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Jon Worth Dec 18, 2022

And based on what's happened the past 48 hours on Twitter... think forward

Imagine - say - Washington Post revealed abuse of workers at a Tesla plant in Shanghai

What would happen?

Would it be dealt with fairly? Now I really doubt it. The reporter(s) would get blocked, and links to the story flagged.

Twitter is no longer a reliable and predictable place for news and the first take on the news.

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sullisean

@jon The last few months have been an other-worldly shitshow, but new orgs & journalists could have asked themselves a long time ago if Twitter was ever a reliable and predictable place for them to disseminate their content. They gave up control and content moderation to a for-profit 3rd party in exchange for “reach”. Imagine if they course corrected NOW and established their own instances here…