Elon Musk’s Unfounded Attacks on a Las Vegas Reporter Are a New Low in His Thuggery https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-...-vegas-reporter-are-a-new-low-in-his-thuggery
This is what Musk uses Twitter 2.0 for... A reporter made sure a retired police chief’s death didn’t go uncovered. Then social media attacked her. The Las Vegas Review-Journal is facing a harassment campaign stoked by Elon Musk, one year after a reporter was killed for his coverage. https://www.poynter.org/reporting-e...-go-uncovered-then-social-media-attacked-her/ When retired police chief Andreas Probst was killed in a hit-and-run last month, Las Vegas Review-Journal crime reporter Sabrina Schnur was the first journalist to arrive on the scene. Schnur was also the first local reporter to talk to Probst’s family, penning an obituary to ensure that his widow’s and daughter’s voices would be heard. And she was the reporter who instructed a source with video footage of the killing to go to the police, just nine hours before police announced a murder charge in the case. But despite her work documenting Probst’s death, Schnur became the target of anti-Semitic attacks and death wishes over the weekend as social media users questioned why the “media” wasn’t properly covering the attack. Screenshots of the month-old obituary’s headline sparked outrage among readers who falsely assumed the Review-Journal was downplaying Probst’s death. The obituary originally ran on Aug. 18 with the headline “Retired police chief killed in bike crash remembered for laugh, love of coffee.” At that point, police did not yet know that the killing was intentional. Thirteen days later, on Aug. 31, a source approached Schnur with a video showing the driver in the crash intentionally hitting Probst and laughing about it with the passenger. She connected the source with the police, and the Review-Journal covered the subsequent murder charge. But when that video went viral over the weekend, social media users shared screenshots of the old obituary, taking issue with the phrase “bike crash.” They filled Schnur’s inbox and social media mentions with increasingly personal attacks and accused her of being anti-white. They shared her photo and made anti-Semitic comments. They circulated her office phone number and told her that they hoped she would get cancer, that they hoped she would die. They found her private social media accounts and dug through her Twitter, unearthing posts she’d made as a teenager, going as far back as 2015. “That’s what started to scare me — if they’re taking the time to go through my Twitter, what else are they taking the time to find on me?” Schnur said. “I started to piece together, OK, if I was going to just cyber stalk someone, what things would they be able to find on me? I started to feel genuinely unsafe at that point.” On Sunday morning, Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, amplified one of the screenshots, posting “An innocent man was murdered in cold blood while riding his bicycle. The killers joked about it on social media Yet, where is the media outrage? Now you begin to understand the lie.” That post had 68.2 million views as of Monday evening. A request for comment sent to X generated an automated email response. The Review-Journal’s social media accounts and other staff also received vicious attacks. When Schnur shared that she’d received 700 notifications on X and an onslaught of angry emails and voicemails, editors jumped in to support her and make sure she was safe. Executive editor Glenn Cook said that during his 30-plus years in journalism, he’d never seen vitriol of this volume or intensity. “It’s like a fire hose of hatred to the face,” he wrote in a column about the social media outrage. In an attempt to slow the harassment, editors changed the Aug. 18 obituary’s headline — which Schnur did not write — so that it read “hit-and-run” instead of “bike crash.” The Review-Journal then published a story about the online harassment in an attempt to correct the record. Cook told staff scheduled to work on Sunday not to come into the office as a safety precaution. “We know firsthand that social media vitriol can turn into something worse,” Cook said. “That’s one of the takeaways from what we dealt with with Jeff German’s murder.” German was an investigative reporter for the Review-Journal who was found stabbed to death outside his home a year ago. Police later arrested former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, who had been the subject of German’s reporting. Before German’s death, Telles had made angry social media posts referencing the journalist and his work. Sept. 2 marked the one-year anniversary of German’s death, which Cook said is still fresh on his staff’s minds. On social media, users resurfaced posts about the anniversary and mocked his death. “We watch this a lot more carefully than I think other news organizations might, and we’re sensitive to it,” Cook said. “If someone is trolling (our staff) in an especially nasty way, we want to know about it. We want to know because of what we went through with Jeff. The days of us blowing off social media vitriol as trolls being trolls — those ended for us last year. We’re never going back to that space.” Cook said that the paper has already contacted the police about one death threat stemming from the weekend barrage of harassment. At Schnur’s request, the paper also went through her email and voicemail so that she wouldn’t have to read or hear the hateful messages. Sunday “felt like a funeral,” Schnur said. She spent much of the day crying and trying not to take the messages to heart. Then she hosted