#Austria: Left-wing journalists leave #Musk's platform #X hand in hand

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Austria: Left-wing journalists leave Musk's platform X hand in hand

Departure mood on X: Austria's left-wing journalists are leaving the platform for Bluesky. The reason? Elon Musk, "super troll" and destroye...

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@melroy
Also good to know your adversaries. I #boycott all #GMA members (that’s the food lobby that ensured #GMO labelling fails in the US).

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It’s depressing how big the list of food brands is -- but it’s managable despite being all the brands you are likely familiar with. I have been boycotting all of them for over a decade so it can be done.

@madeindex @henry

The Great Boycott: Monsanto and the GMA

Defying repeated threats of a lawsuit from Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), on May 8, Peter Shumlin, Governor of Vermont, signed a historic bill requiring food manufacturers to label genetically engineered (GE) foods, and to …

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"NPR...reported that 'more than 1,600 digital subscriptions had been cancelled less than four hours after the news broke.'

It was a reasonable impulse. But if Bezos is indeed why the Post is no longer endorsing candidates, and if people are worried about his outsize influence on our society, they should not be canceling their newspaper subscriptions. They should be canceling their Amazon Prime subscriptions."

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#1A #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #boycott #USpol

Cancel Amazon Prime, Not ‘The Washington Post’

The subscription money enriching Jeff Bezos could instead be spent on the journalism crucial to preserving democracy.

^{Ellen Cushing (The Atlantic)}