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[Thread] Twitter clarifies why it blocked the sharing of NY Post's Biden story, saying it contained private info and violated its Hacked Materials Policy — We want to provide much needed clarity around the actions we've taken with respect to two NY Post articles that were first Tweeted this morning.
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Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News: Facebook Gave A Platform To The Shady Ukrainians Pushing The New York Post Biden Story
@jack: Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great. And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we're blocking: unacceptable. https://twitter.com/...
Ted Cruz / @tedcruz: My letter to @jack regarding @Twitter's censorship of the @nypost. https://twitter.com/...
Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal: Senate to Subpoena Twitter CEO Over Blocking of Disputed Biden Articles
Thomas Rid / @ridt: Relax. Twitter and Facebook are not the internet, and they're not the government. These are private companies. A little bit like a supermarket asking you to wear a mask. You can just stay out or leave if you don't like it.
Trump War Room / @trumpwarroom: BREAKING: Twitter has locked the personal account of White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany for sharing news Democrats don't like. https://twitter.com/...
Joseph Cox / VICE: Twitter Says It Blocked NY Post Hunter Biden Article Because It Contains Hacked Data
Kari Paul / The Guardian: Facebook and Twitter restrict controversial New York Post story on Joe Biden
Jake Sherman / @jakesherman: I tweeted a link to the NYP story right after it dropped yesterday morning. I immediately reached out to the Biden campaign to see if they had any answer. I wish i had given the story a closer read before tweeting it. @twitter suspended me https://twitter.com/...
Caleb Parke / Fox News: Gowdy rips mainstream media: More articles about Pence debate fly than Hunter Biden
Tom Cotton / @sentomcotton: There will be ... NO QUARTER for censorship by Big Tech Oligarchs. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: US Senators Call for Increased Social Media Regulation After Blocking of NY Post Article
Justin Amash / @justinamash: The First Amendment prohibits government censorship and protects private censorship. In a free society, Twitter and Facebook are allowed to make horrible decisions with respect to content moderation, and you are allowed to tell them off and use another service.
Lucas Nolan / Breitbart: Facebook and Twitter Censor Biden Bombshells Weeks After Execs Join His Transition Team
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: Twitter Goofed It — Yesterday morning, the New York Post published a bombastic and dubious report …
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: Facebook and Twitter are finally using their most effective tool against disinformation
Cynthia Brumfield / Metacurity: Special Report: Is the NY Post Article a Late-Game Disinformation Effort to Disrupt the Election?
Jake Sherman / @jakesherman: @Twitter my goal was not to spread informatoin. my goal was to raise questions about the story — as i did in subsequent tweets — and see how the biden campaign was going to respond. They later did respond.
James Todaro / @jamestodaromd: I'm waiting for the day when twitter issues a similar statement about actions taken against a Washington Post or New York Times article. I feel like I'll be waiting a while... https://twitter.com/...
Michael McFaul / @mcfaul: Has the NY Post responded? These are some very definitive statements from former Biden officials. They either need to be challenged with factual reporting or apologies and retractions need to be issued. https://twitter.com/...
Jake Sherman / @jakesherman: @Twitter My account is clearly no longer suspended. I deleted the tweet.
@garycoby: .@jack and @finkd are illegally interfering in the election. @HawleyMO we need leaders who will step up and take real action... deliver actual consequences to these corporations. Thank you for stepping up. USA needs it! 🇺🇸🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸 https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason: Twitter Blocking a New York Post Article Was Dumb—but Not Illegal, Censorship, or Election Interference
Aditya Chunduru / MediaNama: Twitter, Facebook limit distribution of New York Post stories on Joe Biden's son
Burgess Everett / @burgessev: Cruz and Hawley sent letters to Twitter within minutes of each other https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: It's because she tweeted out a screenshot containing an email address. This is a standard Twitter policy that gets regularly enforced across the political spectrum. It's a basic rule that applies to everyone. But ok. https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Jacobs / @jenniferjjacobs: Twitter locks more White House posts. https://twitter.com/...
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: Remember when Ted Cruz used Cambridge Analytica's services to get elected? And now that we know that their whole model was basically disinformation and dirt, it sort of puts this little tantrum into perspective https://twitter.com/...
Kayleigh McEnany / @presssec: Censorship should be condemned! cc: @Twitter & Facebook NOT the American way‼️ 🇺🇸
Josh Hawley / @hawleymo: .@Twitter @jack this is not nearly good enough. In fact, it's a joke. It's downright insulting. I will ask you - and @Facebook - to give an explanation UNDER OATH to the Senate subcommittee I chair. These are potential violations of election law, and that's a crime https://twitter.com/...
Drew Olanoff / @yoda: by not having a stance and being sloppy af both companies have asked for this. https://twitter.com/...
Evann Gastaldo / Newser: Biden Campaign Feuds With New York Post
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: An Outraged Josh Hawley Calls for Government Crack Down on Twitter and Facebook for Cracking Down on NY Post Story
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Casey Newton / Platformer:
The Post hack-and-leak may remain in the right-wing conspiracy sphere if mainstream outlets treat it with the same severe skepticism Twitter and Facebook have — In a New York Post report, Facebook and Twitter smell a rat — I. — In the run-up to the 2020 election, platforms have been preparing for all manner of threats.
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review: Yes, we're doing it all over again
Eric Lutz / Vanity Fair: Everything About How the Hunter Biden-New York Post Story Came Together Reeks
Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Facebook and Twitter CEOs will have to answer to Senate Republicans after Biden NY Post story controversy
Janira Planes / @janiraplanes: “These dumps, combined with the news media's obsession with campaign trivia and gossip, have resulted in whistle-drowning, rather than whistle-blowing: In a sea of so many whistles (...), we cannot hear a single one.” @zeynep cited in @platformer https://www.platformer.news/ ...
