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Newly released CIA-led intelligence report concludes Mohammed bin Salman approved the 2018 slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved an operation to capture or kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, a U.S. intelligence report says.
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Just Security: How Biden, Congress, and US Business and Civic Leaders Can Deliver Justice for Jamal Khashoggi
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times: President Biden Lets a Saudi Murderer Walk
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: Saudi Prince Approved Khashoggi's Death, U.S. Report Says
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post: Saudi crown prince approved operation that led to death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, U.S. intelligence report concludes
Phil Stewart / Reuters: U.S. imposes sanctions, visa bans on Saudis for journalist Khashoggi's killing
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Saudi Crown Prince Approved Jamal Khashoggi Murder, US Intelligence Report Finds
Iyad el-Baghdadi / Washington Post: What does justice for Jamal Khashoggi look like? Unleashing free expression in Saudi Arabia.
Greg Myre / NPR: White House Report: Saudi Crown Prince Approved Journalist Jamal Khashoggi's Killing
Jameel Jaffer / @jameeljaffer: “How Biden, Congress, and US Business and Civic Leaders Can Deliver Justice for Jamal Khashoggi” — new from @pressfreedom and me: https://www.justsecurity.org/ ...
Julian E. Barnes / @julianbarnes: No surprise, plenty of drama: “We assess that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ted Lieu / @tedlieu: Your reminder that former Secretary of State @mikepompeo enabled the #Saudi cover up of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi ordered by the Crown Prince of #SaudiArabia. https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Patrick Skinner / @skinnerpm: The best thing the US can do for justice for a murdered journalist and to move us closer to less reliance on oil as our planet burns is to decisively step economically/militarily/politically away from Saudi Arabia. It's been a loooooong time coming. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: This is very disappointing. Jamal deserves justice. Those involved in his assassination must be held accountable https://www.nytimes.com/...
Steven Rich / @dataeditor: so is the message here that it's ok to kill a u.s. resident and journalist if you're country is ostensibly an ally? https://twitter.com/...
@freedomofpress: “The administration, Congress, and American business and civic leaders all have a role to play in holding the regime accountable,” for the murder of Jamal Kashoggi, argue @JameelJaffer and @Joelcpj https://www.justsecurity.org/ ...
Mousavian / @hmousavian: US says Saudi crown prince MBS approved Jamal Khashoggi killing. The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence cited bin Salman's control of decision-making in Saudi Arabia since 2017 https://www.cnbc.com/...
Moe Davis / @colmorrisdavis: So much for the whole “no one is above the law” canard. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: “The Biden administration deserves credit for releasing the DNI's report, but #pressfreedom will be an empty slogan unless the Saudi regime & the Crown Prince are made to pay a price for their lawless conduct.”- @JameelJaffer & @JoelCPJ https://www.justsecurity.org/ ...
@just_security: DOCUMENT Assessing the Saudi Government's Role in the Killing of Jamal Khashoggi, Office of Director of National Intelligence Coming soon: analysis by @JameelJaffer (@knightcolumbia) and @Joelcpj (@pressfreedom) at Just Security https://www.justsecurity.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Ammar Ali Jan / @ammaralijan: Khashoggi was murdered on the orders of Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed Bin Salman. We live in a world governed by cruel and violent rulers. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Bryan Greenberg / @bryangreenberg: I don't understand this. https://twitter.com/...
@sorayamcdonald: “Actually, it doesn't matter who's in charge! Either way, you can murder a journalist and dismember him with bone saws and it's fine.” —America https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mohammad Taqi / @mazdaki: “Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken also announced a “Khashoggi Ban,” allowing his department to impose visa restrictions on people suppressing or harming journalists, activists and dissidents”, @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Reed Richardson / Mediaite: Washington Post Editorial Board Calls Out Biden for Giving MBS a ‘Pass’ on Khashoggi's Murder
Richard Blumenthal / @senblumenthal: We can no longer look away: MBS & others must be called out & held accountable. No more business as usual with the Saudi's. https://twitter.com/...
Ayman Mohyeldin / @aymanm: Biden has decided that the price of directly penalizing Saudi Arabia's crown prince [#MBS] is too high, according to senior administration officials, despite a detailed American intelligence finding that he directly approved the killing of Jamal Khashoggi https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jennifer ‘pro-reality’ Rubin / @jrubinblogger: Furious, appalled but not surprised the Trump/Pompeo thugs kept it quiet https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@nytimes: The release of the report on Friday signaled that President Biden, unlike his predecessor, would not set aside the killing of Khashoggi, and that the Biden administration intends to try to isolate the crown prince. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Chase Woodruff / @dcwoodruff: In case you were wondering, Denver-based Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck has continued to lobby for the Saudi regime in Washington, receiving at least $4.1 million from its government in the three years since it ordered Khashoggi's brutal murder, according to FARA disclosures. https://twitter.com/...
Ron Wyden / @ronwyden: Jamal Khashoggi never backed down from holding the powerful to account. His courageous journalism cost him his life. Yet for years, the last administration shielded the Saudi regime from any kind of responsibility for his brutal murder. https://twitter.com/...
