Updated: 12.27.2022 @ 10 am EST: Scott yammers… on, again. Yawn. And some more. Hey, Scott — typing up more pixels… doesn’t change the fact that you cannot comprehend what you’re reading, and reposting — in any actual, reality based context. For reality, see below, by EW. End, update.

Like Matt before him, he keeps carping… about nothing, actually — it turns out. OTOH, if you want an educated take on the supposed Twitter files kerfuffle, do read EmptyWheel.

She’s dead on point — on all of it:

…In short, Matt Taibbi has gone from being furious that Twitter removed non-consensually posted dick pics, some of which were the product of inauthentic campaign launched by Steve Bannon buddy Guo Wengui, to being outraged that the FBI shared Tweets advertising the wrong day for election day.

He has done so in spite of the fact that Chan’s deposition explains why the FBI was doing that: because sending false information that might lead someone to lose their opportunity to vote is a crime….

I’ve got a request into the FBI but have not gotten a response about what crime this violated, but I believe the crime DOJ was relying on — Bill Barr’s DOJ! — was the Ku Klux Klan Act, which was passed in 1871 to prevent racists from conspiring to deprive former slaves from voting. This is the same crime that Douglass Mackey was charged with for allegedly conducting a more systematic campaign to misinform black voters about when to vote in 2016 (Mackey has pled not guilty and is vigorously contesting the constitutionality of the statute).

In other words, after complaining that Twitter chose to take down revenge porn targeting Joe Biden’s son, Taibbi is now complaining that DOJ enforced a law designed to protect Black people’s right to vote.

And his fellow Twitter File propagandists, at least two of whom claim familiarity with Elvis Chan’s deposition that explains this, are letting him continue to grossly misrepresent an effort to protect the right to vote….

Now you know — Scott Johnson is (at best)… a useful idiot (for the far right moron-istas). And a mal-informed one — to boot.