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Chris Trottier

Journalists must leave Twitter now!

That's the opinion of Celeste Headless of Current. Since Elon Musk has bought Twitter, he has been attacking the platform's most active content creators: journalists.

Which is why journalists need to find an alternative and migrate elsewhere.

She notes that Mastodon is one alternative, although it requires some knowledge and comfort with the technology.

current.org/2023/03/why-journa

7 comments
Philipp Steinkrüger

@atomicpoet A journalist in our day and age who's unable to use Mastodon should really think about retirement...

Cheri

@atomicpoet Completely agree Chris, journos need to leave Twitter, stat. So do any government-associated accounts, congress persons, representatives and politicians.

I also think Washington Post, Raw Story and others would do well to consider creating their own instances on Masto, something that could benefit both their writers as well as their subscribers. It’d also be a solid way to stick it back to Elon.

Mr. Thoroman

@atomicpoet you could probably tell them that until you're red in the face, though it's doubtful they will leave. Twitter needs consequences.

Mike Fraser :Jets: :flag:

@atomicpoet I really hate the narrative that Mastodon is hard to master and requires technical skill. It's not hard, it's just different. You require zero technical skill to join Mastodon and participate, you just need to be willing to do things SLIGHTLY differently. The minute you imply it requires technical skill you scare off people.

Herbivorous Rex

@atomicpoet if journalists have indeed been Twitter’s most active user group (and it seems likely to me, based on experience), probably some introspection should be applied about why that is/was and the effect it’s had on the industry.

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@atomicpoet

Many Journalists that I know have already started to leave Twitter. Journalism will survive Elon Musk, Musk will lessen the overall value of Twitter.

Journalists should exercise reasonable due care and due diligence when deciding on moving to mastodon, some instances discourage journalists.

Journalists also must understand that we should not try to run social media platforms.

We are just another social media demographic of account holder users.

We should be highly proactive on freedom of speech and freedom of the press issues.

We must keep in mind that Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act allows social media platforms to control user publication media content. So we like other users really have little if any legal recourse on social media.

Sincerely, Monica Andrews, Interim Acting Editor-in-chief

@atomicpoet

Many Journalists that I know have already started to leave Twitter. Journalism will survive Elon Musk, Musk will lessen the overall value of Twitter.

Journalists should exercise reasonable due care and due diligence when deciding on moving to mastodon, some instances discourage journalists.

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