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Matt Taibbi
Birth Name:Matthew Colin Taibbi
Birth Date:2 March 1970
Birth Place:New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Years Active:1991–present
Spouse:Jeanne Taibbi
Children:3
Relatives:Mike Taibbi (father)

Matthew Colin Taibbi[1] (; born March 2, 1970) is an American author, journalist, and podcaster. He has reported on finance, media, politics, and sports. A former contributing editor for Rolling Stone, he is the author of several books, former co-host of the Useful Idiots podcast, and publisher of the Racket News (formerly TK News) on Substack.

Taibbi began as a freelance reporter working in the former Soviet Union. He later worked as a sports journalist for the English-language newspaper The Moscow Times. In 1997, Taibbi and Mark Ames co-edited the tabloid newspaper The eXile. In 2002, Taibbi returned to the United States and founded the Buffalo-based newspaper The Beast. He left a year later to work as a columnist for the New York Press.[2] [3]

In 2004, Taibbi began covering politics for Rolling Stone. In 2008, Taibbi won a National Magazine Award for three columns he wrote for Rolling Stone.[4] Taibbi became known for his brazen style, having branded Goldman Sachs a "vampire squid" in a 2009 article.[5] His work often has drawn comparisons to the gonzo journalism of writer Hunter S. Thompson, who also covered politics for Rolling Stone.[6] [7] [8] [9] In 2019, he launched the podcast Useful Idiots, co-hosted by Katie Halper. In 2020, he announced that he would no longer release his writing through Rolling Stone and had begun self-publishing his online writing on Substack.[10] In recent years, Taibbi's writing has focused on culture war issues and cancel culture. He has criticized mainstream media including its coverage of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. In 2022–23, Taibbi released several installments of the Twitter Files.

Taibbi has authored several books, including The Great Derangement (2009); Griftopia (2010); The Divide (2014);[11] Insane Clown President (2017); I Can't Breathe (2017); and Hate Inc. (2019).

Early life and education

Matt Taibbi was born in 1970 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.[12] Taibbi's father, Mike Taibbi, is an NBC television reporter whose biological mother was of mixed Filipino and Native Hawaiian descent, while his father was likely an American serviceman.[13] Mike Taibbi was adopted by an Italian-American couple in New York.[14] According to Taibbi, his surname is a Sicilian name of Lebanese origin; however, he is of neither Sicilian nor Lebanese descent because his father was adopted.[13] [15] [16] He has also claimed Irish descent through his mother.[17]

Taibbi grew up in the Boston suburbs. His parents separated when he was young and he was largely raised by his mother. Because Taibbi was troubled with behavioral and academic problems, his parents sent him to Concord Academy.[18] He first attended New York University but was "unable to deal with being just one of thousands of faces in a city of millions" and transferred after his freshman year to Bard College, where he graduated in 1992.[19] [18] He spent a year abroad studying at Leningrad Polytechnic University, where he finished his credits for graduation from Bard.[20] [12]

Career

Early career

In the early 1990s, Taibbi moved from Saint Petersburg to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where he began selling news articles more regularly. He was deported in 1992 for writing an article for the Associated Press that was critical of President Islam Karimov. At the time of his deportation, Taibbi was the starting left fielder for the Uzbek national baseball team.[21] [2]

Taibbi moved to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, for a time in the 1990s, where he played professional basketball in the Mongolian Basketball Association (MBA).[22] Taibbi became known as "The Mongolian Rodman", was paid $100/month to play,[22] and said he also hosted a radio show while there.[23] [24] He later contracted pneumonia and returned to Boston for surgery.[25]

Taibbi also worked for a short time as an investigator at a Boston-based private detective agency.

