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"Twitter Files" journalist Matt Taibbi says it's "chilling and crazy" that Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, the ranking member of the House Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government threatened him with jail time over an error he made and later corrected.
"Well, basically this is all over me getting an acronym wrong by one letter in one tweet, but actually the error is on the part of the committee and MSNBC, which interviewed me about this," Taibbi said Friday during an appearance on Newsmax's "The Record with Greta Van Susteren."
"I did make an error in a tweet but they're erroneously claiming that the Stanford election integrity partnership does not have a relationship with a Department of Homeland Security agency. They think that that's what that tweet meant, and they're wrong about that. It demonstrably does have a relationship with them. So they're threatening me with jail over an error, which is chilling and crazy."