Let’s go with full disclosure shall we and let everyone know the background of the person doing this “interesting reporting”. That way we can all understand where he might be coming from and assess his work product accordingly:
Kenneth Klippenstein[1] (born February 1, 1988[2][3]) is an American journalist who worked at The Intercept.[4][5] Prior to joining The Intercept, Klippenstein was the D.C. Correspondent at The Nation,[6][7][8] and previously was a senior investigative reporter for the online news program The Young Turks.[9] His work has also appeared in The Daily Beast, Salon, and other publications
According to The Daily Beast, Klippenstein "has a history of pranking unknowing targets on Twitter".[46] After a Twitter flame war with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, he shared a Voguephotograph from the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty showing Musk with Ghislaine Maxwell, a long-time associate of the late Jeffrey Epstein, who had been convicted of sex trafficking.[47] Twitter owner Musk responded by posting that Klippenstein was a "douche-about-town".[47][48] On January 9, 2024, Klippenstein and other journalists were abruptly banned from Twitter without explanation.[49] After the ban received media coverage, Klippenstein and the other journalists were reinstated.[50]
In July 2019, Klippenstein was covered in the media after a Twitter incident in which he was retweeted by Iowa Congressman Steve Kingjust before changing his Twitter display name to "Steve King is a white supremacist".[51][52][53] In March 2021, Klippenstein pranked author Naomi Wolf by recommending she tweet an image of a fabricated anti-vaxxerquotation paired with a picture of American pornography actor Johnny Sins.[54]
On Memorial Day 2021, Klippenstein tricked political commentators Dinesh D'Souza and Matt Schlapp, as well as Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, into retweeting a photograph of John F. Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, whom Klippenstein claimed was his veteran grandfather.[55] After being retweeted by Gaetz, Klippenstein changed his display name on Twitter to be "matt gaetz is a pedo". Gaetz later deleted his retweet.[56][57]