Kerry Washington Backs Black-Owned Alternative to Twitter [Video]

One of the most disturbing things about billionaire tech leader Elon Musk’s insistence on backing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is that he’s the CEO of X, the massive social media platform which reported more than 170 million daily active users worldwide on its mobile app in February 2024.

Considering many of X’s Black users — who have made Black Twitter a thing of legend over the years — don’t believe that Trump has our best interests at heart, some have attempted to create other digital spaces for us to shed that X business, and they’re being helped by the likes of Kerry Washington.

Washington is throwing a major investment into SPILL, a Black-owned Twitter alternative created by Alphonzo Terrell, one of the nearly 4,000 employees laid off from the social media platform formerly known as Twitter when Musk acquired the company in November 2022 for $44 billion.

Rather than sulking over …