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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Fox stipulated that its settlement for hyping rumors about Seth Rich be kept secret until Nov. 3, showing how Fox is entwined with Trump-camp disinfo efforts — Why did the network insist an agreement with the family of a murdered young man remain undisclosed until after the election?
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@nycsouthpaw, Nuzzel, @benyt, @mattxs, @joelockhart, @john_sipher, @johnnyddavidson, @caseynewton, @jmartnyt, @sonnybunch, @jamesrbuk, @jaketapper, @elongreen, @obsoletedogma, @jonfavs, @brhodes, @yesnicksearcy, @davidmackau, @wesleylowery, @lionelbarber, @arusbridger, @davidbegnaud, Mediaite, @billkristol, @benyt, @nytimes, @jaketapper, @tburages, @slpng_giants, @oliverdarcy and @jodyavirgan
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Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: Fox News insisted its settlement with Seth Rich's family stay secret until after the presidential election. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: “Everyone wants to blame themselves except the people who actually deserve blame” -@virginiahughes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matt / @mattxs: Fox agreed to Pay for Telling Lies. But It Refused to Make It Public Until After the Election. Clickbait headlines like the one below bury the story & help Fox get away with it. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Lockhart / @joelockhart: When the arsonist is a news network, how do you hold them accountable. We need to figure that out or this will happen again and again. https://twitter.com/...
John Sipher / @john_sipher: Who coulda guessed that if you monetize anger and lie to people for thirty years, some people start to believe it. https://twitter.com/...
John Davidson / @johnnyddavidson: The UK government is insane to let Murdoch set up a Fox News-style network up in the UK https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: “That's the genius of the Murdochs' management of the place: They collect the cash while evading responsibility and letting their hosts work primarily for Mr. Trump.” Fox News is a menace. Great @benyt column https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jonathan Martin / @jmartnyt: One of the many smart things @benyt did when we worked at Politico was to cover Murdoch + Ailes as political actors. They had on-air talent attack us for it, barred colleagues from their air But he was right then and is right today https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sonny Bunch / @sonnybunch: The Seth Rich conspiracy theory is one of the most disgusting artifacts of the Trump era and every person who propagated it should be deeply ashamed of themselves. https://www.nytimes.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: An excellent question posed in this piece and not quite answered: why did Fox News require its multi-million dollar settlement to Seth Rich's parents to be kept secret until after Election Day 2020? https://twitter.com/...
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: “There's only one multibillion-dollar media corporation that deliberately and aggressively propagated these untruths. That's the Fox Corporation, and its chairman, Rupert Murdoch; his feckless son Lachlan, who is nominally C.E.O.; and the chief legal officer Viet Dinh...” https://twitter.com/...
Elon Green / @elongreen: Journalists should remember this devastating story the next time they're about to slobber over Chris Wallace. https://twitter.com/...
Matt O'Brien / @obsoletedogma: Democrats should stop pretending that Fox News is a legitimate media organization. The mainstream media should too. It's a propanda network, full stop. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jon Favreau / @jonfavs: Great piece. There's been way too little focus on Fox News as the source of the radicalization that's put the country in danger. The network is a cancer. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Rhodes / @brhodes: There's nothing new about Fox acting like this. There's nothing new about the disinfo that led to 1/6. There's nothing new about Trump's racism and mendacity. This has been obvious for a decade and if you said that you were treated as unserious or partisan https://www.nytimes.com/...
@yesnicksearcy: The left is never going to like Sonny, no matter how hard he tries. https://twitter.com/...
David Mack / @davidmackau: columns like this are why i'm lucky to know ben, let alone to have worked under him. fox news has blood on its hands: officer sicknick's, seth rich's, and this country's. https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: What is the damage done over the decades by the obvious lies and falsehoods that outlets like Fox News breathlessly report and then never prominently correct? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lionel Barber / @lionelbarber: Here's the real meat James Murdoch never mentioned https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alan Rusbridger / @arusbridger: 'That's the genius of the Murdochs' management of the place: They collect the cash while evading responsibility and letting their hosts work primarily for Mr. Trump.' @benyt on Fox News & a secret settlement https://nytimes.us4.list-manage.com/ ...
David Begnaud / @davidbegnaud: “Fox paid so much that the network didn't have to apologize for the May 2017 story on https://foxnews.com/. But there was one curious provision that Fox insisted on: The settlement had to be kept secret for a month — until after the Nov. 3 election...” https://twitter.com/...
Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite: Fox News Reportedly Insisted Seven-Figure Seth Rich Settlement Be Kept Secret Until After Election
Bill Kristol / @billkristol: “The unusual arrangement underscores how entwined Fox has become in the Trump camp's disinformation efforts...The network parroted lies from Trump and his more sinister allies for years, amplifying the president's deceptions about the election's outcome.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Fox Agreed to Pay for Telling Lies. But It Insisted on One Unusual Condition. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: “While many grifters and short-lived social media stars played their part, there's only one multibillion-dollar media corporation that aggressively propagated untruths,” media columnist @benyt writes of Fox News. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: “Fox's decision to settle with the Rich family came just before its marquee hosts, Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity, were set to be questioned under oath in the case, a potentially embarrassing moment.... https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tami Burages / @tburages: The family of Seth Rich wasn't allowed to disclose the settlement until after the November 3 election. Which proves once again that Fox News is nothing more than the propaganda arm of the Republican Party. https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants: This piece is so incredibly damning. How any advertiser can continue to do business with a TV network that knowingly spread lies about a young man who was murdered, further ruining his families life, is just incomprehensible. This should be wholly disqualifying for any business https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “Why did Fox care about keeping the Rich settlement secret for the final month of the Trump re-election campaign? Why was it important to the company, which calls itself a news organization, that one of the biggest lies of the Trump era remain unresolved for that period?” https://twitter.com/...
