Matthew Keys
PNW Deb@matthewkeys Both sides are not the same. Now start reporting accurately without making false equivalencies.
@DebR Anything specific on this?
Raccoon🇺🇸🏳️🌈@matthewkeys
Stop platforming people who don't have a point.
LGBTQ / black / marginalized groups and conservatives are not two equal sides of some debate, it is one side asking to exist like everyone else and the other side demanding a killing campaign.
Stop referring to pathological liars and conmen by the names they keep calling themselves. Donald Trump is not a businessman and he did not "speak to auto workers", he is a criminal who wants to be president for personal gain and nothing more, and anything else is fake news. Elon Musk, SBF, etc are not geniuses, they are grifters with too much money, and every time you report on them in positive terms that they define, you are giving them more power to undermine law and democracy.
In short... Stop pretending to be neutral observers with no stake or perspective on the outcome of things. If the Nazis repeat what they did in the 30s, they won't spare you for being "neutral": you're their next target.
@matthewkeys
Oh also...
MAKE A DAMN MASTODON ACCOUNT.
You can't keep complaining that Elon is actively undermining democracy and journalism, while remaining Twitter exclusive. You're not neutral actors, you're not passive observers, you are actively part of the same country and species as everyone else, and you will face the same consequences.
You will be up against the wall.
Stop giving everything to people who want you dead.
@Raccoon One of the reasons why journalists haven't moved over en masse is because many of us spent 10+ years building our network on Twitter.
And, now, we're seeing our network kind of splinter across different platforms — Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, Post, etc. The one thing we know for sure is that much of our network is still on Twitter, so we default to that platform.
Until an alternative "wins," it'll probably continue to be that way. Just how it is.
@matthewkeys
For one thing, Mastodon was the clear front runner for months, until Threads showed up with its spyware app.
For another, this ties into that whole "You are not a neutral actor" thing: journalists have serious pull when it comes to building social networks like this. By standing idly by, yelling petulantly at Elon, while others struggle to make Fediverse a dominant network, journalists are effectively throwing their weight behind the corporate networks.
This isn't a simple matter of interfaces, this is a matter of the entire way that these things are run. If Threads, Blue Sky, or any of these other grift networks are allowed to replace Twitter, nothing changes, and the problem will simply repeat itself the next time an idiot with too much money decides to wreck the major communication medium because democracy isn't stroking his ego enough.
Once again, journalists will face the consequences with everyone else.
Chuck Berray@matthewkeys Call a lie a lie. Rinse and repeat.
Forrest@matthewkeys thank you.
Nils Weisensee@matthewkeys Keep at it.
JShafer817@matthewkeys that they are all pussies.
https://justinshafer.blogspot.com/2024/03/i-still-have-all-these-files-from-fbi.html
https://justinshafer.blogspot.com/2024/03/i-still-have-all-these-files-from-fbi.html
@matthewkeys I still don't know what to do with these 800K of SSN.. But I ain't deleting them. Not without a public inquiry.
