sarah jeong

@SaraMorrison so it’s just a mess. not saying there’s a hard and fast rule here, just that you have to make your own judgments +

@SaraMorrison stand by them, especially if your subject is angry at you for not contacting them before writing about them.

@sarahjeong ok. I thought she had permission from all sa survivors (but not @steenfox) to use their tweets.

@SaraMorrison I can totally see how the writer thought it was fine. It’s the arguments about legality that are making me mad.

@SaraMorrison there aren’t easy answers to which extent social media platforms are public or private, and I don’t think journalism should +

@SaraMorrison be limited to public information anyways (see, e.g., government leaks, whistleblowing). But when you’re writing +

@SaraMorrison about someone sympathetically, not adversarially, you have to navigate with care.

@SaraMorrison or just get called a dick, and deal with it, I guess