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Alex Barker / Financial Times:
Without naming Fox, James Murdoch blasts media owners who enabled “toxic politics” and says their lies have unleashed “insidious and uncontrollable” forces — Comments from Rupert's son are his strongest rebuke of industry practices since leaving the family business
Discussion:
@oliverdarcy, @kathrynamurdoch, CNN, @nprinskeep, @mollyjongfast, Crikey, @glynmoody, @mehdirhasan, @jgreenblattadl, @racheld, Mumbrella, @tompainetoday, @martin_flanagan, @wajahatali, @originalspin, @joyannreid, @raydalio, @bostonjoan, @richardajkeys, The Wrap, @mattgarrahan, @stewartmcdonald, @mmasnick, Variety, @swannyqld, @ashkan, @kathrynamurdoch, @mrkrudd, @billkristol, @clairecmc, @liseinthecity, @katebevan, @samthielman, @turnbullmalcolm, @tucker5law, @stopfundinghate, @poniewozik, Business Insider, @andrewcooper__, @robinwigg, @fascinatorfun, @maynereport, @lisatozzi, @timbrooks100, @janinegibson, @alexebarker, @suanzes, @oliverdarcy and contextisking.com
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Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Full statement from James Murdoch & @KathrynAMurdoch: “Many media property owners have as much responsibility for this as the elected officials who know the truth but choose instead to propagate lies...” https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kathryn Murdoch / @kathrynamurdoch: Our statement: Spreading disinformation — whether about the election, public health, or climate change — has real world consequences. Many media property owners have as much responsibility for this as the elected officials who know the truth but choose instead to propagate lies
Oliver Darcy / CNN: James Murdoch criticizes ‘media property owners’ who have ‘unleashed insidious’ forces with election denialism claims
Steve Inskeep / @nprinskeep: “Those outlets that propagated lies to their audience have unleashed insidious and uncontrollable forces,” says James Murdoch. Fox accurately called the election for Biden, and sometimes flatly questioned conspiracy theories, but also gave airtime to those promoting conspiracies. https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: If ever there were someone who knows https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Name your father and your brother otherwise this is a waste of time.... https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Greenblatt / @jgreenblattadl: Appreciate the honesty of my friend James Murdoch, discussing the need for right-wing media to take responsibility for its role in promoting disinformation for far too long. In the wake of the attack on the US Capitol, the cost is obvious. It must stop now.https://www.cnn.com/...
Dodes / @racheld: Who are these “media property owners” of whom you speak? 🧐 https://twitter.com/...
Tim Burrowes / Mumbrella: The Reckoning: What price will mainstream and social media pay for what happened at the Capitol?
Martin Flanagan / @martin_flanagan: In the light of this statement by James and @KathrynAMurdoch , I challenge top of the range Murdoch journalists in Australia like Greg Sheridan or Paul Kelly or Janet Albrechtsen to mount a defence of Fox News and Sky After Dark https://twitter.com/...
@wajahatali: If you don't believe me, listen to Rupert Murdoch's son. He knows what's up. Rupert and Lachlan are some of the biggest threats to democracy in the 21st century. https://twitter.com/...
@joyannreid: Rupert Murdoch's youngest son, James Murdoch and his wife unload on the media villains that include his own father and brothers. Wow. https://twitter.com/...
Ray Dalio / @raydalio: They appear to be right in observing that there is a backlash brewing against distortions in the media. I hope so and hope that will lead to greater accuracy of reporting. https://www.ft.com/... (5/5)
Joan Donovan, PhD / @bostonjoan: If she really wants to do something about disinformation, she should fund independent research on partisan media effects. https://twitter.com/...
Richard Keys / @richardajkeys: This is remarkable - from the man who led the Murdoch media during the greatest journalistic scandal of any era - phone hacking. These people know no shame. https://amp.ft.com/...
Rosemary Rossi / The Wrap: James Murdoch Condemns Media That Know Truth but ‘Choose Instead to Propagate Lies’
Matthew Garrahan / @mattgarrahan: If only James Murdoch, as chief executive of the company that owns Fox News from 2015-2019, had been in a position to do something about how media networks cover the news https://twitter.com/...
Stewart McDonald MP / @stewartmcdonald: I'd like to hear an honest reflection of his own role in this over the years and maybe, y'know, an apology for it. https://www.ft.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Dude. James ran News International, and then took over Fox and was deeply connected to Fox News for years. I know he resigned by saying he disagreed with editorial decisions, but this is pointing fingers at others for the monster he helped build. https://twitter.com/...
Ellise Shafer / Variety: James Murdoch Denounces ‘Media Property Owners’ for ‘Spreading Disinformation’ Leading to Capitol Riot
Wayne Swan / @swannyqld: “The damage is profound the sacking of the Capitol is proof positive that what we thought was dangerous is indeed very..Those outlets that propagate lies to their audience have unleashed insidious and uncontrollable forces that will be with us for years.” https://www.ft.com/...