Rula Jebreal / @rulajebreal: MBS' nickname is Abu Rasasa, or “father of the bullet” because he sent bullets to terrorize judges & critics. Now he sends death squads w bone saws & bankrolls despots, warlords, lobbyists & politicians to sanitize his crimes. As he kills, MBS brags: the system is in his pocket. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Another must-read on Khashoggi and MBS: 5 things that need to happen, or “press freedom will be an empty slogan.” By @JameelJaffer and @Joelcpj via @just_security https://www.justsecurity.org/ ...
@just_security: The #Khashoggi report should force a reckoning. A reckoning in which the Biden administration, Congress, and American business and civic leaders all have a role to play. From @knightcolumbia's @JameelJaffer & @pressfreedom's @Joelcpj: https://www.justsecurity.org/ ...
Rep. Eric Swalwell / @repswalwell: Not surprising but not to be forgotten: President Trump and @mikepompeo covered up the murder of a US resident and journalist. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: WaPo editorial board: MBS “ought to be banned from travel to the US and subjected to an asset freeze.” Instead, Biden is not “holding to account its reckless ruler, who consequently is unlikely to be deterred from further criminal behavior.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Brooks Barnes / @brooksbarnesnyt: Attention everyone in liberal Hollywood doing business with Saudi Arabia: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Morgan J. Freeman / @mjfree: Donald J. Trump knew MBS ordered Khashoggi dead, and gave the Crown Prince a full pass because Khashoggi was a journalist reporting THE TRUTH. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: The most obvious secret is now officially public: US intelligence agencies concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the plan for Saudi operatives to assassinate journalist Jamal Khashoggi and bears responsibility for the brutal murder https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Warren / @senwarren: I'm glad the Biden administration released this assessment so the whole world can see Mohammed bin Salman for who he is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kaitlan Collins / @kaitlancollins: “While officials said there's no question Prince Mohammed ordered the killing & imprisonment of dissidents & opponents, a ban would make it impossible to deal w Saudis in the future. He was, they concluded, too important to American interests to punish.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: The Biden administration should disclose the @CIA report & tell Americans if US agencies knew the Saudi regime was planning to abduct & kill @JKhashoggi. Did @WhiteHouse45 make any effort to warn him of the threat, as US law would have required them to do? https://www.justsecurity.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Josh Gross / @yay_yee: Sad state of affairs, @POTUS. Impunity is not the way. https://twitter.com/...
Saima Mohsin / @saimamohsin: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman himself “approved killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi” “viewed Khashoggi as a threat to the Kingdom and broadly supported using violent measures if necessary to silence him” U.S intelligence #JournalismIsNotACrime https://www.cnbc.com/...
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: US finds Saudi crown prince approved Khashoggi murder but does not sanction him
Katrina Manson / Financial Times: US concludes Saudi crown prince approved Khashoggi operation
CNN: US intelligence report finds Saudi Crown Prince responsible for approving operation that killed Khashoggi
BuzzFeed News:
NYT columnist David Brooks wrote a 900-word ode to Facebook Groups on Facebook's corporate website and appeared in a company video; NYT says it was not aware — On Tuesday, New York Times columnist David Brooks published a 900-word ode to Facebook Groups and how they foster online communities around the world.
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@craigsilverman, @craigsilverman, @emilybell, @brandyzadrozny, Wall Street Journal, @kari_paul, @jesselehrich, @dataeditor, Mediaite, @katzish, @digiphile, @glennf, @pkafka, @keitholbermann, @jaredbkeller, @david_ingram, @slpng_giants, @tomlevenson, @devindra, @juliacarriew, @scottlucas, @heerjeet, @chick_in_kiev, @juddlegum and The Hill
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Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: On Tues, NYT columnist David Brooks wrote a 900-word ode to Facebook Groups. Don't look for it in the Times — it was published on FB's corporate website. Brooks also appeared in a company video, and didn't tell his editors what he was doing. w/@rmac18: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: Brooks' post for Facebook was timed to a new report from NYU about Facebook Groups. FB funded and helped facilitate the report. Brooks was not paid for his FB blogging. But he leads an Aspen Institute project about community engagement that has taken funding from FB.
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Entanglements between Google/FB and journalism are so loose and numerous, and poorly documented . Just the latest of many issues 👇 https://twitter.com/...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: Hoo boy. “It's not social media that's the problem, it's the ideas and behavior of the people who use it,” he said. https://twitter.com/...
Erich Schwartzel / Wall Street Journal: What Happens When Facebook Slows the News Flow
Kari Paul / @kari_paul: As many experts I have spoken to have noted, Facebook groups have been behind some of the largest and most destructive anti-democratic movements in recent years, from anti-vaxx to stop the steal to home-grown militias https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Lehrich / @jesselehrich: this story is a case study in how @Facebook coopts academia & thought leaders to do their PR. they paid NYU $300,000 to produce a glowing ‘study’ on how FB groups build community, then got @nytdavidbrooks - whose initiative they also fund - to write it up on the corporate blog. https://twitter.com/...
