Matt Taibbi
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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never once said the media doesn't want you to hear about ivermectin.
I don't care about ivermectin.
What I wrote about was people being deleted from the internet by platforms like Facebook for talking about ivermectin, which I don't believe, and I believe people should be able to talk about what they want without being removed from the internet.
You're going to be the second person who's going to owe me a correction after this 538.com has already made that mistake.
Malcolm, you seem to think I've never worked in the mainstream media.
I spent 15 years at Rolling Stone.
I spent all that time writing 7,000-word features that had to be fact-checked every line.
I'm absolutely familiar with the process of mainstream media, and that's why I'm so disappointed in what happened.
The New York Times and the entire, basically, mainstream media spent years following a fake story about Donald Trump being in league with Vladimir Putin to fix the 2016 election.
It was a wrong story.
We have a leaked audio tape that was published in Slate.com where the editor of the New York Times says, well, we got caught a little flat-footed on that one because
You know, our readers who want Donald Trump to go away are going to be disappointed about this.
He says we built our entire newsroom around one story, and they got it wrong.
There's no way to defend that kind of inaccuracy, and it only happens if everybody wants so badly for it to be true that they overlook all the guardrails that are in place.
No serious journalist that I know looked at that story and didn't have qualms about it.
So, yes, there are processes in place, and there was once an ethos in place, but that ethos is gone now.
And maybe the processes remain, but there are too many errors proving otherwise.
That was not the sense of those stories.
The idea was Facebook was taking people off the internet for writing about ivermectin, and I was...
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