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: The media needs to ignore the Murdochs or give them the Trump treatment: https://www.mediagazer.com/... A case better late than never, or lacking awareness and being a hypocrite? https://contextisking.com/...
Kathryn Murdoch / @kathrynamurdoch: We hope the awful scenes we have all been seeing will finally convince those enablers to repudiate the toxic politics they have promoted once and forever.
Kevin Rudd / @mrkrudd: A massive blast from James Murdoch pinning responsibility for US violence on far-right media led by Murdoch's FoxNews. James spent decades inside the Murdoch machine, and knows it better than anyone. The case for #MurdochRoyalCommission is undeniable. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bill Kristol / @billkristol: “Spreading disinformation...has real world consequences. Many media property owners have as much responsibility for this as the elected officials who know the truth but choose instead to propagate lies.” https://www.cnn.com/...
Claire McCaskill / @clairecmc: This doesn't help. Firing Dobbs and Bartiromo and Pirro and Levin would be a good start. https://twitter.com/...
Lise Hand / @liseinthecity: Irony is dead as a parrot, it's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible https://twitter.com/...
@samthielman: live footage of the murdochs trying to find the guys who did this https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Malcolm Turnbull / @turnbullmalcolm: “Spreading disinformation — whether about the election, public health or climate change — has real world consequences,” James and Kathryn Murdoch said in a joint statement following the @FT interview. 1/2
Malcolm Tucker Esq / @tucker5law: This self awareness lark is harder than you think. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@stopfundinghate: James & Kathryn Murdoch: “Many media property owners have as much responsibility for this... We hope the awful scenes we have all been seeing will finally convince those enablers to repudiate the toxic politics they have promoted once and forever” 🌶️🌶️ 🌶️ https://www.ft.com/...
James Poniewozik / @poniewozik: This is the exact midpoint between the Kendall Roy Denounces Logan gif and the We're All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This gif https://twitter.com/...
Sophia Ankel / Business Insider: James Murdoch, son of Fox News mogul Rupert Murdoch, said news outlets that promoted ‘lies’ are to blame for US Capitol riot
Robin Wigglesworth / @robinwigg: If only he knew someone who could do something about it. https://twitter.com/...
Fionna O'Leary / @fascinatorfun: Let's face it. His family have done enough damage 8n the U.K. But what is he going to do to turn that around? https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Mayne / @maynereport: Well done, although it shouldn't have taken James Murdoch 10 weeks to speak out since it became apparent Trump had lost the election and some of the Fox News partisans were backing the President's fanciful lies about the election being stolen https://www.ft.com/...
Tim Brooks / @timbrooks100: @janinegibson The fact that his Damascene conversion followed, rather than preceded, his becoming a billionaire due to the sale of most of Fox, is surely coincidental?
Janine Gibson / @janinegibson: James Murdoch's journey from presider over News UK during phone hacking to denouncer of Big Media continues to be biblical in scale https://twitter.com/...
Alex Barker / @alexebarker: I asked James Murdoch about Fox News and the assault on the Capitol. He has...strong views https://www.ft.com/...
Pablo R. Suanzes / @suanzes: “Many media property owners have as much responsibility for this as the elected officials who know the truth but choose instead to propagate lies. We hope the awful scenes we've been seeing will finally convince those enablers to repudiate the toxic politics they have promoted”. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Without mentioning Fox News directly, James Murdoch tells @FT, “Outlets that propagate lies to their audience have unleashed insidious and uncontrollable forces that will be with us for years...” https://www.ft.com/...
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / contextisking.com: Born on Third Base
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Fox News launches a new 7PM opinion show tonight with six hosts in rotation: Bartiromo, Kilmeade, Trey Gowdy, Katie Pavlich, Rachel Campos-Duffy, and Mark Steyn — Fox News has lined up six rotating hosts for its new 7 p.m. opinion program aimed at feeding the appetite of conservative viewers in the hour.
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@stevebattaglio, @jeremymbarr, @alexkoppelman, @gabby_hoffman, @charliespiering and Forbes
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Stephen Battaglio / @stevebattaglio: Exclusive: Fox News Primetime hosts include @MariaBartiromo @KatiePavlich @MarkSteynOnline @TGowdySC @RCamposDuffy and @kilmeade https://www.latimes.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Maria Bartiromo will get a trial run as host of Fox's new 7 p.m. weekday opinion show, which replaced a news hour https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Koppelman / @alexkoppelman: This is the lineup you pick if you've realized you're a propaganda network and you've decided you're fine with that. https://twitter.com/...
Gabriella Hoffman / @gabby_hoffman: Love love seeing this! @townhallcom's @KatiePavlich is among the announced hosts for the forthcoming Fox News Primetime show debuting TONIGHT at 7pm ET. https://www.latimes.com/...
New York Times:
A look at the incentives, like guaranteed auction win percentages, that Facebook got from Google in the ad partnership that is now a focus of an antitrust suit — Facebook was going to compete with Google for some advertising sales but backed away from the plan after the companies cut a preferential deal, according to court documents.
