Matt Taibbi

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Listen to This Article: Meet the Man Who Inspired Former CIA Director John Brennan's Viral Meltdown

Long-serving intelligence analyst Thomas Speciale never intended to cause a viral ruckus, but it happened this weekend anyway

https://www.racket.news/p/listen…

Reposted by Matt Taibbi

Walter Kirn

@walterkirn

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This is the ending of Animal Farm.

The very ending.

Read it while you still can and you'll know what I mean.

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Buckle Up, America. The Zohran Era is Here, by @mtaibbi https://www.racket.news/p/buckle…

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Listen to This Article: Orwell Watch: On Bill Gates and Climate "Denialism"

Global warming is so powerful, it reversed the meaning of “conspiracy theory”

https://www.racket.news/p/listen…

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That would be hilarious. But we’re not putting Jerry Jones in the White House, are we?

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Yes, that’s fine, but what does Trump have to do with it? It’s like a sensible corporate criticism with a giant lemon twist of crazy on it

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Okay, then, help me out. How is the President responsible for delivering Monday Night Football? In 2015 the games weren’t on YouTube either

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I know for a fact the companies went from being less pressured by governments on speech to more pressured on speech. We saw and published correspondence about these moments (particularly in late 2017) in the Twitter Files

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I think governments forcing companies into censorship schemes is currently the more ominous problem than companies manipulating audience for money.

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Just to be clear, Senator - you want Donald Trump to step in and force ABC and ESPN to make their content available on YouTube?