@barrydeutsch: Robby, does this mean your own policy at Reason is to carry every single story that's submitted or that you come across? And if you decide that some stories aren't worth carrying, does that mean you're suppressing information you don't want the public to read? https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Facebook & Twitter Try To Limit The Spread Of Sketchy NY Post Story; Leading To Ridiculous Trumpist Meltdown
Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer: Really thoughtful post today from @CaseyNewton https://twitter.com/...
Robby Soave / @robbysoave: It's a huge problem that many in the mainstream media and pundit class (i.e. the people attacking Maggie Haberman for daring to share NY Post's Hunter Biden scoop) now think its their job to suppress information they don't want the public to read. https://reason.com/...
Jack Shafer / @jackshafer: “Sen. Josh Hawley...announced that he would investigate the platforms' [Twitter and Facebook] action as a possibly illegal contribution to the Biden campaign. (Which would make Fox News' prime-time lineup what, exactly?)” @CaseyNewton https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Thuy Ong / @thuyong: i'm kinda biased but @CaseyNewton's newsletter is the best explainer on that nypost Hunter Biden article and its ramifications: https://www.platformer.news/ ...
BuzzFeed News:
Facebook limits the distribution of a New York Post story that makes disputed claims about Hunter Biden, pending fact-check, while Twitter blocks sharing — Facebook and Twitter said they will be limiting the distribution of or blocking a New York Post story making unverified claims about former vice president Joe Biden.
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@twittersafety: The policy, established in 2018, prohibits the use of our service to distribute content obtained without authorization. We don't want to incentivize hacking by allowing Twitter to be used as distribution for possibly illegally obtained materials. https://blog.twitter.com/...
Renee DiResta / @noupside: This is related to today's Biden story: A few months ago the fact-respecting portion of the internet was outraged at social media companies allowing Plandemic to go wildly viral, despite stated policies against health misinfo. The video was taken down after millions of views...
Andy Stone / @andymstone: While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebook's third-party fact checking partners. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.
New York Post: Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad
Cristina Tardáguila / Poynter: Without methodology or transparency, Facebook and Twitter become the ‘arbiters of the truth’
Kyle Cheney / @kyledcheney: Again, stipulating that the suspect email is real, there's literally nothing in it that says Joe Biden met with a Burisma adviser. “The opportunity to meet,” may just as easily have meant Hunter promised a meeting in the future that may never have occurred.
Charlie Nash / Mediaite: Rudy Giuliani Changes Laptop Story, Now Claims Hunter Biden Left It at Store
Sean Burch / The Wrap: Twitter Locks Trump Campaign's Account: ‘This Is Election Interference, Plain and Simple’
Daniel Goldman / @danielsgoldman: Let's try this one more time: the Ukrainian prosecutor was fired because he was NOT prosecuting corruption cases and there was NO Ukrainian investigation into Burisma. In addition to there being no evidence to support the bogus allegations, the basic premise is simply false. https://twitter.com/...
Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo: News flash everything on social media is an editorial decision by the company. Every single thing, the UI, the posts you see, the posts you don't, the metrics, the speed with which everything updates, the colors, it's all human decisions all the way down. It's all subjective
Natasha Bertrand / @natashabertrand: New: Biden campaign responds to NY Post story. “The New York Post never asked the Biden campaign about the critical elements of this story...moreover, we have reviewed Joe Biden's official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.” https://twitter.com/...
Sohrab Ahmari / @sohrabahmari: This is a Big Tech information coup. This is digital civil war. I, an editor at The New York Post, one of the nation's largest papers by circulation, can't post one of our own stories that details corruption by a major-party presidential candidate, Biden. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Megerian / @chrismegerian: I asked Rudy Giuliani how long he's had the copy of this hard drive. He responded, “Your interested in the wrong thing. This time the truth will not be defeated by process. I've got a lot more to go. We just started. Print a headline saying Lyin' Joe and we can talk.”
Noah Manskar / @noahmanskar: The Post's primary Twitter account (@nypost) has also been locked because the Hunter Biden stories violate its rules against “distribution of hacked material,” per email we received from Twitter https://twitter.com/...
@twittersafety: As noted this morning, we also currently view materials included in the articles as violations of our Hacked Materials Policy. https://help.twitter.com/...
Evelyn Douek / @evelyndouek: Facebook is reducing distribution of a story before it has been fact-checked. I don't know what the rule is that enables that. Not saying it's not the right call, but I can think of many other instances this could be useful too, so would like to know on what basis. https://twitter.com/...
@twittersafety: Commentary on or discussion about hacked materials, such as articles that cover them but do not include or link to the materials themselves, aren't a violation of this policy. Our policy only covers links to or images of hacked material themselves.
@twittersafety: The images contained in the articles include personal and private information — like email addresses and phone numbers — which violate our rules. https://help.twitter.com/...
Tom Dreisbach / @tomdreisbach: It's fairly clear that Twitter is making this up as they go along. “Illegally obtained materials” could include records that are widely considered in the public interest - the WikiLeaks release of Iraq War and State Department cables, Snowden's leaks, the Pentagon Papers... https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Swan / @jonathanvswan: “Content obtained without authorization” is a hilarious standard that seemingly nobody at Twitter has spent any time thinking through. https://twitter.com/...
David Corn / @davidcorndc: JUST POSTED: I explain how the NY Post embraced and promoted Russian disinformation with its supposed Biden bombshell. Will the rest of the media do better? Please read, RT, like, and share. https://www.motherjones.com/ ...
Conor Friedersdorf / @conor64: This would have resulted in censoring the Pentagon Papers https://twitter.com/...
Asawin Suebsaeng / @swin24: “The latest round of Hunter Biden attacks come approximately one year after President Trump found himself embroiled in impeachment investigations for using the levers of government to try and help Giuliani dig up dirt in Ukraine on the Bidens.” https://twitter.com/...
Tim O'Brien / @timobrien: Here's the most detailed and best takedown yet of how the Post mishandled the Biden kompromat that Giuliani and Bannon managed to dump into its pages. Via @DavidCornDC https://www.motherjones.com/ ...
