New plan save the RFT includes zombie OnlyFans links

ST. LOUIS -- The Riverfront Times was sold in May and the staff was laid off. The newspaper's website and social media have appeared mostly dormant since then. Although there has been something odd going on in the background at this former alt-weekly and others across the United States. Now, we may have more answers after a post to the RFT's Twitter account.

Tweets from the main account are from the new executive editor, JD Davis. He says in the thread that he has a plan to save the Riverfront Times.

"I love the challenge of solving huge issues and right now the legacy publishing world is dying. I didn’t take this role just to keep RFT on life support while operating at a loss. I believe it can thrive," states Davis on X. "The historical writing on the site was aggressively opinionated, fraught with author bias and overwhelmingly negative. As a result, fewer people were reading it today than at any time in the last half century!"

Davis says that he does not plan on printing any new editions of the paper but plans to keep the website up-to-date. There will be local news updates, information about events like farmer's markets, and the section about marijuana legalization will remain active. He says that the comment section is going away and readers, "can enjoy the site without thinking we have an agenda."

There has been something odd going on for months behind...