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Tiffany Li

Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on . Please follow and boost:

Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell

Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan

Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa

Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee

Tony Webster
@tony

Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder

@nuxnix it's usually cat days here, hopefully we can have some dog days also.

@sheshe @babyrazzs @nuxnix this is not a dog, it is a mythical beast of stunning beauty.

@sheshe @babyrazzs @nuxnix Love! I have a Silken Windhound, had two, Romeo and now Cotton, and everyone thinks they are Salukis! I can see why. Poppy is beautiful! Here's a picture of me and my very first Silken, Romeo, the day that we met.

@babyrazzs @nuxnix well, that's a good thing for me...my cats (and horses) are my life! Or at least they're keeping me alive right now. Here's one giving me big cuddles after recent surgery.

@babyrazzs @nuxnix There are doggo hashtags, like #dogsofmastodon and #mastodogs Welcome to the fun place!

@nuxnix #FollowFriday is a thing, tho' not as big a thing as on twt. There are also some really fun hashtags like #WindowFriday #thicktrunktuesday and #mosstodon. You can also follow hashtags here, but just be aware it's not available to add them on all apps. For example, I use Tusky on my phone but have to use my laptop to add hashtags I want to follow.

@akaBeth10 in case it helps, in Tusky when I tap a hashtag, there's a (sort of confusing) "person with a plus sign" button at the top right, which follows the hashtag.

@nuxnix

@ahills @nuxnix How nice it's been added in a recent update. Yay!

@MaureenMS @tiffanycli @drewharwell @donieosullivan @w7voa @micahflee @tony @MattBinder
None of y'all still get it, Elon Musk was born apartheid minded in white supremacist South Africa era, all his outbursts presently isn't surprising especially his seemly lackadaisical support of Donald J.Trump and all his bullshits on redefining freespeech.

South Africa is where Elon Musk past lies and know one cares to dig into it. Maybe his family once own slaves before Nelson Mandela set them free✍️

@tiffanycli @drewharwell @donieosullivan @w7voa @micahflee @tony @MattBinder

What did they do? If it was bad, why would I follow them here? Just because it was Musk that banned them, it doesn't mean it wasn't without good reason. Which of them is really abusing their power? Need more info.

@AndyLGAtkins The reason to follow them is: if they post good content.
Costs you nothing to follow, and if you don't think they post good content, unfollow.
If you want to check them out before clicking follow, that's fine too, and in your own power to do rather than asking others to do your research for you.

@BenAveling @AndyLGAtkins Exactly, Ben. I’m blocking the one from The Intercept on principle and vetting the others before following.

@BenAveling @AndyLGAtkins and to fill out some details, they were investigating the elonjet suspension, and had revealed that Musk was lying about the events that led to the suspension.

@AndyLGAtkins
we call it free press and they are free press. Musk has a hard time with free press when it's about him.

@AndyLGAtkins @tiffanycli @drewharwell @donieosullivan @w7voa @micahflee @tony @MattBinder
They were scathing about Musk. Do your research, if you like what they write then follow them. If you don't, don't. Simple.

@AndyLGAtkins @tiffanycli @drewharwell @donieosullivan @w7voa @micahflee @tony @MattBinder He said, it is only a 7 day ban and he put a poll up saying that he may give them back their account sooner if people vote for it.

@Paperlate Hopefully they all don’t return even if unbanned and traction is gained here. Clearly Twitter isn’t a stable platform for Journalists. It’s not like this won’t happen again.

@AndyLGAtkins @tiffanycli @drewharwell @donieosullivan @w7voa @micahflee @tony @MattBinder could it be that they were critical of Elon Musk's so called free speech platform that actually limited influencers free speech if he doesn't agree?

@w7voa @drewharwell @micahflee @donieosullivan @tiffanycli @AndyLGAtkins @tony @MattBinder it looks like in some cases, all they did was *report* on the fact that the Mastodon account on Twitter was banned for sharing the ElonJet account. Even if you consider ElonJet to be doxxing, this seems like quite a stretch of Twitter policy: techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/twit

consent.yahoo.comTechCrunch is part of the Yahoo family of brands

@AndyLGAtkins @tiffanycli @drewharwell @donieosullivan @w7voa @micahflee @tony @MattBinder abusing their ' power?' I'd say the man with ' power' who didn't like what they said is the one who abused it. Elon takes about free speech but does everything he can to stop any he feels isn't in his ' interest'. He's taking Twitter into the sewer.

@Lesliesez @tiffanycli @drewharwell @donieosullivan @w7voa @micahflee @tony @MattBinder

Just maintaining a healthy cynicism. You can't take everything as read, without full information. FWIW I'm weaning myself off Twitter since the takeover.

@AndyLGAtkins @tiffanycli @drewharwell @donieosullivan @w7voa @micahflee @tony @MattBinder I left Twitter the minute the deal went through. My understanding is he blocked journalists that even mentioned the public information about the location of his private jet. Easily available info.

@AndyLGAtkins @tiffanycli @drewharwell @donieosullivan @w7voa @micahflee @tony @MattBinder they mentioned the jet tracker having accounts places other than Twitter and/or linked to the public flight information. He's been banning anyone who mentions those other accounts, including literally banning the Twitter account for mastodon and all links over here.

@AndyLGAtkins @tiffanycli @drewharwell @donieosullivan @w7voa @micahflee @tony @MattBinder they posted a link to social media sites that track Elon musks private jet in their articles. Public information that Elon banned from Twitter because he’s apparently a god