Media privilege speaking: She uses her column to argue others should not use the venues available to them to speak and be heard.
Also: If we are to judge any medium by the worst it carries, then newspapers as a genre have much to answer for.
Given the toxicity of social media, a moral question now faces all of us: is it still ethical to use it?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/14/toxicity-social-media-ethical-racism-misogyny-far-right
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@jeffjarvis
Ethical to continue using Meta platforms? X? Not in my worldview.
@jeffjarvis This journalistic commentary has one big fail: She doesn't mention the #Fediverse / #Mastodon being a real chance against toxic algorithm-driven social media.
And like so many colleagues she doesn't mention any alternatives to #Substack like #Ghost or #Steady.