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Sources: analysis shows a message from Saudi Crown Prince MbS' WhatsApp account to Jeff Bezos in 2018 included file “highly” likely to have hacked Bezos' phone — Revealed: the Saudi heir and the alleged plot to undermine Jeff Bezos — ‘People are fearful’: New Zealand police admit gang violence is out of control
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Saudi Embassy / @saudiembassyusa: Recent media reports that suggest the Kingdom is behind a hacking of Mr. Jeff Bezos' phone are absurd. We call for an investigation on these claims so that we can have all the facts out.
OHCHR: UN experts call for investigation into allegations that Saudi Crown Prince involved in hacking of Jeff Bezos' phone
Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times: Saudi crown prince implicated in hacking of Jeff Bezos's phone
Michael Schwirtz / New York Times: U.N. Experts Call for Inquiry Into Hack of Bezos's Phone
Joe Bernstein / @bernstein: Wait, did MBS send Jeff Bezos divorced-guy/MRA memes? https://twitter.com/...
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast: Saudi Prince Taunted Jeff Bezos Over Secret Affair Before Enquirer Exposé
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: UN calls for investigation after Saudis linked to Bezos phone hack
Chris Roberts / Observer: New Report: Saudi Crown Prince MBS ‘Personally’ Hacked Jeff Bezos' Phone Via WhatsApp
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: Bezos' Phone Was Likely Hacked by Chat Account Linked to Saudi Prince, Audit Finds
Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf: Few new details in our story about how Bezos phone was hacked with help from MBS. The FTI report explains in great detail why they believe the Saudis, and specifically MBS, sent a text loaded with malware to Bezos. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Aki Peritz / @akiperitz: Jeff Bezos' obvious move is to sue the firms that provided this tech to the Saudis into the ground. In every jurisdiction. Show there are serious financial consequences to hacking private citizens. Burn these companies to the ground with your infinite wealth. https://twitter.com/...
Murtaza M. Hussain / @mazmhussain: The guy literally murdered a Washington Post journalist and personally hacked the phone of its wealthy funder. If there is this much impunity at even the elite level what hope do ordinary people have. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: When this headline says “Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone ‘hacked by Saudi crown prince’” it doesn't mean it figuratively — Mohamed bin Salman personally hacked Jeff Bezos' phone. Incredible. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Chris Bing / @bing_chris: Per this report: Bezos was in a WhatsApp chat with Saudi's MBS when unprompted the crown prince sent him a random file. The file it appears contained malware, which allowed Bezos' phone to be hacked ... leading to leaks of photos designed to embarass him https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Robert Hackett / Fortune: U.N. calls for ‘immediate investigation’ into Jeff Bezos phone hack allegedly involving Saudi Crown Prince
Avie Schneider / NPR: U.N. Urges Probe Of Reported Hacking Of Jeff Bezos' Phone By Saudi Arabia
Sahar Esfandiari / Business Insider: CNN anchor Jake Tapper trolled the Saudi government, saying Jamal Khashoggi could have investigated …
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: Great idea. There was a respected Washington Post columnist who i would love to have investigate the matter but you killed him https://twitter.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: Saudi magical realism is Mohamed bin Salman looking at Jeff Bezos' hacked emails, discovered Bezos had been privately warned via email about Saudi hacking, and sending Bezos a message telling him to ignore that warning he got https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Taub / @jentaub: Oh. So the same guy who ordered the murder and dismemberment of a US-based journalist also hacked into an American billionaire's phone to get compromising information to pressure him to back off speaking out about that murder? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Maybe we can tie this altogether with an even more fantastic story: MBS infects Bezos phone, grabs the dick pics etc and then routes them to Fredo, who then sells them to the Enquirer. Seems like an unnecessary, baroque bank shot but...
Raf Sanchez / @rafsanchez: This is absolutely wild. The UN says MBS personally texted Bezos a message implying that he knew the Amazon founder was having an affair. He sent it on Nov 8, 2018 as Saudi was desperately looking for a way to curb Washington Post's coverage of Khashoggi's murder. https://twitter.com/...
Guillaume Chaslot / @gchaslot: What's most crazy about the hack of Bezos' phone by MBS? - That Bezos did click on it - That MBS feels untouchable enough to do that - That WhatsApp (so Facebook) has no safety warning for this clear security vulnerability https://twitter.com/...
Ivan Mehta / The Next Web: Jeff Bezos' WhatsApp hack is a stark reminder of how anyone can be hacked
Russell Brandom / The Verge: UN calls for immediate investigation into Saudi role in Jeff Bezos hack
Nat Levy / GeekWire: Jeff Bezos phone hack: U.N. calls for ‘immediate investigation’ into Saudi crown prince's involvement
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: Pulling back a bit: the Saudis likely used Israeli tech (as WaPo reported) to hack Bezos, the enemy in common of MBS and Trump. https://twitter.com/...
@mikko: The scandal is based on a forensic analysis concluding with ‘medium to high confidence’ that the iPhone of Jeff Bezos was compromised via the WhatsApp account of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. https://twitter.com/...
Dustin Volz / @dnvolz: NEW: U.N. calls for immediate investigation by the U.S. into purported hack of Jeff Bezos by the Saudi crown prince, says the operation appears to have been “an effort to influence, if not silence, The Washington Post's reporting on Saudi Arabia.” https://www.ohchr.org/...
