Elon Musk & Twitter thread (updates) -- free speech and information control unrest

[stryder]

X really is turning into the world's foremost source of breaking, and otherwise ignored and excluded news.

Where else could you follow Poland's reaction to Russian drone incursions as it happened in real time? The legacy media? Crickets. Now that it's winding down, I don't really expect them to say anything.

https://www.scivillage.com/thread-11744-...l#pid75805

And X's political power is growing as well. The latest example of that was the appalling stabbing death of Iryna Zarutska on the light rail train in Charlotte NC. While local news in Charlotte covered it, none of the national media (the broadcast networks, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, NYT, WaPo and all the rest) mentioned it even once... until it became a topic of discussion and outrage on X. Only then did the legacy media deign to write stories about it. Because they were more or less forced to. By the voices of countless people on X. Democracy in journalism, where the people decide for themselves what is important and create their own narratives.

Legacy media was suppose to be Cross the T's dot the I's. Social media as informative as it might be can be a mix-bag of real events, fictional events and whats hypothesised in-between (especially with Deepfake). While it can aid in trying to get to grips with what is happening, sources are important. (It should also be considered that legacy media usually "protects the identify of people that whistle blow". Social media can allow the whistleblowers to be exposed which can be dangerous for them. Does X have a "Witsec" for Whistleblowers? Or is it just a Trolly problem where the Advertising wins?

[Syne]

And X's political power is growing as well. The latest example of that was the appalling stabbing death of Iryna Zarutska on the light rail train in Charlotte NC. While local news in Charlotte covered it, none of the national media (the broadcast networks, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, NYT, WaPo and all the rest) mentioned it even once... until it became a topic of discussion and outrage on X. Only then did the legacy media deign to write stories about it. Because they were more or less forced to. By the voices of countless people on X. Democracy in journalism, where the people decide for themselves what is important and create their own narratives.

The legacy media that has covered it seem to either sympathize with the murderer ("he was hurting") or try to blame Republicans for having the gall to notice.
Because this proves that Democrat cashless bail and other soft-on-crime policies, that let this 14-time convicted criminal out on his own recognizance, endanger citizens... including a Ukrainian refugee (that many of these same Democrats support, with Ukrainian flags in their social media).

People like Van Jones (e.g. "he was hurting") have the temerity to claim this murderer's mother would have bailed him out, while his own mother says he was mentally ill and should have been in jail. And then Jones hypocritically whines about it being made into a racial issue, when that is the first go-to in any case where the races are reversed.

There's video of the girl immediately after the stabbing. It's absolutely heartbreaking. It's not graphic (other then knowing she is bleeding out), but I don't really advise anyone to watch it. It stays with you. Maybe leftists should watch it though. Try to exercise the empathy they tout and see if they have the humanity to want animals like this murder put down. Or like everything else, is their empathy secondary to their political agenda?