Unfortunately this seems to be a trend nowadays - outrage against a company's [in]action, then they do just enough to catch some positive headlines, and people forget about it. I'm not even...
Unfortunately this seems to be a trend nowadays - outrage against a company's [in]action, then they do just enough to catch some positive headlines, and people forget about it. I'm not even entirely sure what would be a good solution to this when most news networks are operating only to maximize views/clicks/profits.
I'm sure it's entirely coincidental that Twitter takes action on Alex Jones only after ~50k people blocked the Twitter accounts of major advertisers. Still feels like too little, too late, though.
There's a bit more info in this tweet thread from a Buzzfeed News reporter, including that Alex Jones had a pre-scheduled tweet go out after the account was limited, which seems to be a loophole...
There's a bit more info in this tweet thread from a Buzzfeed News reporter, including that Alex Jones had a pre-scheduled tweet go out after the account was limited, which seems to be a loophole they need to fix.
Unfortunately this seems to be a trend nowadays - outrage against a company's [in]action, then they do just enough to catch some positive headlines, and people forget about it. I'm not even entirely sure what would be a good solution to this when most news networks are operating only to maximize views/clicks/profits.
I'm sure it's entirely coincidental that Twitter takes action on Alex Jones only after ~50k people blocked the Twitter accounts of major advertisers.
Still feels like too little, too late, though.
There's a bit more info in this tweet thread from a Buzzfeed News reporter, including that Alex Jones had a pre-scheduled tweet go out after the account was limited, which seems to be a loophole they need to fix.
I wonder if Jones will try Mastodon next?