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.
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Roj 🏳️🌈@juddlegum tell twitter users to move elsewhere. Silencing journalists and access to info is not going to be the only issue. Misinformation will be the main problem and it will be more insidious and hard to notice. Encourage folks to move with you elsewhere.
@juddlegum he is already training ALL journalists on twitter to think about whether they will be banned by him if they post something. The impact of what he just did is not reversible by reinstating the accounts who were banned.
Access is important but it is not going to be the biggest problem.
JucaIt's sad. When I first joined Twitter, I started by following journalists, and used it as a news feed. Elon is ruining that for everyone.