Matt Taibbi

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Matt Taibbi
Taibbi at an Occupy Wall Street protest in 2012
Taibbi at an Occupy Wall Street protest in 2012
Born (1970-03-02) March 2, 1970 (age 53)
New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • author
  • podcaster
EducationNew York University (no degree)
Bard College (BA)
Subjects
  • American politics
  • media
  • finance
  • sports
Years active1991–present[1]
Notable worksGriftopia (2010)
The Divide (2014)
Insane Clown President (2017)
I Can't Breathe (2017)
Hate Inc. (2019)
SpouseJeanne[2]
Children3
RelativesMike Taibbi (father)
Website
taibbi.substack.com

Matthew Colin Taibbi[3] (/taɪˈiːbi/; born March 2, 1970) is an American author, journalist, and podcaster. He has reported on finance, media, politics, and sports. He is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone, author of several books, co-host of Useful Idiots, and publisher of a newsletter on Substack.

Taibbi began as a freelance reporter working in the former Soviet Union, including a period in Uzbekistan, from where he was deported for criticizing President Islam Karimov. Taibbi later worked as a sports journalist for the English-language newspaper The Moscow Times. He also played professional baseball in Uzbekistan and Russia as well as professional basketball in Mongolia. In 1997, he moved back to Russia to edit the tabloid Living Here, but eventually left to co-edit rival tabloid The eXile. Taibbi returned to the United States in 2002 and founded the Buffalo-based newspaper The Beast. He left in 2003 to work as a columnist for the New York Press. In 2004, Taibbi began covering politics for Rolling Stone.[4][5]

On March 9, 2023 Taibbi testified at the Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on the Twitter Files  for the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Committee on the Judiciary United States House of Representatives. In that hearing, Taibbi delivered a compelling testimony that shed light on a series of events that unfolded after he received a message from an online source inquiring about an investigation into censorship and manipulation on Twitter. That inquiry led to the release of what would later be recognized as the "Twitter Files" reports, which generated widespread public interest. However, the true gravity of the situation only became apparent when other researchers, including Michael Shellenberger and Bari Weiss, joined the effort. The contents of the files unveiled a far-reaching initiative aimed at harnessing machine learning and other tools to transform the internet into a tool for censorship and social control. Of particular concern was the potential involvement of the U.S. government in these efforts. Communications exchanged between Twitter executives and federal agencies, as revealed in the files, suggested a systematic process for handling moderation requests. This process extended to a multitude of government entities, including the FBI, DHS, HHS, DOD, and the Global Engagement Center at the State Department, among others. Furthermore, a network of quasi-private entities, many of which were taxpayer-funded, also played a role in this ecosystem.[6]

Taibbi is known for his brazen style, having branded Goldman Sachs a "vampire squid" in a 2009 article.[7][8] His work often has drawn comparisons to the gonzo journalism of writer Hunter S. Thompson, who also covered politics for Rolling Stone.[1][9][10][11][12]

Early life and education

Matt Taibbi was born in 1970 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.[2] Taibbi's father, Mike Taibbi, is an NBC television reporter of mixed Filipino and Native Hawaiian descent[13] who was adopted by an Italian-American couple.[14] According to Taibbi, his surname is a Sicilian name of Lebanese origin; however, Taibbi is neither of Sicilian nor Lebanese descent because his father was adopted.[13][15][16] Taibbi is also of Irish descent through his mother.[17]

He grew up in the Boston suburbs and attended Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts. He attended New York University, but transferred after his freshman year to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York and graduated in 1992.[1][2][18][19] He also spent a year abroad studying[1] at Leningrad State Polytechnic Institute in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Career

Uzbekistan

In the early 1990s, Taibbi moved from Saint Petersburg to Tashkent, Uzbekistan,[1] where he began selling news articles more regularly. He was deported in 1992 for writing an article for the Associated Press that was critical of President Islam Karimov. At the time of his deportation, Taibbi was the starting left fielder for the Uzbek national baseball team.[20][4]

Mongolia

Taibbi moved to Ulan Bator, Mongolia for a time in the mid-1990s, where he played professional basketball[2][1] in the Mongolian Basketball Association (MBA),[21] which, he says, is the only basketball league outside the United States that uses the same rules as the US NBA.[21][1] Taibbi became known as "The Mongolian Rodman", was paid $100/month to play,[21] and says he also hosted a radio show while there.[22][23] He later contracted pneumonia and returned to Boston for surgery.[1][24]