Steven Rich / @dataeditor: i told the @washingtonpost when i started my own woodworking business because i wanted to be sure in case any conflict of interest arose even though i didn't think there would be one https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Marisa Sarnoff / Mediaite: David Brooks, NY Times Columnist and Founder of Facebook-Funded Nonprofit, Pens Blog for Facebook Praising Online Communities
Amanda Katz / @katzish: It's the character guy! David Brooks's post “did not mention recent reporting...that revealed Facebook has known for years that Groups are an engine of polarization and misinformation, and that the company failed to move quickly to enact changes that could protect users.” https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: “It's not social media that's the problem, it's the ideas & behavior of the people who use it”- @nytdavidbrooks, writing about Facebook on @Facebook. But @NYTimes journalism has shown the people who build & run social media can be the problem, as can features - including Groups. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Fleishman / @glennf: I invite the reader as a mental exercise to picture any of the Times' Opinion writers who are not white men engaging in this behavior, and the explosion of outrage across Twitter (probably from left and right). https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Whenever I have a practical media ethics conversation with peers - “is it ok to do X or Y?” - I try to fast-forward by asking “How would you feel if the New York Times wrote about you doing X or Y?” I look forward to the NYT's coverage of this one. https://twitter.com/...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: This is a layup, @nytimes. You've been looking for a reason to retire @nytdavidbrooks. He just handed two of them to you. https://twitter.com/...
Jared Keller / @jaredbkeller: *Why* exactly does David Brooks need to do this? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
David Ingram / @david_ingram: “Brooks' ties to Facebook raise questions of conflicts of interest at the world's most influential newspaper, and highlight how the social network is working to rehabilitate its brand after years of criticism and scrutiny...” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
@slpng_giants: This is a massive conflict of interest and the @nytimes needs to address this, especially when @facebook is spending advertising dollars on their podcasts. In a moment when journalism is suffering huge financial losses because of Facebook, this is a terrible look. https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Levenson / @tomlevenson: One way of thinking about this is to ask if a less prominent NYTimes reporter or writer could do something like this with impunity. I don't know (obv). But my prior is “no.” @nytimes has a star system, and it has done enormous damage to the paper and its readers inthe past. https://twitter.com/...
Devindra Hardawar / @devindra: This seems... not great! https://twitter.com/...
Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew: Facebook Groups have helped foster and grow: - QAnon - the anti-vaxx movement - Proud Boys - militias - Boogaloo bois - Stop the Steal If Brooks wants to do PR for this product in exchange for funding his pet project, that's fine, but he should resign from his journalism job. https://twitter.com/...
Scott Lucas / @scottlucas: “David's editors were not aware of the blog post or panel discussion, and they are discussing with him now what additional steps he might take to make sure that his work [...] doesn't create any appearance of conflicts with his Times journalism.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: Imagine having one of the cushiest sinecures imaginable and still doing a completely self-discrediting side hustle. https://twitter.com/...
Talia Lavin / @chick_in_kiev: in any sane world this would be a fireable offense 🤷🏻♀ ️ https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Netflix shares USC report on its onscreen and offscreen representation and commits to spending $100M over five years on underrepresented groups in film and TV — Netflix received broadly high marks for diversity and inclusion in its movies and TV shows when it came to gender and people of color …
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CNN, The Wrap, @squawkalley, About Netflix, @michellemanafy, Insider, @writeinclusion, @cristymsilva, @pranganathan, @lucas_shaw, @kirkacevedo, @davidobowles, @lesbrains, @vientofuego, @rachwoods97, @wearenetflix, @rfaughnder, Engadget, The Wrap, Variety, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and CNBC
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Chauncey Alcorn / CNN: Netflix says it needs more Latinx programming after an internal diversity audit
Brian Welk / The Wrap: Netflix Hits Gender Parity for Lead Roles, But Lags in Latinx and LGBTQ Representation, Study Finds
Squawk Alley / @squawkalley: $NFLX announcing plans to spend $100 million over the next five years to improve diversity on film. Co-CEO Ted Sarandos joined us exclusively to discuss the news. @CNBC @jboorstin @carlquintanilla @jonfortt @dee_bosa https://twitter.com/...
Ted Sarandos / About Netflix: Building a Legacy of Inclusion: Results From Our First Film and Series Diversity Study
Michelle Manafy / @michellemanafy: Netflix received broadly high marks for diversity and inclusion in its movies and TV shows when it came to gender and people of color, compared to the broader entertainment industry, according to an extensive new report. https://www.latimes.com/...
Aleeya Mayo / Insider: Netflix's diversity study revealed an equity gap behind the scenes, and showed that LGBTQ+ and characters with disabilities are ‘rare’
@writeinclusion: The power of data! You love to see it. But onscreen authenticity requires inclusive c-suites and PARTICULARLY inclusive writers rooms. Let's get it done. https://about.netflix.com/...
Cristina Silva / @cristymsilva: The percentage of leads and coleads in Netflix shows and movies from underrepresented groups rose from 26.4% in 2018 to 37.3% in 2019. https://www.latimes.com/...
