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Breaking Factors host and journalist Saagar Enjeti gained’t let The Washington Put up get away with accusing him of harassing a top-level Twitter govt simply because he tweeted criticism of her selections on the firm. 

Enjeti revealed in a Twitter thread on Wednesday that Washington Put up reporter Elizabeth Dwoskin despatched accusatory questions on a tweet Enjeti wrote criticizing Twitter exec Vijaya Gadde for censoring the Hunter Biden laptop computer story. 

Elon Musk replied to Enjeti’s tweet, saying, “Suspending the Twitter account of a significant information group for publishing a truthful story was clearly extremely inappropriate.” 

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Saagar Enjeti slams the Washington Put up for accusing him of serving to to harass Twitter govt.

After Dwoskin printed an article claiming Enjeti and Musk’s tweets drove harassment in opposition to Gadde, Enjeti tweeted, “WAPO says I didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. Full BS, they emailed *my producer* at 2am EST…7 hours after @elonmusk replied to my tweet with the next RIDICULOUS questions:”

A screenshot of Dwoskin’s electronic mail learn, “Hello there, We’re rapidly writing up [Enjeti’s] tweets tonight about Vijaya Gadda, with the peg that Musk in piling on to a few of them. Some Questions:

“Does [Enjeti} have any concern that mentioning a specific Twitter executive could result in attacks on that exec? What are the responsibilities here? For example, one of the commenters on the tweets make racist comments against Gadde, and others said she should be fired.

“What does he hope to accomplish by calling out Gadde and getting Elon involved?”

Enjeti defended himself from those questions, tweeting in part, “My criticism of [Gadde] for a coverage she publicly has defended is under no circumstances accountable for what some rando account might say to her.”

Saagar Enjeti and Krystal Ball on Breaking Factors podcast
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“Moreover, I had no concept @elonmusk would reply. Accusing me of bringing him into it’s *INSANE*,” he added.

“This can be a nice instance of how the media smears you. I make a substantive level, randos say one thing. Now myself and @elonmusk and in some way racist/accountable for them! All to cowl up the truth that they substantively agree with censorship,” he concluded

Many on Twitter sided with Enjeti in opposition to The Washington Put up reporter’s line of questioning. 

Some identified the hypocrisy of Dwoskin’s questions with The Washington Put up’s Taylor Lorenz doxxing the lady behind LibsofTikTok earlier this month. 

Twitchy.com editor Greg Pollowitz tweeted, “[B]ut the WaPo article that resulted in @libsoftiktok getting tons of abuse was okay?” whereas Metropolis Journal editor Charles Fain Lehman made an analogous level, asking, “Fast Q: what’s it referred to as once you use your ‘megaphone’ to disclose an nameless Orthodox Jewish girl’s id?”

Greg Pollowitz slams the Washington Put up for accusing Saagar Enjeti of serving to to harass Twitter govt.

Enjeti’s Breaking Factors co-host Krystal Ball tweeted, “Does @lizzadwoskin even care concerning the focused harassment that @esaagar, member of a weak minority group, now faces due to her assaults?”

Unbiased journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted, “The logic of the WashPost: — VALID TARGET FOR CRITIQUE AND INVESTIGATION: the lady behind @libsoftiktok. — SHE WHO MUST NOT BE CRITIQUED: the $17 million/12 months high lawyer of Twitter.”

He went on, “Time and again, the biggest media companies attempt to place essentially the most highly effective folks *off-limits from criticism* by claiming any criticisms of them generates ‘harassment.’”

“The identical WashPost simply doxed a personal citizen, dragging her into the highlight as a result of they disliked her politics, publishing her tackle as they did it. That generated immense ‘harassment,’” he stated.

Greenwald concluded: “It’s simply insane past phrases that the exact same Bezos-owned paper that simply doxed and printed non-public particulars a couple of non-public citizen is now attempting to assert that any criticisms of a mega-rich, highly effective Twitter govt is immoral.”

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Dwoskin was additionally criticized for not understanding how Twitter works and journalistic malpractice.

Atlantic author Yair Rosenberg tweeted, “One drawback with the media protection of Twitter is that a few of the folks doing it do not appear to grasp the way it works. These questions replicate a basic misunderstanding of a public social media platform and the way in which it features.”

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Bulwark tradition editor Sonny Bunch tweeted, “At a sure level being on Twitter is accepting {that a}.) persons are going to be criticized for stuff, b.) a sure share of customers are going to be a–holes whereas making their criticism and c.) attempting to carry customers accountable for different peoples’ tweets is silly.”

The Each day Caller editor-in-chief Geoffrey Ingersoll wrote, “My thoughts is legitimately boggled that you just emailed Saagar two shameful, main questions at 2 am and tweeted this at 3 am,” whereas conservative commentator Natalie Johnson acknowledged, “I am much less shocked that a person reporter thought to jot down this trash than I’m an editor, or sequence of editors, permitted it for publication.”