Casey NewtonThis is completely false. We stand by our reporting
Chris Messina@caseynewton is the status of your source also different than he claims? (I presume yes since you said "completely false")?
Ian McKellar@chrismessina @caseynewton
I don't think Casey will be commenting on the identity of his confidential sources. That would be inappropriate.
I don't think Casey will be commenting on the identity of his confidential sources. That would be inappropriate.
@ian @caseynewton I don't expect him to, but given Elon's rebuttal, it might be useful to understand if the sourcing is from a current or past employees. I realize that too may jeopardize the sourcing.
@chrismessina @caseynewton
Casey's credibility is based on his reputation. His reputation is based on the past veracity of his reporting and his demonstration of journalistic ethics - such as not revealing his sources. Jeopardizing his sources would make me trust the story *less*.
On the other hand Musk has had to settle fraud charges on the basis of his tweets before. I see no reason to trust this "rebuttal" more than Tesla Autopilot being ready in 2018.
@ian @caseynewton fair. Perhaps I'm more interested in whether 1) the source was already planning to leave Twitter (presuming that is true) 2) whether Casey knew that when he talked to this source.
Also, I actually kind of don't care because the net-net of it is that Elon wants more views and took actions to get more views, meanwhile my views have gone down so regardless of the source, Elon is ruining Twitter. 😬
@chrismessina @caseynewton would you trust someone who wasn't planning to leave Twitter?
@ian @caseynewton it might explain why they were willing to talk to Casey and also provide a sense for the internal morale (i.e. Elon told on himself).