Raf Sanchez / @rafsanchez: NEW: UN investigators echo the allegation that MBS was directly involved in hacking Bezos' phone. They say it was part of an effort to intimidate Washington Post into halting its critical coverage of Khashoggi's killing. https://www.ohchr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American: January 21, 2020 — [Hit send on this about 3:00 this morning …
@skynewsbreak: United Nations human rights experts have called for an investigation into allegations that the Saudi crown prince was involved in the hacking of Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos' mobile phone
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: Revealed: the Saudi heir and the alleged plot to undermine Jeff Bezos
Glenn Kessler / @glennkesslerwp: If this is true, the next question: Who in the Trump administration is MBS trading WhatsApp messages with? Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone ‘hacked by Saudi crown prince’ https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Karen Attiah / @karenattiah: I wasn't gonna tweet the colorful language I would like to say about this. I was going to say this is f***king insane. But it's not. This is MBS being drunk and high on impunity. He's never been held accountable for any single f**king thing, ever. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Elliot Hannon / Slate: Saudi Leader's WhatsApp Message Reportedly Led to “Massive Exfiltration” of Data From Jeff Bezos' Phone
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Report: Bezos' phone uploaded GBs of personal data after getting Saudi prince's WhatsApp message
Matthew Garrahan / @mattgarrahan: We've seen the Jeff Bezos-commissioned report into how his phone was hacked - and the conclusion with “medium to high confidence” was that malware came via a WhatsApp msg from Prince Mohammed bin Salman https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: Thinking a lot about Tom Friedman's column hailing Mohammed Bin Salman as a great reformer. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Hayes / @chrislhayes: This now the third outlet with this story. Completely explosive. https://twitter.com/...
Harold Maass / The Week: 10 things you need to know today: January 22, 2020
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: FT's Mehul Srivastava has more details on the Bezos-MBS bombshell... including that the two men exchanged numbers at a dinner in Los Angeles during MBS's 2018 U.S. tour >> https://www.ft.com/...
Hassan Hassan / @hxhassan: Unbelievable the more you think about — the Saudi crown prince actually hacked Bezos's phone. Like the Saudi crown prince used his access to hacking capabilities to infiltrate the world's richest man. An American. In the US. https://twitter.com/...
David Hemond / @david_hemond: MBS implicated in hack of Washington Post owner's phone? Implicated in assassination of Washington Post columnist Khashoggi? As I recall Malcolm Nance's take on coincidence: they are a lot of work to arrange. https://twitter.com/...
@thedailybeast: Jeff Bezos' security chief Gavin De Becker exclusively revealed in The Beast 10 months ago that Bezos' phone had been compromised by the Saudis. Now, a report in The Guardian says Bezos was hacked through a WhatsApp message from MBS https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Steve Kopack / @stevekopack: The WhatsApp message that hacked Jeff Bezos' phone was just the start of a “massive and unauthorised exfiltration of data” that went on “for months.” A forensic analysis found that “dozens of gigabytes” of data was exported from his device after the hack. https://www.ft.com/...
@pressfreedom: Saudi experts told @guardian's @skirchy “they believed Bezos was probably targeted because of his ownership of the Post and its coverage of Saudi Arabia. Khashoggi's critical columns about Mohammed bin Salman...rankled the crown prince and his inner circle"https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@iyad_elbaghdadi: Let's put it this way - MBS was only emboldened enough to murder Jamal Khashoggi *after* he had compromising material on Jeff Bezos, who owns the Washington Post for which Jamal Khashoggi worked.
@iyad_elbaghdadi: 4. The Bezos hack was not about Amazon. It was about the Washington Post 5. There is an extensive forensic report upcoming 6. Full details around this will become available to the public in a few months
@wajahatali: I've tweeted this story 3 times today because it is so insane and huge and MBS is so utterly corrupt and villainous and has bragged that Kushner is in “his pocket.” Carry on. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Hayes / @chrislhayes: Literally the same people who said the accusation that Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi Embassy was absurd and paranoid. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Wait. There's *also* a Sundance angle to the Bezos/MBS/Khashoggi/Enquirer/Dickpick/ Trump/Amazon story? And that movie happens to debut two days after today's UN report on the same story? https://thedissident.com/ https://twitter.com/...
@iyad_elbaghdadi: 7. Yes it was Pegasus, the cyberweapon made by Israeli company NSO 8. You think you're safe if you use Signal with disappearing messages? Think again 9. Between May and October 2018, the Saudis also hacked many others. All were about free speech, not business.
Trisha Jalan / MediaNama: Jeff Bezos' phone hacked by Saudi crown prince: Reports
@amy_siskind: Wowza: Saudi crown prince MBS behind the hack of Bezos phone. Feel like this story has more legs to it... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: A lesson may be...don't chat with dictators of a murderous misogynist dictatorship after he'd already imprisoned womens rights activists and his own family members? https://twitter.com/...
Mark Di Stefano / @markdistef: The amount of data hacked from Jeff Bezos' phone was in the “dozens of gigabytes, compared to the few hundred kilobytes daily average in the months before the video file was sent” https://www.ft.com/...
