Dan GillmorApr 10, 2023

When you refer to Musk's site, you should call it "Saudi-funded Twitter" just for the sake of consistency. Bonus: You'd be 4x more accurate than his claim that NPR, which gets about 1% of its money from taxpayers (well, their grandchildren), is "government funded".

(Corrected to fix Saudi ratio; Qatar also owns a chunk of Twitter, so Middle Eastern oil sellers hold about 5% of the shares together.)

Show threadDan GillmorApr 10, 2023
Meanwhile, NPR continues to show its fundamental cowardice by remaining on Saudi-funded Twitter despite Musk's visible contempt for it, and for all journalism other than right-wing mockery of the press.
Show threadMichaelApr 10, 2023
@dangillmor @edgeoforever NPR descended into irrelevance years ago. The fact that the right wing continues to attack it for its supposed wokeness just shows how lazy and intellectually dishonest they (the right wing) really are.
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@MPgh @dangillmor About a year ago they took a sharp right turn so I ignored them until they became the object of this story.
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