If Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers today, the only outlets that covered its substance would be Fox and independent media; liberal journalists would call it a "nothing burger" and seek to discredit the journalists; and liberals would demand he be hanged as a traitor:

Remember: the reason liberal journalists are so bent on maligning Taibbi and the TwitterFiles is because they showed FBI, CIA and DHS are working to censor the internet.

They're not rising against Taibbi, but in defense of those agencies, which polls show their audience loves.

It's amazing to watch liberal journalists speak to one another in their insular bubbles and concoct narratives out of whole cloth.

Within 24 hours, the TwitterFiles were a "nothing burger" - just ignore it - and now, while Russiagate is real, it's all been proven a fraud.

Before the Twitter Files, it had long been proven that the US Security State is funding "disinformation experts" to try to censor the internet.

A month before Taibbi began his reporting, @kenklippenstein and @lhfang published DHS docs with those plans:

https://theintercept.com/202...

But those whose worldview consists only of information furnished by the NYT, CNN and NBC can live in fake worlds that is more pleasing.

That's the world in which Russiagate was proven by Mueller and the US Security State isn't censoring the internet:

One last point: Democrats not only support the US Security State but also *overwhelmingly favor state censorship of the internet* in the name of stopping "disinformation".👇

So of course they hate the #TwitterFiles journalists who revealed the censorship regime they support:

I'm not sure where this claim is coming from, but no: the NYT is not the outlet that published these leaked USG docs. They were dumped onto the internet by unknown sources with unknown motives. The NYT is merely describing the aftermath of the leak: