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ScottR's avatar

I was a paid subscriber to taibbis Substack (now cancelled), and he has done some excellent work in the past. Since the “twitter files” thing though, and his adoption of shellenberger into his company, Matt has been consistently tending toward everything being a conspiracy, and this is a loss to journalism . Ie Shellenberger seems to be a full scale tinfoil hat guy and it’s rubbed off.

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Alistair Penbroke's avatar

> Michael Shellenberger has suggested over and over and over again that she is a CIA asset

What a mess. You provide three links. The first two are identical, so there's only really two sources given here.

In the first - a long tweet - he doesn't say she's a CIA asset. He says clearly that she used to work for the CIA, which is true, gives her a right of reply, and then speculates that she MIGHT still have connections but states clearly that it's just speculation.

Given that you mis-represented the first link pretty badly I didn't bother listening to the podcast in the second. But really, if you're going to accuse other people of spreading misinformation, making it appear you have more sources than you do and then badly distorting what they say isn't a good start.

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