@financialtimes: Experts hired by Jeff Bezos have concluded with a ‘medium to high confidence’ that a WhatsApp account used by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was directly involved in a 2018 hack of the Amazon founder's phone https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Simon / @aodespair: Wasn't there a Washington Post journalist who had good contacts throughout a Saudi Arabia who could have probed this? Oh wait. Never mind. You murdered him, dismembered the body and tried to cover up the crime. Also, pro tip: Hacking is a term you guys should eschew for a while. https://twitter.com/...
Hasan Zaidi / @hyzaidi: “The video file Mohammed sent to Bezos probably contained Pegasus, a hacking program that lets users surreptitiously extract past and future data from a phone after the target clicks on a link.” (Via @mirza9) https://twitter.com/...
Parker Higgins / @xor: The details in this story—the crown prince of Saudi Arabia casually sent malware to the world's richest man to exfiltrate sensitive info from his phone—are absolutely jaw-dropping https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Roula Khalaf / @khalafroula: A report on the hack seen by the Financial Times says Mr Bezos' phone started surreptitiously sharing vast amounts of data immediately after receiving an apparently innocuous, but encrypted video file from Saudi Crown prince's WhatsApp account. https://www.ft.com/...
Binyamin Appelbaum / @bcappelbaum: We're about to to find out whether messing with a billionaire's phone is going to be a bigger international problem for Saudi Arabia than killing one of that billionaire's employees. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / @skirchy: The alleged hacking of Jeff Bezos in 2018 by an account belonging to Mohammed bin Salman was not an isolated incident. It was part of a pattern. You can read more about it here. Jamal Khashoggi was dead 6 months later. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: The @FT has seen the report too, and has an apparent screenshot of the WhatsApp message MBS allegedly sent to Bezos, part of a security analysis by @FTIConsulting. https://www.ft.com/...
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap: Saudi Crown Prince Hacked Jeff Bezos' Phone in 2018, According to UN Investigation
Clint Watts / @selectedwisdom: Remarkable, head of a major US company hacked by head of a foreign state. Why isn't the US government protecting .com? Is this cyberwar? “Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone ‘hacked by Saudi crown prince’ | Jeff Bezos |” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Kaz Weida / @kazweida: I'll give you one guess why MBS targeted Bezos. It starts with Khash and ends with oggi and it was something to do with a little newspaper Amazon owns called the Washington Post. https://twitter.com/...
Meridith McGraw / @meridithmcgraw: Jared Kushner's attorney Abbe Lowell confirmed that he has used WhatsApp (he did not say whether or not it was with foreign leaders but CNN reported he used the app to talk to MBS) https://www.documentcloud.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: Forensics team accuses Prince Bone Saw of hacking Jeff Bezos's phone to obtain kompromat …
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: For a tech genius, Bezos is terrible at infosec https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Paul Vieira / @paulvieira: @skirchy More from Guardian story: “The disclosure is likely to raise difficult questions for the kingdom about the circumstances around how US tabloid the National Enquirer came to publish intimate details about Bezos's private life - including text messages - nine months later.”
Committee to Protect Journalists: Saudi crown prince's alleged hacking of Bezos raises press freedom concerns
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: What Jeff Bezos's Reported Phone Hack Says About Billionaires
Lee Brown / New York Post: Saudi Arabia calls claims that crown prince hacked Jeff Bezos' phone ‘absurd’
Carrie Mihalcik / CNET: Jeff Bezos' phone was hacked after message from Saudi crown prince, report says
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair: Adam Schiff Shreds Trump Lawyer Pat Cipollone for Outright Impeachment Lies
Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime: Saudi Crown Prince MBS Hacked Amazon Founder, WaPo Owner Jeff Bezos: Report
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Jeff Bezos' Phone Was ‘Hacked’ By Saudi Crown Prince, Claims Bombshell New Report
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Wall Street Journal:
UN officials call for further investigation into the alleged hacking of Jeff Bezos' phone in 2018 by Saudi's MbS, targeting Bezos “principally” as WaPo's owner — Phone allegedly began leaking data shortly after being sent a video file from WhatsApp account linked to Prince Mohammed
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Washington Post, @davidakaye, @jmalsin, The Week, The Daily Beast and GeekWire, more at Techmeme »
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David Kaye / @davidakaye: a few comments of background in relation to release of our public statement just now - a statement which is *not a report*, as some have characterized it, but a call for investigation in light of serious human rights allegations. report is here: https://www.ohchr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Jared Malsin / @jmalsin: The alleged hacking of Jeff Bezos' phone by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman suggests an attempt to “influence, if not silence” coverage of Saudi Arabia by The Washington Post, two UN officials say https://www.wsj.com/...
Peter Weber / The Week: Saudis get dragged for requesting an investigation of ‘absurd’ claims crown prince hacked Jeff Bezos' phone
The Information:
Sources: Quibi's CEO Meg Whitman, in an internal meeting, compared reporters' friendly rapport with their sources to how sexual predators groom their targets — Quibi CEO Meg Whitman lashed out against the media at an “all-hands” staff meeting last Thursday, drawing an analogy between reporters …
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Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: Quibi CEO Meg Whitman compared reporters to sexual predators who prey on young victims. What the actual fuck. https://www.theinformation.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Report: Quibi's Whitman Lashed Out At Press In Internal Meeting
Nick Wingfield / @nickwingfield: If you thought “fake news” was worrisome, get a load of how CEOs are now trying to scare employees out of talking to the media. An ugly development reported by @cityofthetown and @jtoonkel https://www.theinformation.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Drew Olanoff / @yoda: would love to find out what tweets they showed at the all hands https://www.theinformation.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@ahhensel: Stop painting people whose job it is to be persistent as creepy. I mean seriously — you know who else has to build a rapport with people and get them to trust them? Sales people! Pretty much all executives! https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Brandon Borrman / @bborrman: It's good this came out. This is a real problem. The press play a critical role in society, and companies need to be held accountable. https://twitter.com/...
