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was it one of his specials where he generally has the correct data in front of him, and yet somehow just … wildly misunderstands it? That’s the pattern I’ve always seen. Totally failing to understand what he’s looking at, and/or weirdly fixating on something that’s completely beside the point.

It wasn't data. But, yes, he had some documents which he wildly misunderstood in ways that SHOULD have been embarrassing and should have resulted in the retraction of the entire article.

He did not take kindly to it. Below is the article I wrote. His initial response was to post a meme at me "here is the attention that you ordered" which he later deleted. The he and his editor (Ryan Grim) started arguing that my article was the real error, because... www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/b...

... I had initially said that one of the documents they released was already public, when the truth was only part of the document was public (though the unpublic stuff they revealed didn't change anything). They still got the whole story wrong. Still refused to issue a correction of any kind...

And their bullshit, misleading, and just wrong reporting was definitely a key part in driving the false narrative about the Biden admin and social media which helped contribute to a whole shit ton of nonsense. So, yeah, not a fan of Ken.

Oh my god the Twitter files! I know libertarians that *believed* that this meant Biden was corrupt, that Trump supporters were rightfully screwed out of 2020, and that January 6th was *justified*.