This Washington Post does a good job here of covering Musk's torrent of lies about elections. (Of course they are too timid to use the word "lie"...)
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This Washington Post does a good job here of covering Musk's torrent of lies about elections. (Of course they are too timid to use the word "lie"...)
(Free link but Post demands a working email address.)
Saying again: Journalists who remain active at the deadbird site are actively supporting a man who is doing more to bring down our democracy -- and freedom of the press -- than almost anyone else.
They know this and they do not care. Shameful.
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@dangillmor As I've said before. Most of them know. Most of them care. Most of them would rather not be there. But there is NO alternative platform within orders of magnitude of Twitter/X reach, and reach is crucial in journalism, as we know.
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@lauren There is no alternative because they refuse to help make one. They're selling out the country for "reach". It's understandable, but unconscionable.
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@dangillmor @lauren They could evolve towards one. Here's one idea: the news starts out on their own sites. Provide RSS feeds, with a mechanism that posts stories from that feed to Threads, Mastodon, BlueSky, and X, with some delay (so, to get the hottest news other journalists would need to subscribe to RSS feeds or use the favored server, perhaps a fediverse server since no billionaire can censor it). The institution could also choose, or not, to operate its own fediverse server or use someone else's. They still get the reach provided by X, but Elon Musk is no longer in a position to silence them.
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@not2b @lauren I got no traction at all, but I did make some specific suggestions on this early last year. Philanthropists could make all the difference but they're not interested (I tried). https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/04/journalists-and-others-should-leave-twitter-heres-how-they-can-get-started/
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@dangillmor @lauren Yes, I remember that piece. It was good, but as you said, it didn't work. If they look here, they'll say we're too small and we are mostly lefties who scold the newbies, it's an anti-advertising platform and they need ad money to survive, and they need to drive traffic because they're in danger of going broke. I think the idea to sell them on is the need to take back control, without trying to dictate just how they do it.
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Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:replied to Joe last edited by [email protected]
@not2b @dangillmor @lauren
Something I keep saying, and have been saying for years now, is that any complaints they make are really meaningless virtue signaling if they don't have an account somewhere on the Fediverse. There are a ton of journalists who made accounts here, either when they were banned by Musk or to crosspost when he originally bought Twitter and interest in this place got big.I don't see any reason why they don't just make accounts here and cross post. It seems to me like they would rather continue to make that site the exclusive place to read them, than help us build an alternative that they could have some control over, especially considering there are instances dedicated specifically to journalists.
...and Washington Post is one to talk here, considering their track record on misinformation and bias.