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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
DOJ says it will no longer “seek compulsory legal process in leak investigations to obtain source information from members of the news media doing their jobs” — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Saturday that it no longer will secretly obtain reporters' records …
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Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal: Justice Department to End Pursuit of Reporters' Contact Records Over Leaks
Freedom of the Press Foundation: In a sea change for press freedom, Biden administration vows not to spy on reporters doing their job
Rosemary Rossi / The Wrap: DOJ Will No Longer Seize Reporters' Data in Leak Investigations
Mike Allen / Axios: Justice Department to stop seizing reporter records
Ted Boutrous / @boutrousted: Key documents, including the orders and our letters on behalf of @nytimes demanding that the Justice Department withdraw the gag order and order compelling @Google to turn over email data of four reporters, can be found here. https://int.nyt.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Politi / Slate: Justice Department Vows to No Longer Seize Reporters' Records in Leak Investigations
Ron Wyden / @ronwyden: I've been pressing the Biden administration to end this invasive practice abused by William Barr. Glad to see DOJ following through on @POTUS Biden's promise to stop trolling through reporters' private information. https://twitter.com/...
Joel Simon / @joelcpj: The seizure of journalists' records in leak investigations is an odious practice that preceded Trump. It's encouraging that the Biden administration plans to end it. https://apnews.com/...
@nytpolitics: The Biden administration disavowed any knowledge of a Justice Dept. gag order on New York Times leaders or its attempt to seize reporters' email data in 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Steven Potter / @iamstevenpotter: Is plausible deniability still a thing? Asking for a president ...or two. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jon Cooper / @joncoopertweets: “Going forward, consistent with the President's direction, the DOJ — in a change to its longstanding practice — will not seek compulsory legal process in leak investigations to obtain source information from members of the news media doing their jobs.” https://apnews.com/...
@sm_rose: @farhip @nytimes It's a bad look, but is it really on Biden? Psaki: “As appropriate given the independence of the Justice Department in specific criminal cases, no one at the White House was aware of the gag order until Friday [4 June] night,” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tim Hogan / @timinhonolulu: If we impair mole hunts we're finished. Perhaps policy should be no “secret subpoenas.” Work privately with voluntary secrecy through the news orgs general counsel's offices. https://twitter.com/...
Patrick McGee / @patrickmcgee_: How comforting! https://twitter.com/...
Craig Caplan / @craigcaplan: .@PressSec:"While the WH does not intervene in criminal investigations, the issuing of subpoenas for the records of reporters in leak investigations is not consistent w/the President's policy direction to the Dept,& Dept of Justice has reconfirmed it will not be used moving fwd." https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: DOJ says it will no longer seize reporters' records. Jen Psaki today: “The issuing of subpoenas for the records of reporters in leak investigations is not consistent with the President's policy direction to the Department.” https://apnews.com/... AP: “A startling turnabout.”
Ari Cohn / @aricohn: I'm sure we're all comforted by the DOJ promising that it won't do that thing that it did secretly ever again 🙄🙄🙄 https://apnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: If @TheJusticeDept implements this policy across all of its offices, it would be the most positive shift on press freedom in decades. Thank you to @POTUS @JoeBiden for decrying seizures. Is there a memo on this by USAG Garland that Americans can read online, @AnthonyColeyDOJ? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Affirming Biden's pledge: https://twitter.com/...
Jina Moore / @itsjina: “not consistent with the President's policy direction.” Not, “not consistent with the Constitution.” https://twitter.com/...
Keegan Hamilton / @keegan_hamilton: “The statement did not say whether the Justice Department would still conduct aggressive leak investigations without obtaining reporters' records. It also did not define who exactly would be counted as a member of the media” https://apnews.com/...
Jonathan H. Adler / @jadler1969: Long overdue change from longstanding practice https://twitter.com/...
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DOJ obtained a gag order, under Trump and continuing under Biden, preventing NYT execs from disclosing efforts to seize reporters' records even to Dean Baquet — A push by prosecutors to secretly seize data about four Times reporters' emails began in the Trump administration and continued under Biden.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico: Justice Dept. vows to end court orders seeking journalists' data in leak probes
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Trump administration snooped for anonymous news sources
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: An important lesson from the DOJ attempts to go after communications records of reporters at the Times and the Post: tech companies will fight for your rights in court, telcos will comply, even for journalists, immediately. https://twitter.com/...
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN: Justice Department says it will no longer seize reporters' records for leak investigations
Caroline Downey / National Review: Biden DOJ Received Gag Order Preventing NYT from Notifying Journalists of Government Phone, Email Surveillance
Matt Ford / @fordm: “There was no precedent, Mr. McCraw said, for the government to impose a gag order on New York Times personnel as part of a leak investigation.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: “There was no precedent, Mr. McCraw said, for the government to impose a gag order on New York Times personnel as part of a leak investigation.” Again, this gag was imposed by the Biden DOJ https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alex Plitsas / @alexplitsas: If you took an oath to “support and defend the constitution of the United States” that includes freedom of the press. These actions by administrations of both parties are egregious and need to stop. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Honiker / @benhoniker: This is absolutely fucking bonkers. Fascinating that it breaks at 11 PM on a Friday. The Justice Dept pulled 3+ year old phone records on journalists who wronged Trump. The investigation was sustained under Biden. We can't claim to have a free press in light of this shit. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Dawsey / @jdawsey1: Holy cow. Pay attention. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: “The Justice Dept relentlessly pursued the identity of sources for coverage that was clearly in the public interest in the final 15 days of the Trump administration. And the Biden administration continued to pursue it. As I said before, it profoundly undermines press freedom.” https://twitter.com/...