Prasanna Ranganathan / @pranganathan: I love that @Netflix has shared the commitments it is making to action the findings from the @Inclusionists report. As Dr. Smith of the @Inclusionists shares, “An internal audit is a critical first step toward inclusive change.” https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Netflix will invest $20M a year in programs for underrepresented talent. That's one of the biggest commitments by any studio on record, and about .001% of its programming budget. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Kirk Acevedo / @kirkacevedo: This is a simple fix @netflix HIRE MORE LATINOS! Latinos represent 1/5th of the U.S. population & 25% of all moviegoers in the U.S. Yet our representation in the entertainment industry is at 3% 3% OF THE ENTIRE WORKFORCE (That's Actors, Directors etc) https://www.cnn.com/...
David Bowles / @davidobowles: A poco. Yes, Latinx creatives have been telling @netflix this for a while now as we pitch to them, but they keep rejecting our pinche projects. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Lopez / @vientofuego: “The demographic analysis revealed just 4.5% of main cast members went to Latinx actors and filmmakers during that two-year span, even though Latinos make up roughly 18% of the US population. ” - New study by @Inclusionists & @netflix https://www.cnn.com/...
@rachwoods97: Netflix : *cancels One Day at a Time* Also Netflix : we need more Latinx shows https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
We Are Netflix / @wearenetflix: Today we released our first-ever report from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, examining inclusion on-screen and behind the camera, across Netflix series and films in the U.S. from 2018 to 2019: https://about.netflix.com/...
Ryan Faughnder / @rfaughnder: Netflix commissioned a thorough two-year @Inclusionists report on the diversity and inclusion of its programming. Here's how it did https://www.latimes.com/...
Brian Welk / The Wrap: Netflix Sets Up $100 Million Fund to Help Underrepresented Communities in Entertainment
Angelique Jackson / Variety: Netflix to Invest $100 Million to Improve Diversity in TV Shows, Films
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Twitter's Super Follows could lead to chaos in newsrooms around the world as they change the economics of journalism, already brittle due to Substack, for good — Will Super Follows shake up the media industry? — 16 hr ago — Today let's talk about Twitter's move into subscriptions …
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Will Oremus / @willoremus: @dlberes @CaseyNewton @firstadopter @MikeIsaac while i definitely agree that damon is to be roundly condemned for failing to shower me with sufficient praise, my broader point was simply that i suspect the number of journalists with large enough followings to make a living off of their tweets is quite limited
Will Oremus / @willoremus: @MikeIsaac @fxshaw @dlberes @CaseyNewton @firstadopter but following casey's hypothetical below, how many newspaper employees have 200k+ followers? and how many of *those* would be able to do the same work without the weight of their institution behind them? i'm sure there are a few (e.g. swisher)—but they had ample leverage already https://twitter.com/...
Ellen Huet / @ellenhuet: good @CaseyNewton on Super Follows, which raised this q for me: for a lot of reporters, Twitter already feels like work. so would having people pay for your tweets make tweeting feel ... more fun? more work? https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Mark Stenberg / @markstenberg3: wow a must-read take this evening in @platformer — @CaseyNewton making a strong case that Super Follows could further destabilize newsroom staffs https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: In the interest of sowing more chaos inside American newsrooms, I have made yesterday's @platformer free for all to read 💪🏻 https://twitter.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: @fxshaw @WillOremus @dlberes @CaseyNewton @firstadopter casey is absolutely right that for journalists the traditional path to monetizing one's graph has been indirect (books, movies, speaking gigs) now it's just more direct
Rat King / @mikeisaac: @WillOremus @dlberes @CaseyNewton @firstadopter I certainly agree, but I think Dare's point really is crucial the people who create the most content are vastly outnumbered by the people who consume it, and yet the former are crucial to keeping the latter engaged
Rat King / @mikeisaac: @fxshaw @WillOremus @dlberes @CaseyNewton @firstadopter the correlation i make with this is when i was promoting a book. it is very hard to make people pay for things, so you need to lean hard on your network and still assume it will be low double digits or single digit percentage of conversions
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: @WillOremus @firstadopter @MikeIsaac Will, you have internalized an entire career's worth of your managers telling you that you are easily replaced and that your journalism has little value. I promise you that it's worth more than you think!
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: I wrote about the coming battle between the reporters who want to enable Super Follows and the newsrooms who will absolutely not let them https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: @fxshaw @WillOremus @dlberes @CaseyNewton @firstadopter i think it's more than people suspect. you need an enormous number to convert even a fraction of it to paid subs so take whatever that is and making it work with your living sitch (especially in NYC, LA, SF, DC) and the number of people who can do it gets smaller
Frank X. Shaw / @fxshaw: @MikeIsaac @WillOremus @dlberes @CaseyNewton @firstadopter wondering idly how many followers constitutes a critical mass.
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: @WillOremus @MikeIsaac @fxshaw @dlberes @firstadopter more interesting questions, to me: - how many reporters will eventually reach 50K+ followers during their careers? - what kinds of supplemental income should they be allowed to generate directly in newsrooms where the most they can currently hope for is a 2% annual COLA?
