Journalist Matt Taibbi has allegedly left Twitter after a disagreement with the social media platform’s owner — Elon Musk — and podcast host Keith Olbermann was quick to point out that, in his view, Taibbi was used by the billionaire.
Taibbi played a prominent role in releasing the Twitter Files, which purported to show collusion between the social media platform and the U.S. Government to suppress stories that were viewed as unfavorable to now-President Joe Biden, among other allegations.
Taibbi released several batches of documents about the platform’s actions before it was purchased by Musk. However, after Twitter limited interactions by users that included links to Substack, Taibbi claimed he would leave the platform and move to Substack’s Notes app, a similar platform.
During his Countdown with Keith Olbermann podcast Monday, the eponymous host declared it was a foregone conclusion that this would happen.
“Who didn’t see this coming? The former reporter exploited by Elon Musk to do that Twitter Files right-wing propaganda stuff has quit Twitter,” Olbermann said. “When Musk futzed around with the links from Twitter to Substack, Taibbi was shocked. He went to Musk. Musk told him to eff off, so Taibbi left Twitter. Musk promptly declared that Substack was trying to steal all of Twitter’s technical details and stuff for its rival form of Twitter.
“And Musk said he was the real victim here because Taibbi turned out to have been a Substack ’employee’. Matt Taibbi, the latest to learn the eternal lesson that the claw of the sea-puss gets us all in the end.”