@zoesaintbernard: Quibi CEO Meg Whitman lashed out against the media at an “all-hands” staff meeting..drawing an analogy between reporters who cultivate sources and sexual predators who prey on underage victims https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Super disappointed to see this. I think about what we don't see/hear. As someone who sits both sides - frequent source for reporters & also works on the business interests funding newsrooms, it's 100% out of line and deserved an apology rather than hiding behind confidentiality. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Putting aside the story itself, Quibi's statement is not good. It calls the article materially inaccurate and then doesn't say what's wrong. It then moves to a straw man argument about Quibi being accessible to the media in the past, which doesn't address the story's content. https://twitter.com/...
Brooks Barnes / @brooksbarnesnyt: Quibi's CEO Meg Whitman Compared Reporters Cultivating Sources to Sexual Predators https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Amir Efrati / @amir: 👀😳👀😳 Meg Whitman compared how reporters develop a friendly rapport with sources to how sexual predators “groom” children they're targeting. http://thein.fo/... by @cityofthetown who has been writing a lot about Quibi financials & having an impact.
Eliot Brown / @eliotwb: Media outlet: “according to two people who heard her comments” Company: “It is not our policy to comment on speculation of what was or was not alleged to be said” Note: ‘speculation’ not equal to real people directly told something https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Drew Olanoff / @yoda: Are you kidding me https://twitter.com/...
Peter Himler / @peterhimler: Not a good look for @Quibi's Meg Whitman (@theinformation) https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer: How many tech CEOs dumbly think what Meg Whitman thinks, but are smart enough not to say it out loud? https://twitter.com/...
Alex Heath / @alexeheath: The mix of hostility and ignorance that many in the tech industry, up to the very senior ranks of companies, have towards the media and how reporters do their jobs is truly concerning. Excellent reporting by @cityofthetown & @jtoonkel http://thein.fo/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Oh you have to be Fucking kidding me https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: Is she objecting to the leak that led to the publication of this report? https://www.theinformation.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is weighing producing original podcasts tied to shows on its TV+ streaming service, including for original shows, and sought pitches last summer — - Apple has approached producers about coming up with ideas — The move is latest signal of Apple's entertainment ambitions
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Vox, @cianaf, @jamiemottram, @samsanders, @nwquah, @scottygb, @johnmoe, @baekdal, @mmccarthyrev, @nwquah, @pkafka, @lucas_shaw, MacRumors.com, 9to5Mac and Engadget
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Peter Kafka / Vox: Spotify may buy The Ringer. Here's why that makes sense.
Jamie Mottram / @jamiemottram: Simmons wanting $200M for the Ringer when “a more accurate valuation is $90M-$100M” is a good sign Simmons really doesn't need to sell the Ringer. https://frntofficesport.com/ ...
Insurance Lizard / @nwquah: @samsanders If there's a four special on the Brad-Jennifer SAG moment I don't even need a spotify
Scott Bryan / @scottygb: Netflix also expanding their podcast offerings too - launching a British one this Friday. https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: Apple doesn't have the faintest idea about what to do. Their strategy is: 'let's ask someone else if they have some ideas' https://twitter.com/...
Michael McCarthy / @mmccarthyrev: @BillSimmons @Spotify @theringer If @BillSimmons gets a $200 million offer for The Ringer from @Spotify or other bidders, The Sports Guy ‘should take it in a heartbeat,’ says media/tech investor @ericjackson. “$200 million would be a whopping multiple for a media company at this time.” https://frntofficesport.com/ ...
Insurance Lizard / @nwquah: if that's all that it is, then we're not talking about the apocalyptic scenario (some) folks are worried about https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: @benfritz @JBFlint @Lucas_Shaw @markgurman Here, shorter: Apple has also talked to podcast companies about making a handful of exclusive podcasts, but so far those seem limited to companion podcasts for other Apple projects, like its Apple TV shows. https://www.vox.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Scoop with @markgurman: Apple plans to make original podcasts related to its TV shows, another sign of its growing ambitions in Hollywood (and its first dip into original podcasts). https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: Upcoming Apple Podcasts expansion into original content will include companion content for TV+
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Apple could promote TV+ with companion podcasts
Netflix:
Netflix Q4 revenue grew 31% YoY to $5.467B and net income rose to $587M, surpassing 100M paid memberships outside the US; global paid net additions totaled 8.8M — Fellow shareholders, We had a strong finish to 2019, with Q4 revenue growing 31% year over year, bringing full year 2019 revenue …
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Broadcasting & Cable, Variety, The Wrap, Ad Age, The Verge, TechCrunch, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, @marceloplima, @lanceulanoff, @sizpatel, @jyarow, AdExchanger, Variety, VentureBeat, The Drum, Polygon, Fast Company, The Streamable, TVWeek.com, Engadget and CNN, more at Techmeme »
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Daniel Frankel / Broadcasting & Cable: Netflix Cuts Definition of a ‘View’ Down to 2 Minutes
Todd Spangler / Variety: ‘The Witcher’ on Track to Be Netflix's Biggest TV Show Premiere Ever, Company Claims
Sean Burch / The Wrap: Netflix Tops 100 Million International Subscribers, Beats Q4 Earnings Estimates
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Netflix reveals that 76 million people watched at least two minutes of The Witcher
Annie Palmer / CNBC: Netflix shares fall after missing domestic subscriber estimates
Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance: Netflix 4Q subscriber growth tops expectations, but guidance disappoints
Marcelo P. Lima / @marceloplima: This is very impressive, from Netflix's Q4 letter: “As an example, in Q4, despite the big debut of Disney+ and the launch of Apple TV+, our viewing per membership grew both globally and in the US on a year over year basis, consistent with recent quarters.” https://s22.q4cdn.com/...
Lance Ulanoff / @lanceulanoff: Checking out Netflix earnings. They have 100M subs outside the U.S. On the streaming wars: “We have a big headstart in streaming and will work to build on that by focusing on the same thing we have focused on for the past 22 years - pleasing members.” https://s22.q4cdn.com/...
Sahil Patel / @sizpatel: Netflix will now count a “view” as any account that has watched something for at least 2 minutes—or in web terms, 40 Facebook video “views”! https://s22.q4cdn.com/...
Jay Yarow / @jyarow: “During December, we also launched The Witcher, which is tracking to be our biggest season one TV series ever” https://s22.q4cdn.com/...
Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: Reed Hastings Explains Why Netflix Won't Ever Sell Ads
Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix CEO Reiterates Zero Interest in Advertising Business: 'There's Not Easy Money There'
Andrew Blustein / The Drum: Netflix, facing ‘muted’ international competition, ups marketing spend by $325m
Austen Goslin / Polygon: The Witcher on track to be Netflix's biggest debut ever, but the definition of ‘biggest’ just changed
Harrison Weber / Fast Company: Netflix holds steady under threat from Disney and Apple, but it may be feeling the heat already
Richard Vega / The Streamable: This Is What Netflix Thinks of Bundles and Why It Continues to Say No to Ads
Frank Pallotta / CNN: Netflix adds subscribers as competition ramps up
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Joshua Fruhlinger / Thinknum Media:
Analysis: Netflix now boasts 1,211 originals and has been adding one show a day on average over the past eight months
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Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Toss a Coin to Your Witcher is finally available to stream on Spotify and Apple Music
Joshua A Fruhlinger / @fruhlinger: This is the count of Netflix Originals JUST IN THE PAST 8 MONTHS: https://media.thinknum.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Journalists faced tough restrictions on the first day of Trump's impeachment trial, and the government controlled the only TV cameras in the Senate chamber — With the government in control of the production, “the emotion” of Tuesday's session was missing, said Chris Wallace of Fox News.
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@suzannenossel, @jimrutenberg, @rachelbitecofer, @ericboehlert, @grynbaum, @nytmedia, CNN and The Hill
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Suzanne Nossel / @suzannenossel: Thanks to @senatemajldr we are now a nation reliant on govt-controlled TV to filter historic events through a prism that those in power choose. Just a few years ago we who lamented the very same restrictions in China, Iran, etc. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@jimrutenberg: The Senate-controlled cameras didn't make for compelling television viewing on Day One of the impeachment. For the Republican Senate leadership that was by design and CBS blinked first. @Grynbaum on how it was— and wasn't — in Television Land https://www.nytimes.com/...
@rachelbitecofer: As currently constituted by @senatemajldr's rules, the Senate will hold a “show” trial, meeting the letter of the Constitution's requirement but not the spirit. The media's role as the 4th estate requires it to note this distinction in its coverage. https://www.nbcnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert: NYT details the stunning GOP press restrictions in place for impeachment, doesn't quote a single news org (like NYT!) complainingor condemning stunning GOP press restrictions. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: Election Night has 3D maps. State of the Union has iconic reaction shots (Alito's “not true!") But Senate leaders have curtailed TV coverage of the Trump trial. Squint, and you might see a senator. Maybe two. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytmedia: On Fox News, Chris Wallace noted that government-controlled cameras limited the view of the trial. “We are not able to see what is the emotion, what is the state of consciousness of the members of the Senate,” he said. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / CNN: Cable, not broadcast, is the main stage for Trump's impeachment trial
Alexander Bolton / The Hill: McConnell keeps press in check as impeachment trial starts
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Profile of David Sirota, a former journalist and now a senior adviser for the Bernie Sanders campaign, who amplifies its consistent focus on criticizing media — David Sirota's job is to remind the candidate's supporters why he dislikes the news media. — When the first in-house newsletter …
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@kerrymflynn: “Politicians have long deflected criticism onto the news media, blaming it for not covering them the way they want. But the frequency and tenor of the Sanders campaign's critique is unusual, a can't-miss leitmotif.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Krystal Ball / @krystalball: This was a shockingly reasonable profile of @davidsirota by the nyt. Any campaign would be lucky to have David fighting for them. https://twitter.com/...
