Democrats, led by Virgin Islands delegate Stacey Plaskett, claim, falsely, that 'Twitter Files' journalist Matt Taibbi committed perjury.
to Taibbi, accusing him of committing perjury by claiming Twitter had worked with the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency .on MSNBC, during which the host accused Taibbi of altering the acronym “CIS” to “CIS[A],” a claim Taibbi said may have been an error. Fang notes: “Taibbi has admitted mistaking CIS for CISA in a single tweet in one of his many threads, but his testimony to Congress was entirely different.
Plaskett cited Hasan’s erroneous fact-check in accusing Taibbi of committing perjury — which, she noted, it punishable by five years’ imprisonment. As fellow independent journalist Glenn Greenwald noted, that was a more direct threat to freedom of the press than any insult President Donald Trump hurled at the media.
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