In my eyes, news outlets like for example ProPublica had started to lose respect, because they still use Twitter like nothing ever happened.

Why they don’t leave like what The Guardian did or like the other news outlets?

Are they too corporate internally to leave Twitter?

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    7 hours ago

    That’s a self fulfilling cycle. If more institutions and organisation left and made a public statement of not wanting to be associated with fascism, then it would push another bunch to have to defend why they didn’t think nazi salutes were a problem, and they’d leave too.

    Whether it makes enough of a wave to push major groups to leave is a question of public pressure, but that public pressure is expressed through “costly signalling” that show organisations have values and are willing to take a hit to live by them. And non-profits are exactly the groups who can afford to take a symbolic stand, and make things more difficult for those that remain.