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In 2017, Taibbi came under fire for excerpts from a chapter in the book written by Ames that described sexual harassment of employees at ''The eXile''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2017/10/27/twenty-years-ago-in-moscow-matt-taibbi-was-a-misogynist-asshole-and-possibly-worse|title=Twenty years ago, in Moscow, Matt Taibbi was a misogynist asshole—and possibly worse|author= Aimee Levitt|date=October 27, 2017|publisher=[[Chicago Reader]]|accessdate=2017-10-30}}</ref> In a 2017 Facebook post responding to the controversy, Taibbi apologized for the "cruel and misogynistic language" used in the book, but said the work was conceived as a satire of the "reprehensible" behavior of American expatriates in Russia and that the description of events in the chapter was "fictional and not true".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155396910849652&set=a.10154385776759652.1073741825.602324651&type=3&theater|title=Matt Taibbi October 26, 2017 Facebook post|accessdate=2017-10-30}}</ref> Although the book includes a note saying that it is a work of non-fiction,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/people-taibbi/u-s-journalist-faces-sexual-harassment-furor-over-memoir-idUSL2N1N30IH|title=U.S. journalist faces sexual harassment furor over memoir|author=Dan Whitcomb|date=October 28, 2017|publisher=[[Reuters]]|accessdate=2017-10-30}}</ref> the publisher, Grove Press, has since said that the "statement on the copyright page is incorrect. This book combines exaggerated, invented satire and nonfiction reporting and was categorized as nonfiction because there is no category for a book that is both." Women portrayed in the book have gone on record to defend Taibbi, stating that none of the sexual harassment portrayed in the book "ever happened."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/12/the-destruction-of-matt-taibbi.html|title=The Destruction of Matt Taibbi|date=December 11, 2017|author=Walker Bragman|publisher= [[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]|accessdate=2017-12-17}}</ref>
Journalist Kathy Lally wrote in the ''Washington Post'' in December 2017 that she and other female journalists were subjected to misogynistic attacks by Taibbi and Ames while she was a correspondent in Moscow in the 1990s. Lally contacted Taibbi in 2017, and he told her,
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