Senator Kelly Loeffler / @senatorloeffler: This is absurd. Here's yet another real-time example of the glaring need to reform Section 230 and hold Big Tech accountable for censoring conservative political speech. Big Tech must act as a platform, not a censor. #WheresHunter https://twitter.com/...
@twittersafety: We know we have more work to do to provide clarity in our product when we enforce our rules in this manner. We should provide additional clarity and context when preventing the Tweeting or DMing of URLs that violate our policies.
@twittersafety: We recognize that Twitter is just one of many places where people can find information online, and the Twitter Rules are intended to protect the conversation on our service, and to add context to people's experience where we can.
Ted Cruz / @tedcruz: Facebook official spox (who describes himself as an alum of the DCCC & former Dem Sen. Barbara Boxer) explains Facebook's active censorship of @nypost story alleging corruption by Biden. Who could doubt their impartiality? https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: If I were Facebook, and I wanted to announce the systemic suppression of a questionable news story that reflected poorly on the Democratic presidential nominee, I probably wouldn't have a life-long Democratic Party operative make the announcement on my behalf: https://twitter.com/...
Jay Marshall Wolman / @wolmanj: Exercising the first amendment right to not speak isn't “election interference ” any more than your tweets amplifying the story. Why do you hate the first amendment? https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: Glenn makes a fair point here, even if only because people continue to stupidly and maliciously attribute decisions to those whose job it is to announce them rather than those who make said decisions. https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Random store owner has it, copies it (a crime) and gives it to the president's lawyer while also responding to a federal subpoena? A bit odd. https://twitter.com/...
Renee DiResta / @noupside: Coming up with policies & new mechanisms to address virality, and curation, are two of the most significant things platforms and the public, and likely regulators, need to do to address the most destructive facets of the current information environment.
Nu Wexler / @wexler: This conflict was inevitable. As platforms cracked down on foreign information operations, disinformation migrated to US gov't officials and domestic outlets. If you're serious about reducing election disinformation, you can't grant blanket immunity to all gov't and media orgs.
Nu Wexler / @wexler: Twitter and Facebook have higher standards for election disinformation than the fourth-largest newspaper in the United States.
Claire McCaskill / @clairecmc: It's getting old isn't it? SAD! FAKE NEWS! https://twitter.com/...
Iwillkissyouallhat / @popehat: The Post story is obvious Russian propaganda from a vile rag and genuinely bad people, but trying to suppress it seems dumb.
@internetryan: the stories about the action taken to limit the story spread the story and tweets about the stories about the action taken to limit the spread of the story spread the story https://twitter.com/...
Stacy Herbert / @stacyherbert: I guess every corporation will be forced to join Red or Blue. It does provide opportunity for increased competition perhaps if all social media, for example, choose Democrat. Or do you think we will see FB Blue & FB Red? https://twitter.com/...
House Judiciary Gop / @judiciarygop: Big Tech claims they aren't biased. Then they do this. Insanity. https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Raccio / @kyleraccio: Would the Judiciary Committee like to do something about it other than complain on Twitter? https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Cheney / @kyledcheney: Important addendum: Nothing about the premise of the story adds up. Every credible source has testified that the prosecutor involved was fired because he was *not* investigating corruption and removing him made it likelier Burisma would face a real probe. https://twitter.com/...
Renee DiResta / @noupside: I think this is actually a very good use of the policy levers at its disposal. It is also doing this transparently, despite the fact that the censorship-howlers, who also think factchecking is censorship, immediately began howling about censorship. No big shock there.
Renee DiResta / @noupside: As far as the Biden article: FB is using “reduce” to enable “inform”. It is buying some time for verification of a very significant story that itself falls under a different policy area - concern about the veracity of leaked material pursuant to an election.
Aunkur Arya / @aunkurarya: For a company that publicly stated in May that they don't want to be the arbiter of truth, we are seeing a lot of moves just in the last week of Facebook weeding out grossly inaccurate information on their platform. I'm for it. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Yes yes yes, all of this. Clearly note why it's important to focus on *reduce* to slow velocity and reaching allowing counter-speech by fact-checking to happen. *remove* although appealing and sometimes necessary lead to legitimate censorship discussions. https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: Good thread on Facebook's response to the NY Post story, from one of the leading experts on viral misinformation. https://twitter.com/...
Vivian Schiller / @vivian: incredibly sensible thread about FB and the Burisma story. https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: anyhow if you're as frustrated right now as i am you should just read this smart thread and then log off probably https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Roberts / @jeffjohnroberts: This is big. In the past, Facebook would have done nothing and this BS story would have gone bananas in right-wing echo groups. https://fortune.com/...
Peter J. Hasson / @peterjhasson: Facebook comms guy, a former Dem staffer, announces that Facebook is going to suppress a piece of journalism that Dems don't like https://twitter.com/...
Del Quentin Wilber / @delwilber: Would be curious if the NY Post had any computer forensic folks conduct forensic examination of emails' metadata, etc., before publishing to check authenticity. https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Things that are sketchy in NYP story on Hunter Biden - why wasn't this in Ron Johnson report if it's been in possession for awhile? When did Giuliani acquire it? Giuliani has been everywhere on the but this has been kicking around since late last year and unreleased till now?
@jeremynewberger: “Excuse me kind NY POST reporters, I found this wet hard drive with Hunter Biden e-mails on it. I didn't know who to give it to. I gotta go, I am getting my feet scraped and my hair done at 11.” - random woman. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Carpe Diem / @captcarpediem: Aren't you spreading the propaganda that the FBI was warning us about? You really think we are going to tolerate a repeat of 2016's wikileaks? Looking forward to an investigation into your behavior when Biden is president. It's not a “smoking-gun.” it is discredited propaganda. https://twitter.com/...
Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp: Feels with this NY Post story that the 2020 election disinformation swamp has become even more swampy, and platforms are starting to be tested on their plans to deal with this stuff. https://www.theverge.com/...
@rmac18: I'm confused by this. Facebook spox attempts to be transparent by claiming that the social network has limited the distribution of the NYPost Biden story, but doesn't say exactly what policy the company is applying to take that action. https://twitter.com/...
Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo: How about ... on the grounds that they have a first amendment right to do whatever they want? that enough? a little something I like to call the us constitution https://twitter.com/...
Hollywood Reporter:
Over 100 actors, writers, and producers sign a letter to NBCUniversal and Comcast execs protesting the airing of a Trump town hall opposite a Biden event — “You are enabling the president's bad behavior while undercutting the Presidential Debate Commission and doing a disservice to the American public …
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Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: This is how Trump is previewing his town hall: “You know, I'm being set up tonight. I'm doing this town hall with Concast - C O N, right - CON - cuz it's a CON JOB. Concast. C O N. Not C O M. CONcast. So I'm doing it, and it's NBC, the worst...” https://twitter.com/...
Conan O'Brien / @conanobrien: I can't remember the last time I was this shocked by an NBC programming decision.
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: Trump tells the crowd he's doing his NBC town hall tonight. He says NBC is “the worst” and repeatedly insults them and host Savannah Guthrie. “I figured, what the hell, we get a free hour on television,” Trump says.
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal: NBC Actors, Producers Protest Decision to Host Trump Town Hall at Same Time as Biden Event
Vivian Schiller / @vivian: The point of a news organization is to serve the public. This is the opposite. @NBCNews could literally run this any other day, or any other time. Shameful. (Disclosure: I am a former NBC News exec) https://twitter.com/...
Marc Caputo / Politico: Trump town hall sparks behind-the-scenes fury at NBC
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times: NBC faces backlash over scheduling its Trump town hall against ABC's Biden event
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post: By giving Trump a town hall to rival Biden's, NBC is playing into his ratings obsession — again
Margeaux Sippell / The Wrap: Trump Trashes ‘Concast,’ NBC, Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt, Joe Biden, Fake News in Epic 2-Minute Tirade (Video)
Joe Concha / The Hill: NYT columnist: Pressure mounting on NBC to make town hall a ‘nightmare for Trump’
Dominic Patten / Deadline: Donald Trump Attacks NBC As “The Worst” & Mocks Savannah Guthrie As Network Slammed Over Dueling Town Halls
Sara Fischer / Axios: NBC under fire for Trump town hall
Christopher Zara / Fast Company: How to watch the Biden and Trump town halls on ABC and NBC live (if you must)
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: 2020 Election Live Updates: Trump and Biden Will Hold Dueling Television Town Halls, After the President Rejected a Debate
Margeaux Sippell / The Wrap: Carl Bernstein Bashes NBC for ‘Allowing Itself to Get Conned’ Into Trump Town Hall
Jennifer Szalai / @jenszalai: According to this, the person at NBC who wanted to move ahead “unilaterally” with the Trump town hall was Noah Oppenheim, who featured prominently (and not in a flattering light) in @RonanFarrow's “Catch and Kill” https://www.politico.com/...
@jackischechner: How humiliating for you, @NBCNews. You offer him an hour of free exposure, and he sh*ts all over you and your anchors. https://twitter.com/...
Abby D. Phillip / @abbydphillip: Yeah... so this is going well. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Kew / Breitbart: ABC Late Night Host Jimmy Kimmel Hits NBC for Hosting Trump Town Hall During Joe Biden's
Eric Balfour / @ericbalfour: This is such a lame move on the part of @NBCNews. They should have held it on another night! https://twitter.com/...
David M. Perry / @lollardfish: Protest is good. But also: strike. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Allsop / @jon_allsop: @BGrueskin @benyt They probably won't, though Trump might make it a nightmare for himself...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: @brianstelter @benyt Right. But the host still has to feed off the voters' questions
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: @BGrueskin @benyt Holt asked lots of his own Q's last week, so Guthrie will too
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: @benyt It's a town hall, so NBC's options are more limited than a straight interview or debate.
Oliver Willis / @owillis: @benyt youve been at this too long for this naive a take
@corb_the_lesser: @benyt If Trump is tossed a few relevant questions, he'll do his own nightmare making.
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: @BGrueskin @brianstelter @benyt I will be interested to see if NBC puts its ad sales execs in the front row like previous presidential town halls, like 2016's Commander-in-Chief forum on the Intrepid.
Laura Bradley / The Daily Beast: NBC Stars and Creators Revolt Against Network's Trump Town Hall Plan
Dave Itzkoff / @ditzkoff: the important thing is that, by offering Trump a competing town hall, NBC was able to maintain its dignity and avoid the wrath of the president https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Moreau / Variety: More Than 100 Hollywood Stars Demand NBC Moves Trump Town Hall
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: This Is Us, Law & Order: SVU Actors Among 100 Top Hollywood Creatives Speaking Out Against NBC News' Trump Town Hall
Frances Fisher / @frances_fisher: @jjabrams @Ava @marhargitay Among 100 Top Hollywood Players: “We are simply asking that #NBC air the President's town hall either before or after Vice President #Biden's so that American voters can have the opportunity to watch both.” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Byron York / @byronyork: NBC actors, producers protest network's decision to air Trump town hall tonight at same time as Biden's on ABC. They want you to know that, ‘This is not a partisan issue. This is about the political health of our democracy.’ OK. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Rob Schmitt / @schmittnyc: To shocked NBC staff, your company, like every other corporation, is just pretending to be woke and liberal. Trump town hall will make millions and they need money to pay you. Welcome to capitalism. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: “So I'm being set up tonight” with “Concast” and “NBC, the worst,” says @POTUS of this evening's televised town hall event. “We get a free hour on television.”
@blackamazon: ...... god the social and comms consultant space is bad and bland and boring right now https://twitter.com/...
