Posted on 10/31/2022 10:26:22 AM PDT by JV3MRC
An editor for one of the most powerful liberal media outlets in the world is having a breakdown over the world’s richest man completing his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
Reuters U.S. Editor Lauren Silva Laughlin mourned that Twitter, “its employees, its new owners, its creditors and the rest of the world are probably worse off” now that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is Chief Twit. One of her core complaints was that Musk won’t be as zealous to silence free speech on Twitter as his notorious predecessors were. “[I]f Musk reinstates divisive tweeters like former U.S. President Donald Trump and fails to crack down on misinformation, the rest of the world will feel the consequences,” Laughlin wrote. More free speech? Oh the horror!
But this ridiculous conniption should come as no surprise for the same outlet that once spent column space fact-checking a clearly altered video showing President Joe Biden mindlessly following an ice-cream truck during a speech made by his wife Jill.
More than 1 billion people worldwide reportedly see Reuters’s coverage, which means Laughlin’s Armageddon doom-mongering about a Musk-owned Twitter and its effect on the "world" could easily reach hundreds of millions of readers, if not more.
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Lauren Silva had better join Taylor Lorenz in organizing a funeral wake service.
In fact the world is much worse off with those sharing your POV in control of anything.
Well I don’t use twitter. If I did, I suppose I would accept that it would be tied to my real name if that was the requirement to use it.
If someone is twittering around on the NYT twit feed, then I would think that the publisher or editor in chief, or maybe a specific person with the title of “editor of twits” would have to pre-approve every post like they would if it were going into newsprint.
Otherwise if you work for the NYT then I suppose you could post all the twitanities you wanted on your personal twitfeed. Of course, you would be known as a NYT employee and your posts might be more circumspect. Elon can post what he wants, the benefits of being the world’s richest man. Most everyone else, very publicly tied to a corporation, would have to moderate their behavior accordingly. Which may be why so many blue checks are going ape poo over the change in ownership. Sure, they can no longer easily call their friends in the censorship office to delete wrongthink posts but it goes deeper. Most of these twits make more money from being a personality than from their day jobs at the NYT. They can’t control the narrative and they can’t stop 10,000 people from mocking their twitsurdities.
I read that Rob Reiner twittered that Trump was directly responsible for the attack on Paul Pelosi and should be indicted. He’s either a brain dead moron or one of the greatest trolls that ever existed on that site.
“its employees, its new owners, its creditors and the rest of the world are probably worse off”
Probably? Quite the profile in courage with that hedge.
Everything has to go their way or they freak out. Threat to democracy, end of the world, etc.
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