Notices by Molly White (molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)

@bhcompy yep. that the name didn't reveal the crypto connection was a feature, not a bug

@rndeon https://sankeymatic.com/

@friendofdurutti see https://www.followthecrypto.org/spending

Visualizing cryptocurrency industry super PAC funding

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

@writescode i love all of these stickers

@parismarx @bcmerchant ooo congrats! i was wondering what surprise you had in store

@timothyjohnson mobilizing for legal defense where necessary. supporting the PRESS Act, state shield laws, and a federal anti-SLAPP law to proactively protect. building trust in media by supporting high quality reporters and newsrooms while pushing low quality ones to do better (or withdrawing support/boycotting)

@Beeks my fear is that the attacks on institutions like the NYT are seeking to undermine the underlying freedoms.

@Beeks https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113507794790779128

@timothyjohnson for which bit, opposing lawfare or holding institutions to account?

@richardgunther that makes two of us

if you applaud attacks and legal intimidation against “the media” and “journalists” because you are picturing the former, remember that it is ultimately the smaller fish who will suffer the most from it.

@richardgunther ... what

@noondlyt your distinction doesn’t matter. legal attacks on the big guys will hurt the independent journalists more than anyone.

@PJ_Evans they are not just threats. see his lawsuit against CBS News.

people talk about “the media” and “journalists” and they picture the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or cable news.

and sure, “the media” is the Big Five. but it’s also non-profit newsrooms, independent journalists, international and/or non-US publications, worker-owned media collectives, bloggers, local newsrooms, citizen journalists, podcasters, critics, community radio stations, documentary filmmakers, trade publications, freelancers, fact checkers...

#media #journalism

@Dame_ there is no amount of FA that should be used to justify taking away basic rights like free expression. there can be consequences for terrible reporting, but they should not come via weaponizing the courts against newsrooms (no matter how bad we think those newsrooms are)

@jawarajabbi we can mock them now! we should absolutely criticize and demand more from these outlets that have been letting us down, while also not abiding wholesale attacks on the free press.

it is scary to see people responding to trump’s baseless lawsuits against the NYT and others with a shrug because of their complaints about those outlets’ coverage of him.

we can oppose lawfare against media institutions AND ALSO hold those institutions properly to account for poor coverage.

allowing authoritarians to target media institutions you don’t like only works until they decide to start targeting the ones you do — often ones with far fewer resources than the NYT and its ilk.

don’t let the failures of some (major) news outlets disillusion you with media as a whole. and ESPECIALLY don’t let those failures desensitize you to attacks on free expression.

we can criticize media failures while also fiercely defending media freedom.

#journalism #media