Yaron Steinbuch / Page Six: Hollywood figures ask NBC to remove Trump town hall from Biden slot
Dr. David A. Lustig / @drdave1999: I call it ‘Corporate Cowardice.’ Other users on social media were less kind. NBC deserves to be blasted for giving the Sociopath-in-Chief 90-min. of free airtime after he withdrew from his debate with Biden, as well as for scheduling it opposite Biden. https://www.latimes.com/...
Christopher Rosen / Vanity Fair: NBC's Biggest Stars Sign Open Letter Demanding Network Move Trump Town Hall
Elahe Izadi / @elaheizadi: .@Sulliview has some words: “In fact, NBC News is doing what so much of mainstream media has done time and again: allowed Trump to steal the spotlight and command attention on his terms.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kimberly Roots / TVLine: Mariska Hargitay, This Is Us Cast Implore NBC to Move Trump Town Hall
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: Would appreciate a look into how much money the networks are making from town halls. We blew past the “informing the public” argument. Media buyers, my DMs are open to hear how much your clients are spending to be a part of this.
Brendan Morrow / The Week: NBC stars slam network over Trump town hall scheduling
Vivian Schiller / @vivian: @benyt They made their own bed.
Alexander Heffner / @heffnera: Holy Malarkey. After NBC Entertainment elected Donald Trump and decimated democracy, NBC News wants to platform his re-election. https://twitter.com/...
Zack Sharf / IndieWire: Seth Rogen, J.J. Abrams, and Over 100 Hollywood Stars Protest NBC's Trump Town Hall
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBC News to host a Trump town hall, moderated by Savannah Guthrie, on Thursday evening, at the same time ABC News is broadcasting a similar event with Biden
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Merrill Brown / @merrillbro: Management at @NBCNews needs to explain ASAP how agreeing at last minute to add a town hall with President Trump opposite an @abcnews Joe Biden Town Hall is in the public interest. Even doing it at 10 ET just after Biden would have been a better decision. https://twitter.com/...
Shakina / @shakeenz: Shame on @NBC. Y'all sign my checks as of late but I'm disgusted by my home network giving Trump a platform for fear mongering, bigotry & disinformation. Don't praise yourselves for putting a trans woman on primetime then give a platform to someone who wants to abolish my rights.
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: CNN's Don Lemon Bashes NBC's Trump Town Hall as ‘Outright Embarrassing Ratings Ploy’
Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: Conan O'Brien Just Beat Any Trump Town Hall Joke You've Got
Jeff Greenfield / @greenfield64: The decision by NBC News to run a Trump town hall directly opposite ABC's Biden town hall is indefensible.
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: NBC wanted outside (non-Conley) proof of Trump's medical condition. Per the network, the NIH “collected & analyzed” a PCR test on Tuesday and concluded he is “not shedding infectious virus.” NBC did not explicitly say the PCR test was negative. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@yashar: I've heard from over a dozen NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC sources (talent and staff) and the frustration with and anger toward their employer for scheduling a town hall against Biden is palpable.
Mark Lukasiewicz / @deanluk: This is a bad result for American voters, who should not be forced to choose which to watch. So much is still going wrong with how TV journalism copes, or still fails to cope, with @realDonaldTrump. https://twitter.com/...
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite: ‘NBC is All in For Trump’: The View Buries Peacock Network for Scheduling President's Town Hall Opposite Biden's
Adam Nagourney / @adamnagourney: Fair point; not sure why Trump/NBC couldn't have gone before or after, or on another day. This should be about voters, give them a chance to see candidates. Instead, feels like this is going to deteriorate into chest-thumping over who gets biggest ratings. https://twitter.com/...
Ronald Klain / @ronaldklain: With four networks showing Trump (@NBC @MSNBC @Telemundo @CNBC) to one showing Biden (@ABC), Trump may well get higher ratings. But will he get more — or fewer — votes as a result? https://twitter.com/...
Jon Cryer / @mrjoncryer: I'm proud to join my colleagues protesting NBC's shameful decision. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... via @thr
Brit Hume / @brithume: They are like most college faculties: liberal, biased and trying to run the institutions. https://www.wsj.com/...
Philip Bump / @pbump: “He said he was announcing a bid in June and [he'd] be out of the race by September and start shooting [Celebrity Apprentice] in January.” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
@colorofchange: .@NBC, your decision to host this town hall is utterly disappointing for three reasons: (i) the high COVID-19 rate in Miami, (ii) the risk this event poses to community members, and (iii) the misinformation we expect to come out of it. #CancelThisTownHall https://www.nbcnews.com/...
H Schwab / @helenschwab: Terrible, indefensible decision on timing here, @nbcnews. But not too late to change this, and reclaim some credibility as a news organization. Don't leave people to rely only on their usual network's commentators to hear about the other candidate. Let them hear both. https://twitter.com/...
Will McAvoy / @willmcavoyacn: Again: if Trump had not gotten COVID through his own ineptitude and incompetence it wouldn't be an issue. https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Pope / @kylepope: I'm reminded of Chris Wallace bemoaning the fact that Trump's shouting meant the American people didn't get the benefit of hearing from both candidates. @NBCNews apparently has no such view. This is a craven ratings stunt, caving to the Trumpian impulses the network helped hone.
Nicole / @youngestwoman: you're talking about the president of the united states. he has the biggest platform in the world. he has the nuclear launch codes. he isn't pewdiepie. grow the fuck up! https://twitter.com/...
Steve Marmel / @marmel: This took courage that Savannah Guthrie does not have. https://twitter.com/...
Shakina / @shakeenz: Honestly shame on @ABC and @NBC, this echo chamber of rhetoric is a root problem in America. These days leading up to the election should be about the exchange and comparison of ideas and policy, not ratings and stoking division. @realDonaldTrump & @JoeBiden should #debate.
