Famed tech journalist deletes X account with epic rant at Elon Musk
www.independent.co.uk
Tech writer legend slams X owner Elon Musk for threatening to ban and sue the Anti-Defamation League

Veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg announced on Tuesday he was deactivating his X (formerly known as Twitter) account, saying Elon Musk’s takeover of the site turned it into a “cesspool.”

Mr Mossberg is a well-respected name and expert in the US tech writing industry, who also co-founded media sites such as Recode and AllThingsD. He announced his boycotting of X on Meta’s new platform Threads, saying his reasons revolve around business tycoon Mr Musk’s threats to sue the Anti-Defemation League (ADL).

  • Mongostein
    1192·
    9 months ago

    Hey Mr. Tech journalist, why don’t you write about federated communities and get off the corpo-web? Help us all out with that big name of yours I’ve never heard.

    Edit: oops. That was meant to be a top level comment. Whatever.

      • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
        15·
        9 months ago

        Building and maintaining his brand is a significant part of his job. Same with understanding what people may be interested in reading about to know how to steer stories and the like.

        If that’s your full time job then maybe dont outsource it to some random company that gets bought by some random dude…

        Yeah… Full time work is hard