I don't think journalists (in general) -- and certainly not the organizations they work for -- fully understand the threat Musk represents to the future of free expression and journalism itself.

Begging him to reinstate the banned accounts is pure folly. It is bended-knee supplication to a sociopath who now controls a powerful media company. But the power of his company depends in no small degree on keeping journalists there.

Leave. Now.

The Opinion Shield is often used to protect unsupported assertions. We simply don’t want to be wrong.

We may be legally “entitled to our opinions,” but that doesn’t mean we’re right, or that our opinions are equal to those of experts.

https://thinkingispower.com/logical-fallacies/#h-i-m-entitled-to-my-opinion

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Op deze dag, 26 jaar geleden, overleed Piet Nak. Deze vuilnisman en goochelaar was een van de organisatoren van de Februaristaking in 1941, de enige openlijke en massale protestactie in bezet Europa tegen de Jodenvervolging. Bekijk zijn archief hier: https://search.iisg.amsterdam/Record/ARCH02591

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/IISG_Amsterdam/status/1603691408631676928