Anyhow here's my own reasoning for myself. No judgment on anyone else! Thanks for all the good tweets and even the bad ones because they made me laugh. 👋

After watching the racism dial turn further and further on this site, I decided to try and publicly make as definitive a case as I could. We're so far past the point of no return that I'm out of excuses for myself. Been a good 15+ year run. Bye!

https://t.co/AfRPbHIUt9

Wrote about how Musk's purchase of Twitter (mass firings, financial chaos, no plan, turning it into a political weapon) are all seen as features, not bugs to Trump and MAGA elites. Musk's Twitter isn't just a success story, it's *the blueprint* for the federal govt in a second

What did @cwarzel get when he created a new X account, said he liked tech, culture, gaming & sports, and followed only ESPN? Posts by Musk, Trump and MAGA-influencers—along with recommendations to stock up on food, water and guns. https://t.co/ZQ7LP4Zjmz

...that pushes politics on people regardless of whether they want it (a specific politics, too)

It's a bullshit machine

Wrote about X's Election Integrity Community which is the purest distillation of using this platform as an efficient incitement machine/bullshit/paranoia engine. And how it is so very clear that this chaos is the return on Musk's $44 billion investment

personally, i feel like a lot of these things are true at once. but what is undeniable is that the loss of trust is so, so real. and i don't know how that gets repaired.

and a complicating factor is that the information environment is so fragmented that it's both really hard to know what information other ppl are getting...but also it's really easy to look at a sliver of the ecosystem and convince yourself you're getting a representative view

and...it seems like there's also a divide between people who work in media and see and really feel the limits of their influence and those outside the media who feel the media's influence or index it differently and think those people are idiots.

there's a camp that believes press has failed to meet the moment, others who believe if the press took a different tactic they could stop trump (great influence but wielded poorly), others see the legacy media as basically dead with no influence, & plenty who believe some combo

one defining quality of this election is it seems that both in and outside of the media...nobody really knows or can agree the level of influence the press has in the whole process right now

a tradition unlike any other

(hilariously the point is that there’s an entire bad faith industry trying to misrepresenting real things that are happening to fit their worldview and a mass of people who are happy to be lied to…which is essentially what’s happening with these quote tweets)

Great example of how platforms strip context. My story never mentions the words “free speech” or it “failing” or needing the govt to intervene. Not once! Not the point of the piece at all But thx to all these tweets from Musk et al ppl are certain that this is my argument (nope!)

they let me write the headline

this tweet makes me think of a few years back when people were talking about DeSantis and saying, 'imagine a candidate who is as shameless as and MAGA as Trump but has like a MODICUM of tact' (turns out that wasn't DeSantis)

the dude who originated the 'weird' critique is kind of abandoning that tonight

this is the asymmetry at work. shamelessness is usually a superpower in this type of format: lie and move on, deny and get indignant. earnestness is often a vulnerability. it sucks!