Discussion:
@ceciliakang, Breitbart, @halsinger, @felixsalmon, The Keyword, @matthewstoller, @daiwaka, @moonalice, Engadget, @gerritd, @dhh, @repkenbuck and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »
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@ceciliakang: The FB-Google ad deal has been a huge 👀👀 and @daiwaka @tiffkhsu tell us what that partnership was all about https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lucas Nolan / Breitbart: Report: Google and Facebook Made a ‘Secret Deal’ to Dominate Online Advertising
Hal Singer / @halsinger: I'm not an antitrust lawyer but ... this sounds an awful lot like a market-allocation scheme. Important to make it to the end of this @daiwaka and @tiffkhsu article! https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: If Sotheby's and Christie's merged, then there would be more competition within art auctions. But of course such an agreement would harm competition all the same. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: “The word ‘antitrust’ is mentioned no less than 20 times” throughout the agreement, the draft complaint said. https://twitter.com/...
Daisuke Wakabayashi / @daiwaka: In 2017, Facebook seemed prepared to take on Google's digital ad dominance. We took a look at the preferential deal that regulators say contributed to Facebook's decision to partner instead of challenge Google w/ @tiffkhsu https://www.nytimes.com/...
Roger McNamee / @moonalice: Google-FB ad deal appears to be price fixing, which could give rise to felony Section 1 case under Sherman Act. If there was a plan for a joint legal defense, that could be a second offense. Each offense can be 3 years in prison. Would give gov't leverage to change biz models. https://twitter.com/...
Gerrit De Vynck / @gerritd: Google gave Facebook speed and data advantages when bidding for ads in exchange for a competitive truce, according to redacted part of Texas antitrust lawsuit. From @daiwaka and @tiffkhsu https://www.nytimes.com/...
@dhh: “A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Congressman Ken Buck / @repkenbuck: Google and Facebook had a secret illegal deal to rig the advertising market. Antitrust enforcement is needed. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Crooked Media, which will no longer be the voice of “the resistance” after Jan. 20, plans to push more into film and TV and mulls taking on financial partners — Former Obama officials built a 21-show portfolio explaining — and organizing against — Trump-era chaos.
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / contextisking.com: Pitch Me! RFP: Sponsorship
Natalie Jarvey / @natjarv: Podcasting powerhouse Crooked Media was created in resistance to the Trump administration. I look at what happens to the company now that, four years later, a Democratic will once again sit in the White House https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Shaniqua / @__shaniqua_: In 2018 @yasminradjy asked me what I wanted to do after graduation. I told her I wanted to work for a company that leveraged its influence to increase civic engagement. She sent me a posting for the job I have now. Forever grateful & excited for what's to come at @crookedmedia. https://twitter.com/...
Pinky Nepomuceno / Pinky's Linkies: Volume 02 Issue 03 part 1
Kali Hays / WWD:
In a tweet, Michael Barbaro apologized for actions around Caliphate, saying he shouldn't have DMed and blocked critics; he didn't address Andy Mills concerns — Michael Barbaro is seen to have pressured some reporters and radio stations over coverage of issues with another NYT podcast, overseen by his fiancée.
Discussion:
@mikiebarb, Discover Pods, @mallory_yu, @leevgaines, @lexieschapitl, @byrobertor, @comparativist, @genepark, @patrick_fenelon, @bellwak, @wwd, @julito77, @jolentag, @paigepfleger, @dmoritzrabson, @mallory_yu, @loather, @alyssaedes, @thrasherxy, @bethfertig, @mallory_yu, @samarajbreger, @stevemullis, @kerrymflynn, @monicalewinsky, @fidmart85, @thedailybeast, @avcsays, @audioblahblah, @acvtweets, @anxious_maria, @wyatt_privilege, @perlberg, @oliverashkleine, @kctww, @tuckwoodstock, @stphnfwlr, @nicktheandersen, @selfquarantine2 and The Daily Beast
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Michael Barbaro / @mikiebarb: On The Daily, we strive to hold people accountable. Today I need to hold myself accountable. https://twitter.com/...
Elena Fernández Collins / Discover Pods: Over 200 Audio Professionals Sign Anti-Racist Open Letter to Public Media
Mallory Yu / @mallory_yu: Also, what exactly is Barbaro apologizing for here? How his actions were perceived by an audience? Embarrassing himself and his colleagues? What does real accountability look like when your public “apology” sidesteps taking any real responsibility? 🤷🏻♀ ️ https://twitter.com/...
Lee V. Gaines / @leevgaines: With all the time you had to work on this apology... it should be better/needs significant workshopping. It lacks specifics about how shady you were & what you're actually going to do better. I need more than I'm getting here. https://twitter.com/...
Lexie Schapitl / @lexieschapitl: “i'm sorry that i sent mean DMs when you raised concerns” is not the same as actually addressing what those concerns were https://twitter.com/...
Roberto Roldan / @byrobertor: That Michael Barbaro thinks the only thing he and the NYT should be apologizing for in this whole Caliphate mess is being mean to people on Twitter shows no one is actually being held to account. https://twitter.com/...
@comparativist: the prob with both the ‘corrective’ episode and this apology is that Barbaro can't bring himself to tell audiences that the producer in question is his wife. Admitting that there was a conflict of interest at the center of this that aired fabricated tales https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@genepark: this apology comes after public radio stations called his general credibility into question and four of them dropped The Daily https://www.vulture.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Patrick Fenelon / @patrick_fenelon: “I'm apologizing for egregiously violating the most basic ethics of journalism, & then acting like a giant toddler when people called me out for it. I am only doing this because multiple NPR stations have dropped my program”. https://twitter.com/...
