Journalists who would never, ever consider working for Fox "News" continue to give their work -- free -- to Twitter.
They surely know that they're supporting a business controlled -- and manipulated in ugly ways -- by someone at least as malign as Rupert Murdoch. They're giving aid and comfort to someone who hates journalism and amplifies anti-democracy memes.
They could, instead, use the fediverse and control their own destinies.
How can they be helped to grasp this?
Gotta break it to you Dan, but you could say the same of every piece of proprietary software you use to carry out your jobs. A journalist cannot they are out from under the thumbs of oligarchs until they shun the likes of Windows, MS Office, all Adobe products, and their shiny Macs.
Tools controlled by greedy billionaires and their cruel corporations will end up biting journalists on the arse sooner or later.
Doesn't even need some gov. Just a false positive and you're done for:
That's just one of the worst possible prospects. There are other cases where a single digit in a text document was identified as copyright infringement 🤷
Yes, some of that can be easily fixed. Other cases will influence you and the people around you for the rest of your life.
David Barberá, a teacher from Spain, no longer has access to thousands of private files stored in the cloud because he was flagged for allegedly breaching company abuse rules. His case is not the only one
@bekopharm @Dubikan @dangillmor
Journalists should definitely *not* be using corporate-owned cloud services.
They are unreliable, impossible to audit, subject to the whims of their owners, deliberately difficult to manage in a crisis, and, if your data is physically located in a privacy-hostile country, like China, DPRK or the US, leaky as fuck.
Dan Gillmor
*The* Paul Brown
Dubi is here 
Beko Pharm (deprecated)