an endless parade of people bringing her food and offering to sit with her. And then, at the end of the day, she packed up her belongings and moved out of her apartment. She had to leave anyway because her air conditioning was broken, but due to the harassment, she plans on staying away for a few more days. She’s not sure when she’ll feel comfortable going back. Schnur has also watched the harassment campaign go after the people close to her. On X, Schnur regularly shares her colleagues’ and friends’ work, and their mentions have now been flooded with hateful comments. She worries for her parents and has urged them to take precautions like avoiding their front yard and not leaving the garage open. She reminded them that German was found lying next to his house, a place he had presumably felt safe. While on a phone call with her mom Sunday, Schnur overheard her mom telling her dad in a hushed voice that there was someone at the door. “I could hear the fear in her voice,” Schnur said. “There was no one there, but just for a moment, my heart broke. … Because of work that I did and people potentially trying to find where I live, my mom has to be scared of her front door.” Schnur’s editors offered to let her take time off, but she was back at work Monday morning at 6 a.m. She had an interview scheduled with the mother of a 24-year-old man who was shot Sept. 10. The mother told Schnur that because her son was a Black man with tattoos, she felt like people were shunning her story and making false assumptions about her son. The last thing Schnur wanted to do was not call the woman and give her the impression that she also didn’t care: “It’s a story I’m passionate about. No one else was covering it, and I think it matters.” One of Schnur’s top priorities as a crime reporter is making sure every homicide victim has “a name and a face and a family and a story.” She plans to continue covering Probst’s homicide. The driver suspected of killing him is a minor, and Schnur is the only reporter in the area who regularly covers juvenile court. “I’ve put in 110% on this case because the family has asked for it, because the family has been brave enough to come forward, because it’s a ruthless case — but also because it’s a case on my beat,” Schnur said. “I’m not going to put my life on hold because I’m upset or, frankly, that I’m scared. I can go somewhere where I’m a little bit less scared and keep up with the stories that I care about. “I’m not going to stop writing because some people on Twitter are upset.”
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LOl... another Twitter 2.0 complete fail. X/Twitter CEO Shares Video Ad That Features Tweets Dunking on Elon Musk One of X’s latest ads included some critical tweets, but CEO Linda Yaccarino reposted the ad without them claiming they made a new 'high-res version.' https://gizmodo.com/x-twitter-ceo-shares-ad-tweets-criticize-elon-musk-1850862068
I have to say that overall the Reader added content has been very sensible ...unlike the opinions of the old owners
Whine and cry harder, Elon. Every day gets more pathetic. Elon Musk keeps publicly begging celebrities to post on X and gets pouty if they choose other platforms https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-begs-taylor-swift-tucker-carlson-to-post-x-2023-9 Elon Musk, the embattled CEO of X (formerly Twitter), keeps tweeting at celebs to use his platform. Musk suggested Taylor Swift post her music on X and complained that Russell Brand was using Rumble. Under Musk, X (formerly Twitter) has lost half its ad revenue and is bleeding users. (More at above url)
I understand what has happened to twitter. Its the same story that Portney exposed with the WoPo reporter. The press send emails to the advertisers saying they are doing a story of advertisers on Twitter, and how they feel about supporting a owner who is ______( fill in the blank) racist, misogynist, anti-Semitic, trans-phobe ..etc Its amazing how half the advertisers left all at the same time......Its a cartel of journalists and Democrats who go after advertisers by threatening to write hit pieces.....Its happened to all Conservative media
That is quite a twist on reality you push. Tell us why would any advertiser want their ads displaying right next to neo-Nazi content -- and then having the owner of the platform promoting the neo-Nazi content. The fall of Twitter is directly due to Elon Musk's actions.
The SpaceX engineers briefed him on all the safety reviews and requirements they had endured. “Getting the license was existentially soul - sucking,” Juncosa said. Shana Diez and Jake McKenzie provided details. “My fucking brain is hurting,” Musk said, holding his head. “I’m trying to figure out how we get humanity to Mars with all this bullshit.” He processed in silence for two minutes, and when he emerged from his trance, he was philosophical. “This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. And when they quit taking risks, their arteries harden. Every year there are more referees and fewer doers.” That’s why America could no longer build things like high-speed rail or rockets that go to the moon. “When you’ve had success for too long, you lose the desire to take risks.”
fucking clown. Cali has no high speed rail because politician POS's were enamored and full on the Elon cult so listened to him when he bashed it to favor his EV and stupid tunnel half baked ideas. Nobody gives a shit about landing men on Mars outside easily impressed idiots. The Soviets landed probes on Venus over 50 yrs ago, who gives a shit about visiting inhospitable hellscapes other than for a dick measuring "I did it first" contest?