Kim Bellware / @bellwak: This statement leaves out a few important specifics, among them: who he sent the DMs to (WaPo and other media reporters) and the fact that the producer Twitter “raised questions about” is his fiancé. These are important details and it doesn't make sense why they were excluded https://twitter.com/...
@wwd: The star host of The New York Times podcast “The Daily” is attempting a mea culpa in the wake of some negative press. https://wwd.com/...
Julio Ricardo Varela / @julito77: Is there any accountability at all here to how serious these actions were? https://twitter.com/...
Jolenta Greenberg / @jolentag: Weird you left out harboring a sexual predator (aka why we asked questions and you blocked us)... https://twitter.com/...
Paige Southwick Pfleger / @paigepfleger: This apology addresses...about 1/3 of the reasons several NPR stations listed for dropping The Daily from their air. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Moritz-Rabson / @dmoritzrabson: This apology should be given on the show that has more than 2M downloads per episode, not a personal Twitter feed. https://twitter.com/...
Mallory Yu / @mallory_yu: So DM'ing and blocking your critics sent the “wrong message,” but what message were you trying to send in the first place? https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Steven W. Thrasher / @thrasherxy: I never quite understood the sentiment of saying, in essence, “my actions did not reflect my values.” https://twitter.com/...
Beth Fertig / @bethfertig: After “hearing from my colleagues and peers in the industry.” The latest from @nytimes on “Caliphate” podcast https://twitter.com/...
Mallory Yu / @mallory_yu: Barbaro talks only about “the wrong message” his actions sent and how they called into question his and his colleagues' values. There is no acknowledgement of how Barbaro sought to wield his considerable influence over women and BIPOC critics! That's the heart of the problem. https://twitter.com/...
Samara Breger / @samarajbreger: Honestly, nothing is making me more furious than the people accepting this apology. People who have no idea what he has done, who he is protecting, what damage he is doing to the integrity of his entire industry. This apology is nothing, and I'm enraged. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Mullis / @stevemullis: NPR's David Folkenflik reported on Dec. 24 that “The Daily” host Michael Barbaro repeatedly pressed at least four journalists in private to temper their critiques of the fallout around the podcast “Caliphate.” Today, he responds. https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@kerrymflynn: Publishing an apology on Saturday of a holiday weekend is a choice 🧐 Also, an apology would be more transparent + accountable if distributed in feed of The Daily — which also wasn't done for the Caliphate apology + editor's notes https://twitter.com/...
Monica Lewinsky / @monicalewinsky: i have so much respect for this guy. and this is an A+ apology (not that i'm the arbiter of them.) https://twitter.com/...
Fidel Martinez / @fidmart85: The apology comes 2 days after @kcrw announced they were dropping the daily https://twitter.com/...
@thedailybeast: The host of The New York Times' popular podcast The Daily apologized following criticism from listeners and a number of public radio stations over his handling of criticism of the paper's Caliphate podcast. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Ariel Van Cleave / @avcsays: Tweeting on a Saturday is cool and all, but here's hoping there's something said on an episode of the podcast that so many people listen to. https://twitter.com/...
Alexander Charles Adams / @audioblahblah: accountability is not telling people they got the “wrong message” and continuing to avoid acknowledge conflicts of interest. if you're a journalist and can't tell the difference: i don't want you reporting on shit, particularly Power. https://twitter.com/...
A.C. Valdez / @acvtweets: The thing about accountability is that it has actual consequences and this note conveys no consequences. It also sidesteps any mention of consequences for the unnamed producer. https://twitter.com/...
Mara Mndez / @anxious_maria: This comes after public radio stations, including KUT, KERA, Houston Public Media and Marfa Public Radio in Texas, decided to stop airing The Daily. Background: https://www.vulture.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Warrior Cop / @wyatt_privilege: When the story broke, I blew up at everyone about it, and now that I've failed to control the damage, I renounce that behavior and forgive myself https://twitter.com/...
Steven Perlberg / @perlberg: Barbaro's DM sliding got a lot of attention, sure, but mostly just a distraction from how there's been no major accountability for Caliphate at the highest levels of the paper https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Oliver-Ash Kleine / @oliverashkleine: Uhhhhhhhh this is only even trying to address like 1/3 of the problem. And is obviously because public radio stations are pulling the show & it's hurting the bottom line. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Welsh / @kctww: now talk about the Andy Mills of it all, or will you release that statement on another holiday weekend like Memorial Day or perhaps on the 4th of July? https://twitter.com/...
Tuck Woodstock / @tuckwoodstock: Dec 18: Barbaro hosts “an examination of Caliphate” Dec 21: Mills hosts an ep of the Daily. @KelsPadge starts a movement calling out Mills' past abuses. Jan 11: 20+ stations express concerns about the Daily/Barbaro Jan 15: 4 public radio stations drop the Daily Jan 16: this lol https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Fowler / @stphnfwlr: Still not mentioned: his fiancée being the EP, Andy Mills and the long-standing allegations of harassment+hosting The Daily after the errors came to light, etc. Also comes only after several high-profile stations dropped the show from its lineup, notably. https://twitter.com/...
Nick Andersen / @nicktheandersen: nothing in here about whether or not this was an ‘accountability interview,’ or the idea that his fiancé being the EP matters (it does) https://twitter.com/...
