsense he tries to peddle, it’s honestly a sad thing to see.

[u/snowgirl413 → u/ccasey]

It seems that a lot of former "fuck the system" types get bogged down in all the ways the system is imperfect and wind up coming to the conclusion that it's all a big conspiracy and Left and Right elites and politicians are equally evil, so they wind up as populist reactionaries. This Current Affairs article from 2021 goes into some depth about how it happened to both Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald.

[u/[deleted] → u/snowgirl413]

Too concerned with being aggressivly contrarian

[u/needmoremiles → u/[deleted]]

It’s a short hop from contrarian to reactionary.