Dan GillmorAug 22, 2023

Big Journalism and its hangers-on still believe Twitter (now called X by its sociopath owner) is where they have to be. And as he launches insult after insult to the press and what it does, they just stay there and support him. Today's case in point:

https://fortune.com/2023/08/21/elon-musk-plans-remove-headlines-news-articles-link-shared-on-x-twitter/

It's clearly a combination of cowardice and calculation on the part of news orgs and the people who run them. Journalistic integrity doesn't even begin to factor into it. Which is sad, if not pathetic.

Elon Musk plans to remove headlines from news articles shared on X

Tweets containing news article links will be stripped of headlines and other metadata (like this very sentence). Instead, X, formerly Twitter, plans to display only an image and a URL.

Fortune
Show threadRoberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀
@dangillmor Boy, it's getting harder and harder not to think that Musk is deliberately trying to destroy the platform.
Aug 22, 2023 at 11:18pmWeb
Show threadJerameeAug 23, 2023

@cepaea @dangillmor

If you look at his actions through the fascist paradigm, it makes sense. Fascism rejects modernity (the Enlightenment), so it's inherently irrational.

They also have a deeply authoritarian worldview, and that worldview is itself authoritarian. So, they attempt to live as though their worldview is true despite the contradictions of reality.