Judd LegumThis may or may not be my last day on Twitter
I'm going to continue to tweet out factual information until I get banned
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Musk's autocratic and arbitrary rule over this site is a particular threat to independent journalists.
About half of the current subscribers to my newsletter, which is how I support myself, found out about it through Twitter
I've spent almost 15 years building up a network on this platform of people who care about accountability journalism.
A lot of my reporting scrutinizes billionaires like Musk and the politicians, like Ron DeSantis, that he favors
Musk is attempting to chill critical reporting from journalists by making it clear that he can rip away a critical way we communicate if we make him mad.
I will not be cowed by this kind of bullying.
But we need to make ourselves more resilient to Musk's bullying. That means making sure you can get access to critical information with or without Musk's cooperation.
My newsletter is free. You can pay if you find it valuable and want to support it.
Up to this point, Twitter has been the central way that we've built up the newsletter, which supports myself and two other talented journalists — @[email protected] and @[email protected] — that work with me.
We can't rely on that anymore.
Unlike Musk, we are actually committed to free speech. Check out this piece last week from me and @[email protected] on book banning in Florida schools
How to ban 3600 books from school libraries
This year, at least 102 books have been removed from the shelves of school libraries in Clay County, Florida. Many of these books were pulled at the request of one man: Bruce Friedman. A conservative activist and longtime resident of New York, Friedman moved to Clay County this May.
We have an important follow up coming this week about book bans at another Florida school district.
Hopefully, I'll be able to tell you about it here.
But we can't count on that.
Fenix🔥 Resistance Starts NOW@juddlegum Please post your journalists’ mastodon handles!