Journalists who would never, ever consider working for Fox "News" continue to give their work -- free -- to Twitter.
They surely know that they're supporting a business controlled -- and manipulated in ugly ways -- by someone at least as malign as Rupert Murdoch. They're giving aid and comfort to someone who hates journalism and amplifies anti-democracy memes.
They could, instead, use the fediverse and control their own destinies.
How can they be helped to grasp this?
I stayed for a while post-Musk to try to persuade people (not just journalists!) to come here--but stopped posting for good right after Tucker Carlson's announcement
I think journalists felt #Twitter was "our" platform, i.e. the place where we could reach *each other*, so. It's hard to let go! But it's time...
I reckon the shift will happen fast when we get real opt-in search here, and quote posts
(bc #Bluesky ain't it)
@maria @dangillmor I'm not sure why journalists didn't leave en masse after the Twitter papers proved Elon would dip into DMs any time he wanted for personal gain. If you've ever communicated with a source via Twitter DM those conversations are blown. Also why not keep ownership of your work, Masto is the only platform that let's you do that. For search & discovery try https://www.verifiedjournalist.org/
You don't see that he allowed journalists to dip into DMs for journalists' gain? And journalists sort of like that?
