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Twitter Is Banning Prominent Journalists Criticizing Elon Musk

by infrawhispers on 12/16/22, 1:14 AM with 36 comments

  • by ClassicOrgin on 12/16/22, 1:38 AM

    Appears to be about 7 journalists so far [1]. Really does feel like it’s actually going to collapse at this point.

    [1] https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/16035518847484600...

  • by grappler on 12/16/22, 3:15 AM

    The replacement for twitter is the fediverse. It has already been growing by leaps and bounds since Elon's takeover.

      https://the-federation.info/
    People will say "mastodon" a lot and they're not wrong, but the relationship is that mastodon has proven itself the breakout killer app of the fediverse. Click around a bit and you'll find other types of instances like Pleroma, PeerTube, etc.

    Basically it's a set of open standards (in particular ActivityPub) developed to do a decentralized version of what twitter and similar social apps do. And no lock-in to a commercial platform or app or protocol.

  • by DiNovi on 12/16/22, 2:06 AM

    it appears these journalists reported that the LAPD has no police report around the alleged stalking incident at the los angeles airport, which i assume he didn’t want to trend

  • by u320 on 12/16/22, 1:20 AM

    "Free speech"

  • by pinewurst on 12/16/22, 1:23 AM

  • by Trouble_007 on 12/16/22, 1:27 AM

    One wonders if Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon are working on a replacement platform?

  • by abirch on 12/16/22, 1:19 AM

    Twitter is so sad. It was so simple early on, then became complicated with misinformation, and now is a raging dumpster fire.

  • by xqcgrek2 on 12/16/22, 1:41 AM

    Why should journalists be immune from bans if they break the rules?