I doubt there's anything special about WHY Taibbi and the other people were chosen, they are shitlib journalists that have been criticizing the woke left in some form. That's the common theme. If I had to speculate, the reason they were chosen is two fold: one, they were chosen because they are shitlib journalists, which means the leftist MSM ignoring them is "notable" to shitlibs, and two because they are critical of some portions of the woke left establishment, meaning they'd be willing to actually do the story at all. If Musk had simply shopped these to conservative journalists, *that* would have become the story, *"Musk partners with extremist right wing journalists to defame innocent progressives!"* Choosing shitlib journalists changes the dynamic employed by the MSM in reacting to these stories, and they by necessity have to be shitlib journalists that criticize the establishment left (to some degree) or they would either not take the story or distort it beyond recognition. His body language is shifty when he talks about it but it might just be because he's not smooth at saying "I have an NDA, I can't disclose that" or didn't want to explicitly state it that way and fumbled for a good way to say it (he is a writer, after all, not an actor or news anchor).