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Dan Gillmor May 14, 2023

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?

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Yves L. Jardin-Noam

@dangillmor
As long as "popularity" and "engagement" are measured by follower counts, and those affect your employment, there's not much you can do. There's nothing to grasp; it's survival. How do you argue with existential/Maslovian threats?

The journalists aren't necessarily bad, but the industry has rotted.