Substack journalist Matt Taibbi fired back at comments made by Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, who was swept up in the latest Twitter Files.
On Saturday, Taibbi revealed an October 2018 email from then-Twitter’s public policy manager saying that he “spoke” with King’s campaign manager as the senator was seeking reelection regarding a lengthy list of what were dubbed “suspicious Twitter accounts” that the campaign flagged.
The list, posted in a Google doc that also included flagged Facebook users and groups, labeled hundreds of Twitter accounts as either “bots” or “trolls.” Reasons why the tweets were flagged varied from “Rand Paul visit excitement” and “Mentions immigration,” to being followed by his Republican opponent.
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King, an independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats, claims his…