Ilsa / @solarcycle_25: “The Justice Department relentlessly pursued the identity of sources for coverage that was clearly in the public interest in the final 15 days of the Trump administration. And the Biden administration continued to pursue it.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Josh Gerstein / @joshgerstein: UPDATE: DC based magistrate who signed off on Jan. 5 order to demand NYT email metadata in leak probe—and gag Google about the order—is Zia Faruqui, who took post in Sept. 2020. He previously worked as a nat sec prosecutor in US Attorney's Office in DC https://www.politico.com/...
Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: Justice Department Says It'll No Longer Quietly Seize Reporters' Records in Leak Investigations
Scott Greenfield / @scottgreenfield: DoJ going after emails to ID leakers is nothing new. Gag orders are nothing new. What's new is that it was the NYT this time, and suddenly it's an outrage. It always matters more when it touches your world. https://twitter.com/...
Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq: There was no part of the First Amendment DOJ wasn't willing to eviscerate to satisfy Trump's futile effort to go after Comey. https://twitter.com/...
Edward Snowden / @snowden: Trump and Biden both demanded Google turn over the private emails of reporters in a bid to hunt down their sources. The new administration went so far as to seek a gag order on the Times to keep the public from learning about it. It didn't work: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Josh Gerstein / @joshgerstein: At a DOJ presser back in April I asked National Security Division head John Demers—a rare Trump holdover in Biden admin—if he planned to stay on. He smiled wryly and ignored my Q. Of course now we know he knew about the coming storm over this https://www.politico.com/...
Scott Stedman / @scottmstedman: Absolutely maddening. Trampling on the freedom of the press. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: A gag order on a newspaper's executives — such that they can't even tell the editor of that newspaper about the government's attempt to learn who its reporters sources were — is extreme, and invasive. As Charlie says: began with Comey fever under Trump, but continued under Biden. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: Two significant differences between the telcos and tech: 1) The telcos are heavily regulated and capturing the FCC is a key part of their competition strategy. 2) The largest single customer of any given US telco is the USG.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Breaking news about a gag order: “In the last weeks of the Trump administration and continuing under President Biden, the Justice Department fought a secret legal battle to obtain the email logs of four New York Times reporters in a hunt for their sources” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: The @NYTimes is running this story on Page One on Saturday. Headline: “U.S. Placed Gag Order on Times In Going After Reporters' Emails.” BTW, @adamgoldmanNYT is set to join me live on @CNN Sunday morning https://www.nytimes.com/...
Trevor Timm / @trevortimm: There are like five levels to this story that are outrageous. When are the House and Senate going to start holding hearings? If the DOJ isn't going to stop spying on reporters, Congress needs to do it for them. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Gerstein / @joshgerstein: @MarkSZaidEsq Did they? Or did they put it in neutral until they had Senate confirmed appointees in place? https://www.politico.com/...
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone: DOJ Says It Will No Longer Use Court Orders to Seize Journalists' Records, Identify Sources
Craig Whitlock / @craigmwhitlock: Really outrageous and an abuse of power by the Justice Department https://twitter.com/...
@magicfreak81: BOTH SIDES ARE NOT THE FUCKING SAME. Also, Trump is a narcissist asshole who never believed in democracy and actively fought against it. https://twitter.com/...
Helen Kennedy / @helenkennedy: How many DOJ personnel were involved in this? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Isy Oderberg / @yodaberg: This might be one of the most terrifying things I've ever read. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “The gag order prevented the executives from disclosing the government's efforts to seize the records even to the executive editor, Dean Baquet, and other newsroom leaders...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sarah Al-Arshani / Insider: The US Justice Department under Trump fought to get emails belonging to 4 New York Times reporters
Chris Young / The Reporters Committee …: RCFP statement on Justice Department policy change barring seizure of source information from reporters in leak hunts
The White House: Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the Department of Justice Leak Investigation Policy
Alex Shephard / New Republic: Trump's War on the Press Isn't Over Until Biden Ends It
@aclu: Spying on journalists threatens news reporting protected by the First Amendment. It's clear existing executive branch policies are not working. Biden and Congress need to protect reporters from this type of abuse. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tim O'Brien / @timobrien: DOJ said it seized phone records from Jan. 14 to April 30, 2017 for four Times reporters, suggesting “the leak investigation related to classified information reported in an April 22, 2017, article” about Comey's investigations during the 2016 election. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mollie / @mzhemingway: Interesting little tidbit here about Comey last month refusing to talk to FBI investigators about some leaks he was involved in. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeremy Herb / @jeremyherb: Real question is how many more reporters' records were secretly obtained by the Justice Department last year https://twitter.com/...
