In March 2019, Taibbi published a portion titled "It's official: Russiagate is this generation's WMD", which argues that in light of the Mueller Report's conclusion that the investigation "did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities", much of what the mainstream media reported on the issue was exaggerated or outright false.

[4] Hate Inc was self-published by Taibbi in serial form, with each chapter released in installments as an email newsletter through the subscription service Substack.

But his mordant wit is intact, and his message to journalists is apt and timely: Not everyone has to win a Pulitzer or Edward R. Murrow Award but please, have some pride.

[12] Writing for The Washington Post, Ann Marie Lipinski wrote, "Taibbi is right to sound the alarm about the temptations that have tarnished news reports since Donald Trump's election, resulting in more programming that appears designed to ratify an audience’s political beliefs.

[...] Rachel Maddow of MSNBC [...] suffers an especially rough critique for her persistent focus on the Russian collusion story, an approach Taibbi believes was excessive, built not on fact but on innuendo fashioned for liberal viewers [...]"[13] In 2020 "for his exceptional stories on media bias in conservative and liberal news that culminated in his book, Hate, Inc," Taibbi received the Izzy Award, named for I.F.