David Sirota / @davidsirota: I told the NY Times that “my principles don't change with the job I'm in” and I think that's proven to be true over the last 20 yrs. It hasn't been a perfect career — but I've tried hard to live my values. Thanks to everyone for the support. Onward. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Holly Otterbein / Politico: Sanders campaign privately urges restraint after Clinton attack
The Intercept:
The Intercept condemns Brazil's action against Glenn Greenwald and calls the move a “blatantly politically motivated charge” made as “apparent retaliation” — On Tuesday, a federal prosecutor in Brazil announced a denunciation of American journalist …
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Michael Safi / The Guardian: Greenwald charges are ‘existential threat’ to journalism in Brazil, says Edward Snowden
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: @SenSanders Thanks as well to @nytimes for this vehement denunciation of the Bolsonaro Govt & the stirring defense of a free press. I appreciate NYT's emphasis that this is pure retaliation for the journalistic exposés published in 2019 by me & my Intercept colleagues https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rebecca Vilkomerson / @rvilkomerson: Solidarity with @ggreenwald. This is hugely dangerous https://twitter.com/...
Ezra Klein / @ezraklein: Like others, I've had my disagreements with @ggreenwald over the years. But this isn't the time for those. The Bolsonaro government's effort to intimidate and threaten him is chilling. Everyone who cares about press freedom anywhere should denounce it. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@venanalysis: All of our solidarity with @ggreenwald in the face of the @jairbolsonaro government's fascist persecution. https://twitter.com/...
@freedomofpress: “These sham charges are a sickening escalation of the Bolsonaro administration's authoritarian attacks on press freedom and the rule of law. They cannot be allowed to stand.” Our statement on Brazil's outrageous decision to criminally charge @ggreenwald: https://freedom.press/...
Edwy Plenel / @edwyplenel: In the name of @Mediapart I say my total solidarity with @ggreenwald and @TheInterceptBr. The right to know everything of public interest is the protection of our freedom. The criminalisation of journalism is a threat against democracy. @theintercept https://twitter.com/...
Joseph Cox / @josephfcox: Greenwald responds to potential ‘cybercrime’ charges in Brazil. Points to previous investigation from the country's federal police which found he “exercised extreme caution as a journalist never even to get close to any participation.” https://theintercept.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bernie Sanders / @sensanders: The free press is never more important than when it exposes wrongdoing by the powerful. That is why President Bolsonaro is threatening Glenn Greenwald for the “crime” of doing journalism. I call on Brazil to end its authoritarian attack on press freedom and the rule of law. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Mat / @aaronjmate: Outrageous, but not out of character for the far-right, criminal government that @ggreenwald has so bravely exposed. https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: This is an outrage. Whatever your political views, or views of Glenn, every journalist and activist in America should be standing with @ggreenwald today and against the Bolsonaro government's self-serving crackdown on journalism. https://twitter.com/...
Meagan Day / @meaganmday: “Many courageous Brazilians sacrificed their liberty and even life for Brazilian democracy and against repression, and I feel an obligation to continue their noble work.” Solidarity with @ggreenwald https://theintercept.com/...
@eff: It's a threat to democracy when authorities like the Brazilian government use computer crime laws to threaten critics like @ggreenwald, and it discourages all journalists from using technology to best serve the public. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kaitlin Phillips / bookforum.com: Several news websites profitable in 2019; Isabel Allende on literature and journalism
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Glenn Greenwald calls Brazil's allegations an attack on journalism: “I did nothing more than do my job as a journalist—ethically and within the law”
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Washington Post, @sulliview, @ashtonpittman, The Guardian, @bgrueskin, @terrence_mccoy, @rulajebreal, @tomgara, @jeremyscahill, @zaidjilani, @russforus2020, @ashahshahani, Wired and BBC
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Washington Post: Brazil charges American journalist Glenn Greenwald for reports exposing alleged corruption
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Journalism is not a crime, and these charges against @ggreenwald are an outrage and a threat to press freedom. ....Prosecutors in Brazil charge Greenwald with cybercrimes after Lava Jato revelations https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ashton Pittman / @ashtonpittman: Glenn Greenwald is a truly awful person. I agree with y'all. But you should support him and speak out for his rights in this case anyway, because it's about far more than just him. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: At least half the Greenwald tweets today are prefaced by some version of, “I can't stand this guy, but nevertheless ...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Terrence McCoy / @terrence_mccoy: I just got off the phone with Glenn Greenwald. The allegations took him by complete surprise, considering the federal police had, in December, just cleared him of any suspicion and went so far as to praise how cautious he'd been in his work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Rula Jebreal / @rulajebreal: This is a disgrace. This is how authoritarian police states, such as the Bolsonaro regime, weaponize “investigations” with the intent to criminalize, intimdate & silence journalists like @ggreenwald https://twitter.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: I hope everyone here can call a temporary truce to stand with Glenn Greenwald, who could be in a genuinely dangerous situation right now https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeremy Scahill / @jeremyscahill: The reporting that my friend & colleague @ggreenwald has done in Brazil has been incredible, brave and has had a tremendous impact. He has done this reporting under threats from the fascist Bolsonaro regime. This is a tyrant's desperate attempt to silence independent journalism.