Jpa / @josephpalbanese: “For the past 15 years, though, most reporters have steadily been building escape hatches from their employers. They are called Twitter accounts” -@CaseyNewton in today's @platformer ( 👇 paywalled but a must-sub) https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Jpa / @josephpalbanese: “The long-term solution for this is for publishers to create incentive models for their employees that have uncapped upside...That arrangement could involve shared revenue on a newsletter, or YouTube sponsorships, or podcast ads.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯 https://twitter.com/...
Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh: “Once you've crossed some threshold — 10,000 followers, maybe, or 50,000 — your following itself could get you hired on at a publication....CNET offered me a job covering Google in 2012, editors admitted to me that they hadn't read many of my stories — they just liked my tweets” https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: @WillOremus journalists' constant negative self-talk and pessimism is basically my entire opportunity so I'll 🤐 now!
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Twitter announces Super Follow feature to let users charge for tweets, and a Communities feature to let users create and join groups based on specific interests — It's also planning a groups feature — Twitter announced a pair of big upcoming features today: the ability for users to charge …
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@twitterir: Tune in to Twitter's 2021 Virtual Analyst Day. Watch it here: https://investor.twitterinc.com/ ... or @TwitterIR https://twitter.com/... #TWTRAnalystDay
Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane: Twitter announces “Super Follow”, like Patreon but on Twitter https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Murphy / @mshannahmurphy: NEW: Twitter announces it's exploring tipping and “Super Follows” - where users can super follow accounts, paying them a subscription for exclusive content, like Patreon Curious whether newsrooms will allow reporters to generate extra revenues for themselves in this way or not? https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Twitter Is Starting to Hustle
Emily Dreyfuss / @emilydreyfuss: I want content creators to get paid and I want journalists to get paid, but I don't want every high-quality piece of information to be behind a paywall especially when misinformation is free the question of how to square that circle is going to be a big one for our industry
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: Whether reporters are allowed to enable Super Follows, and how they can use them, feels like it could cause a lot of controversy within newsrooms when it arrives. Could also raise conflict of interest concerns with reporters who, uh, cover Twitter 😬
Samantha Cole / @samleecole: I asked Twitter if sexual content will be allowed as part of the new Super Follows feature (https://www.theverge.com/...) and this was their response. tl;dr: they haven't decided—or won't say—yet. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Sternberg / The Media Nut: Twitter gives a boost to the “creator economy”
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Twitter announced today a new payment tool called “Super Follows,” which would allow Twitter users to charge for premium content, like a newsletter subscription, badges showing support, or bonus tweets. https://www.axios.com/... Hmmm. I would have to consider making use of that.
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: News organizations could create a paywalled Twitter account where they'd tweet exclusive news a few mins ahead of their own website ... would be lapped up by HFT traders and hedge funds https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Will be interesting to see how media figures and journalists use this. FWIW I think this development is a far overdue, creators deserve to be paid for their content and value they drive for the platform! https://twitter.com/...
Richard Ting / @flytip: Today was such a great day at Twitter. The amount of excitement and buzz in the air for what's in front of us is electric. 🚀 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Linda Tirado / @killermartinis: this is why most anything I publish is available for zero dollars but anyone can pay me if they find my stuff to have value It wouldn't work for someone just starting out but in my position, where I already have a wide audience, the Radiohead model works fine https://twitter.com/...
Scott Frey / Sub Pub: Is Twitter's “Super Follows” a Threat to Substack?
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: People paying money for things. I like this business model. https://twitter.com/...
Derek Johnson / @derekjgz: When I was a kindergartener, I would walk to the neighbors with my dad's old high school trumpet, some sheet music I couldn't read, and a little portable stand, offering paid performances on their doorsteps. More than once I was given money not to play. What if we tried that? https://twitter.com/...
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Twitter shows possible updates, including Super Follow subscriptions
O...K / @kateconger: I'll be on Spaces talking to @kayvz and @esthercrawford on Friday about this story and all the new things happening at Twitter. Join the conversation here at 2 p.m. PT. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Meg Turney / @megturney: Everyone: It'd really nice if you did something about the unchecked harassment creators face on your app. Twitter: ... Everyone: Maybe do something about misinformation? Twitter: ... Everyone: How about a simple edit button? Twitter: ....super follows. https://twitter.com/...
Scott Galloway / @profgalloway: Sounds familiar https://profgalloway.com/... https://profgalloway.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ina Fried / @inafried: Thanks to @sarafischer for covering the news for us so I can stick to my core competency: A flurry of mocking tweets. https://twitter.com/...
St. Paul Saints / @stpaulsaints: Does answering questions when it's raining at 9 a.m. on whether we'll be playing 10 hours later count as “more content?” Asking for a couple hundred friends. https://twitter.com/...
@cameronwilson: wake me up when I can wildly speculate on twitter users' worth. i want people to be able to buy buy, short, sell deriatives of @cameronwilson tweets
Ed Solomon / @ed_solomon: This just makes me wanna tweet more “exclusive” stuff (whatever the fuck that means) for free. I can't believe people even *read* this shit - I would never have the hubris to think they should pay for it. Plus: who wants that stress? https://twitter.com/...
Eliot Higgins / @eliothiggins: Pay to follow me for access to unnecessarily long arguments with accounts with 12 followers. https://twitter.com/...
