This is “indefensible?” Seems more hyperbolic than Taibbi might have been with some of his twitter files stories. Some of which I found underwhelming. You and Taibbi disagree on how important Taibbi’s story is? OK. Who cares.
Say what you want about Taibbi: Twitter collapsed after his report.
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Yes - I think for someone purporting to do factual journalism it’s indefensible to add these type of anonymous sources. I’m not against anonymous sources in general, but here it often doesn’t even sound like the sources had first hand knowledge but just heard things at Twitter - they add nothing to the story and I think it’s indefensible that he used them to prop up his claims.
It’s not that I disagree on how important his story is. Had he just reported facts, I would have been fine with his story (even if I thought it wasn’t a big deal). My complaint is that he appears to have had an agenda and crafted his reports to support that rather than just reporting what he found.
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wat
“X” is the thing that he really wants to be WeChat right? like his grand plan…
Later in 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company.[59] X.com was one of the first federally insured online banks, and over 200,000 customers joined in its initial months of operation.[60] Even though Musk founded the company, investors regarded him as inexperienced and replaced him with Intuit CEO Bill Harris by the end of the year.[61]
In 2000, X.com merged with online bank Confinity to avoid competition,[53][61][62] as Confinity’s money-transfer service PayPal was more popular than X.com’s service.[63]
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so it doubles as an ego boost. it’s the one company he may actually have founded, so he can fold all the other ones he bought into it… lol
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They didn’t change Russian accounts when Trump was President.
I had that feeling during the pandemic.
I was listening to radio and a station was playing Nirvana. I check the station and it’s a classic rock station. Ugh. So old
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90s being classic rock drives me crazy but when I was growing up in the 80s I thought 50s music was oldies. Time is an enigma.
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He forgot that his pr is 
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Gen Z types like to use oldies as relative term to troll older generations. There’s kind of an implied message that they think the people who listen to 80s and 90s music are closer to boomers than themselves.
gen x gets quite salty when you say things like Nirvana/No Doubt/Sublime/etc is oldies, which they are. i imagine millenials will start getting salty when LMFAO achieves the status
I can’t wait until the nursing homes are filled with TuPac and Snoop Dogg
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They were playing Nirvana on Classic Rock radio in 1994
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