Casey NewtonIf you’re mad Elon gave NPR a state-affiliated media label just wait until he gives every reporter a 🤡 badge
Mike Beasley@caseynewton they will no doubt line up to breathlessly thank him for the recognition and ask how they can give him even more money
Darrel Plant@MikeBeas @caseynewton
Thank you sir, may I have another?
Kevin Bacon - Fraternity Paddle
Thank you sir may I have another?Animal House
JasmineI don't doubt that🤣
Tamar Yellin@caseynewton At first I haha'd, then I sadded
Mickaël Bazoge@caseynewton They’d deserve this kind of badge for staying on Twitter.
Kramer Campbell@caseynewton I can see that happening for real
Tod Maffin 🇨🇦@caseynewton You joke.... but...........
Dan Kennedy@caseynewton I'd be happy to accept one of these: 👺
Leon Cowle@caseynewton I'm not mad at anything Phony Stark does to Twitter. I am mad (or at least dumbfounded) at respectable professionals still using that service, though.
Noah Callaway@leoncowle @caseynewton "respectable professionals still using that service"
Fortunately, there are none!
John Gordon@leoncowle @caseynewton Yeah. At this point NPR deserves whatever humiliation he gives them.
Odiseo@caseynewton At this point, he can label them a "terrorist organization" and they'll still be there because engagement or something.
@Odiseo79 this somehow seems more likely to me actually
Oran Magal@caseynewton Until journalists stop taking the abuse and just leave Twitter, he will keep going - why wouldn’t he? They keep generating content for him and his fans love to see him abuse the groups they hate.
shac ron ₪@caseynewton It won’t be long before he comes up with (((other))) badge ideas
Parisninla
endeavorance 🕊️@caseynewton The wild thing to me is like we actively understand that he's being a dingus on purpose to piss off the exact people who would be pissed off by the changes he's making
And like.... ????
At what point is it enough that folks step away? Like he can have is weird playground website, but it only makes headlines because people staunchly refuse to leave and instead bemoan is absurd moves
Dominic Gwinn
Ruami Grey@caseynewton but on the bright side, could be a form of authentic verification
Joe Fabisevich 
@caseynewton Maybe that would finally lead to journalists finding a new home.
Bryan Haggerty@mergesort @caseynewton I think back to #OneTeam 2018 and the panel session with journalists where they all basically said they were addicted to Twitter and hated themselves for it but knowingly admitted they wouldn’t be able to give it up. I wish there was a recording to watch this session again. Someone within Twitter probably has it.
@mergesort @caseynewton I thought so one. Now, not so much
Earthy Tonez@caseynewton is there a reason that every article that mentions Musks crazy actions include the phrase “he’s free to do this, it’s his company”? Is there like a libel risk if it’s implied he did something illegal? It feels deferential and almost takes the teeth out of the criticism.
@@caseynewton When's he gonna give himself a corporate welfare badge then? I'm sure he gets more money from the US Government than NPR does.
loucovey@caseynewton seriously, though, why are they even on Twitter? Can you be a news organization and stay on an untrustworthy platform?
author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5@caseynewton Waiting for all the reporters to roll-over and bark "yessir" when that happens. That's the real trick.
@caseynewton Now you have suggested it…….
lee.@caseynewton the lack of shock that one of the most recognisable brand logos in the world 🐦 has been swapped overnight with 🐶 sure has the same energy as this Tiger King moment
Ultraklystron (Karl Olson)@caseynewton don't think he has the posting sense/comedic timing to realize how actually funny and chaotic that would be in an old internet way, so he'd only ever do it if one of his posting sycophants @'d him with the idea first, and none of those people are that funny either.
Adrian Segar@caseynewton They're already getting an automatic 💩 when they ask for comment…
HughsterHack Reporterson 🤡 @HackReporterson · 1h
Look, as a professional 💩 journalist dependent on BasedCryptoFashDogecoinsite 💩 for my livelihood, I 💩 have no choice but 💩 to pay $500/mo for 💩 the Clown Badge. And 💩 to photoshop a penis 💩 onto my forehead in 💩 my pfp. And to 💩 make every fifth word 💩 the poop emoji. Literally 💩 no choice. Shut up.
Peter Butler@caseynewton Have any accounts besides the NYT lost their legacy badges yet?
@caseynewton Two of the most vocal celeb accounts to say they won’t pay — LeBron James and Jason Alexander — still have their checks...
@peterbutler tbh have not been following super closely
Christel van der Boom@caseynewton If that happens, do you think journalists will be able to quit Twitter?
Abazigal@caseynewton Given that they are still on Twitter, they deserve everything coming to them henceforth.
Mori@caseynewton Hahaha, that won’t make me mad- it’ll be hilarious. Then 🤡will get 💩 from 🐦 and they may finally cut their losses and coke over to Masto to rebuild in a way that will never allow a Muscovite to screw them over again.
Metafrastis@caseynewton Reporters who stay on Twitter deserve a 🤡 badge.
Or a 🎖️
Or a 🎖️
BeBo@caseynewton I'm happy enough with that, although Elmo being Elmo, it's just as likely that he thinks "state-affiliated" means "partisan".