The top Democrat on the House subcommittee probing the weaponization of the federal government is threatening “Twitter Files” journalist Matt Taibbi with prison time for “false and misleading” testimony before the panel last month.
Stacey Plaskett, the nonvoting delegate for the U.S. Virgin Islands, cited an error in Mr. Taibbi’s reporting in which the journalist referenced the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a component of the Department of Homeland Security, as having partnered with Stanford University’s Election Integrity Project in censoring disfavored speech.
“We have come to the realization that this bright line that we imagine that exists between, say, the FBI or the DHS or the GEC and these private companies is illusory and that what’s more important is this constellation of kind of quasi-private organizations that do this work,” he testified. “Hasan claimed that only CIS, the government contractor, was involved, not CISA. That’s clearly not true, and not something that even CISA, EIP or CIS has claimed in the past,” Mr. Fang wrote on Substack. “The government agency CISA worked hand-in-glove with CIS, in support of EIP. Hasan isn’t explaining any of this to his viewers and is instead engaged in a vicious character assassination effort.
Mr. Taibbi was one of several journalists given access to Mr. Musk’s vault of internal documents exposing the extent to which the platform, under its previous ownership, pushed to censor disfavored speech.
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