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Lilith Jan 24, 2023

Musk and his minions have reinstated the account of one of the nation's most prominent bigots. This is not remotely surprising to anyone who's paying the slightest attention.

I remain surprised, and disappointed, that so many people in the journalism world still choose to use that platform -- knowing that they are supporting people who want to see the U.S. become a right-wing dictatorship.

Journalism has options, but most journalists ignore them.

Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼Jan 24, 2023

@dangillmor when journalism is about access and not lighting up dark places - they allow themselves to be compromised.

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Jan 24, 2023

@dangillmor they must really like the beer at that Nazi Bar

______nox_Jan 24, 2023

@dangillmor I am so glad I closed my account. Don't want to go back to that cesspool.

AngrySexagenarian Jan 24, 2023

@dangillmor it might not be a dictatorship yet, but US politics have been on the right for 100+ years. They just think the Dems are left, because the Republicans are so vwry far to the right.
There us no political left in the USA, just like there's none in AUS.

Grant Jan 24, 2023

It is a tricky equation:

Moral integrity vs monthly income

Meeche Jan 24, 2023

@dangillmor The journalists forgot the part about the journalists going down in the first few rounds

Brian Sullivan Jan 24, 2023

Their egos and incomes depend on the numbers so that overrides any integrity. Hasn't it always been that way?

Rabbi Jill Zimmerman Jan 24, 2023

@dangillmor can you say which account they reinstated? I never go there anymore.

Martin Heller Jan 24, 2023

@rabbijill @dangillmor Elon Musk reinstated the Twitter account of Nick Fuentes, who is a white Supremacist notorious for denying the Holocaust and peddling Antisemitism.

The venom he spews belongs nowhere on Twitter. Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres)

https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1617952925531402241

Ritchie Torres on Twitter

“Elon Musk reinstated the Twitter account of Nick Fuentes, who is a white Supremacist notorious for denying the Holocaust and peddling Antisemitism. The venom he spews belongs nowhere on Twitter.”

Twitter

Rabbi Jill Zimmerman Jan 24, 2023

@meheller wow. What a mess. He should be allowed nowhere on social media

Martin Heller Jan 24, 2023

@rabbijill Emet.

Rabbi Jill Zimmerman Jan 24, 2023

@meheller at least you made me smile. That’s worth alot

DavidK Jan 24, 2023

Karen Bethany Jan 24, 2023

@dangillmor
Part of me thinks every journalist should post one tweet per day that just says “I no longer post relevant news on Twitter. Find me on other platforms (post/mastadon/Substack/etc) that don’t punish journalists for doing their jobs” but then I remember users wouldn’t see those posts because the algorithms would likely just exclude them from feeds. 😔

Rosie🌻Healthy Air Evangelist🌻Jan 24, 2023

@dangillmor I’ve been curating a list of journalists to follow here. If anyone has a list I could look at, that would be awesome.

Also, why ARE journalists, scientists and activists willingly supporting an antitruther?

Thurman Jan 25, 2023

@BkPhilanthropy @dangillmor

Here is a long list of journalists on Mastodon (not mine, I just bookmarked the post)

https://twit.social/@brianpphelps/109569054991811089

Brian Phelps :twit: (@[email protected])

This list of journalists is now 1200+ on a wide variety of topics. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/htmlview Managed by @[email protected]

TWiT.social

Rosie🌻Healthy Air Evangelist🌻Jan 27, 2023

@AstroTman @dangillmor Thank you. It looks like my problem is more than solved.

The Spoonless Kitchen Jan 25, 2023

@BkPhilanthropy My list: https://epicure.social/@thespoonless/109673630794887146

THE list (that I got most of these from):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14vfonxtyy0JFDxu5dZOZo-yAJrRXcu2lZ33atkFb7GM/edit#gid=0

The Spoonless Kitchen (@[email protected])

Also @[email protected] and @[email protected] because they're awesome. @[email protected] because they're hilarious. And finally, @[email protected] for the stats. Also! Whatever you do, do NOT, I cannot stress this enough, go anywhere *near* zeroes.ca or trust any account posting anything from the zeroes.ca server. Journalists (some already mentioned): @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] (climate and health) Not-a-lot-of-COVID-content: @[email protected] (AP) @simonpayn (not a lot of COVID content but intersection of eco/nature/petrostate) @[email protected] (same same) @[email protected] (NatGeo, climate change) @rvawonk (weaponized influence and social manipulation) @[email protected] (AP not a lot of COVID mostly US but not screechy) @[email protected] (business/tech, general good feed of reboosts) @[email protected] (environment, politics, world news, some COVID content, HuffPost) continued....

Epicure Social

Rosie🌻Healthy Air Evangelist🌻Jan 27, 2023

@thespoonless Thank you so much!! I will feel more settled knowing where to get my news. I will begin following journalists tomorrow!

OldeHippi 🦋🎨🙏🌺Jan 24, 2023

It is disgusting that anyone is still frequenting that Musk mess.

It is filthy.

Matthew Sheffield Jan 25, 2023

@dangillmor It's because most editors and most TV executives do not know about or care about right-wing extremism. They think people concerned about it are exaggerating. Even after January 6th.

The Republicans they know tend to be much more socially moderate and much less religious. And also much less representative of the GOP electorate.

Shannon Jan 25, 2023

@dangillmor I'm also very disappointed.

RadicalWoman111 Jan 25, 2023

@dangillmor
I'll say it again: Choosing Twitter is choosing to support fascism.

Ivan Pizarro Jan 25, 2023

@dangillmor All y’all mfs still stay on that platform though

Nick Ali Jan 25, 2023

@dangillmor we keep hearing that journalists now have to engage the public to drive traffic. If their job depends on it, it’s understandable. Doesn’t justify anything, but it makes sense.

newsorpigal Jan 25, 2023

@dangillmor
American journalists have no backbone.

Niclas Jan 25, 2023

@dangillmor To be fair you'll need to spend at least 10 minutes, maybe 15 minutes of your time to get used to Mastodon. So, you can't claim those people are lazy or ignorant. /s

Deadly Headshot Jan 26, 2023

@dangillmor Now, thanks to Nick Clegg, Meta has done similarly...