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Dan Gillmor Jul 25, 2023

Dear journalists:

By remaining on Elon Musk's platform you are -- knowingly or not -- directly supporting your enemy. He is systematically turning his platform into a showcase for people and entities that see democracy as an impediment to achieving what can accurately be understood as fascist goals.

Wrecking democracy means destroying freedom of expression -- the basis of what you do.

For your own sake, and for your honor, please leave.

https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-becomes-x

#journalism

Twitter becomes X

RIP Twitter (2007-2023)

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Ted Curran M. Ed.

@dangillmor That's all true, and... despite the Fediverse's many virtues, it does not/ CANNOT function as the "internet nerve center" that Twitter once did, allowing journos to *see through* all the chatter to surface news stories in real time before they break. For that, journos need to form presence on a network that enables that transparency, that visibility, that the Fedi impedes through its privacy-preserving architecture. Hard problem.