Mary Louise Kelly / @nprkelly: And... the next shoe drops. Trump DOJ also secretly seized phone records of four @nytimes reporters. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: That's three and counting - WaPo, CNN and NYT reporters all had records seized by the Trump DOJ https://www.nytimes.com/...
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Gannett is fighting an FBI subpoena, which seeks IP addresses and mobile phone info to determine who read a specific USA Today story about a Florida shooting — Gannett, the publisher, contends that demand for details on who accessed article violates the First Amendment.
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Kristine Phillips / USA Today: The FBI has dropped a subpoena for USA Today records identifying readers of a story on a Florida shooting, after investigators found the suspect via other means
Kristine Phillips / USA Today: USA TODAY fights FBI subpoena demanding records that would identify readers of Florida shooting story
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post: USA Today resists FBI subpoena seeking data of those who read story about agents' killing
@usatoday: UPDATE: The Justice Department has withdrawn a subpoena by the FBI demanding records from USA TODAY that would identify readers of a February story about a southern Florida shootout that killed two agents and wounded three others. https://www.usatoday.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: You can't .... argh!!!!!! https://www.usatoday.com/...
Orin Kerr / @orinkerr: In the old days, websites didn't keep this information, so investigators didn't think of trying to get it. As websites more often keep records of visits, the more that will change — raising important privacy issues, as it's outside ECPA. Worth following. https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Josh Gerstein / @joshgerstein: MORE DOJ NEWS: FBI tells me it's dropping subpoena for records that could show who read a USA Today story on a Florida shooting that left a suspect and 2 FBI agents dead and 3 agents wounded. FBI: ‘Investigative developments have rendered it unnecessary.’ https://www.politico.com/...
Daniel Politi / Slate: USA Today Fights FBI Effort to Obtain IP Addresses of People Who Read an Article
Allison Carter / @allisonlcarter: This is absolutely insane. A request like this will net hundreds, possibly thousands, of people who were trying to read an article on what was a huge news event. It's the definition of a needle in a haystack. https://www.usatoday.com/...
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: The FBI is trying to get IP addresses and phone numbers of people who read a USA Today article
@usatoday: In a motion filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., Gannett, USA TODAY's parent company, said the effort is not only unconstitutional but also violates the Justice Department's own rules. https://www.usatoday.com/...
Josh Gerstein / @joshgerstein: Note today's DOJ statement only forswears seeking ‘source information,’ so it doesn't foreclose this sort of caper, which appears aimed at reader information https://www.politico.com/...
Scott Greenfield / @scottgreenfield: In February, FBI subpoenaed USA Today for IDs of readers of article about Ft. Lauderdale shooting that killed 2 agents. WTF? https://www.politico.com/...
@jaxdotcom: After the February shooting of five FBI agents, two who died, the FBI's subpoena demands the production of records containing IP addresses and other information “for computers and other electronic devices” that accessed the story.https://www.jacksonville.com/ ...
Brett Murphy / @brettmmurphy: This is a new one: We are fighting an FBI subpoena demanding records that would identify readers of a Florida shooting story https://www.usatoday.com/...
Maribel Wadsworth / @mwadsworth: “Being forced to tell the government who reads what on our websites is a clear violation of the First Amendment."https://www.usatoday.com/ ...
Josh Caplan / @joshdcaplan: “The subpoena, served on Gannett in April, seeks information about who accessed the news article online during a 35-minute window starting just after 8 p.m. on the day of the shootings.” https://www.politico.com/...
Gregory Korte / @gregorykorte: Biden, May 21: “Absolutely, positively it's wrong. It's simply, simply wrong.” Reporter: “So you won't let your Justice Department do that?” Biden: “I will not let that happen.” https://twitter.com/...
Rewhan / @_rewhan: I'm sorry, they want who *READ* the article? Ignoring the logistical magnitude of what they're asking, that seems like an enormous overreach of one's authority. https://twitter.com/...
Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq: I stand with @USATODAY on this one https://twitter.com/...
Steve Krakauer / @stevekrak: If Psaki isn't asked about this outrageous anti-journalism action in today's White House briefing, the WH press corps are truly, contemptibly useless. https://twitter.com/...
Middle Tennessee Dsa / @midtndsa: An incredibly bizarre story—FBI is subpoenaing a publication to see who read a specific article about a shootout. A dangerous precedent could be set if this goes through. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Chayes / @chayesmatthew: There's a permanent record of who reads which articles. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Gerstein / @joshgerstein: Gannett is citing as precedent a court ruling from the Ken Starr investigation of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky...DC folks may recall subpoenas to Kramerbooks and Barnes & Noble for Lewinsky's book purchases....A judge ruled such demands implicate 1st Amendment https://twitter.com/...
@politico: Newspaper publisher Gannett is fighting an effort by the FBI to try to determine who read a specific USA Today story. The story covered a deadly shooting in February near Fort Lauderdale, Fla., that left 2 FBi agents dead and 3 wounded. https://www.politico.com/...
Olivier Knox / @oknox: Who ***read*** the article? https://twitter.com/...