Zaid Jilani / @zaidjilani: In my life, @ggreenwald was one of the bravest and most influential journalists. I hope that everyone on left, right, and center can put aside their squabbles and say that an authoritarian government in Brazil seeking to punish a political opponent is wrong.
@russforus2020: Journalism is NOT A CRIME: Deeply disturbed to hear that the homophobic, fascist Bolsonaro regime is charging @ggreenwald with ‘cybercrimes,’ an attempt to silence his courageous reporting of widespread govt corruption in Brazil. Solidarity w/ Glenn ✊ http://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Azadeh Shahshahani / @ashahshahani: This is truly outrageous & sets a dangerous precedent. Criminalizing courageous journalism b/c the info @ggreenwald & his team revealed is embarrassing to #Bolsonaro & the Fascist regime in #Brazil. Everyone who cares about a #FreePress should speak up! https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Free Press Advocates Decry Cybercrime Charges Against Glenn Greenwald
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
22 newspapers form the North Carolina News Collaborative, aiming to share content and resources for increased coverage of the news deserts in the state — Last summer, a group of editors in North Carolina gathered in a conference room for some brainstorming. — They covered one wall at the News & Observer with Post-It notes.
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Kristen Hare / @kristenhare: 22 local papers are part of the North Carolina News Collaborative, or NCNC ( “nick-nick") for short. Most have published for more than 100 years. But this is a first for all of them. https://www.poynter.org/... Here's @robyntomlin: https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Wallender / Bloomberg Law:
Barstool Sports reaches settlement with NLRB that calls for deletion of anti-union tweets from co-founder David Portnoy, removal of other anti-union material — Four months after Barstool Sports co-founder David Portnoy drew criticism for posting anti-union tweets, the company reached …
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@iwwfju, @caseymalone, @dogfather, @kfcbarstool, @sethdmichaels, @jamieson, @mattdpearce, @imraansiddiqi, @kevinmdraper, @chrismohney, @thejimoleary, @aspertierra, @coldbrewedtool, @floozyesq, @jordylancaster, @hassankanu, The Verge, @shanmho, @katzonearth, @nickconfessore, @wallenderandrew, @aoc, @walldo, @danriffle, @kirkminshow, @qualityrye, @maura, @ericmcdanieldc, @unionsaltbae, Barrett Sports Media and Raw Story
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@caseymalone: Wow this is truly the least surprising thing I've heard in my entire life. https://twitter.com/...
KFC / @kfcbarstool: Do you think anybody in politics...ANYBODY at all...is letting AOC and any of the political writers know that we are laughing about this the entire way? You think they feel foolish at all about celebrating this big win that nobody at Barstool even understand or cares about? 😂😂 https://twitter.com/...
Seth D. Michaels / @sethdmichaels: imagine pretending your brand is devil-may-care, rebellious, edgy, and using that identity to shill for the Boss https://twitter.com/...
Dave Jamieson / @jamieson: Classic NLRB settlement: hang a couple posters and delete those tweets, mister https://twitter.com/...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: do I believe my eyes, or did the Wobblies just land a punch on Barstool Sports https://twitter.com/...
Imraan Siddiqi / @imraansiddiqi: .@AOC is a national treasure https://twitter.com/...
Chris Mohney / @chrismohney: man floats sadly in his beloved pool, unable to publicly threaten his employees like he wanna https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ ...
Jim O'Leary / @thejimoleary: Not only is this a win for labor rights, but it's also the first time @stoolpresidente has written something that isn't complete irredeemable garbage. Proud to be a member of the @IWWFJU. #OneBigUnion https://twitter.com/...
Andrs Pertierra / @aspertierra: wait, I knew about the threats to employees if they tried to unionize, but I didn't know about Barstool literally setting up a fake union account on twitter to trick pro-union workers into outing themselves https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ ...
Christina / @floozyesq: this is the online equivalent of 3 frat guys stacked in a trench coat trying to trick their buds into collectively organizing https://twitter.com/...
Walmart Brand Tulsi Gabbard / @jordylancaster: portnoy's tweet was funny and this is lame https://twitter.com/...
Hassan Ali Kanu / @hassankanu: The settlement also confirms that Barstool was behind a Twitter account calling itself the Barstool Sports Union that purported to be ‘the labor movement inside Barstool Sports.’ The account was really a ploy to uncover employee union support, attorney David Rosenfeld said. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Porter / The Verge: Barstool Sports founder forced to delete tweet threatening to fire union supporters ‘on the spot’
Shannon Ho / @shanmho: Dave Portnoy has been forced to delete his anti-union tweets after the NRLB responds to @IWWFJU's complaint https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Myerson Katz / @katzonearth: Re-upping this one: Union-busting: First as tragedy, then as [fart] https://katz.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: Huh laws matter. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Wallender / @wallenderandrew: NEW: Barstool Sports reached a settlement with the federal labor board over its founder's anti-union tweets this past August. The company said the tweets and other anti-union material would be deleted: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ ...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / @aoc: Well, well, well: Remember when we put the CEO of Barstool Sports on notice about tweeting threats to intimidate his workers from unionizing? Looks like he just had to settle with the NLRB over his actions. Reminder: Threatening workers who want to unionize is illegal :) https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Wall / @walldo: Gross: ‘The settlement...also provided confirmation that Barstool Sports was behind a Twitter account... purported to be “the labor movement inside Barstool Sports.”...really a ploy to uncover whether any employees supported efforts to unionize’ https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ ...
