'Sad Day for Free Speech': Media Matters Layoffs Follow 'Thermonuclear' Attack by Elon Musk | Common Dreams
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"This is how free speech is actually chilled—vengeful dipshit billionaires," said one media executive, after more than a dozen staffers let go from nonprofit watchdog whose mission is to combat right-wing disinformation and propaganda.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15767168

‘Sad Day for Free Speech’: Media Matters Layoffs Follow ‘Thermonuclear’ Attack by Elon Musk

“This is how free speech is actually chilled—vengeful dipshit billionaires,” said one media executive, after more than a dozen staffers let go from nonprofit watchdog whose mission is to combat right-wing disinformation and propaganda.

  • woop_woop@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 months ago

    Weren’t they taken out because of the Hulk Hogan stuff? And Peter Thiel just bankrolled the lawsuit?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      272·
      6 months ago

      Yes. The lawsuit would not have happened without Thiel bankrolling it. And paying for very good lawyers.

      It doesn’t matter that Gawker did something wrong. That’s not the point. The National Enquirer did all the same shit but it still exists because no one who has sued it has been bankrolled by an angry billionaire.