Jesse O'Neill / New York Post: FBI demands info on readers of USA Today story about agents killed in child porn raid
Chris Young / The Reporters Committee …: Reporters Committee statement on USA Today internet records subpoena
Jordan Williams / The Hill: FBI subpoenas USA Today for information on readers
Rob Quinn / Newser: FBI Seeks to Identify Readers of USA Today Story
Nick Clegg / About Facebook:
In response to Oversight Board ruling, Facebook suspends Trump's accounts until January 7, 2023, and says it will then reconsider suspension if conditions allow — Last month, the Oversight Board upheld Facebook's suspension of former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts following …
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Gilad Edelman / Wired: Admit It: The Facebook Oversight Board Is Kind of Working
Oversight Board / @oversightboard: The Oversight Board is encouraged that Facebook is adopting many of the Board's policy recommendations in the case involving former US President Donald Trump. https://oversightboard.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: Trump Suspended From Facebook, Instagram for Two Years
Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain: 5 Quick Thoughts On Facebook's Trump Decision
Nick Clegg / @nickclegg: In response to the @OversightBoard's ruling, Facebook is suspending Donald Trump's accounts for 2 years, effective from the date of the initial suspension in January this year. At that time, we will assess the public safety risk and extend the restrictions if conditions require. https://twitter.com/...
Cristiano Lima / Politico: Facebook gives Trump path to return — but not until at least 2023
Brian Contreras / Los Angeles Times: Trump's Facebook ban may end in time for the 2024 presidential campaign
David Watson / Tugboat for Twitter: Favorites June 4 2021 — Republicans have the best of both worlds in terms of the filibuster.
Eric Schmitt / @eric_schmitt: This is crazy. Even those on the left know how dangerous this is — the #BigTech rulers de-platforming the 45th President of the United States. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Deeter / Off The Mall: Off The Mall: June 5, 2021
Jeff Maurer / I Might Be Wrong: Twitter and Facebook's Experiments with Aggressive Content Moderation Could Not Be Going Worse
@gadgetlab: Facebook has agreed to follow some of the board's non-binding recommendations regarding the Donald Trump suspension. That's progress. https://www.wired.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Wired's @GiladEdelman says he finds himself “in a different camp” than others. “The Oversight Board is performing a valuable, though very limited, function, and the Trump situation illustrates why,” Edelman writes. https://www.wired.com/...
Matt Blaze / @mattblaze: As anemic as this may seem, it's a far more severe and concrete sanction than Congress managed to impose those times that he was impeached for this stuff. https://twitter.com/...
Transparency Center: Counting strikes — If you post content that goes against the Facebook Community Standards …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American: June 4, 2021 — Today, Facebook officials announced that they would continue former president …
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: 1. I have some thoughts on this decision. Fundamentally, I think the whole back and forth between Facebook and the Oversight Board on this is a DISTRACTION from the core issues. Follow along if interested. https://twitter.com/...
Keith Boykin / @keithboykin: It's sad that someone can incite an attack on the United States Capitol and Facebook has to be the one to hold them accountable instead of the United States Congress. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew: Facebook's constant repetition of this line is one of the most mealy-mouthed and pathetic corporate stances I can imagine. Imagine the executives of any other publication whining that it's not fair they have editorial control over what they publish. https://twitter.com/...
Evan Greer / @evan_greer: Okay. But the question becomes: what do we do about that power. We can keep begging them to use it responsibly and then shaming them when they inevitably don't (because they never will) ... or we can try to take it away and redistribute it https://twitter.com/...
Tim O'Brien / @timobrien: “Given the gravity of the circumstances that led to Mr. Trump's suspension, we believe his actions constituted a severe violation of our rules which merit the highest penalty available under the new enforcement protocols.” https://about.fb.com/...
Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier: “We shouldn't have this power” says company that spent 17 years building this power https://about.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Calvin Freiburger / @calfreiburger: Let's dispense with the farce of anyone pretending to believe there's any semblance of a sincere, objective attempt to neutrally enforce Facebook's “policies” here. https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: I wrote out 5 quick thoughts about the trump/facebook thing because i have a blog https://warzel.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@mcbyrne: Reminder that @OversightBoard is just a facebook committee. Marky Mark could have suspended Trump for as long as he wanted. The pomp and circumstance is supposed to make you think FB is accountable to anyone other than Mark and shareholders.
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: “... Feels pretty unlikely that the zebra is going to change his stripes over the next two years. We'll see.”
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: Trump could be allowed back on in January 2023, @PressSec reacts, “We learned a lot from President Trump, the former president, over the last couple of years about his behavior and how he uses these platforms...”
Nick Clegg / @nickclegg: Given the gravity of the circumstances that led to Mr Trump's suspension, we believe his actions constituted a severe violation of our rules which merit the highest penalty available under the new enforcement protocols we're announcing today. https://twitter.com/...
Philip Gourevitch / @pgourevitch: not a good look for GOP senate when Facebook acts more responsible https://www.nytimes.com/...
