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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Profile of an ex-BuzzFeed employee who livestreamed the Capitol riot; hooked on going viral, he ran BuzzFeed's Vine and Twitter before joining Milo Yiannopoulos — At BuzzFeed, we followed the signals of social media. A young employee followed them all the way to Charlottesville and Capitol Hill.
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New York Times:
Dlive, which attracts far-right video streamers and takes a cut of viewer donations, had a near-record 150K concurrent viewers Wednesday, according to estimates — A site called Dlive, where rioters broadcast from the Capitol, is benefiting from the growing exodus of right-wing users from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Since 2016, Trump moved from giving a large number of TV interviews to relying more on an “I type, you listen” Twitter presence, a stage he tightly controlled — Mr. Trump became a celebrity through television, but Twitter had given him a singular outlet for expressing himself as he is …
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Washington Post:
As Trump searches for a new social network after his Twitter ban, a shift from mainstream platforms would mark a retreat to insular conservative communities — Twitter's decision to ban President Trump mere days before the end of his term sparked a fierce political backlash among …
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Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
The informal image on Vogue's print cover of VP-elect Kamala Harris draws criticism for lacking respect, authority, and grandeur — The nation's first female vice president elect has been photographed for the cover of February's Vogue magazine and a vocal chorus on social media is displeased with the images.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Memo: Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular right-leaning US talk radio hosts, tells personalities to stop suggesting the election was stolen — After months of stoking anger about alleged election fraud, one of America's largest talk-radio companies has decided on an abrupt change of direction.
Randall Lane / Forbes:
Chief content officer of Forbes says if any company hires an ex-Trump press secretary then Forbes will assume that “everything the company talks about is a lie” — Yesterday's insurrection was rooted in lies. That a fair election was stolen. That a significant defeat was actually a landslide victory.
Al Tompkins / Poynter:
News orgs may be forced to turn over their unpublished images and videos of the Capitol siege since federal crimes are not protected by a federal shield law — News organizations may have an unpopular fight ahead as federal law enforcement agencies seek out their unpublished images from the Capitol siege.
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Washington Post, @davidphinney, @coreyhutchins, @fheinderyckx, NPPA, @pressfreedom, @katharinelarsen, @joshroe, @poynter, @esmcintyre, @atompkins and @froomkin
Barry Jackson / Miami Herald:
Source: former ESPN radio host Dan Le Batard and DAZN Executive Chairman John Skipper will launch a new media company focused on sports in the coming weeks — Less than a week after leaving ESPN, Dan Le Batard already has a new venture lined up. What the South Florida-based sports personality does …
Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the measures passed by governments around the world to support local entertainment industries, from insurance funds to subsidies — While the U.S. has only recently approved a COVID-19 relief package, many of Hollywood's global counterparts are moving on to more ambitious strategies …
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@filmcollab and @thr
South China Morning Post:
A website dedicated to documenting Hong Kong's anti-government protests has been blocked; sources say HK police invoked new national security law to censor it — Sources say the force has started asking internet providers to halt access to HKChronicles citing Article 43 of the law …
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New York Times, Bloomberg, @ilariamariasala, @geopol2020, @jessedamiani, @puiwingtam, Radio Free Asia and Bloomberg
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
After laying off half its staff in Feb. 2020, Protocol's president says it had 7M unique visitors last year and is planning an international expansion — Protocol, like most media companies in the spring of 2020, took a hit — and one that was especially acute just months past launching in February.
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