2024/08/02

Media Still Hooked on Musk’s Rotting Social Network

“They refuse to leave the party even though they hate the host and think he might have poisoned the drinks. The band plays on, while we wonder with every step whose tune it is we’re dancing to.”
– Technology writer Molly Roberts, on the media’s addiction to X, despite the platform’s deterioration and overt right-wing shift under Elon Musk. “Unless the entirety of the political elite settles on an alternative, the movers and shakers will continue to move and shake on X—acting as if it’s still Twitter,” Roberts writes.
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