Matt Taibbi: To Protect Free Speech, I’m Suing the Man Who Defamed Me

Matt Taibbi: To Protect Free Speech, I’m Suing the Man Who Defamed Me

Tech writer Eoin Higgins and Hachette Book Group in February published Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left. The cover depicts a hand with marionette strings, suggesting that the main subjects of the book—fellow reporter Glenn Greenwald and myself—are puppets controlled by Big Tech overlords such as Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and David Sacks.Higgins’s case against me concerns my involvement with the Twitte…