The media is under incredible pressure to make stories, particularly in the US.
All of us have seen how MSNBC veered politically over the last 15 years - as have other news outlets.
Matt Taibbi is a good guy, smart, down to earth.
But he's a 'lone warrior' now, his income comes from substack subs, he has to make noise just like any other entity.
The substack people tend to market themselves as 'alt something' which is legit in some ways, but they push it pretty hard.
Taibbi has really been ginning it up lately.
It's a bit sad really, but we see this happen all over - I think most of our 'venerable' media institutions are at the same level so we can't fully blame him.
All of that said this is a legit story and there are 'kernels of truth' to this notion that Twitter is doing things maybe it should not, or inconsistently etc.
Elon is not wrong to be suspicious, of course now he's banning actual, legit journalists who dare to question him, in a feat of absolute hypocrisy that should completely undermine is 'free speech' credentials. Sadly I'm doubtful his fanboys will care.
As far as I know he's only banning those that link to ElonJet. He's been a bit irrational since his two year old kid had a close encounter with a crazy person a few days ago.