David Dayen / @ddayen: Enjoy my new pay-per-emoji feature where I add more of them unless you pay https://twitter.com/...
Michael McKean / @mjmckean: Related: everybody's instantly blocking ALL promoted stuff on their timeline, right? https://twitter.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl: Lol. As if any media org would allow employees to use this to get extra revenue for their own work product. Substack is often a fine line as it is. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: Twitter's new “Super Follow” will let you charge for tweets, and journalists are drooling
Liz Kelley / @lizkelley: we've been busy, & here's the latest: “[twitter] has signaled an itch for change,” w/ plans for: - @TwitterSpaces - platform for newsletter writers - ephemeral content - new moderation tools - plans for new subscription options - communities for specific interests https://twitter.com/...
Stacey Fix Conti / @stacey_conti: Proud of our acquired teams “We've bought almost 20 companies for hundreds of millions of dollars over the past few years, I think our pace of M&A is consistent with the pace of innovation inside the company. We are moving faster.” - Ned Segal Twitter CFO https://www.nytimes.com/...
@twittercomms: “That's the shift Twitter is in right now: There are a lot of different things that Twitter is willing to try...People are actually in this moment of excitement around the experimentation that we're doing.” - @esthercrawford via @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: It's easy to make fun of internet companies for just ripping each other off or making trivial things. (I do it, too.) But there are genuinely fresh ideas coming from old and new internet players and it's good. https://twitter.com/...
@timherrera: everyone is dunking on the super follow thing but imo it's very good because twitter is work and people should be paid for their work!! i don't think it'll be very widespread or successful cuz we are ofc paying for *tweets* but i think it could make a difference for some people
Emily Dreyfuss / @emilydreyfuss: Of course that's not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is the sites like, say, GNews, which peddles disinformation from paid operatives like Steve Bannon, are free.
Emily Dreyfuss / @emilydreyfuss: Readers need consistency. If I'm not sure I'm going to be able to access information on a website, I'm not going to check it regularly. I imagine many readers didn't know they could have been reading certain magazines amazing COVID stories, because they assumed the were paywalled
Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo: will news organizations allow their employees to collect superfollow millions? or is this like taking money for speaking gigs??
Harry / @wroetoshaw: I'll be posting all my old offensive tweets here for a bargain price! https://twitter.com/...
Kathie Pham / @kathiepham: you don't have to wait for Super Follows. please pay me five dollars to receive more tweets https://twitter.com/...
Dorian Taylor / @doriantaylor: “tech companies making us beg each other for pennies” is gonna be the theme of the next 30 years https://twitter.com/...
Tim Miller / @timodc: My onlytweets are gonna be 🔥 y'all. A risqué wordsmithing extravaganza. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Spero / @joshspero: And here I am giving it away for free! Also my tweets https://twitter.com/...
Allen McDuffee / @allenmcduffee: I think we're encouraging the wrong behavior on this here platform https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Grim / @ryangrim: There will be no refunds for any of my bad tweets. Buyer beware. https://twitter.com/...
@welshgasdoc: I will be posting all of my “post-nights and the worse off after a bottle and half of wine Tweets” behind this paywall. https://twitter.com/...
@umairh: Honestly tho instead of tech companies making us beg each other for pennies we just need a basic income https://twitter.com/...
Jon Worth / @jonworth: We'll follow him for the Brexit stuff and pay him for the diagrams* * - said no one, ever For creative industries this might work. For politics rather less I'd wager... https://twitter.com/...
Greg Jenner / @greg_jenner: Might be a nice way for people to reward funny/talented people for going viral, but not sure anyone will want to pay for my deluge of waffle and Spurs misery https://twitter.com/...
Rory Cellan-Jones / @ruskin147: Ok folks, it's £1 for a sourdough loaf, £2 for the dog - I don't make the rules https://twitter.com/...
Dan Davies / @dsquareddigest: yeah “newsrooms” and “reporters” that's the use case they're thinking of, absolutely fer sure https://twitter.com/...
Ingrid Burrington / @lifewinning: and with all due respect watching blue-checked six-figure income staffers at legacy print see this as a good development is stomach flipping
Ingrid Burrington / @lifewinning: As a person whose income is majority Patreon at this point and deeply grateful for the generosity of internet strangers: monetizing individual tweets as a “creator” sounds like a great way to make being on this web page even worse
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: Very curious to see how this “creator economy” continues to drive a wedge between the haves and the have-nots. (You can pay to read my 37 tweeter thread on this for the low, low price of $.99/tweet)
Paul Musgrave / @profmusgrave: Now you have to pay for the content that gets bluechecks canceled https://www.theverge.com/...
Steven Spohn / @stevenspohn: I see a few people dunking on Twitter for the idea of letting people financially support their favorite Tweeter. This is anger stemming from fear people wouldn't pay for your content. Perhaps focus that negative energy into upping your content game and then people might pay you. https://twitter.com/...
Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers: Twitter announces new features to help you make money and fight trolls
@petersterne: Lots of Twitter users already charge their followers for exclusive content! They just do so on Patreon.