Charlie Spiering / Breitbart: White House Backs Facebook Two Year Suspension of Donald Trump: Platforms Have ‘Responsibility’ to Censor ‘Disinformation’
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: The entire democratic world seems to have no trouble seeing how menacing it is for democracy to have our political discourse policed by Silicon Valley monopolists, while pressured by political parties. Only US liberals & their journalists can't see it. They're pro-censorship.
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: >>When the suspension is eventually lifted, there will be a strict set of rapidly escalating sanctions that will be triggered if Mr. Trump commits further violations in future, up to and including permanent removal of his pages and accounts.<< https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Just in: Trump responds: “[R]uling is an insult to the record-setting 75M people, plus many others, who voted for us in the 2020 Rigged Presidential Election.” “They shouldn't be allowed to get away with this censoring and silencing, and ultimately, we will win.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Maria Bustillos / @mariabustillos: @emilybell @OversightBoard In order to be worthy of even a shred of respect, the @OversightBoard would need to demand that the ban last until after the 2024 election
M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler: In other words, in two years and one day he'll be suspended again. And he'll do it on purpose in order to start rallying the base with this particular narrative ahead of the next election... Good plan. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: When will the @OversightBoard review of the decision of the review be ready? I mean, now we know that inciting a coup is a suspension for 2 years .....(one of the real achievements the FBOB could hope for would be creating a culture of better decision making within Facebook)
Kate Brannen / @k8brannen: “At the end of this period, we will look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded.” https://about.fb.com/...
Kate ‘two jags’ Bevan / @katebevan: Pity you didn't do this about five years ago. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Hahn / @mikehahn_: “At the end of this [two year] period, we will look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded.” Facebook has an obligation to say who these “experts” are. https://about.fb.com/...
Benjy Sarlin / @benjysarlin: If FB is making a decision on future penalties based on some subjective sense of the overall political environment, rather than Trump's own identifiable behavior, it's basically carte blanche to do what they want. Which was the case beforehand, of course. https://about.fb.com/...
Sam Stein / @samstein: Trump is off FB till 2023. Could be back in time for the GOP primaries “if conditions permit” https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: “if conditions permit” lol this is facebook not an outdoor event https://twitter.com/...
Michael Luciano / Mediaite: Jake Tapper Grills Facebook Exec Open to Restoring Trump's Account: ‘His Lies Are Getting Worse’
Vinay A. Ramesh / @vinaytion: The Facebook Decision — It's a big day for Facebook decisions, and depending on who you are …
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: Facebook Won't Talk About the Insurrection
Sean Burch / The Wrap: Trump Calls Facebook Suspension ‘Insult’ to His Supporters, Hints at White House Return
Sandra Song / PAPER: Facebook Bans Trump Until 2023
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: Facebook Announces Official Timeline for Trump Ban, Changes to Rules Around Political Speech
Alexandra Svokos / ABC News: Facebook suspension of Trump to last 2 years
Oma Seddiq / Insider: Psaki says it's ‘pretty unlikely that the zebra is going to change his stripes over the next two years’ when asked about Facebook's Trump ban
David Cohen / Adweek: Facebook Bans Donald Trump Through at Least Jan. 7, 2023
Ruth Reader / Fast Company: Trump booted from Facebook for 2 years
Bonnie Kristian / theweek.com: Facebook will make it easier for politicians to hide their wildest beliefs
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Facebook suspends Trump's accounts for two years
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Facebook Bans Trump For Two Years, Tightens Rules For Politicians
John Eggerton / nexttv.com: Facebook Extends Trump Ban Two More Years
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: Facebook suspends Trump for 2 years in response to Oversight Board ruling
Media Matters for America: Facebook's two-year suspension of Trump proves the tech giant won't take seriously its responsibility for January 6
Eric / Muslim Advocates: Facebook Threatens Democracy by Reinstating Trump in Time for 2024 Election
Barbara Ortutay / Daily Herald: Facebook suspends Trump for 2 years, then will reassess
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Facebook will reconsider Trump's ban in two years
Andrew Wyrich / The Daily Dot: Trump will stay banned from Facebook for at least 2 years
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: Facebook will suspend Trump for at least two years
Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: What Facebook's two-year Trump ban does and doesn't do
Shannon Bond / NPR: Trump Suspended From Facebook For 2 Years
Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: Trump Suspended From Facebook for at Least 2 Years
José Adorno / 9to5Mac: Facebook says Trump's ban will last until January 2023
Jacob Silverman / New Republic: Facebook Finally Decides Your Worst Uncle and Donald Trump Deserve the Same Content Moderation
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Facebook says Donald Trump to remain banned for two years, effective from Jan. 7
Queenie Wong / CNET: Trump will be suspended from Facebook for at least two years
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: BREAKING: Facebook Says Trump to Remain Banned For Two Years — The ‘Highest Penalty Available’
David Oxenford / Broadcast Law Blog: Reports that Facebook Will End Policy of Not Censoring Politician's Posts - How Other Communications Platforms are Regulated on Political Speech
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason: Get Ready for Another Big Deplatforming Debate, Because Facebook Is Tweaking Its Rules Again
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The Daily Beast:
The NewsGuild of New York has revised a plan to increase dues, making the move temporary for three years, after opposition from some NYT and Reuters members — A contingent of Times journos, including many Pulitzer winners, has stood in opposition to the NewsGuild's proposed dues hike.