Robert Maguire / @robertmaguire_: “The Hollywood Reporter talked to former NBC insiders who provide new detail on his brazen demands (including large donations to his ill-fated foundation) and the way the network enabled him: ‘We had to build all kinds of systems to make sure the show stayed on the rails.’” https://twitter.com/...
LK Lawson / @herzogfan: @MSNBC Goodbye NBC. You reward Trump's bad behavior by giving him his own special opposite Biden ? Haven't you guys done enough in promoting this conman and pathological liar ? Savannah Guthrie ? What, Toadstool Todd wasn't free ? The NBC-Trump legacy: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Barbara Malmet / @b52malmet: Look. The historical predicate of Trump shaking down NBC for what he wants. https://twitter.com/...
Benjamin Siemon / @benjaminjs: NBC in 2016: We made a mistake in featuring such an evil man on SNL. We will never do this again. NBC in 2020: We will give Trump a town hall special competing against Biden after he refused to debate virtually. https://twitter.com/...
Guy Benson / @guypbenson: No it's not. In fact, if both candidates are going to be conducting dueling, simultaneous nationally-televised town hall meetings on the same night at the same time, perhaps they should be...debating each other in person, as originally scheduled. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Lewis / @mattklewis: Doesn't this severely undermine the notion that the 2nd presidential debate *had* to be done virtually (or not at all)? https://twitter.com/...
Eric Deggans At Npr / @deggans: As always, Kim's got the goods: This time, on Donald Trump's financial shenanigans with NBC executives while starring in The Apprentice. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Fienberg / @thefienprint: We used to as NBC execs at press tour about Trump running for president and it was always a question couched in concern that such a run would make NBC's brand look bad. Nothing else. Anyway, NBC is airing a Trump town hall/commercial on Thursday night. https://twitter.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: Given Trump was the one to drop out of the debate, is it not off-the-charts shitty for NBC to let him counter-program against Biden like this? https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: With this decision, NBC has rewarded Trump for torpedoing the second debate, created dueling spectacles for voters, and simply looked past the fact that its reporters never got an answer to: when was the president's last negative test before he got COVID? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: I'd somehow forgotten that Trump chickened out of debating after months of suggesting Biden would do this. https://twitter.com/...
Kathleen Smith / @kikkiplanet: I've said it before and I'll say it again; Donald J Trump is a media creation. His empire and everything about him is a lie and always has been, & media force-fed those lies to Americans for profit. They are complicit in creating this monster. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Bevan / @tombevanrcp: Can't wait to see the ‘undecided voters’ NBC digs up for this one. https://twitter.com/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: I spoke to an exec there yesterday and said, “You're going to get a lot of blowback if you do this,” and he said, “Why? We aired a Biden town hall before.” https://twitter.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
NBC sources say scheduling a Trump town hall head to head with ABC's Biden event was intended to match a similar forum Biden had Oct. 5, including the time slot
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Sue Halpern / @suehalpernvt: The cynicism of NBC execs, who gave us The Apprentice and thus this President, is stunning and shameful. ABC should call their bluff and move Biden so he talks after Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David A. Graham / The Atlantic: Americans Saw Trump Unfiltered and Recoiled in Horror
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Alright, who's in the mood for a #thread about the DUELING TOWN HALLS problem? https://twitter.com/...
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast: Trump Calls NBC the ‘Worst,’ Mocks Savannah Guthrie Hours Before Town-Hall Event
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: The Trump NBC town hall for Thursday is ON - and it will air at exactly the same time as Biden is speaking on ABC https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rudy Takala / Mediaite: Fox's Stuart Varney Throws Down With Trump in Chris Wallace's Defense: ‘You Did Interrupt a Lot’
Scott Shackford / Reason: Actually, It's Good That Major Networks Are Covering Both Trump's and Biden's Town Halls
Brian Stelter / CNN: NBC schedules Trump town hall at the same time as Biden's on ABC, sparking outrage
@maythaalhassen: 2016: media produces millions of dollars of free ad space for Trump 2020: after 4 years of telling on itself, the media still produces millions of dollars of free ad space for Trump https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: A reward for refusing to participate in the second debate, in a format where there was a possibility of actual conversation. https://twitter.com/...
@thedailybeast: “He looks at this the same way he looks at attendance at his rallies versus the [turnout] Biden gets for his events,” one source told The Daily Beast. “He obviously wants to blow Biden out of the water.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@rob_sheridan: Oh good, give him a ratings competition and his own personal rally, instead of a debate. The actual worst possible outcome of this farce for democracy. But great for ratings! Disgusting, @nbc. https://twitter.com/...
Corey Atad / Top Celebrity News, Hollywood Headlines: Whoopi Goldberg Cautions Joy Behar Not To ‘Flip Out’ Over Election Anxiety
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: As @goodyk points out, NBC News deserves pure contempt for its collaboration with Trump on this “town hall” gambit — “bad TV and worse journalism” — https://www.azcentral.com/...
