Perhaps VW wants to see if there are alternatives to a platform owned by a person who also owns their direct competitor? Or perhaps VW sees the massive uptick

Perhaps VW wants to see if there are alternatives to a platform owned by a person who also owns their direct competitor? Or perhaps VW sees the massive uptick in Mastodon users and wants to get a leg up on their competition by going where their customers are going. Or perhaps VW doesn't want to tarnish the image of their brand in the eyes of their prospective customers by posting on a platform which is very rapidly relaxing moderation standards and has a CEO who appears sophomoric at best, unhinged at worst. Brands love stability; Elon provides little. I too wish the media would stop covering a lot of the twitter developments, but for a different reason: We shouldn't give unnecessary attention to narcissists. As far as twitter no longer aligning with the media / left's political interests, which interests are those? I don't see people throwing a fit because Paul Ryan tweeted about lowering taxes or reducing the deficit, they're mad because twitter is re-platforming people who have said or done things that the VAST majority of people think are objectively terrible. It is Elon's right to do whatever he wants with his platform, and it is everyone else's right to complain about it, including the media.