Comment on X (formerly Twitter) labeled an unflattering NPR story about Donald Trump as ‘unsafe’ | A spokesperson said the warning was a "false positive."

cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Journalists are complicit and enabling Twitter to do this by treating it as a legitimate platform and the default place for news

  100%.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  True but journalists wouldn’t post there if people weren’t reading. Everyone on that site is complicit.

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  • cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If large outlets said they were quitting Twitter and going elsewhere (Threads, Mastodon, whatever), the audience would follow. Media deserves most of the blame IMO.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think you’d also need a bunch of celebrities to make the same move.

      It’s funny how only old people are left on Facebook, but Twitter still has the masses after all these years.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Once again, that’s a 2-way street.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s no “but” there. Should be an “and”.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I said “but” because there was no “and”.

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• diabolik@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s infuriating and disgraceful, but none of the orgs and their employees seem to feel any shame about it.

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  • cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s mind-boggling. How many articles can they write about the latest Twitter clusterfuck, followed up immediately by “follow me on Twitter”, before they wonder if they’re the baddies?

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  • Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait until you hear about media contagion!

    This shit is par for the course.

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• HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You haven’t been paying much attention to the current state of journalism, have you?

  Twitter is a decent portion of their revenue stream, and given that none of us want to pay them for their efforts, what do you suggest they do?

  Those clicks are their livelihood & we’re all sitting here reading the article pasted directly to this thread.

  YOU ARE COMPLICIT IN THIS TOO.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The problem is, for the past 2 decades twitter WAS the default place for news. I can remember watching somebody live streaming FROM THE BOSTON BOMBING in real time. News outlets would KILL for that kind of up to the minute reporting. Plus, it was able to happen not from just one person, but a multitude of people from different perspectives, live on the scene, all without the news outlet needing to pay for a single dime of labor. It’s all just handed to them, from people not assosiated with the station, and therefore not paid, nor given any benefits.

  And this went on for almost 2 decades. Now the platform in the past 2 years has shrunk, but it’s still millions of users, compared to Mastodon which has something like less than 100k people last time I checked.

  So yes. For now it IS the default for news in real time. Even if the slant has dramatically shifted in a very short time. It takes time for people to change habbits. Mastodon needs to grow, and the fediverse needs to grow. Doing so will change the landscape of the internet, since the fediverse is built to be resistant to corporate takeover. Once it becomes the default, things will look very different. The problem is, if you walk out of your house, and walk to the mall, and ask 100 random people what the fediverse is, I’d be shocked if 1 of them knew. That’s where we are right now.

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