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: Trump refuses a virtual debate with Biden on Thursday night, so Biden agrees to an ABC town hall. Now NBC is giving Trump a town hall at the same time. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@marvk: NBC sources also say tomorrow's Today show will feature a fun recipe for honey chicken. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Will ABC News shift Biden's time slot? A rep declined to comment. But let's be clear — ABC announced its plans several days before NBC did. Moving one of the town halls to a different day is not seen as a viable option, given the crowded schedules of the candidates, BTW.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Why? The best answer I've heard from sources today is “parity:” Biden was on NBC at 8, so Trump will be on NBC at 8. But some NBC staffers are perturbed: “We're giving Trump exactly what he wants,” a made-by-TV rivalry between the prez and the former VP https://www.cnn.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: So why did NBC schedule Trump against Biden? Our latest reporting from inside the network: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
Sources: Rupert Murdoch, semi-retired from operations at Fox News and News Corp, has told people he thinks Biden will win, as his NY Post blasts the candidate — The Australian mogul is disgusted by Trump's handling of COVID-19, remarking that the president is his own worst enemy and telling associates …
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Caroline Rose Giuliani / Vanity Fair: Rudy Giuliani's Daughter Caroline on Voting for Joe Biden
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post: Hunter Biden's alleged laptop: An explainer
Talia Kaplan / Fox News: Miranda Devine slams Twitter for ‘naked hypocrisy’ of locking NY Post account
Steven Nelson / New York Post: McConnell slams ‘reprehensible’ censoring of Post's Hunter Biden articles
Kristina Wong / Breitbart: Jim Jordan Posts Hunter Biden-Burisma Story after Twitter Censors House Judiciary GOP
Celine Castronuovo / The Hill: US intelligence analysts predicted stolen Burisma emails would be leaked in October: report
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: Translation: “I am doing all I can for this mentality deficient monster but damn, he's killed a lot of people. Time to back away a step or two.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@thedailybeast: Murdoch had long prized having unfettered access to the White House, but people familiar with the matter say the two men have not spoken in several weeks after Murdoch grew tired of Trump's endless complaints about so-called negative coverage on Fox News https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: This is COLD: In response to an email inquiry for this report asking him if he believes Biden will win in a landslide and his thoughts on Trump's handling of coronavirus, Murdoch responded, “No comment except I've never called Trump an idiot.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Matthew Walther / The Week: Twitter's election meddling
Graham Piro / Washington Free Beacon: Cruz: Twitter CEO Will Be Subpoenaed Over Hunter Biden Censorship
Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Ajit Pai says FCC will start a rulemaking to clarify the meaning of Section 230, and social media doesn't have “special immunity denied to other media outlets” — - Agency chief says it will conduct rulemaking Trump sought — Social media doesn't have special immunity, Chairman Pai says
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Ajit Pai / @ajitpaifcc: I intend to move forward with an @FCC rulemaking to clarify the meaning of #Section230. Read my full statement below. https://twitter.com/...
Sean Burch / The Wrap: FCC to ‘Clarify’ Legal Protections for Twitter, Facebook in Moderating Content
Todd Spangler / Variety: FCC Chief Warns Social Media Firms That They Don't Have Right to ‘Special Immunity’
Tom Johnson / @tommjohnsonjr: I've informed Chairman @AjitPaiFCC that the @FCC has the legal authority to interpret #Section230. We now intend to move forward with a rulemaking to clarify its meaning. Read the Chairman's full statement below: https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Frias / WHDH-TV: FCC chairman says he'll seek to regulate social media under Trump's executive order
@jisraelbalderas: “The congressional record reflects that the drafters of Section 230 did ‘not wish to have a Federal Computer Commission with an ARMY OF BUREAUCRATS regulating the internet.’” See Restoring Internet Freedom Order 33 FCC Rcd 311 (1) (emphasis added) https://twitter.com/...
@jisraelbalderas: Looking forward to see how the FCC avoids an arbitrary and capricious ruling when it “clarifies” 230 while simultaneously “clarifying” that in its RIFO final rule, it found 230 to be determinative that regulating broadband as info service means free market deregulation approach https://twitter.com/...
Brendan Carr / @brendancarrfcc: FCC Chairman Pai announced today that he is moving forward with clarifying Section 230. This is great news, and I applaud his leadership on this important issue. My full statement on the need to reform Section 230 and rein in Big Tech immediately: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jay Caruso / @jaycaruso: “But they do not have a First Amendment right to a special immunity denied to other media outlets, such as newspapers and broadcasters.” You're right and they do *not* have special immunity, Chairman Pai. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Solana / @micsolana: welcome to the new republican party. special thanks to all the short-sighted tech execs who made this possible. https://twitter.com/...
David Bauder / Associated Press:
C-SPAN suspended editor Steve Scully indefinitely after he admitted he lied about his Twitter account being hacked following his tweet to Anthony Scaramucci — NEW YORK (AP) — C-SPAN suspended its political editor Steve Scully indefinitely Thursday after he admitted to lying about his Twitter feed …
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Brian Stelter / CNN: C-SPAN political editor Steve Scully suspended after admitting he lied about his Twitter feed being hacked
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: BREAKING: C-SPAN Suspends Political Director Steve Scully For Admitting to Lying About Twitter Hack
Ted Johnson / Deadline: C-SPAN Places Steve Scully On Indefinite Leave After He Admits To False Claim About His Twitter Hack
Brian Steinberg / Variety: C-SPAN Places Host Steve Scully on Leave After False Hacking Claims
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: C-Span Suspends Anchor Steve Scully for Lying About Twitter Post
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News: C-SPAN suspends Steve Scully indefinitely after he admits he lied about his Twitter being hacked
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: A true WTF, what-was-he-thinking moment... causing real damage to the national news media's reputation https://www.cnn.com/...
Andrew Sullivan / @sullydish: Compare with MSNBC and Joy Reid. https://twitter.com/...
Anthony Scaramucci / @scaramucci: Brutal outcome for a silly non political tweet. Nothing objectionable. Cancel culture going too far. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Sadly, this looked doubtful from the start. Scully's reputation for probity won him some time, but the lie will now be part of the record. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: New: CSPAN suspends political editor Steve Scully for falsely claiming his Twitter feed was hacked when he inadvertently sent public note to former Trump aide & current Trump critic @Scaramucci Scully was to moderate canceled event tonight with Trump & Biden Full Statements: https://twitter.com/...
Rep. Jody Hice / @congressmanhice: WOW. Debate moderator @SteveScully suspended from @cspan after admitting he lied about being hacked — after we were told how nonpartisan he was for weeks... Folks, the fix is in. The media, the deep state, and big tech are all against @realDonaldTrump. https://apnews.com/...
Steadman / @asteadwesley: twas always dubious that a hacker would spend their precious time tweeting at anthony scaramucci https://twitter.com/...
