The US Department of Transportation's Twitter Account - Is That True?

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Pete Buttigieg: I think that you've really been able to put a lot of pressure on these organizations, these government officials and transportation secretary. He says the Department of Transportation's Twitter account just started arguing with our official account saying that our reporting was false without providing any evidence whatsoever. The sheer amount of federal rulemaking that gets no coverage at all is, he says, shocking.

In this News Brief, we discuss the initial lack of coverage of the devastating February 3rd train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio; the coverage of the lack of coverage; the GOP's "white genocide" exploitation; Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's defensiveness; and the real human stakes of decades of bipartisan deregulation and union-busting.

Our guest is journalist Matthew Cunningham-Cook (@matthewccook5), a writer and researcher covering health care, retirement policy and capital markets. He is currently a reporter at The Lever.