Matt Taibbi Surprised by FBI & Twitter's Collusion; Russiagate Info in Twitter Files

We get to see all kinds of things , get the answers to questions that , uh , we've had for years and it's , it's been really incredible . Has anything been surprising to you ? Um AAA little bit II , I think going into it , I , I thought that the , um , that the relationship between the security agencies , like the FBI and the DH S and companies like Twitter and Facebook .

Matt Taibbi Surprised by FBI & Twitter's Collusion; Russiagate Info in Twitter Files

Uh , but these folks didn't act that way . I mean , they , you see , I was , I was especially shocked by an email from , uh , a staffer for Adam Schiff , the Congress person , the California Congressman . And they're just outright saying we would like you to suspend the accounts of this journalist and anybody who retweets information about this committee .

Matt Taibbi Surprised by FBI & Twitter's Collusion; Russiagate Info in Twitter Files

They , there was this intense debate within the company where , uh , they were basically saying , oh , thank God , we're going to repeal the public interest policy or we're going to poke a hole in it , right ? Um , and no longer have that belief system that just because somebody is a world leader , we need to hear what they have to say . So they invented a new , um , AAA new policy called glorification of violence or they , they called it that and essentially what they said was you , you , you had to look at Trump , not in terms of each individual tweet .

Matt Taibbi Surprised by FBI & Twitter's Collusion; Russiagate Info in Twitter Files

It's all good . Like you , you need a voice against someone like that . You can't have that guy howling into the wind on some Q and on for him and all those whackos just so they're only talking to each other with no pushback at all .

Matt Taibbi Surprised by FBI & Twitter's Collusion; Russiagate Info in Twitter Files

It's , it's amazing . It is amazing . And the narrative is spread through progressive people .