"We have occasionally mentioned the underemployed crackpot Substacker Michael Shellenberger in SFist coverage. He's the guy who broke into the Tenderloin Linkage Center to rat out that there was sanctioned drug use going on there back in January 2022, and he was one of those alleged journalists who was responsible for the nothingburger that was the Twitter files, which Elon Musk commissioned and which produced nothing newsworthy."
"Shellenberger also wrote the book on complaining about San Francisco for Fox News attention, his 2021 book . These days, Shellenberger has a Substack newsletter called Public, which we're told has a substantial readership, though it does not appear in the top 100 of Substack's own top News or top Politics rankings."
"Shellenberger got a seat at his first White House press briefing on Tuesday, in the video that is seen above, and will make you realize that America is probably now stupid it will never be a superpower again. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt gives Shellenberger the very first question, and of course he just dregs up his own debunked Twitter files claims, supposedly framing it as a question."
Michael Shellenberger obtained a White House press credential after seat assignments were shifted to pro-Trump outlets. Shellenberger previously entered the Tenderloin Linkage Center to report sanctioned drug use in January 2022 and was involved in the Elon Musk-commissioned Twitter Files project, which produced no significant revelations. Shellenberger wrote a 2021 book criticizing San Francisco and maintains a Substack newsletter called Public that reportedly has substantial readership despite not ranking in Substack's top lists. Shellenberger used his White House briefing opportunity to press claims about increased online censorship and to reference the Twitter Files Brazil investigation.
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