I’ve said this a million times, but I’m genuinely frightened about what Musk’s fascist propaganda network is doing to do to our politics. I really wish someone, anyone, would come up with a collective strategy to get journalists, organizers and elected officials off the platform.
The only reason why X has any more credibility than 8chan is because of all the media people who are completely strung out on retweets and will never be able to kick the habit.
My mans, even bringing up the problems with the platform gets you a vexatious lawsuit by the owner, a Congressional subpoena from Jim Jordan, countless death threats and a series of posts by LibsOfTikTok and the NYPost. The time to stop this was four years ago but people sat on their dicks.
How about a solution to reclaim and protect essential infrastructure?
Some of us are still in the fight over there. It’s ugly, but it’s ongoing.
So much this. Direct message them. Offer to help them set up here. I’ll follow a bunch of them to get them started.
Unironically USG and Ds should have comms folks post to Threads, and then cross-post them to twitter after a one hour delay
"Oh dear. I do hope that those who use such threats on the service formerly know as Twitter are aware that their identities may be more exposed than they considered...."
I think if there were local and federal gov't bluesky accounts, that would help the media migrate off of Twitter - disappointed that this hasn't happened sooner.
MSM is mostly conservative, Republican. It’s their home.