Sportico.com:
A look at the next decade in live sports streaming: fans likely to subscribe to 3-4 services, switching them out in off-seasons rather than buy a single bundle — Last week, we wrote about electronic sports media heading into its “fourth quarter”—a new streaming epoch driven by developments in tech and entertainment.
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Josh Walker / @joshuawalker_: History does repeat itself and markets are slow to change. Sports media has some entrenched dynamics that make even the *big* move to #OTT platforms look familiar. Good article @JKosner @HowieLongShort The mobile carriers are in the fight for sure. https://www.sportico.com/...
Jeremy M. Evans / @jeremymevansesq: “Rather than buy a single pay TV bundle, future fans will likely subscribe to three or four streaming services that include sports, switching some of them out during off-seasons.” #entertainment #media #sports #content #streaming #film #tv https://www.sportico.com/...
Lionel Barber / Persuasion:
Journalists' desire for moral clarity in the face of Trump's dishonesty is understandable, but abandoning “bothsidesism” risks further polarizing people — Facing a dishonest president, journalists sought “moral clarity.” But the press must now resurrect a much-maligned principle: hearing both sides.
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Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Oh, my. Former FT Editor @lionelbarber defends bothsideism, impartiality, objectivity and other recent journalistic tradition. https://www.persuasion.community/ ...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Trolling nonsense from @lionelbarber, who abjures bothsideism in favor of a straw man argument. His is that it's a choice between bothsideism and “abandon[ing] all pretense of nuanced reporting in favor of untrammeled partisanship.” Feh. https://twitter.com/...
Sulome / @sulomeanderson: Thread. Journalism is not a scale to be artificially balanced. Both sides should be presented, but when one side is a menace to democracy and one side is flawed but not trying to illegally seize power and encourage terrorism, that should be made clear. https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: The idea that there are two sides to every argument is not controversial. The problem is treating both sides as equally valid, which no journalist should ever do when that's not the truth. No one needs to “hear out” the flat earthers. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Boodman / STAT:
Sharon Begley, an award winning science journalist who worked at Newsweek, WSJ, and STAT over 43 years, died at 64 due to cancer complications — Trying to write a lede about the loss of Sharon Begley feels a little like being asked to sing a song at Aretha Franklin's grave. Sharon would have hated that sentence.
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Jeff Jacoby / @jeff_jacoby: What a shock to learn of Sharon's death. We were almost always the first to arrive early each morning at the shared @STATNews/@GlobeOpinion workspace. She was a consummate professional, serene and dignified. Such a talented writer. Such a devastating loss. https://www.statnews.com/...
Steven Pinker / @sapinker: Sharon Begley, path-breaking science journalist who spun words into gold, dies at 64. Moving obit by @ericboodman https://www.statnews.com/... via @statnews
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: Boston loses another first-rate journalist: science reporter Sharon Begley of @statnews dies at 64. https://www.statnews.com/...
Eliza Barclay / @elizabarclay: Science journalism has lost an absolute gem 😢https://www.statnews.com/ ...
Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D. / @katherinejwu: A heartbreaking loss. Sharon was an incredible journalist who produced admirable work that will continue to set examples for many generations of young health writers. https://www.statnews.com/...
David Beard / @dabeard: “5 days before her death, she filed a piece to her editor. It was about non-smokers who get lung cancer—a story ... she was living as she wrote it, neuropathy from the chemo making it hard for her to hold a pen. She didn't mention that.” #RIP, friend. https://www.statnews.com/...
Jason Ukman / @jasonukman: Sharon Begley was a treasure for everyone @statnews and for so many, many others over the course of her 43-year career. @EricBoodman with a marvelous obituary that celebrates her life and career. https://www.statnews.com/...
Caroline Chen / @carolineylchen: Oh my heart. So sad to hear that Sharon Begley has passed away. I have looked up to her so much for so long, and @EricBoodman's tribute brought me to tears. @sxbegle will be missed tremendously. https://statnews.com/...
Eric Weinstein / @ericrweinstein: One of many journalists to wake up to the idea that the US STEM shortage is an employer hoax...but she was open & honest that she had been played. And she may have been first in MSM to call Bullshit. She was very kind to me for opening her eyes. I admire her integrity greatly. https://twitter.com/...
Jeneen Interlandi / @jinterlandi: 1/ I spent the first five years of my career being mentored by Sharon at Newsweek. She was all the wonderful things that so many others have described her as being: brilliant, kind, hilarious, wise. https://www.statnews.com/...
Christina Farr / @chrissyfarr: This is so tragic. What an amazing legacy and body of work she left behind. https://www.statnews.com/...
Latif Nasser / @latifnasser: So sad. Only knew @sxbegle by her byline as one of the smartest science journalists out there, but sounds like she was also one of the humblest and kindest. RIP. https://twitter.com/...
Sharon Begley / @sxbegle: It is with deep sadness that I share that my mother, Sharon, passed away earlier today, January 16th, in Boston, due to complications from lung cancer. Please comment with your own thoughts, memories, or stories about Sharon. https://twitter.com/...
Stat / @statnews: From the glory days of print magazines to 2020's Twitter-crazed news cycles, Sharon Begley won more awards and accolades than could fit in an obituary. The accomplishments she was prouder of were making complex ideas accessible to anyone — and beautiful. https://www.statnews.com/...
