In recent years, we became too comfortable letting #Twitter define journalism & media. Algorithms often dictated the narratives we collectively paid attention to.
Absurd trends were covered by news outlets & ballooned into major stories while we missed so much real substance. And the quick takes of uninformed politicians & bad actors were forced upon anyone participating in the network.
It was bad for democracy. The #Mastodon model makes me hopeful we can do better. #twittermigration
@Sheril I think social media led to a race to break the news, which in turn led to a drop in checking and quality control. It became necessary to publish first and apologise later for error, mistake and omission because being first with the news was all that mattered due to shares, likes and replies driving first posts into everyone's newsfeed.