OMG THIS
My ability to get folx, who’d normally dismiss me as just another “angry Black woman”, to start paying attention to the harm they’re inflicted at scale is 100% the result of how this platform used to work
I’ve been on others for years and they don’t come close
A big part of that was also having a mass of journalists who used what was trending on Twitter to guide editorial decisions and to find stories to report on. This meant activists (and influencers) could get the media's attention and show there was public interest/investment before they even publish something. It was a way to force the mainstream media to actually report on stories. But the media's decline as being useful for regular people and increasingly only useful for the agendas of the rich and powerful really dates back to media deregulation and the ensuing consolidation into a very few hands.
Kim Crayton ~ Her/She
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