Alex Thompson / @alxthomp: Turns out “I was hacked” was a lie, part 738 C-Span suspends Scully indefinitely after he admitted it. https://apnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Mack / @davidmackau: 👀 https://twitter.com/...
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast: C-SPAN Suspends Editor Steve Scully for Lying About Hacked Twitter
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
The Atlantic launches Planet, a section devoted to climate change, and Weekly Planet, a newsletter — I've been covering climate change for The Atlantic for five years, or nearly a sixth of the time I've been alive. That's long enough to watch the world change around me.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab: With Planet, The Atlantic aims to unleash its entire newsroom on climate journalism
Ben Smith / @benyt: Atlantic launching “Atlantic Planet,” covering “climate change in the present tense.” It's nice and healthy to increasingly see a real,grubby media war on to cover a huge story. @climate also doing pretty amazing stuff lately. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
David Roberts / @drvox: You're going to want to follow @yayitsrob and the Atlantic's new Planet section. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Dr. Jacquelyn Gill / @jacquelyngill: Looks like a lot of new climate content will be coming out of The Atlantic! https://twitter.com/...
Bill McKibben / @billmckibben: Very pleased to see @TheAtlantic going all in on climate coverage, with @yayitsrob at the helm! https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Paul Bisceglio / @paulbisceglio: I have so many good things to say about this. Welcome to Planet, The Atlantic's new home for climate-change coverage. Start with @yayitsrob's urgent and eloquent introduction: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Then more incredible stories are already waiting for you.
Sarah Laskow / @slaskow: And how should we think about climate change now? @yayitsrob has some very stirring thoughts: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@theatlantic: 1/ Today, we're introducing a new section devoted to climate change, Atlantic Planet. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@kerrymflynn: Definitely great to see more investment in covering the climate crisis. But not sure I like the term “media war” to describe increased investments in important and necessary journalism for all audiences https://twitter.com/...
Emma Green / @emmaogreen: A privilege of working at the Atlantic is getting to DM @yayitsrob with all my personal questions about climate and the environment and getting back informative, hilarious, poetic treatises. Friends, that opportunity is now available to you, too. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
NBC News:
YouTube is now banning conspiracy theory content, such as QAnon or Pizzagate, that targets individuals and groups and is used to “justify real-world violence” — YouTube said Thursday that it would no longer allow content that targets individuals and groups with conspiracy theories …
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Kevin Roose / New York Times: YouTube Cracks Down on QAnon Conspiracy Theory, Citing Offline Violence
Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube Cracks Down on QAnon Content, Banning Conspiracy-Theory Videos Tied to Real-World Violence
David Cohen / Adweek: YouTube Ramps Up Its Efforts Against QAnon-Related Content
Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: YouTube Bans QAnon, With a Catch
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: YouTube says it will crack down on QAnon content
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: YouTube Toughens its Rules Around Dangerous Conspiracy Theories, with a Focus on QAnon Content
Nicolas Vega / New York Post: YouTube cracks down on QAnon content targeting individuals, protected groups
Jason Koebler / VICE: YouTube Bans QAnon After Helping Mainstream QAnon
Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill: YouTube expands policies to tackle QAnon
Jennifer Elias / CNBC: YouTube tightens rules on conspiracy videos, but stops short of banning QAnon
Rachel E. Greenspan / Business Insider: YouTube announces new action against QAnon conspiracy theory but stops short of ban
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: In our reporting, YouTube was QAnon's largest remaining radicalization driver. This enforcement action puts YouTube somewhere in between Twitter (make QAnon accounts harder to find, ban overt harassment) and Facebook (outright ban on QAnon content). https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Michael Vincent / @mvddm: Good! But I can't help but wonder if they're a little late https://twitter.com/...
Gavin Sheridan / @gavinsblog: Of course had YouTube had good policies in place to begin with, Qanon would not have become what it is now, helped in large part by YouTube itself.
Samuel Oakford / @samueloakford: Am I wrong in reading YouTube's release as not explicitly banning QAnon? https://blog.youtube/... https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / The Verge: YouTube won't ban QAnon content, but will remove videos that could promote violence
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: So many people we talked to who said they fell into QAnon during the pandemic claimed they got there through YouTube recommendations, or friends telling them to watch a ten-part YouTube series about the cabal. That recruiting engine is now under threat. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Matt Binder / Mashable: YouTube bans ‘harmful’ QAnon, Pizzagate, and other conspiracy theory content
Ej Dickson / @ejdickson: BREAKING: YouTube, one of the platforms that have arguably done the most to mainstream QAnon, is finally banning the conspiracy theory, removing tens of thousands of videos and hundreds of channels: https://blog.youtube/...
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast: YouTube Launches Major New Crackdown on QAnon
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: NEW from @BrandyZadrozny + me: YouTube says it is banning QAnon, other conspiracy content that targets individuals https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Joan E. Solsman / CNET: YouTube bans QAnon conspiracy videos if they target a person or group
Kelsey Sutton / Adweek:
Nielsen will include ads watched on YouTube apps on CTVs in its YouTube campaign measurements, which already cover mobile and digital screens, from 2021 — First phase, arriving in 2021, comes as viewership has soared — The move will let media buyers and sellers track audiences across …
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Andrew Blustein / Adweek: Nielsen Boosts Addressable TV Ambitions With Tru Optik Tie-Up
Mark Wilson / Fast Company:
YouTube TV is adding NFL Fantasy Football, its first third-party app, allowing viewers to watch a game and pull up player scores on the same screen — Starting today, real football and your fantasy team are one and the same. Tomorrow? We can only guess.
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WarnerMedia will shut down HBO and WB TV channels in India, Pakistan, Maldives, and Bangladesh on December 15, citing changes in the pay-TV market — WarnerMedia will discontinue HBO and WB TV channels in India, Pakistan, Maldives, and Bangladesh later this year as the entertainment conglomerate struggles …
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