Washington Post:
Analytics firm Zignal Labs: online misinformation about election fraud dropped 73% in the week after several social media sites suspended Trump and key allies — Zignal Labs charts 73 percent decline on Twitter and beyond following historic action against the president
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J. Nathan Matias / @natematias: Do we know the effects of banning the president & Qanon accts from Twitter? *Not yet* Media & tech policy Twitter are sharing an article claiming a precise effect on the percentage of misinfo online—but the methods are secret & the claim can't (yet) be verified. https://twitter.com/...
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite: Mika Brzezinski RAGES at Zuckerberg For Misinformation, Calls for Facebook's Shut Down: ‘You Have Destroyed This Country!’
Isaac Saul / @ike_saul: I really hate this framing. What this story should say is “misinformation dropped dramatically on the platforms we read” — Signal and Telegram picked up tens of millions of followers where misinformation is now going totally unchecked. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Alice Dreger, Ph.D. / @alicedreger: Misinformation dropped dramatically the week after Twitter banned Trump “underscoring the power of tech companies to limit the falsehoods poisoning public debate when they act aggressively.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ashi W / @ashanitw: Fascinating. I find this hard to believe honestly. The extent, not that it happened, that is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Rula Jebreal / @rulajebreal: Misinformation about election fraud plunged 73% after Twitter banned Trump... underscoring the power of tech companies to limit the lies poisoning public debate when they act aggressively. Insurrectionists decry cancel culture... to avoid accountability. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@villanellewoods: And this is why it's shameful Twitter didn't act sooner. 73% drop??? The platform they allowed him to have for four years to spread the misinformation that would eventually lead to this. All of it matters btw. Even stuff pre election matters. https://twitter.com/...
Jeffrey Wright / @jfreewright: Superspreaders. Dual pandemic. “Disinformation researchers..found that relatively few accounts acted as ‘superspreaders’ during the election, w/their tweets & posts generating a disproportionate share of the falsehoods & misleading narratives that spread about election fraud...” https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Curry / Just Two Things: 18th January 2021 — Welcome to Just Two Things, which I try to write daily, five days a week, if I can manage it.
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Nate is one of the most thoughtful researchers looking at online governance ... https://twitter.com/...
Mark Little / @marklittlenews: Important context on a study amplified a leading news organisation that claimed huge - and peculiarly exact - reduction in misinformation after Trump ban https://twitter.com/...
Adeda / @tosinadeda: If only @TwitterSupport and @Jack would stop being hypocrites and mete out the same measure of consequence to fake news peddlers on Nigerian twitter. https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: A 73 percent decline in disinformation after the suspension of the President feels like an important data point. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Clayton Mansel / Synapse: This Person Does Not Exist
Jeremy Goldman / @jeremarketer: Gee, imagine that... https://www.cnet.com/...
Melissa Mark-Viverito / @mmviverito: Well this makes quite the case for those who have been calling on @Twitter @Facebook & others to ban Trump a long time ago don't you think? 🤷🏾♀ ️ https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Politi / Slate: Talk of Election Fraud Online Plunges After Trump Kicked Off Twitter, Facebook
Ward Carroll / @wardcarroll: Hey, #MAGA: You know your attempting to use the Revolutionary War as justification for the #CapitolRiot puts you on the side of King George, right? You're not patriots. You're loyalists. https://twitter.com/...
Smita Prakash / @smitaprakash: Podcasts suffer from the same misinformation problem as other platforms; Extremists exploit a loophole in social moderation. So far no crackdown on podcasts like on FB, Twitter. https://apnews.com/...
@grudging1: It should be a goal of our society to prevent misinformation. I'm not saying the government should arrest liars (1st amendment violation), but we need to find ways of managing the disinformation machine that is devastating us. https://twitter.com/...
Stewart McDonald MP / @stewartmcdonald: Some interesting stats in this and shows what aggressive action against disinformation can do in the short-term, but the question of what to do in the long-term still remains... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Todd Spangler / Variety: After Twitter Banned Donald Trump, Election Misinformation Online Plunged Dramatically
Debra Messing / @debramessing: .@YouTube you want data? Here it is. 73% DROP in misinformation since Twitter banned #Trump. The only responsible thing to do is do the same in your platform. Please don't delay. #misinformation https://twitter.com/...
Sean Carroll / @seanmcarroll: When you stop the biggest sources of misinformation, the total amount of misinformation drops severely. Unsurprising, but good to see the data. https://twitter.com/...
@realblue75: So you're discounting Fox, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, the Daily Caller, OAN, Limbaugh, Beck, etc.? https://twitter.com/...
Joe Scarborough / @joenbc: Twitter and Facebook did more to spread disinformation and undermine democracy than anyone. https://twitter.com/...
Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: Online misinformation about the US election fell 73% after Trump's social media ban
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Wildly misleading, given the way most of the misinformation posted on Twitter reaches the public — via media organizations “reporting” on it. You can't stop the Murdoch family's Fox “News” and its ilk from promoting the lies. But Big Journalism was a huge amplifier, by choice. https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Richards / @bjrich_: Imagine if they took substantive action sooner ... https://twitter.com/...
Felonious Munk / @felonious_munk: Companies went with “this information is too important to censor” instead of “this information is too dangerous NOT to censor” and there was a cost. There was a cost either way. But... https://twitter.com/...