@kirkminshow: Doesn't sound like the @EKANardini we know. But way to misgender her. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Sutton / @qualityrye: Barstool Sports created a fake Barstool Sports Union twitter account to “uncover whether any employees supported efforts to unionize” by soliciting DMs....this is truly insane and outrageous https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ ...
@maura: just when you think they can't set the bar any lower, they win another limbo contest https://twitter.com/...
Eric McDaniel / @ericmcdanieldc: Barstool ran a *fake union account* in order to out employees interested in unionizing. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@unionsaltbae: How's that “it's a joke” defense workin' out for you, @stoolpresidente https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Contes / Barrett Sports Media: Barstool Reaches Settlement With NLRB
Sara Jerde / Adweek:
Bloomberg Media debuts Bloomberg Green, a vertical on climate change, with five ad partners, a daily newsletter, podcast, events, and an upcoming print magazine — Bloomberg Green goes live with a constantly updating data dashboard — Key insights: — Bloomberg Media went live …
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John Micklethwait / Bloomberg: Welcome to Green: A Letter From Bloomberg's Editor in Chief
Lucia Moses / Business Insider: Bloomberg Media is launching a new brand, Bloomberg Green, that aims to be the ‘definitive’ source …
Agnieszka de Sousa / @aggiedesousa: Why @climate? Says our editor-in-chief: spelling out the scale of the problem is no longer the whole story; climate change has also spurred a wave of activity among technologists, businesspeople, politicians and consumers. We want to be a guide to it. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Sandra Mergulho / @sandramergulhao: Introducing Bloomberg Green: Bloomberg has launched a new global multi-platform initiative focused on climate change. Our reporters and analysts will chronicle not only the effects of climate change, but will focus on the science, data, business, technology, and solutions. https://twitter.com/...
Dirk von Gehlen / @dvg: “that climate change and the transformation it is prompting in politics, business, technology and human behavior around the world is the biggest shift of our time (...) there is no media brand that has become a symbol of that revolution” https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @Klingebeil
Lucia Moses / @lmoses: Bloomberg is doubling down on climate change coverage. Here's why it thinks its effort is more significant than anything else out there: https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Michael Grunwald / @mikegrunwald: This is great but the problem is going to be deciding what's a climate story and what's not when just about everything is a climate story. https://twitter.com/...
Alice Ross / @aliceemross: Interesting. This also mentions the thirst for solutions to climate change and the wave of investment going into them - the main topic of the book I'm writing, which bodes well. https://twitter.com/...
@amazonnews: Pleased to support a wider understanding of climate change and solutions through Bloomberg Green. With our #ClimatePledge, we're working to reach the Paris Agreement ten years early. https://twitter.com/...
Kelly Gilblom / @kellygilblom: Very pleased to have written about @ActonClimate100 for Bloomberg's brand new climate change reporting vertical Bloomberg Green. Check it out and expect big things! https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Justin B. Smith / @justin_b_smith: Thrilled for the launch of Bloomberg Green, our ambitious, global multi-platform news brand covering the biggest issue of our time - @climate, a great example of @BBGMedia's strategy of invention-led growth https://www.adweek.com/...
@adweek: New publication Bloomberg Green uses real-time data to convey the urgency of climate change. https://www.adweek.com/...
Carbon Tracker / @carbonbubble: #ClimateChange - & the transformation it is prompting in politics, biz, technology & human behaviour is the biggest shift of our time. Yet there is no media brand that has become a symbol of that revolution... https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@endclimtsilence: We are happy to see that @business has created @climate, who will report on the transition to a sustainable economy. We hope they will cover not what is politically “realistic,” but what is necessary to preserve the living world. #EndClimateSilence https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Akshat Rathi / @akshatrathi: @business “Our ambition is clear: We want Bloomberg Green to be the indispensable guide to anyone who wants to understand this great transition,” says Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Jesse Felder / @jessefelder: ‘Media usually reflects society. If you look back at the history of journalism, big geopolitical shifts or cultural changes tend to throw up one or two media properties that epitomize that moment in time. Climate change is the biggest shift of our time.’ https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Will Kennedy / @wenkennedy: Today we launch Bloomberg Green, a step change in the way we cover the energy transition and the impact of climate change. Follow @climate and read our Editor-in-Chief's letter introducing the new platform... https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Eric Holthaus / @ericholthaus: Love the ambition of @climate and its leadership. (@aaronrutkoff was my very first editor in journalism) It will be really interesting to see hard-hitting climate journalism from inside the mothership. “Capitalism can't be left to the capitalists.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK's largest commercial news publisher Reach unites its regional brands, including 25 daily print titles and 37 websites, to call for action on global warming — Dozens of regional brands owned by Reach, including the Manchester Evening News and Newcastle Chronicle, have joined forces …
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David Bartlett / @davidbartlett1: Today @Cambslive is joining forces with Reach titles across the UK to call for action on global warming. In today's paper we cover 50 things you can do to make a difference. We also have a number of other stories about helping the environment. Do just 1 thing today. #Do1Thing https://twitter.com/...
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