‘Things Are Gonna Get a Lot Worse.’ Female Sports Reporters Are Worried About Elon Musk and Twitter

Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter, announced last week, has raised alarms for many marginalized groups often subject to online harassment. Musk has called himself a “free speech absolutionist” who wants people on Twitter to “have both the reality and the perception that they are able to speak freely within the bounds of the law.” Female journalists who cover sports for a living are often subject to a particularly cruel brand of online abuse. Across sports media, these women are worried. “Can’t imagine how female journos can stay on Twitter…