Mastodawn

Dan Gillmor Jul 6, 2023

It gets more absurd every day for Big Journalism to keep pouring its work into Saudi-government-funded Twitter, which is controlled by a right-winger who hates real journalism and boosts extremists.

It gets even more absurd for journalism orgs to keep embedding tweets in their stories, given Musk's unfathomable destruction of the platform's usefulness.

I keep wondering when journalists will discover that big tech is not their daddy.

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MJ Lee

@dangillmor This is not directed at you, but I realized something.

All the mastodites (my word) who predict or hope for #twitterisdead is like protesting against electricity. The real problem is that twitter became a privately-owned utility owned by a guy who feels he is the utility’s only customer. 😢 People will not leave twitter until he finally turns off the lights.