Tucker / @jericho: Finally people will stop posting “HOW IS THIS APP FREE LMAOOOO” tweets https://twitter.com/...
@petersterne: Twitter is introducing a feature called “Super Followers,” which will let users pay the people they follow for exclusive content. People joke about charging for tweets, but all this really means is that people will no longer have to put Patreon links in their Twitter bio.
Scott Belsky / @scottbelsky: the hidden killer feature here: ability to share ideas/content more liberally with an opt-in group of people that are so interested they're willing to pay for it. this “safer engaged audience,” will encourage content creators to share more and take more risk = better content. https://twitter.com/...
Janine Gibson / @janinegibson: This promises to escalate straight to what we like to call DEFCON FACEBOOK AUSTRALIA at new world record speed https://twitter.com/...
Firstpost Tech: Twitter is planning to offer a paid service called Super Follow which will let users charge for content
Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: Coming soon to Twitter: Tweets you have to pay for
Matt Langford / Matt's Discoveries: Twitter, Clubhouse, Baseball, CarPlay, and More
Mecca Fowler / The Daily Caller: Twitter Announces Paid ‘Super Follows’ Allowing Users To Charge For Content
Marisa Sarnoff / Mediaite: Twitter Will Add Direct Payment Option, Communities Feature to Platform: Report
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: Twitter's ‘Super Follow’ creator subscription takes shots at Substack and Patreon
Mary Meisenzahl / Insider: You could soon earn money from your tweets through Twitter's new ‘Super Follow’ feature
Brendan Morrow / The Week: Twitter is exploring a ‘super follows’ subscription system
John Ourand / Sports Business Journal:
Sources: Disney and the NFL reach a broad media rights agreement, with ESPN renewing Monday Night Football; the NFL already reached deals with CBS, Fox, and NBC — Disney and the NFL have reached a broad agreement on a new media rights deal that will see ESPN renew “MNF” …
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Richard Deitsch / @richarddeitsch: There you go. ABC/ESPN is back in the Super Bowl: https://twitter.com/...
Randy Scott / @randyscottespn: As a wise man @espnSteveLevy once said: “It's a win for the home team” https://twitter.com/...
Richard Deitsch / @richarddeitsch: ESPN declines comment (expected). Nice job by Ourand. Beat Schefter on it! https://twitter.com/...
Dale Lolley / @dlolley_pgh: This is big news across the board for the NFL. All the TV deals essentially done and will be announced next week. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/ ...
Thad Brown / @thadbrown7: New TV rights deal will likely mean the 2021 cap rises above $180 million. Perhaps significantly above. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Marchand / New York Post: With NFL TV deals in sight, how much will Amazon pay?
Martin Peers / The Information: Why NFL Deals Call Out for TV Network Mergers: The Information's Tech Briefing
Maury Brown / @bizballmaury: “Sources said Disney is expected to pay an increase of up to 30% from its current deal, which based on an average of $2B per year would equate to around $2.6B. ” https://twitter.com/...
Chris Daniels / @chrisdaniels5: Big sports media news— 1) Disney apparently isn't hurting 2) Amazon will get Thursday Night Football https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Brandt / @andrewbrandt: Remember when some people cared about a slight decline in NFL ratings? That was cute. https://twitter.com/...
Gregg Bell / @gbellseattle: The fact the NFL is pulling this off—and getting massive right$ increases from networks, too—during a pandemic shows the league just prints money, under all circumstances. https://twitter.com/...
Jed I. Goodman / @jedigoodman: From SBJ: Disney and NFL reach agreement on new rights deal. Sources says it would equate to around $2.6B https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Draper / @kevinmdraper: John Ourand is reporting that NFL media packages will basically look the same, with the biggest news that ESPN is paying a 20-30% increase while CBS/NBC/Fox are paying a 100% increase, which seems like a very big deal for ESPN. https://twitter.com/...
John Ourand / @ourand_sbj: Media executives at the top networks are optimistic that the NFL formally will announce their media rights deals as early as next week. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/ ...
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: NFL flat-out denied this —> https://twitter.com/...
Jerry McDonald / @jerrymcd: This ought to enable the NFL to set a salary cap . . . https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Field / @ryanfieldabc: Big news for us here at ABC. The Super Bowl is coming back to the network for the 1st time since 2006. https://twitter.com/...