Russia

Taibbi first moved to Russia in 1992.[26] He lived and worked in Russia and the former USSR for more than six years. In 1997, he left the tabloid Living Here and joined Mark Ames to co-edit the English-language Moscow-based, bi-weekly free newspaper, The eXile,[12] which was written primarily for the city's expatriate community. The eXiles tone and content were highly controversial. For example, a regular column reported on a member of staff at The eXile hiring a Russian prostitute and then writing a long "review" of the woman and the details of the sexual encounter. Its content was considered either brutally honest and gleefully tasteless or juvenile, misogynistic, and even cruel.[27] [28] [29]

Taibbi wrote in English and Russian.[30] Apart from The eXile, Taibbi was also employed by the English-language newspaper The Moscow Times,[18] where he worked as a sports editor for five months.[31] He also contributed to Komsomolskaya Pravda, Trud, Stringer, and Kommersant.[32]

The Exile book

Taibbi's first book, , co-authored with Ames, was published in 2000.[33] A film based on the book was under development by producers Ted Hope and James Schamus of Good Machine but did not materialize.[34] He later stated that he was addicted to heroin while he did this early writing.

In 2010, journalist James Verini wrote in Vanity Fair that during an interview in a Manhattan restaurant, he told Taibbi that The Exile was "redundant and discursive". Verini wrote that Taibbi became enraged, threw his coffee and a "Fuck you!" in Verini's face, followed him for half a block after he left the restaurant, and said "I still haven't decided what I'm going to do with you!"[35] Taibbi later described the incident as "an aberration from how I've behaved in the last six or seven years".[36]

In 2017, Taibbi was criticized for excerpts from a chapter written by Ames in the book The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia that described sexual harassment of employees at The eXile.[37] In a Facebook post responding to the controversy, Taibbi apologized for the "cruel and misogynistic language" used in the book, and said the work was conceived as a satire of the "reprehensible" behavior of American expatriates in Russia and that the description of events in the chapter was "fictional and not true". In 2017, the Washington Post published an article by journalist Kathy Lally about Taibbi and Ames' time at the eXile. Lally wrote that the "eXile’s distinguishing feature, more than anything else, was its blinding sexism — which often targeted [her]" and that "so many of their sins were real".[38] [39] Although the book presents itself as a work of non-fiction,[40] emails obtained by Paste in 2017 include a letter from the book's publisher stating that "This book combines exaggerated, invented satire and nonfiction reporting and was categorized as nonfiction because there is no category for a book that is both."[41] Two women portrayed in the book told Paste magazine that none of the sexual harassment portrayed in the book "[ever] happened" and that it was a "ridiculous passage written by Mark". Taibbi's publisher, Penguin Random House, dropped him after the controversy.

United States

In 2002, he returned to the United States to start the satirical bi-weekly The Beast in Buffalo, New York.[42] He left that publication a year later, commenting: "Running a business and writing is too much." Taibbi continued as a freelancer for The Nation,[42] Playboy, New York Press (where he wrote a regular political column for more than two years),[42] Rolling Stone,[42] and New York Sports Express (as editor-at-large).

In March 2005, Taibbi's satirical essay, "The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope",[43] published in the New York Press, was denounced by Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Matt Drudge, Abe Foxman, and Anthony Weiner. He left the paper in August 2005, shortly after his editor Jeff Koyen was forced out over the article.[44] Taibbi defended the piece as "off-the-cuff burlesque of truly tasteless jokes," written to give his readers a break from a long run of his "fulminating political essays". Taibbi also said he was surprised at the vehement reactions to what he wrote "in the waning hours of a Vicodin haze".[45]

In February 2008, Taibbi contributed a three-minute segment to Real Time with Bill Maher in which he interviewed residents of Youngstown, Ohio before the Ohio primary.[46] He was invited as a guest on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show[47] and other MSNBC programs. He has also appeared on Democracy Now![48] and Chapo Trap House,[49] and was a contributor on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.[50] Taibbi has appeared on the Thom Hartmann radio and television shows, and the Imus in the Morning Show on the Fox Business network.

Taibbi wrote a column, "The Sports Blotter", for the free weekly newspaper, The Boston Phoenix. He covered legal troubles involving professional and amateur athletes.[51]

Rolling Stone

In 2004, Taibbi began covering politics for Rolling Stone. A contributing editor, he wrote feature-length articles on domestic and international affairs. He also wrote a weekly political online column, "The Low Post", for the magazine's website.[52]

Taibbi covered the 2008 United States presidential election in Year of the Rat, a special Rolling Stone diary.[53]

After conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart died in March 2012, Taibbi wrote an obituary in Rolling Stone, entitled "Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche".[54] [55] Taibbi also wrote: "Good! Fuck him. I couldn't be happier that he's dead." He wrote that the obituary was "at least half an homage", which gave respect to aspects of Breitbart's style and also alluded to Breitbart's own derisive obituary of Ted Kennedy. In a postscript, Taibbi wrote that some fans of Breitbart were angered by the obituary and responded with "threats and insults".[54]

Financial journalism

In his reporting in the wake of the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis and subsequent Great Recession, Taibbi described Goldman Sachs as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money".[56] In financial and political media the expression "Vampire Squids" has come to represent the perception of the financial and investment sector as entities that "sabotage production" and "sink the economy as they suck the life out of it in the form of rent."[57] [58] [59] [60] Tackling the assistance to banks given in foreclosure courts, Taibbi traveled to Jacksonville, Florida to observe the "rocket docket". He was brought in to observe a hearing with attorney April Charney.[61] He concluded that it processed foreclosures without regard to the legality of the financial instruments being ruled upon, and sped up the process to enable quick resale of the properties, while obscuring the fraudulent and predatory nature of the loans.[62]

In February 2014, Taibbi left Rolling Stone and joined First Look Media to head a financial and political corruption-focused publication, Racket.[63] However, after management disputes with First Look's leadership delayed its launch and led to its cancellation, Taibbi returned to Rolling Stone the following October.[64] [65]

Useful Idiots

In August 2019, Taibbi launched a political podcast, Useful Idiots, co-hosted with Katie Halper and released through Rolling Stone.[66] [67] [68] The podcast has since featured interviews with various guests including Liz Franczak,[69] Andre Damon,[70] David Dayen,[71] Cornel West,[72] Glenn Greenwald,[73] and Aaron Maté.[74]

In March 2021, Taibbi announced that Useful Idiots would no longer be released by Rolling Stone and would be moving to Substack.[75] With a few changes in program support staff, it is published by Substack as both audio and video that features both a free subscription and a paid subscription.

In January 2022, he announced a sabbatical leave to write a book, and that in his absence Aaron Maté would fill in for him.[76]

Self-publishing

In 2018, Taibbi began publishing a novel, The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing: Adventures of the Unidentified Black Male, as a serialized subscription via email and a website with an anonymous partner.[77] The novel is fictional with true-crime elements.

Racket News

Racket News is a newsletter, blog, podcast, and book collection made available largely for free and the rest by subscription at www.racket.news. In addition to Matt Taibbi, contributors include Jane Burn, Ford Fischer, Walter Kirn, and Eric Salzman. Other contributors include Emily Bivens, Andrew Lowenthal, Jared Moore, cartoonist Daniel Medina, and Matt Orfalea. "America This Week," a news wrap up podcast and transcripts with Taibbi and Kirn, is posted weekly.[78] Racket News is published at the Substack online platform. It is among a growing number of worker-owned journalism outlets including 404 Media, Defector Media, and Hell Gate NYC.[79]

History

In April 2020, Taibbi announced he would no longer publish his online writing through Rolling Stone, and henceforth, would publish his online writing independently through the e-mail newsletter service Substack. He stated that he would continue to contribute print features for Rolling Stone and maintain the Useful Idiots podcast with Katie Halper. (In April 2021, Useful Idiots, under its same name, but with some support staff changes, also would move to publication by Substack.) Taibbi stated that his decision to move his writing to the newsletter service was made independently and that he was not asked to leave Rolling Stone.[80] [81] Taibbi branded his Substack newsletter TK news, after a term used in manuscript preparation for publication and journalism, TK, that stands for "to come", indicating that more will follow.[82] After a period of publication with free subscriptions only, Taibbi introduced an additional, paid subscription featuring content that will not be provided as part of the free subscriptions. As of October 2021, TK News had more than 30,000 paying subscribers.[18] On January 24, 2023 the name was changed from TK News to Racket News.

