Tech writer legend slams X owner Elon Musk for threatening to ban and sue the Anti-Defamation League
Veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg announced on Tuesday he was deactivating his X (formerly known as Twitter) account, saying Elon Musk’s takeover of the site turned it into a “cesspool.”
Mr Mossberg is a well-respected name and expert in the US tech writing industry, who also co-founded media sites such as Recode and AllThingsD. He announced his boycotting of X on Meta’s new platform Threads, saying his reasons revolve around business tycoon Mr Musk’s threats to sue the Anti-Defemation League (ADL).
Hey Mr. Tech journalist, why don’t you write about federated communities and get off the corpo-web? Help us all out with that big name of yours I’ve never heard.
Edit: oops. That was meant to be a top level comment. Whatever.
I would be shocked if he or his colleagues haven't written about federated communities and the like.
But if he will have no engagement or meaningful interactions, why would he waste time managing and understanding social media for another platform? Like, this isn't someone just shitposting. Building and maintaining his brand is a significant part of his job. Same with understanding what people may be interested in reading about to know how to steer stories and the like.
And we very much learned from the olden days that just mirroring the same post to every site doesn't really do anything positive and mostly pisses people off when they realize they aren't the audience.
He looks over 60, so he likely saw all the trans people and rainbows thriving there and his innate Boomer deep fear of something novel and amazing and different took over.
How much of an "expert" is this tech guy really? (sarcasm) But seriously, he's left multiple corporate platforms before, like Facebook and now Twitter. If only there was some non-corporate controlled social media that he could use to talk to people. If only.....
Let's see all the people who complain about Twitter and Musk and post it ON TWITTER.
If even 1/2 these clowns that claim to hate him and what he's done simply deleted their accounts, the entire site would collapse. Instead they literally prop-up that toxic site by continuing to use it. Fucken hypocrites.
you sir, are a minimizing cunt, who likes to diminish any legitimate gripe and charge being made, to what musk, personally has done, has caused, has invited into the general sphere. you are not smart, you are running interference for nazis, "well, they were already there so attacking the adl for stealing his advertising revenue is no big deal". enjoy your undue unearned moral superiority. we know, we know, you "live in a society". putz.