Matt Taibbi

Publisher, Racket News · 1 appearance on the record.

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Matt Taibbi is an investigative journalist and author who previously served as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. He publishes Racket News and is widely known for his political reporting, financial coverage, and work on the Twitter Files.

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0 supported 2 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Matt argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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219 words/min while actually speaking · 43 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Matt Taibbi: only 1 usable question→answer exchange on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,162 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

What they said4 What others said36 Episodes1

Everything Matt Taibbi said on All-In that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported

Taibbi: Bottom 99% lost wealth while top 1% gained millions under Obama

“During the Obama years the bottom 99% saw their average wealth decrease by 4900 dollars, whereas the top one percent saw its wealth increase by an average of 4.9 million dollars.”

Matt Taibbi May 28, 2022 ▶ 8:30 #AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks

Assertion Partly supported

Taibbi: Democrats represent 41 of the 50 wealthiest US congressional districts

“41 of the richest 50 congressional districts in America had Democrats in those seats, and all of the top 10 richest districts were won by Democrats.”

Matt Taibbi May 28, 2022 ▶ 26:42 #AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Taibbi: A handful of people control 95% of US media distribution

“These are people who've been absolutely comfortable With, you know, a handful of people controlling you know, 95 to 98% of the media distribution in this country you know, for years now.”

Matt Taibbi May 28, 2022 ▶ 35:05 #AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Taibbi: Fox News pioneered the media audience optimization business model

“Fox pioneered a new way to make money in media, which is sort of like the audience optimization model. Like you pick a group a demographic, and then you try to dominate it by feeding it news that you know that those people are going to respond to.”

Matt Taibbi May 28, 2022 ▶ 30:05 #AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks

The other half of the tape: Matt Taibbi's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 34 times in 19 episodes on All-In. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most David Sacks 21 Jason Calacanis 9 Chamath Palihapitiya 3 Tucker Carlson 1

Statements about Matt Taibbi, by other people (2)

Assertion Partly supported

Carlson: Social media platforms were riddled with salaried intel officers

“They were all locked down, and they were all riddled with intel, in some cases, actual salaried intel officers. Matt Taibbi's amazing reporting has shown this. Not just American, either, from foreign countries.”

Tucker Carlson Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 1:12:28 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more

Disclosure

Calacanis: Speakers refused to attend All-In Summit due to political lineup

“One of the major challenges I had in this event Was certain people attending the event made some people in that group unwilling to come to the event. No offense, Keith. In other words, like, Keith, Sachs, you know, and then even Glenn Grunwald and... Greenwald…”

Jason Calacanis May 26, 2022 ▶ 26:53 #AIS: Tim Urban on political discourse + Keith Rabois on early-stage investing in 2022