On August 12, 2022, the podcast America This Week was added to TK news. It is a weekly national news wrap-up with Taibbi and Walter Kirn, novelist and literary critic, that is released on Fridays. A transcript of the podcast is also published at Racket News. It is also available on Apple Podcasts.[83]

Taibbi is one of the most popular writers on Substack and earns much more from the platform than he did writing for Rolling Stone.[84]

Twitter Files

See main article: Twitter Files. On December 2, 2022, Taibbi began tweeting about and screenshotting emails that executives of Twitter sent each other concerning content moderation in 2020. The emails were provided to Taibbi by Twitter CEO Elon Musk and documented parts of the discussions among Twitter's communication team about how Twitter should handle a New York Post article about a laptop computer that had been owned by Hunter Biden.[85] [86] [87] [88] The documents, dubbed the "Twitter Files" and retweeted by CEO Elon Musk, were selected from "thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter". Taibbi's report was in the form of a Twitter thread with screen shots of email exchanges between Twitter executives. Taibbi noted, "in exchange for the opportunity to cover a unique and explosive story, I had to agree to certain conditions" that he did not specify.[89] [90]

Taibbi's presentation largely confirmed what was already known and did not contain any significant new revelations.[91] [92] Jeffrey Blehar, writing for National Review, said that Taibbi's reporting "contained few, if any, explosive revelations for people who have been tuned in to the debacle surrounding Twitter's suppression of the New York Post story on Hunter Biden's laptop".[93] Taibbi's thread included emails from Ro Khanna to former Twitter executive Vijaya Gadde, in which Khanna expressed concern about Twitter's decision to limit the circulation of the New York Post article about Hunter Biden. Khanna wrote that Twitter's actions violated "1st Amendment principles".[94]

The third installment, released on December 9, 2022, by Taibbi, highlighted events within Twitter leading to Donald Trump's suspension from Twitter.[95] The sixth installment, released on December 16, 2022, by Taibbi, described how the FBI contacted Twitter to suggest that action be taken against several accounts for allegedly spreading election disinformation.[96] [97] Taibbi's ninth installment, released on December 24, 2022, relates to the CIA and FBI's alleged involvement in Twitter content moderation.[98] The fifteenth installment, released on January 27, 2023, by Taibbi, reports on the Hamilton 68 Dashboard maintained by the Alliance for Securing Democracy.[99] The sixteenth installment, released on February 18, 2023, by Taibbi, reports on messages to Twitter by Maine senator Angus King and U.S. State Department security engineer Mark Lenzi expressing concern regarding Twitter accounts they deemed suspicious.[100] The seventeenth installment, released on March 2, 2023, by Taibbi, reports on the Global Engagement Center, which was established by the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act.[101] The nineteenth installment of the Twitter Files, "The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine, Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of "True Stories" raises questions about the government and social media censorship.[102]

On March 9, 2023, Taibbi testified, with Michael Shellenberger, before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government in a hearing on the Twitter Files.[103] [104] Several Democrats at the hearing criticized both Taibbi and Shellenberger, including Stacey Plaskett, who referred to both as "so-called journalists."[105]

Mehdi Hasan of MSNBC interviewed Taibbi on April 6, 2023, presenting several errors in the Twitter Files reporting. Taibbi asserted that these errors were trivial. The next day, Taibbi announced he was leaving Twitter within days in response to Twitter banning links to Substack after it announced its new feature Notes, which has been characterized as a competitor to Twitter. Elon Musk unfollowed Taibbi later that day.[106] [107]

Taibbi received a visit from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents the day he testified to Congress about the Twitter Files. Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has demanded that IRS turn over copies of documents related to its search.[108]

Political views

Since the mid-2010s, Taibbi's reporting has increasingly focused on culture war topics and cancel culture. He has also criticized mainstream media and their coverage of Donald Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. His writing has since polarized readers and fellow journalists.

Media

Taibbi argues that both sides of the political media spectrum are complicit in dividing the country and fueling hate. In 2019, Taibbi self-published the book Hate Inc., a critique of the mainstream media landscape.[109] Reviewing the book for Paste, Jason Rhode called it a "brilliant indictment of American media", praising the majority of the book but criticized Taibbi for "[spending] a section of his book both-sidesing both MSNBC and FOX".[110]

During the Munk Debates on November 22, 2022, Taibbi and conservative Douglas Murray successfully argued in favor of the motion "Be it resolved, don't trust Mainstream Media".[111] [112]

In a June 2023 interview with The Hub, Taibbi said that "I want the mainstream media to succeed. I think it needs to. The countries are not healthy if they don’t have a functioning mass media and nobody believes them. And I think increasingly that's kind of the problem, is there's this lingering worsening trust issue that can only be addressed by dealing with some of the factual issues."[113]

