After six years, I’ve left @SixthTone. Or conditions were created for me to leave after publishing a project that criticized “zero-COVID,” which landed multiple people in hot water. It’s been bittersweet leaving a place we’ve built over the years but it was time.
(A long 🧵)
The chaos started in mid-January. I received a message from my immediate manager about our Year in Review 2022.
“Things are getting serious,” the text read.
By then, the project which I conceptualized and curated was already offline.