Critics slammed the paper for calling independent journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss 'conservative' following their reporting on the 'Twitter Files.'
was blasted for characterizing the center-left reporters behind the viral"Twitter Files" as being"conservative journalists.
"Calling those two conservative is so patently ridiculous. Wacky WaPo gaslighting like crazy," Sky News host Rita Panahi exclaimed. "There's almost a medieval quality to a lot of political discourse. If you don't agree with every mainstream liberal opinion, then you're a conservative? They see the world in black and white," The Intercept investigative reporter Lee Fang said.
Taibbi went viral with the first installment of the"Twitter Files" which focused on Twitter's internal discussions leading to it censoring theduring the 2020 presidential election, with some officials struggling to explain how it violated its"hacked materials" policies. Additionally, Taibbi initially reported,"Although several sources recalled hearing about a ‘general’ warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story.
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