Matt Taibbi

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Score -51

Reposted by Matt Taibbi

Margot Cleveland

@ProfMJCleveland

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6d

Reposted by Matt Taibbi

Margot Cleveland

@ProfMJCleveland

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6d

OMgosh: Clapper too!

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5d

David you not only served up the biggest pile of shit in print that year, you followed it up with a book in which the same source bent you over in chapter after chapter. In your shoes I’d keep my mouth shut about the Steele Dossier, but I guess boasting about error is a strategy

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6d

Well… I wouldn’t agree. It’s unfortunate but sometimes the only way to get a story out is through anonymous sources. (Watergate is an example.) However journalists should treat it like holding one’s breath underwater, you should want to surface work to named sources ASAP.

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6d

@randallrungood @kc11knowz It’s very rare and confined to disclosing certain types of classified intelligence, in which case the Espionage Act may come into play. I actually disagree with the legal argument on this and think such prosecutions are unconstitutional, but they have happened

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6d

@kc11knowz Journalists, I think for good reasons, almost never have criminal exposure in wrong stories. Not speaking of David specifically, I will say there is an awful lot of extremely unusual reporter behavior in this story - like knowingly printing wrong or dubious material, or offering

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6d

For sure. That’s one reason Russiagate is such a disaster - the whole business was supposed to be on high alert for these sorts of fake tales after the WMD affair. Instead, we lowered expectations even more

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6d

This is really interesting, that AI programs are recognizing (and even disclosing) their own built-in weaknesses. It tells us a lot about how they’ve been programmed and why

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@Steveplustax Read the lede. I think even Ken would agree it doesn’t say the Beacon ever worked with Steele.

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Re David Corn: anyone can get beat by a source. But the person to be mad at when that happens is the source, not the public. David should worry that maybe he was picked by Steele for the “blackmail” story because he was the weakest in the herd and would bring less skepticism.