3 weeks into this mess, NYT finally clarifies their BS original statement implying I was fired for anything but tweets. 1/
Their position will continue to be that they were within their rights to let me go, but they've confirmed that there was no other reason beyond, in their view, several violations of their social media policy. 2/
And by "several" they mean the one "warning" I'd gotten a few months back over my "toxic masculinity" tweet and unnamed others they thought were "maybe borderline." I was told that other staffers had been tweeting way worse. 3/3
And that is the final word I will ever say about this. Thanks.
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1/ I've covered the virus since May. Here's what scares me most:
The vaccines are coming. They'll be shipped starting tomorrow before 7 a.m. That's fantastic news. 2/
But it's going to take months — months — to reach Americans who are not frontline health care workers or people in long-term care facilities. Even then, we'll all need 2nd doses 3 weeks after the first. 3/