Casey Johnston / @caseyjohnston: Damn, the very obvious thing people were telling Twitter to do for five years turned out to work https://twitter.com/...
Carol Leonnig / @carolleonnig: 🚨📉📉 After Twitter banned Trump, a 73% plunge in election misinformation spread on the Internet in just one week. Fascinating analysis on how swiftly the president and his allies were able to amplify falsehoods ... via @lizzadwoskin @craigtimberg https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Rula Jebreal / @rulajebreal: “A powerful, integrated disinformation ecosystem — composed of high-profile influencers, rank-and-file followers & Trump himself — was central to pushing millions of Americans to reject the election results & may have trouble surviving without his social media accounts.” https://twitter.com/...
Stuart Andrew Thompson / @stuartathompson: I've heard from a few ppl inside right wing disinfo land that it's “harder to find good information right now” (meaning it's hard to find disinfo that adds to their false beliefs). not just Trump, but fb group shutdowns and parler going offline cuts off major sources https://twitter.com/...
Steve Kling / @stevekling: The people of the US were PSYOP'd by its own President for FOUR YEARS+. Trumpism waged information warfare on us. Period. Putin called it the #Firehose. Modern propaganda. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Ruffalo / @markruffalo: Misinformation dropped 73% upon Twitter banning Trump. He is clearly corrosive to a society based on facts. Now @YouTube should step up and permanently ban him too. https://twitter.com/...
Tarbell / @tarbellorg: “On September 30, 2020, Cornell University researchers reached a conclusion on the single largest source of COVID-19 online misinformation and falsehoods: the President of the United States.” https://tarbell.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Marcelino J. Alvarez / @mrlnmarce: Imagine how different our nation might be if tech companies had found the courage to do this four years ago. https://twitter.com/...
Dikvergngen / @chaensaw: Imagine what would happen if TV providers dropped Fox, Newsmax, OAN https://twitter.com/...
Ed Day / @pandemic_times: As has been stated here, endlessly for 10 years, the most influential and destructive misinformation nearly always comes from the top - Politicians, News Media Editors and Personalities, Corporate Lobbyists for Billionaires. They fill our heads with junk, then blame us. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Bland / @dcdoubleaa: Deplatforming works https://twitter.com/...
Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert: It will forever be Twitter's disgrace for not banning Trump years ago the damage done to this country.... https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Ingraham / @_cingraham: Deplatforming works https://twitter.com/...
LenaSun / @bylenasun: Online misinformation about election fraud plunged 73 percent after several social media sites suspended President Trump and key allies last week, research firm Zignal Labs has found. The power of tech to limit falsehoods when they act aggressively. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jon Keller / @kelleratlarge: The arrogance, negligence & greed of Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Dorsey et al is staggering. They had the power all along to stop the bleeding but refused to use it. https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Interview with Jemele Hill about starting a podcast network for Black women at Spotify, growth in Black audiences for podcasts, and hosting podcasts vs. TV — Jemele Hill wants to talk about the power and peril of Black women. — Black women delivered the election to President-elect Joe Biden and flipped the state of Georgia blue.
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BuzzFeed News:
Facebook says it is temporarily banning ads for gun accessories and military gear through next week's inauguration “out of an abundance of caution” — Following complaints from Senators and employees, Facebook on Saturday said it was temporarily halting ads for gun accessories …
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Tammy Duckworth / @senduckworth: Pausing these ads is not enough. As requested, Mr. Zuckerberg—remove them permanently, conduct an independent investigation into how @Facebook enabled the insurrectionists and add an expert on countering extremism/domestic terrorism to your Board of Dir. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
PostTraumaticStress / @scylla_charybds: Facebook has been running ads for body armor and other military equipment next to content promoting election misinformation and news about the attempted coup at the US Capitol. Such a responsible gig Facebook has going... https://twitter.com/...
Tamsin Shaw / @professorshaw: How insane does this headline seem to people in countries without widespread legal gun ownership? I'm guessing there will be gasps https://twitter.com/...
Shannon Watts / @shannonrwatts: Following complaints from Senators and employees, Facebook is temporarily halting ads for gun accessories and military gear in America through next week's inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
William Turton / @williamturton: Here is example one million of journalists doing moderation for Facebook, a company worth over $700 billion: https://twitter.com/...
Jody Serrano / Gizmodo: Facebook Will Pause Ads Promoting Weapons Accessories and Protective Equipment Until After Biden's Inauguration
Mike Monteiro / @monteiro: Why temporary?! Why advertise this garbage at all? https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Lehrich / @jesselehrich: amazing work from @TTP_updates uncovering these outrageously targeted ads & setting this into motion. https://twitter.com/...
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: BREAKING: Following complaints from Senators and employees (and our reporting), Facebook now says it's temporarily halting ads for gun accessories and military gear through next week's inauguration: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
@slpng_giants: Oh, how generous, @facebook. Thanks for not accepting four days of advertising dollars to sell gun accessories because of the insurrection you essentially helped create! https://twitter.com/...
Madison Hoff / Business Insider: Facebook temporarily stops ads related to ‘weapon accessories and protective equipment’ ahead of the inauguration and after the Capitol Hill riot
Isabella Grullón Paz / New York Times: Facebook will temporarily stop showing ads for gun accessories and military gear.
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