Questions are being raised about a 2000 memoir Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi co-authored with Mark Ames about their time as reporters in Russia. An excerpt of the book, which was sold as nonfiction, reads, “We have been pretty rough on our girls. We’d ask our Russian staff to flash their ass or breasts for us. We’d tell them that if they wanted to keep their jobs, they’d have to perform unprotected anal sex with us.” Taibbi has said he deeply regrets what he wrote, saying it was satire and that the harassment described in the book never actually took place.