Donald Trump and Russian election interference

Using the term "Russiagate", Taibbi covered the story around Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and criticized the mainstream media coverage of the Special Counsel investigation.[114] [115] Taibbi's book Hate Inc. includes a chapter, "Why Russiagate Is This Generation's WMD", in which he compares "Russiagate" to 2002–2003 allegations that Iraq had access to weapons of mass destruction, which were used by George W. Bush's administration as the most prominent rationale for the Iraq War.[116]

In October 2019, Taibbi argued that the whistleblower in the Trump–Ukraine scandal was not a "real whistleblower" because the whistleblower would have had their life affected by prosecution or being sent to prison.[117] Taibbi also quoted former CIA analyst Robert Baer who argued that the whistleblower was part of a "palace coup against Trump."

In response to the March 30, 2023 indictment of Donald Trump, Taibbi said, "If presidents think they will be chased into jail under thin pretexts as ex-presidents, they'll try even harder to never leave office. This is how autocracies are born."[118]

Hunter Biden

Regarding the Hunter Biden laptop controversy, Taibbi said that the problem "is not even so much whether or not that story was important or whether it was terribly damning, it was more the behavior of the media during that story that was really troubling. Not just turning a blind eye to it being suppressed, but also as we found out, planning these what they call a tabletop exercise to 'How should we all respond when this story comes out?'".

Assessments

In 2021, Ross Barkan of New York Magazine wrote, "Taibbi is—or was, depending on your view—one of the most celebrated investigative journalists of his generation." He continued, "Taibbi's critics view him as a reporter turned red-pilled culture warrior chasing subscriptions", while "Taibbi's defenders say he hasn't changed. Rather, it's the world that has grown more illiberal and hysterical." Taibbi argued that he had not changed, but rather that reactions to Trump had "fundamentally changed the business". In 2023, Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine wrote that when Taibbi attacked Hillary Clinton "as a sellout, argued that the Russiagate narrative was mostly bullshit, and equated the manipulative tactics of right and left media personalities, progressives gave him the cold shoulder."

Personal life

Taibbi is married to Jeanne,[12] a family physician.[119] They have three children.[120]

Taibbi previously lived in Jersey City, New Jersey. As of 2021, he lives in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey.[18]

In a 2008 interview with Hemant Mehta for Patheos, Taibbi described himself as an "atheist/agnostic".[121]

