When I was on twitter I got most of my news from foreign sources or people with direct social and personal connections out. Very few where were American beyond first or second generation.
He's talking about the NYT.

so many great Arab reporters in the region who speak the language and know the country and you guys publishing garbage about a dude keeping a 12-hour schedule like it’s some kind of achievement in the fuckin region when your own president watches tv all day. you guys are trash.

— Arash Karami (@thekarami) June 17, 2020

Left-wing secularists in Lebanon are in a bloc with Hezbollah. I can't think of another country other than Israel where the "left" wouldn't understand and agree.