Discussion:
@hamiltonnolan, @travis_waldron, @hamiltonnolan, @noahmf, @decunningham2, @thedailybeast, @niemanlab, @shaneferro, @coreyrobin, @rtraister, @daveyalba, @elivalley, @fakebenjay, @hannahgais, @mesklaroff, @missanabeem, @pt, @libbycwatson, @jordanuhl, @evanchill, @hamiltonnolan, @robbysoave, @bridgetgillard, @jordanuhl, @tatejamesdotcom, @alex_shephard, @brfreed, @daveyalba, @blumnessmonster, @jblock49, @ungarino, @pykea, @schwarz, @allmattnyt, @karlitaliliana, @grimkim, @bigblackjacobin, @danielmarans, @aidachavez, @caleweissman, @jordanzakarin and @saramorrison
Discussion:
Hamilton Nolan / @hamiltonnolan: Today in media unions: 100 NYT staffers just signed an email to their colleagues urging them to vote AGAINST the proposed union dues increase intended to help the News Guild finance new organizing. Text of the letter attached here and below: https://twitter.com/...
Travis Waldron / @travis_waldron: Pretty much! https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Hamilton Nolan / @hamiltonnolan: And FYI, this is now a bit of a moot point—the union has switched their proposal from a permanent dues increase to a temporary one, with a removal of the earnings cap on dues. https://twitter.com/...
Noah / @noahmf: Just of the subset of people on this list who have Wikipedia pages, and just from the face of those pages, red means they grew up in a rich neighborhood, blue means they have famous parents/grandparents and green means prep school. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Eric Cunningham / @decunningham2: If New York was a right to work state, these journalists would be able to hold the union to account by threatening to resign from the union and withhold any payments to them. Instead, they will likely have no say and be forced to pay these insane hikes. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@thedailybeast: The proposal, which would require an increase of dues from 1.3846 percent to 1.75 percent, and end the cap on dues for those making more than $140,000 per year, sparked dissension from dozens of top members from the Times https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@niemanlab: “The battle pits Times reporters and editors skeptical of the NewsGuild's spending against other Guild members frustrated by the unwillingness of largely well-paid journalists to sacrifice a small amount for their colleagues in the industry.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Shane / @shaneferro: Look, it seems like there's some communication issues at the NewsGuild, but I'm in the legal nonprofit version of this wildly growing union situation and these arguments are a bunch of crap https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Corey Robin / @coreyrobin: Anybody know why Arthur Schwartz is helping the Times staffers who are opposing a dues increase for the union? Last I remember he was helping the transit workers fight a Giuliani injunction to stop them from striking. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Traister / @rtraister: Thinking about the economic stability provided by a union that's been in place for decades, and how few contemporary journalists can fathom what that must be like, and how hard my colleagues are fighting for our contracts. I can't wait to pay dues. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: Here is the @nyguild Executive Committee response to the Daily Beast story. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Eli Valley / @elivalley: Some of the richest and most privileged journalists on the planet refuse to chip in more to help less secure colleagues facing one of the most cataclysmic convulsions in the history of the industry: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Jay / @fakebenjay: Of fucking course the NYTers retained Arthur Schwartz—the “progressive” attorney whose bona fides include years of stonewalling the 14th street busway—to oppose the Newsguild dues increase. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Gais / @hannahgais: considering that media unions are one of the few things keeping journalism afloat, it's very interesting to see that some people aren't willing to pay $400-500 a year to keep the industry alive. https://twitter.com/...
M. Edith Sklaroff / @mesklaroff: Can't stop thinking of the Phil Ochs stage banter on liberals: “an outspoken group on any subject, 10 degrees to the left of center usually, 10 degrees to the right of center if it effects them personally.” https://twitter.com/...
Annalisa Merelli / @missanabeem: I think some of these points are valid but they would read a lot stronger if it wasn't for the objection to removing a cap on dues. That there *is* a cap is entirely unfair! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Parker / @pt: Media is tough, but there will always be a good market for the highest-quality journalism. Journalists get this. So it probably shouldn't be surprising that set isn't interested in subsidizing unions sinking other ships knowing that theirs will continue to sail regardless. https://twitter.com/...
Libby Watson / @libbycwatson: and $500 is the range of what they're talking about in terms of increases. they all make a shitload of money and work at the fucking new york times. get a grip https://twitter.com/...
Jordan / @jordanuhl: Saw the list of names of people who signed this. It's exactly who you think. https://twitter.com/...
Evan Hill / @evanchill: Raising union dues and ending the dues cap on salaries over $140,000 to help the Guild continue unionizing shops in an industry where they are desperately needed seems sensible, and I'm happy to pay more to that end. Hope everyone has a nice weekend. 😃 https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Hamilton Nolan / @hamiltonnolan: There are two reasons to organize enthusiastic industries like media *as fast as possible.* 1) The moral imperative to help people. 2) Having tons of workers ready willing and able to unionize is not the norm and unions need to take advantage of it. “Slowing down” is not savvy.