Russia

Taibbi moved to Russia[1] in 1992.[25] He lived and worked in Russia and the former USSR for more than six years. He joined Mark Ames in 1997 to co-edit the English-language Moscow-based, bi-weekly free newspaper, The eXile,[2][1] which was written primarily for the city's expatriate community. The eXile's tone and content were highly controversial. For example, a regular column reported on a member of staff at The eXile hiring a Russian prostitute and then writing a long "review" of the woman and the details of the sexual encounter. Its content was considered either brutally honest and gleefully tasteless or juvenile, misogynistic, and even cruel.[26][27][28] In the U.S. media during this time, Playboy magazine published pieces on Russia by Taibbi or by Taibbi and Ames. Taibbi's first book, The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia, co-authored with Ames, was published in 2000. A movie based on the book is under development by producers Ted Hope and James Schamus of Good Machine.[29] He later stated that he was addicted to heroin while he did this early writing.[30]

In 2017, Taibbi was criticized for excerpts from a chapter in the book written by Ames that described sexual harassment of employees at The eXile.[31] In a Facebook post responding to the controversy, Taibbi apologized for the "cruel and misogynistic language" used in the book, but said the work was conceived as a satire of the "reprehensible" behavior of American expatriates in Russia and that the description of events in the chapter was "fictional and not true".[32] Although the book includes a note saying that it is a work of non-fiction,[33] emails obtained by Paste magazine in 2017 include a representative of the publisher, Grove Press, saying the "statement on the copyright page is incorrect. This book combines exaggerated, invented satire and nonfiction reporting and was categorized as nonfiction because there is no category for a book that is both."[34]

In 2017, two women portrayed in the book told Walker Bragman of Paste that none of the sexual harassment portrayed in the book "ever happened".[34]

United States

In 2002, he returned to the United States to start the satirical bi-weekly The Beast in Buffalo, New York.[1] He left that publication, commenting: "Running a business and writing is too much." Taibbi continued as a freelancer for The Nation,[1] Playboy, New York Press (where he wrote a regular political column for more than two years),[1] Rolling Stone,[1] and New York Sports Express (as editor-at-large).

In March 2005, Taibbi's satirical essay, "The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope",[35] published in the New York Press, was denounced by Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Matt Drudge, Abe Foxman, and Anthony Weiner. He left the paper in August 2005, shortly after his editor Jeff Koyen was forced out over the article.[36] Taibbi defended the piece as "off-the-cuff burlesque of truly tasteless jokes," written to give his readers a break from a long run of his "fulminating political essays". Taibbi also said he was surprised at the vehement reactions to what he wrote "in the waning hours of a Vicodin haze".[37]

Taibbi became a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, writing feature-length articles on domestic and international affairs. He also wrote a weekly political online column, entitled "The Low Post", for the magazine's website.[38]

Taibbi in 2008

Taibbi covered the 2008 presidential campaign for Real Time with Bill Maher.[39] He was invited as a guest on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show[40] and other MSNBC programs. He has also appeared on Democracy Now![41] and Chapo Trap House,[42] and served as a contributor on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.[43] Taibbi has appeared on the Thom Hartmann radio and television shows, and the Imus in the Morning Show on the Fox Business network.

Journalist James Verini said that while interviewing Taibbi in a Manhattan restaurant for Vanity Fair, Taibbi cursed and threw his coffee mug at him, and followed him outside and half way around the block as he tried to get away, saying "I still haven't decided what I'm going to do with you!", all in response to Verini saying that Taibbi's book, The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia, was "redundant and discursive".[44][45] The interview took place in 2010, and Taibbi later described the incident as "an aberration from how I've behaved in the last six or seven years".[46]

After conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart died in March 2012, Taibbi wrote an obituary in Rolling Stone, entitled "Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche".[47][48] Many conservatives were angered by the obituary, in which Taibbi wrote: "Good! Fuck him. I couldn't be happier that he's dead." He claimed that it was "at least half an homage", claiming respect for aspects of Breitbart's style, but also alluding to Breitbart's own derisive obituary of Ted Kennedy.

In 2018, Taibbi began publishing a novel, The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing: Adventures of the Unidentified Black Male, as a serialized subscription via email and a website with an anonymous partner.[49] The novel is fictional with true-crime elements.[49]

In 2019, Taibbi wrote a chapter for his self-published book, Hate Inc., entitled "Why Russiagate Is This Generation's WMD", comparing alleged links between Trump associates and Russian officials to 2002–2003 allegations that Iraq had access to weapons of mass destruction, which were used by George W. Bush's administration as the rationale for the Iraq War.[50]

In October 2019, Taibbi argued that the whistleblower in the Trump–Ukraine scandal was not a "real whistleblower" because the whistleblower would have had their life affected by prosecution or being sent to prison.[51] Taibbi also quoted former CIA analyst Robert Baer who argued that the whistleblower was part of a "palace coup against Trump."[51]

Matt Taibbi's testimony on March 9, 2023 to the U.S. House of Representatives

On March 9, 2023, Taibbi provided testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives that centered around a series of events starting when he received a note asking if he was interested in investigating censorship and manipulation on Twitter. This led to the publication of the "Twitter Files" reports, which garnered significant public interest. These reports uncovered a concerted effort to use machine learning and other tools to turn the internet into a tool for censorship and social control.