Awards

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Taibbi . Matthew . Ancestry . NJ Marriage Index . Reclaim the Records . October 9, 2022.
  2. Web site: Matt Taibbi Decries Negative Campaigns . unfit . NOW on the News with Maria Hinojosa . PBS . https://web.archive.org/web/20070309014212/http://www.pbs.org/now/news/245.html . March 9, 2007.
  3. Web site: Matt Taibbi . BillMoyers.com . September 15, 2019.
  4. Verini. James. James Verini. February 24, 2010. Lost Exile. live. Vanity Fair. https://web.archive.org/web/20150713030839/http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/02/exile-201002. July 13, 2015. January 13, 2021.
  5. Taibbi. Matt. April 5, 2010. Originally published in the July 9–23, 2009, issue of Rolling Stone. The Great American Bubble Machine. Rolling Stone. April 5, 2010. August 1, 2023.
  6. News: Fed Time for Gonzo at Rolling Stone . Carlson . Peter . December 6, 2005 . . September 17, 2019.
  7. March 15, 2008 . The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi . . September 17, 2019.
  8. Web site: State of the Union? It's a state of panic, author says . Appleford . Steve . May 12, 2008 . . September 17, 2019.
  9. Web site: "Worst Congress Ever"? . Beiser . Vince . Vince Beiser . October 23, 2006 . . September 17, 2019.
  10. Web site: Announcement to Readers: I'm Moving. Matt. Taibbi. www.racket.news.
  11. Rampell, Ed. "Matt Taibbi." The Progressive, vol. 78, no. 7-8, July–Aug. 2014, pp. 65+.
  12. Web site: Matt Taibbi, author of Griftopia, answers Ten Terrifying Questions . Purcell . John . Taibbi . https://web.archive.org/web/20191213213127/https://www.booktopia.com.au/blog/2010/11/10/matt-taibbi-author-of-griftopia-answers-ten-terrifying-questions/ . December 13, 2019 . Matt . John Purcell (author) . November 10, 2010 . Booktopia.
  13. Web site: Taibbi . Mike . Mike Taibbi . January 20, 2009 . Obama's story inspires search for roots . https://web.archive.org/web/20160130172329/http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2009/01/20/4377219-obamas-story-inspires-search-for-roots . January 30, 2016 . April 2, 2016 . . I didn't exactly dive into the task but did go as far as to locate a longtime official of the Foundling Hospital. A month after I'd related information about the Taibbi family and the skeletal story I'd been told about my birth and infancy, I received a short letter from that official. All she could add to the few facts I'd been told, she wrote, was that my birth mother was "an attractive young Filipino-Hawaiian girl named Camila, a girl of average intelligence, all of whose siblings died in childbirth." My father, she added, was likely "An American serviceman with the last name "Denny," address unknown..
  14. Web site: January 22, 2015 . Mike Taibbi's Rules for Reporting on Television . March 14, 2021 . Pacific Islanders in Communications.
  15. 552583735682424833 . mtaibbi . @RaHa762 Taibbi is actually a Sicilian name of Lebanese/Arabic origin. I'm not either (father was adopted). . Matt . Taibbi . January 6, 2015.
  16. 558752918447603712 . mtaibbi . @qnqrc Its origins are Lebanese, but I'm Irish and Filipino. It's complicated. . Matt . Taibbi . January 23, 2015 . March 14, 2021.
  17. 635470583883542528 . mtaibbi . @ilikefights My father is Filipino and Hawaiian. My mother is Irish. These are heavily Jewish cultures, so I understand your confusion. . Matt . Taibbi . August 23, 2015.
  18. News: Barkan. Ross. Ross Barkan. October 29, 2021. What Happened to Matt Taibbi?. live. Intelligencer. New York. https://archive.today/20211029132838/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/what-happened-to-matt-taibbi.html. October 29, 2021. December 5, 2022.
  19. Web site: Is Bard the New Brown? . Taibbi . Matt . August 25, 2014 . . December 5, 2022.
  20. Web site: Latest Russian spy story looks like another elaborate media deception. Taibbi. Matt. September 13, 2019. taibbi.substack.com. December 3, 2022.
  21. Book: Mark. Ames. Mark Ames. Matt. Taibbi. The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia. 2000. Grove Press. 978-0-8021-3652-7. 31.
  22. News: Hoop Dreams On The Tundra. https://web.archive.org/web/20180705150614/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-01-21/news/9701210052_1_mba-hoops-stark. July 5, 2018. Williamson. Elizabeth. Ulan Bator, Mongolia. . July 5, 2018. en.
  23. News: The Bad Boy On the Bus: An Interview With Matt Taibbi. . July 5, 2018. en-US.
  24. News: 'I Was The Mongolian Rodman' — An Interview With Matt Taibbi. February 15, 2016. The Cauldron. July 5, 2018.
  25. Book: Mark. Ames. Matt. Taibbi. The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia. 2000. Grove Press. 978-0-8021-3652-7. 29.