Robby Soave / @robbysoave: What a den of vipers. I can't imagine ever wanting to work for a media company where employees who took their jobs as union activists more seriously than their actual jobs felt this entitled to rail against their colleagues. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Bridget Read / @bridgetgillard: Those of us who don't yet pay @nyguild dues are in fact begging to pay them. We're desperate to finish our contracts. The timing & tenor of this “revolt” directly undermines our years-long fight to contribute. Stand with us so we can stand with you. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Tate James / @tatejamesdotcom: twitter 100% causes brain worms yes guild members pushed back and gave some good feedback on a difficult issue, which was why the vote was delayed and amended to move toward common ground this article and the discourse around it encourages the opposite https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Alex Shephard / @alex_shephard: The NewsGuild has done so much to make this industry fairer and more equitable. It's really sad to watch people who have so much—job security, high salaries, book deals—work so hard to undermine efforts that help people who don't https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Benjamin Freed / @brfreed: It's truly disappointing to see so many Times journalists who I've long admired take a position that'll weaken their union, and could chill unionization efforts by journalists who aren't compensated as handsomely as Times employees. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: as i've been saying, the newsguild dues situation is not as black and white as it is being portrayed in some news stories, including this one. i read this statement out loud at the last guild town hall on dues, and it seemed to resonate then https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Sam Blum / @blumnessmonster: It'd be cool if the NY Guild could just remove all the people making $140,000 annually from the Times' bargaining unit, as they clearly don't want it to perform at its necessary level. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Rebecca Ungarino / @ungarino: This is not the most absurd thing in a story about an uproar over a proposal to hike Guild dues to 1.75% from 1.3846%, the first such hike in more than a decade, but surely this is not a real word https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Alan Pyke / @pykea: striking to see these selfish, shortsighted jackwagons crib directly from “taxing the rich is unfair” and “only taxpayers should be allowed to vote” arguments here https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jon Schwarz / @schwarz: This cap should be ended, the NYT union shouldn't have a dues structure that's regressive, just like rich people shouldn't have lower tax rates. Their contact gives members annual 2% raises on their entire salaries, not their salaries up to $140,000. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Rosenberg / @allmattnyt: For the folks throwing around words like “scab,” can I suggest you take a quick glance at the wise words coming from @daveyalba. We're all in this together even if we don't always agree on the best way forward. https://twitter.com/...
Karla Monterroso / @karlitaliliana: Wild to me, WILD how little solidarity these people feel with other people in their field. To have gotten so much prestige in your field and to not get what is happening around you. To your whole damn industry. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Kim Kelly / @grimkim: How much money does it take to completely erase a person's ability to empathize with their fellow workers (or to feel any sense of shame)? Whatever these bougie jags are making, I guess! https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Edward Ongweso Jr / @bigblackjacobin: “You can pay [dues] and it helps your future colleagues. Especially at a time our industry is fucking calamitous. It seems to be lost on these people as they live in this gilded palace. These people don't have any sense of solidarity with their colleagues” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Daniel Marans / @danielmarans: There is a self-interest argument as well: An industry where every worker is unionized increases the bargaining power of every shop ... https://twitter.com/...
@aidachavez: imagine caring more about 0.4% of your massive salary than you do about other workers https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Cale G Weissman / @caleweissman: extremely good @alex_shephard quotes in here https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Zakarin / @jordanzakarin: Also, it's not as if the NY Times is immune to layoffs or other market pressures that have obliterated much of the news industry. Reporters may need to go work somewhere else one day. A media landscape filled with low-wage jobs is not good! https://twitter.com/...
Sara Morrison / @saramorrison: Thanks to @vox_union, I will be getting a raise for the first time since my days as a Subway sandwich artist. A previous job punished me for asking for one. Unions rule, union dues are worth it, and I guess some people forgot how much they benefited from their own. https://twitter.com/...
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Seth Smalley / VICE:
NYT tech workers, who are organizing a union, say management is using proven union-busting techniques contrary to NYT's long-held positions on union recognition — Tech workers at the Times are organizing, but rather than recognizing their union, management is running tactics out of a union-busting playbook.
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Gabriela / @spacirelei: We'll be the largest tech worker union! Read about our organizing and the ways management is trying to prevent our recognition, despite NYT publishing that voluntary recognition is the right thing to do: https://twitter.com/...
Annie Shields / @anastasiakeeley: “The group of nearly 700 tech and digital employees at the Times would, if recognized, be the largest tech union so far.” The entire @NYguild is going to come together and do whatever it takes to win this fight because we are a union that WINS https://www.vice.com/...
Peter Kafka / Vox:
Sources: Facebook plans to launch Bulletin, its Substack clone, at the end of June; it will live outside Facebook in part to evade Apple and Google's 30% fees — Facebook wants to launch its newsletter product later this month. But it doesn't want controversial writers using it — just the ones it's recruiting.
Discussion:
@jessicalessin, @levynews, @jason, @manymanywords, @nandu79, @pkafka, @pkafka and Engadget
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Jessica Lessin / @jessicalessin: @pkafka Wow. The “only people they are recruiting and paying for two years” should put to rest the question of whether they are getting into the media/news/commentary business. I didn't expect that.
