Ehh, it makes sense. This is thunderous news, and whitehouse admins are always leaky sieves. You can’t share this beforehand at all except to likely a literal handful of people.
When its time for it to go public, you post it on what is sadly still the biggest network possible, so it hits all the airwaves at once. Once its posted, it becomes “the one and only” statement. They arent going to summarize it in an email that would clearly leak. They maybe could have copy/pasted, but I dont see this as a big deal.
I don’t think anyone should be using “X” at this point. I sure as fuck am not going on some fascist oligarch network to receive communications from my boss or elected officials. They need to find something else.
I don’t get it, either. The White House has a website, which is certainly a place they could announce it. Further, there’s nothing stopping the government from hosting their own Mastodon instance, specifically for communications like that. Using X seems like an endorsement of the platform, and the person currently calling the shots.
Right, if they just published it on their own website, it would be all over the internet very quickly. I agree that government agencies should just run a Mastodon instance too. They don’t need the reach of TwitX for anything. It’s a dying, for profit platform run by a total scumbag who is currently trying to put his thumb on the scales for Republicans, why would the Biden admin use it for official announcements? Let someone else post it on ‘X’.
While I agree it makes some sense to not warn the team ahead of time, pointing employees to twitter for an announcement like this is absurd. Like, how hard would it be to attach the same document to the very same email they sent out telling them to go to twitter?
Harder than linking, and possible that some other data is leaked in the documents, like metadata or some such. Any of that data would be leaked to the press.
I dont consider it difficult to copy/paste text into an email, so the singular link to twitter to is distasteful to me. No one on lemmy is going to like it because we all have strong opinions on consolidated social media, or else we wouldn’t be here.
These are Whitehouse staffers though. They have Twitter accounts because they have to. It’s a bit weird, but whatever. It got done.
Ehh, it makes sense. This is thunderous news, and whitehouse admins are always leaky sieves. You can’t share this beforehand at all except to likely a literal handful of people.
When its time for it to go public, you post it on what is sadly still the biggest network possible, so it hits all the airwaves at once. Once its posted, it becomes “the one and only” statement. They arent going to summarize it in an email that would clearly leak. They maybe could have copy/pasted, but I dont see this as a big deal.
I don’t think anyone should be using “X” at this point. I sure as fuck am not going on some fascist oligarch network to receive communications from my boss or elected officials. They need to find something else.
I don’t get it, either. The White House has a website, which is certainly a place they could announce it. Further, there’s nothing stopping the government from hosting their own Mastodon instance, specifically for communications like that. Using X seems like an endorsement of the platform, and the person currently calling the shots.
Right, if they just published it on their own website, it would be all over the internet very quickly. I agree that government agencies should just run a Mastodon instance too. They don’t need the reach of TwitX for anything. It’s a dying, for profit platform run by a total scumbag who is currently trying to put his thumb on the scales for Republicans, why would the Biden admin use it for official announcements? Let someone else post it on ‘X’.
While I agree it makes some sense to not warn the team ahead of time, pointing employees to twitter for an announcement like this is absurd. Like, how hard would it be to attach the same document to the very same email they sent out telling them to go to twitter?
Harder than linking, and possible that some other data is leaked in the documents, like metadata or some such. Any of that data would be leaked to the press.
I dont consider it difficult to copy/paste text into an email, so the singular link to twitter to is distasteful to me. No one on lemmy is going to like it because we all have strong opinions on consolidated social media, or else we wouldn’t be here.
These are Whitehouse staffers though. They have Twitter accounts because they have to. It’s a bit weird, but whatever. It got done.