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I wrote about how access journalists are slinking back to Twitter using some of the thinnest justifications imaginable

karlbode.comCasey Newton And John Gruber Slink Back To Elon Musk’s Right-Wing Propaganda MachineTech journalism mainstays are feebly rationalizing their return to a broken, billionaire-run right-wing propaganda website.

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

I'm sorry, as a scoop-oriented access journalist I simply have no choice but to use a social media platform owned by a fascist oligarch who is literally and indisputably killing millions of people across multiple overlapping arenas

independent.co.ukElon Musk has just shown why Trump and the US are now the enemy withinTrump’s moves against Ukraine – including a diesel deal with Putin and a row over restricting Starlink – mean he must now be seen as a hostile force in Europe, explains world affairs editor Sam Kiley

15/10/26, 4:01 pm18 reposts114 likes

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

prominent tech pundits could help journalists build alternative communications platforms free of fascist-coddling billionaire algorithmic influence but they might miss out on lazy boosterism by people completely disinterested in having honest conversations about the real-world impact of AI

tbd

@tumescentnumpty.bsky.social

But it's really important that my tech ceo says a thing piece is "first"

Possibly a person

@dj9898.bsky.social

We already have alternatw platforms. The problem is that the tech elite have made people (rightfully) skeptical of concregating on a new shared platform. Consumers don't want a new Facebook or Twitter and there's no incentive to code an app that won't get used.

Musk Bowl Refugee

@muskbowlrefugee.bsky.social

This administration is a danger to us all. I get it that we all gotta eat but this pro-apartheid nepo baby has crossed too many lines and cost too many lives.