Episode
The Slow Death of Journalism, with Matt Taibbi
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- Breaking History
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- Jul 23, 2026
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- 3068
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Summary
Matt Taibbi has spent the better part of a decade documenting one of the most underreported stories in American media: how the federal government built a shadow infrastructure to shape what people could say and read online. In this episode, Eli Lake sits down with Taibbi to trace the full journey. It starts with the post-2016 Senate hearings that spooked Silicon Valley into compliance, and it ends with the chaotic information environment we live in today. They also dig into the Hunter Biden laptop story, the Covid misinformation crackdown, and whether the formal censorship bureaucracy is really gone or just harder to see. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices