[Air-L] Twitter Journalist Suspensions

[Dr. Emma Briant]

Btw... on the subject of 'what we do' and Twitter this insightful podcast
with Emily Bell is excellent:
https://www.cjr.org/podcast/the-tow-centers-emily-bell-musks-twitter-is-openly-hostile-to-journalists-what-should-we-do.php


And...  Thank you Rick... I am about 80-90% decided on making this
decision. It's difficult because it's also one way I connect with people in
networks I need to access *outside academia* for research.

Emma

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 8:34 AM Richard Forno <rick at rickf.org> wrote:

>
> TweetDelete.Net is your friend for this, and what I've recommended others
> to use to purge much of their Twitter footprint.  I used it for years to
> delete all tweets after 2 weeks, but you can do them all in one fell swoop
> -- though you might need to pay $10 to do more than a handful at a time.
> It doesn't handle DMs or Favorites, though.    (Mastodon has auto-delete as
> a built-in feature already, which is great, btw!)
>
> FWIW saying I'm leaving my Twitter account up just as a placeholder and to
> receive DMs from the (few) people I care about still residing on the
> platform.  But I pretty much never check it and/or even glance at what's
> "trending" over there anymore.
>
> Despite the constant stream of outrage and controversy, I suspect silence
> and a lack of user 'engagement' on Twitter the platform will do more damage
> to the Chief Twit's snowflakey ego and Twitter's clickbait-driven
> financials as a form of #resistance than anything else.
>
> -- rick
> @rickf at indieweb.social
>
>
> On 15 Dec 2022, at 22:47, Dr. Emma Briant via Air-L wrote:
>
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > I’m sure all will agree that the mass censorship of, I think now 11
> > journalists from major news organisations today by Elon Musk is
> incredibly
> > disturbing. I am wondering how one deletes all one’s tweets? Anyone know?
> > I’m considering doing this but leaving my account as a placeholder, so I
> am
> > not leaving that data there, and removing myself at this point from the
> > platform. I was hoping not to do this, given that I network in Twitter
> for
> > my research on propaganda and develop contacts. But this obviously
> crosses
> > such a line. People need to push back somehow not just move to mastodon ,
> > but I’m honestly not sure how. I’m trying to process the implications and
> > wondered other’s thoughts on this latest development.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Emma
> > --
> > Dr Emma L Briant
> >
> > Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC
> > Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and
> Society
> > Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting &
> > Accountability
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> >
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> > Change *from
> > Manchester University Press
> > Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr.
> Pauline
> > Donald from Pluto Press.
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-- 
Dr Emma L Briant

Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC
Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and Society
Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting &
Accountability
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant
Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk

Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global
Change *from
Manchester University Press
Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline
Donald from Pluto Press.
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