  26. Book: Mark . Ames . Matt. Taibbi. The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia . 2000. Grove Press. 978-0-8021-3652-7. 30.
  27. Rolling Stone Magazine, issue 800, November 26, 1998.
  28. News: The Russia Factor . CNN Perspectives . Jack . Hamann . September 23, 1999 . Reprint . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120214081906/http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/3462.html . February 14, 2012 . (see also Hamann's site)
  29. News: Beast in the East: In Moscow's Exile, hard news jumps in bed with misogyny and mayhem. Martha. Bayne. July 13, 2000. Chicago Reader. March 29, 2016.
  30. Web site: Matt Taibbi. Literary Hub. April 8, 2023.
  31. Web site: From Russia With Lust . The New York Observer. June 19, 2000 . April 8, 2023.
  32. News: Galouchko. Ksenia. June 20, 2011. Taibbi: U.S. Finances 'Similar' to Russian Politics. The Moscow Times. April 8, 2023.
  33. Web site: The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia . Publishers Weekly. 2000-03-27. 2019-07-31.
  34. Cox. Dan. May 17, 1999. Good Machine puts slate in gear. Variety. December 7, 2022.
  35. News: Pressler. Jessica. Jessica Pressler. February 25, 2010. This Is What Happens If You Tell Matt Taibbi You Don't Like His Work to His Face. live. Intelligencer. New York. https://archive.today/20200131030519/http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2010/02/this_is_what_happens_if_you_te.html. January 31, 2020. July 8, 2023.
  36. Web site: The Father of the Squid . The New York Observer. October 19, 2010 . March 31, 2011.
  37. Web site: Twenty years ago, in Moscow, Matt Taibbi was a misogynist asshole—and possibly worse. Aimee. Levitt. October 27, 2017. Chicago Reader. October 30, 2017.
  38. News: Lally. Kathy. December 15, 2017. The two expat bros who terrorized women correspondents in Moscow. . December 7, 2022.
  39. News: Borenstein. Eliot. October 30, 2017. Matt Taibbi's Not-So-Secret Russian Past. live. HuffPost. https://archive.today/20190413015651/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-taibbis-not-so-secret-russian-past_b_59f729e9e4b06acda25f4b8e. April 13, 2019. December 7, 2022.
  40. Web site: U.S. journalist faces sexual harassment furor over memoir. Dan . Whitcomb . October 28, 2017. . October 30, 2017.
  41. Web site: The Destruction of Matt Taibbi. December 11, 2017 . Walker. Bragman. Paste. December 17, 2017.
  42. Web site: Campaigns found a gorilla journalist in their midst. https://web.archive.org/web/20210214171236/https://buffalonews.com/news/campaigns-found-a-gorilla-journalist-in-their-midst/article_a54b0154-7822-5d59-8225-35c47d1f91e7.html. February 14, 2021 . Simon . Jeff. May 8, 2005. The Buffalo News. July 8, 2023.
  43. Web site: The 52 Funniest Things About The Upcoming Death of The Pope . buffalobeast.com. New York Press. October 8, 2015 . usurped. https://web.archive.org/web/20151026083300/http://buffalobeast.com/70/52funniest.htm . October 26, 2015 .
  44. Web site: New York Press Editor Quits Over Article. The New York Times. March 8, 2015.
  45. Web site: Keep Pope Alive. https://web.archive.org/web/20080119112426/http://www.nypress.com/18/10/news%26columns/taibbi.cfm . January 19, 2008 . March 16, 2005 . New York Press. March 29, 2010.
  46. Web site: Real Time: Matt Taibbi follows the Clinton campaign in Youngstown, Ohio. https://web.archive.org/web/20090123215612/http://www.smartdecision08.com/content-641. dead. Arthur. Ted. May 1, 2008. January 23, 2009. smartdecision08.com. December 7, 2022.
  47. Web site: The Rachel Maddow Show Guest List: Week of March 30, 2009. NBC News. December 19, 2008 . April 1, 2009.
  48. Web site: Worst Congress Ever: Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi on How Our National Legislature Has Become a 'Stable of Thieves and Perverts' . . October 27, 2006.
  49. Web site: Episode 11 - Cranking the Donkey feat. Matt Taibbi. May 22, 2016 . soundcloud.com.
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  53. October 2, 2007. Year of the Rat: A 2008 Campaign Diary. Matt . Taibbi. Rolling Stone . December 7, 2022.
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  61. Book: Dayen, David. David Dayen. Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud. December 19, 2017. New Press. 978-1-62097-418-6. 207.
  62. Taibbi. Matt. November 10, 2010. Invasion of the Home Snatchers. Rolling Stone. February 2, 2023.
  63. News: Somaiya. Ravi. February 19, 2014. Start-Up Site Hires Critic of Wall St.. live. The New York Times . https://archive.today/20140903081907/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/business/media/start-up-site-hires-critic-of-wall-st.html?_r=0. September 3, 2014. February 20, 2014. limited.
