NEXTA is a news aggregator staffed primarily by journalists from Belarus who are in exile because of the repressive pro-Putin régime in their native country.
In the tweet posted above they show how Putin’s bots are taking advantage of Elon Musk’s mismanagement of Twitter.
It’s doubtful that Musk cares about NEXTA’s problem, he has sporadically parroted the Kremlin’s line about the invasion of Ukraine. He probably is happy that Putin is able to squelch opposition voices.
Rather than wait in vain for Musk to do something (sorry NEXTA, he won’t), legit news organizations should form a consortium and launch a new microblogging platform which concentrates on news and current affairs and is bot resistant. Only member news organizations could post though visitors could repost on other platforms or forward stories to friends. This would effectively become a news feed to replace ones on Facebook and other platforms.
Twitter will only continue to deteriorate under Musk. It’s time to work on something new before Twitter becomes totally unusable.
@nexta_tv – perhaps you should consider posting at Tumblr. 😎
