alexwild,
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Twitter/X suspended numerous journalists overnight, with no reason given.

futurebird,
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@alexwild Will there be other journalists leaving in solidarity ?? it pains me to watch such an important profession so abused.

Isn’t the observer one of the cool papers that’s already active on the fedi? I love their work!

vanecx,
doctormo,
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jik,
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@futurebird @alexwild
>Will there be other journalists leaving in solidarity ??

Ha ha that's a good joke.
I mean, I suppose there's a tiny chance that a small number of journalists might for whatever reason think this is the last straw.
But for the most part, anybody who is still there at this point has decided their follower count is more important than doing the right thing.

Albert180,

@alexwild Musk hates Klippenstein. He has covered him multiple times and also enraged him, after he posted a photo of him with Ghislaine Maxwell. Here his childish reaction back then

CosmicTrigger,

@alexwild Ah. I see Musk's famous "free speech" is going swimmingly. LOL

NMBA,

@alexwild
Journalists on Twitter? Na, they all left that Nazi sewer long ago.

rticks,
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@alexwild
Anyone still there is craven

oblomov,
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BoydStephenSmithJr,
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@alexwild When something like this happened in 2022, it was my signal to move away from Twitter.

I landed here. If nothing else, it is a place I can get updates from the journalists I follow, without interference from a corporate overlord.

I do wish it was easier to avoid over-similar toots flooding my news feed. I do wish it was easier to find and verify new journalists.

assegaia,

@alexwild What type of journalism did they do? Topic and opinion wise?

GuerillaOntologist,
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@assegaia @alexwild
True Anon, among other things, did a brilliant three part take-down of Elon called "The Lamest Show on Earth." Methinks that might have something to do with them getting banned 🧐

https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/lamest-show-1

agaguk,

@alexwild Elon Mask has become the big brother

hannu_ikonen,

@agaguk @alexwild Funny how that works.

"Down with Big Brother...unless I can replace them."

zachvat,
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@alexwild

Perhaps will be more impetus for news orgs to move to Mastodon, perhaps even start their own instances. 🤞

brembs,
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@alexwild

We still have plenty of room over here, don't we?

What is anybody still doing over there anyway?

brendo,
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@brembs @alexwild Clinging to their followers. The mindset is the number of followers one has is crucial and irreplaceable. Twitter didn't exist before 2009.

iju,
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@brendo @brembs @alexwild

Internet has changed somewhat in 15 years. Even if the journalists would have been old enough to work professionally in that environment (meaning they'd be closing 40 years on the minimum), the decentralised internet where people keep independent blogs followed with a dedicated rss-reader doesn't really exist anymore.

copperred,
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@iju
Indeed. The people whose entire personality is dunking on journalism is why so few moved here wholesale.
@brendo @brembs @alexwild

rticks,
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@copperred @iju @brendo @brembs @alexwild

Excuse of the craven is craven

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