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  67. Web site: 2020 Izzy Awards Honor Journalist Matt Taibbi, News Inside and The Center for Investigative Journalism. February 2, 2021. Democracy Now!. en. [Taibbi] is the author of the book 'Hate Inc.' and co-host of the 'Useful Idiots' podcast..
  68. Web site: MSNBC Pundit Who Accused Those Who Prefer Sanders to Warren of 'Sexism' Sparks Viral Outcry From #WomenforBernie. Queally. Jon. September 28, 2019. February 2, 2021. Common Dreams. en.
  69. Web site: Useful Idiots: TrueAnon's Liz Franczak on Epstein Saga. February 2, 2021. yahoo.com. en-US.
  70. Web site: Andre Damon speaks to Rolling Stone on internet censorship and Trump's coup attempt. February 2, 2021. World Socialist Web Site. January 19, 2021 . en.
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  73. Web site: September 21, 2020. Guide To Journalists And Organizations Covering Assange Extradition Trial. February 2, 2021. Shadowproof.com . en-US.
  74. Taibbi, Matt, and Halper, Katie, Aaron Maté on Biden's Foreign Policy, OPCW, and More, Useful Idiots, February 19, 2021
  75. 1367991513045757954 . mtaibbi . Taibbi . Matt . The Useful Idiots Podcast is leaving the loving embrace of Rolling Stone, and will be moving to Substack, beginning next week. With a few fun tweaks, much the same show, and it will continue to be available across multiple podcast platforms. @kthalps . March 5, 2021 . March 22, 2021.
  76. "Aaron Maté Joins Useful Idiots", Useful Idiots, January 4, 2022
  77. Web site: Recode Daily: Twitter is growing again. Recode Staff. April 25, 2018. Recode. June 29, 2018.
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  79. Web site: Silverman . Justin R. . April 18, 2024 . 404 Media and the hopes of worker-owned journalism . 2024-04-28 . Columbia Journalism Review . en.
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  81. News: April 20, 2020. Entrepreneurial expat journalist urges media to look beyond ads. January 12, 2021. Radio New Zealand.
  82. Web site: Note to Readers: Announcing New Features.
  83. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/america-this-week/id1640531112 America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
  84. Web site: 2023-07-26 . Matt Taibbi: How the left lost its mind and legacy media its audience . Gillespie . Nick . Nick Gillespie . 2023-08-06 . Reason.com . en-US.
  85. News: Spangler. Todd. December 2, 2022. 'Twitter Files' Touted by Musk Reveal How Execs Debated Decision to Block NY Post Account Over Hunter Biden Articles. Variety. December 2, 2022.
  86. News: Wagner. Kurt. December 2, 2022. Musk Hails Release of Twitter Emails on Hunter Biden Story . Bloomberg News. December 3, 2022.
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  96. News: Wulfsohn. Joseph A.. December 16, 2022. Twitter Files Part 6 reveals FBI's ties to tech giant: 'As if it were a subsidiary'. Fox News. January 17, 2023.
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  99. Web site: Soave . Robby . 2023-01-27 . Twitter Files: Employees knew the media's favorite Russian bots list was fake . 2023-01-27 . Reason.com . en-US.
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  101. mtaibbi. 1631338650901389322. March 2, 2023. 1. TWITTER FILES #17 New Knowledge, the Global Engagement Center, and State-Sponsored Blacklists. March 4, 2023.
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  111. News: Matt Taibbi, Douglas Murray Dominate Trust-in-Media Debate . 27 September 2023 . National Review . 1 December 2022.
  112. News: Munk Debate: Mainstream Media . munkdebates.com . en.
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  115. Taibbi. Matt. April 23, 2019. The Press Will Learn Nothing From the Russiagate Fiasco. Rolling Stone. April 8, 2023.
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  117. Web site: So What If the Whistle-Blower Has a Political Motive?. Serwer. Adam. October 9, 2019. . en-US. December 11, 2019.
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  120. Lee Fang on Iowa Shadow App and Bloomberg's Growing Political Machine, Plus the Whole World Sucks After Iowa . Useful Idiots . Matt Taibbi . Katie Halper . February 7, 2020 . 02:33 . February 14, 2020.
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  125. News: Twitter Files Awarded Inaugural Dao Prize for Excellence In Investigative Journalism. November 2, 2023.
  126. News: November 3, 2023. Twitter Files triumphant at the Dao Prize. Cockburn. The Spectator. November 13, 2023.
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