One significant revelation was the close relationship between Twitter, other tech companies, and various government agencies. They developed a system for taking moderation requests from government entities, quasi-private organizations, and even the CIA. These efforts often involved making lists of people considered to spread misinformation or disinformation, which Taibbi likened to digital McCarthyism.

Taibbi also expressed concerns about the role of the press in these matters, as some journalists partnered with these groups rather than investigating them. He argued that state-sponsored systems targeting disinformation conflict with the right to free speech and mentioned historical parallels, such as the Alien and Sedition Laws of 1798. He emphasized that in a free society, truth should be arrived at through discussion and debate, not mandated by any group claiming the authority to define fact and fiction. Taibbi raised concerns about the dangers of instant online consensus enforcement and urged the protection of the First Amendment as a critical defense against the growing "Censorship-Industrial Complex." He stressed that this complex threatens the core democratic rights of all Americans.

In conclusion, Taibbi highlighted the importance of preserving the First Amendment, stating that it is the last line of defense against the erosion of democratic rights, and expressed his readiness to answer any questions from the Committee.

Financial journalism

Known for his reporting in the wake of the 2008 Subprime Mortgage Crisis and subsequent Great Recession, Taibbi described Goldman Sachs as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money".[7][52] In financial and political media the expression "Vampire Squids" has come to represent the perception of the financial and investment sector as entities that "sabotage production" and "sink the economy as they suck the life out of it in the form of rent."[53][7][54]

Tackling the assistance to banks given in foreclosure courts, Taibbi traveled to Jacksonville, Florida to observe the "rocket docket". He was brought in to observe a hearing with attorney April Charney.[55] He concluded that it processed foreclosures without regard to the legality of the financial instruments being ruled upon, and sped up the process to enable quick resale of the properties, while obscuring the fraudulent and predatory nature of the loans.[56]

In February 2014, Taibbi joined First Look Media to head a financial and political corruption-focused publication called Racket.[57] However, after management disputes with First Look's leadership delayed its launch and led to its cancellation, Taibbi returned to Rolling Stone the following October.[58][59]

Sports journalism

Taibbi also wrote a column called "The Sports Blotter" for the free weekly newspaper, The Boston Phoenix.[23] He covered legal troubles involving professional and amateur athletes.[60]

Useful Idiots

In August 2019, Taibbi launched a political podcast co-hosted with Katie Halper entitled Useful Idiots, released through Rolling Stone.[61][62][63] The podcast has since featured interviews with various guests including Liz Franczak,[64] Andre Damon,[65] David Dayen,[66] Cornel West,[67] Glenn Greenwald,[68] and Aaron Maté.[69]

In March 2021, Taibbi announced that Useful Idiots would no longer be released by Rolling Stone and would be moving to Substack.[70] With a few changes in program support staff, it is published by Substack as both audio and video that features both a free subscription and a paid subscription.

In January 2022, he announced a sabbatical leave to write a book. In his absence, friend of show, Aaron Maté will fill in for him.[71]

TK news

In April 2020, Taibbi announced he would no longer publish his online writing through Rolling Stone, and henceforth, would publish his online writing independently through the e-mail newsletter service Substack. He stated that he would continue to contribute print features for Rolling Stone and maintain the Useful Idiots podcast with Katie Halper. (In April 2021, Useful Idiots, under its same name, but with some support staff changes, also would move to publication by Substack.) Taibbi stated that his decision to move his writing to the newsletter service was made independently and that he was not asked to leave Rolling Stone.[72][73] Taibbi branded his Substack newsletter TK news, after a term used in manuscript preparation for publication and journalism, TK, that stands for "to come", indicating that more will follow.[74] After a period of publication with free subscriptions only, Taibbi introduced an additional, paid subscription featuring content that will not be provided as part of the free subscriptions.

Personal life

Taibbi is married to Jeanne,[2] a family physician. They have three children.[75] As of 2014, Taibbi lived in Jersey City, New Jersey.[76]

In a 2008 interview with Hemant Mehta for Patheos, Taibbi described himself as an "atheist/agnostic".[77]

Awards

In 2008, Taibbi was awarded the National Magazine Award in the category "Columns and Commentary" for his Rolling Stone columns.[78] He won a Sidney Award in 2009 for his article "The Great American Bubble Machine".[79]

Bibliography

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