"We’ve confirmed that Irwin has access to user DMs as part of her position. Given the way the company has handled the Twitter Files, multiple former employees told us that DMs are no longer secure, and have discouraged us from using them for any remotely sensitive communication."
https://www.platformer.news/p/another-whistleblower-comes-for-twitter @caseynewton @zoeschiffer
Ella Irwin also explicitly directed Twitter to ban journalists like me. The fact that she has used her access to people's private messages should be a wake-up call to everyone on Twitter, especially journalists; how can you protect sources in a place like that?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/15/twitter-journalists-suspended-musk/
A useful #FeatureRequest for Mastodon would be adding a way of setting up autoreplies to private messages the same way most email systems allow vacation responses. -This way if someone sends a private message to a journalist they could have it would respond with "XXX uses Signal/Whatsapp/Whatever" for private message - please use that instead"
It could also be used as a vacation responder "I'm on vacation, don't expect timely replies until XXX" for non-journalists.
Drew Harwell
Unixorn
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