Steve DelVecchio / Larry Brown Sports: Super Bowl to return to ABC after network strikes new deal with NFL
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Disney, NFL Sketch Renewal Terms for ‘Monday Night Football’
Joe Lucia / Awful Announcing: In new round of NFL TV deals, Thursday Night Football reportedly heading to Amazon Prime, ABC joining Super Bowl rotation
Justin Byers / Front Office Sports: AT&T Sells 30% of Video Biz, NFL Package Included
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Shockingly real deepfakes of Tom Cruise are going viral on TikTok, with the account @deeptomcruise amassing 200K+ followers in a few days — FOR THE LOVE OF XENU — Be afraid. Be very afraid. — Three days ago, a TikTok account going by @deeptomcruise began posting video clips …
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Eriq Gardner / @eriqgardner: First comes both horror and fascination. Then comes the fight for control. Finally, there will be license. Yes, Tom Cruise will be starring in a 22nd Century movie (assuming they still have movies then). https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Franois Fleuret / @francoisfleuret: Have a look at this to convince yourself that the era of video-being-evidence is over. If your boss tell you to transfer $10m during the video-call, do not. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Brian Solis / @briansolis: So, how are we all feeling about #deepfakes becoming more and more of an everyday reality? Considering that people can't even tell the difference between journalism and conspiracies...🤔 “Shockingly Real Tom Cruise Deepfakes Are Invading TikTok” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: This TikTok Tom Cruise impersonator is using deepfake tech to impressive ends
Jackie Snow / The Machinocene Review: 🐶 How to stop a robo pup and Google can't get out if its own way
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
AMC Networks had Q4 net income of $94.7M, up from $8.58M a year ago, on revenue of $780.3M, and says it has 6M+ subscribers to its various streaming services — AMC Networks said it swung to a profit in the fourth quarter despite a decline in revenue as it narrowed losses in its international …
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Brent Lang / Variety: AMC Chief Adam Aron Gets $3.75 Million Bonus
Jennifer Maas / The Wrap: AMC Networks Tops 6 Million Streaming Subs, U.S. Ad Sales Drop 6% in Final 2020 Quarter
@variety: AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron received a $3.75 million bonus at a time when many of the company's employees have been laid off and several of its theaters are closed due to COVID-19, according to public filings https://variety.com/...
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: AMC Networks: Streamers' Combined 6M Subs Three Years Ahead of Plan
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Sources: the White House Correspondents' Association has objected to a proposal to charge $170 per coronavirus test for journalists entering WH grounds — Reporters who cover the White House may soon be paying what amounts to an admission fee to do their jobs.
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Yashar Ali / @yashar: News orgs pay many of the costs associated with covering the president...as it should be. News orgs, for example, pay a fortune to have their reporters travel on Air Force One. But this is a mistake. This won't hurt the CNNs of the world, it will hurt smaller news orgs big time https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: ...@business (all of which are in the pool EVERY DAY), the TV/radio networks (one of which has two @WHCA board members working for it) and other deep-pocketed outlets? This is wrong and if @WHCA officers actually cared about advocating for all journalists instead of rigging...
Brian J. Karem / @briankarem: This is a violation of Free Speech. @POTUS should be ashamed. NO ONE should have to pay to cover the president. For any reason. Many smaller organizations can't afford this. No freelancer or independent will be able to pay this cost. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Oliver Willis / @owillis: i feel like disney (parent of abc), warner media (parent of cnn), universal (parent of nbc/msnbc), fox, paramount (parent of cbs), and the ap/nyt/wapo could... quite easily cover the costs of covid testing for everyone in the whca without batting an eye? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: ...everything to benefit themselves and their employers they would take a stand and tell @PressSec that there will be no events covered by a pool unless she restores everyone's ability to do their job.
Idrees Ali / @idreesali114: “It would cost $1,360 a day to test an eight-person crew under the White House plan.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: First, @PressSec locks out everyone but the wires, TV networks & winners of a weekly “lottery.” Now even if I “win” a daily slot to talk to the people I cover, it costs $170 but the White House pays for pool members like @AP (employer of @WHCA prez @ZekeJMiller), @Reuters...
@ericbolling: This is outrageous. I'm a new member of the @whca and I will bring this up immediately. This would effectively prohibit smaller media from covering the WH. https://twitter.com/...
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Seth Meyers renews his deal with NBC and will host Late Night with Seth Meyers through 2025 — Seth Meyers has renewed his deal with NBC and will host “Late Night with Seth Meyers” through (at least) 2025. — Additionally, Meyers' and Mike Shoemaker's Sethmaker Shoemeyers Productions …
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Allie Gemmill / Collider: Late Night with Seth Meyers Extended Through 2025 by NBC
Peter White / Deadline: Seth Meyers Renews ‘Late Night’ Deal With NBC Through 2025 & Strikes Overall Deal With Universal Studio Group
Brian Steinberg / Variety: NBC Extends Seth Meyers' ‘Late Night’ Deal Though 2025
Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard:
How platforms like Spotify and tools like Community, Audigent, and Unitea help artists find their superfans and target them for monetization opportunities — New tech that allows artists to interact with superfans — and turn their data into dollars — promises to open long-term revenue streams
Better News:
How The Arizona Republic re-engaged readers after realizing that 42% of its digital-only subscribers weren't reading a single article per month — John Adams and Alia Beard Rau, USA Today Network, February 24, 2021 — Here's an idea to steal and adapt: If you want to maximize …
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Tom Huang / @tomthuang: First there was Night of the Living Dead. Then came 28 Days Later and Zombieland. Now meet the zombie-killers of @azcentral https://betternews.org/... @revnomore @aliarau @AmPress
Simon Owens / @simonowens: @jbenton @MediagazerChat Not shocking. My last few paid newsletters have only achieved a 50% open rate.
Paul Kedrosky / @pkedrosky: Augurs well, weirdly, for Substack. https://twitter.com/...
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