Twitter's Broken + News Media Still Hasn't Caught Up.
People depended on Twitter for news, then Twitter broke: CC #250
In this issue: How Twitter/X did some really weird things and broke their business and how the news media didn’t really catch up on it and how Syrian Civil War atrocity videos are recycled over and over again for every conflict around the world. Good luck finding out what isn’t bullshit!
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Once upon a time, there was Twitter. Remember Twitter? The social media platform with the revolving door CEOs and the benign neglect and the undervalued ad inventory and the weird quirks that somehow, against all odds, became both the world’s defacto chat room …
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