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.
Barry Schwartz 🫖@juddlegum Twitter is HIS TOY. He is perfectly within his rights to do that. IT IS HIS PLAYTHING.
It is NOT the Twitter of before. It is a different thing.
No journalist should stay on Twitter. None. If they do, it shows they do not understand the situation. Maybe they should find another career.
@juddlegum Oh, sure, the EU is threatening him with a law they haven’t quite passed yet.
But that’s HIS problem, not that of journalists. It is insane of them to demand space in a stupid man’s playground, when they are perfectly capable of setting up elsewhere.
(If they aren’t capable of that, then, again, maybe they should change profession.)