Meredith Haggerty / @manymanywords: Substack but for apolitical people Mark Zuckerberg likes, end of list. What a business! https://twitter.com/...
Nandagopal Rajan / @nandu79: People working on the project say that design is partially an attempt to distinguish Bulletin's brand from Facebook — particularly at a time when readers and writers may distrust the company — and partially an effort to evade the Apple/Google cut https://www.vox.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Also: FB will market Bulletin on Facebook. But you'll read/sign up/pay for it outside of Facebook. Part branding, part Apple/Google tax avoidance.
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Facebook's Substack is like Substack except: *You can't write for it. Only people FB is recruiting - and paying - for 2-year deals. *Facebook doesn't want politics in its Substack - the stuff everyone reads/loves/hates on Substack. *It's called Bulletin. (Which is a very $$$ URL) https://twitter.com/...
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
EU and UK regulators coordinate to open antitrust investigations into Facebook's classified ad service Marketplace; UK is also probing Facebook Dating — Investigations into classified-ads service Marketplace ramp up regulatory scrutiny on the company in Europe
Discussion:
European Commission: Antitrust: Commission opens investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct of Facebook
Kalyeena Makortoff / The Guardian: UK and EU investigate Facebook over unfair use of data in digital advertising
Naman Ramachandran / Variety: Facebook Online Ads, Dating Data Usage Will Be Probed by U.K., European Commission
Simon Van Dorpe / Politico: Facebook caught as Europe expands Big Tech antitrust probes
@omidyarnetwork: Kudos to the UK and EU for launching formal investigations into Facebook's abusive and unfair #data practices that shut down competition. Read more about the probe from @samschech: https://www.wsj.com/...
Sam Schechner / @samschech: The two Facebook cases opened today are part of a new wave of antitrust enforcement in Europe—including another Google case opened in Germany today. More TK.... https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Hey Facebook press, don't get too distracted by new Trump rules to miss EU and UK both announced antitrust probes this morning, Australia's new law actually working (Facebook deceived U.S.) and Apple continues to push out iOS 14.5 kneecapping Facebook's surveillance economics. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Marietje Schaake / @marietjeschaake: Breaking: EC opens antitrust case >> Facebook might make use of data obtained from competing providers in the context of their advertising on Facebook's social network, to help Facebook Marketplace outcompete them ↘️ https://ec.europa.eu/...
Margrethe Vestager / @vestager: 3 bn people a month & almost 7 mio firms advertising - on @Facebook in total. Based on enormous of data @Facebook target ads to specific customer groups. We will look in detail if this gives Facebook an undue competitive advantage in classified ads https://ec.europa.eu/...
Menaka Doshi / @menakadoshi: Has Facebook violated EU competition rules by using advertising data gathered in particular from advertisers in order to compete with them in markets where Facebook is active such as classified ads. EC to investigate. @vestager https://ec.europa.eu/... https://twitter.com/...
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter: EU, U.K. Launch Antitrust Probes Into Facebook Classifieds, Dating Services
Siladitya Ray / Forbes: EU And U.K. Regulators Open Antitrust Probe Into Facebook's Handling Of Advertising Data
Shakeel Hashim / Protocol: The EU and UK opened new antitrust investigations into Facebook
Isobel Asher Hamilton / Insider: The EU and the UK have launched antitrust investigations into Facebook's Marketplace
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Facebook Hit With New EU, U.K. Antitrust Probes
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Profile of Reuters' new executive editor Gina Chua, who is now one of the most senior transgender journalists in the US after transitioning during lockdowns — Gina Chua is returning to the Reuters offices post-pandemic as one of the most senior transgender journalists in the country.
Discussion:
@nytimes, @suilee, @penamerica, @jones_mattryan, @karan_singhs, @olsonista, @laurencro, @dispositive, @annalouiesuss, @dsupervilleap, @amyjko, @margarita, @niemanlab, @s_evangelina, @mollyhc, @dmccabe, @joshablock, @columbiajourn, @josephax, @jsymmescobb, @amariscastillo, @katie_robertson, @meghanemorris, @staphwriter, @laurenyoung, @michellemanafy, @jswatz and @alexckaufman
Discussion:
@nytimes: Gina Chua, the executive editor of Reuters, transitioned genders last year, using time at home and away from the office during the pandemic to, as she describes it, “grow into this skin.” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@suilee: So happy to read this about @GinaSKChua. She gave me the opportunity of a lifetime to go to grad school at NYU on an Asia Wall Street Journal fellowship. It changed my life — there was no way I could have done so because my mother was a single parent. https://twitter.com/...
PEN America / @penamerica: Executive editor of @Reuters, Gina Chua (@GinaSKChua) is one of the most senior transgender journalists in the country. Read more about her story here: https://www.nytimes.com/....
Matt Jones / @jones_mattryan: trans journalists with math degrees: this is our year https://www.nytimes.com/...
Karan Deep Singh / @karan_singhs: This is huge! Happy pride you all 🏳️🌈 https://twitter.com/...
Kristina Olson / @olsonista: For all of the discussion of rates of trans youth coming out, I'm not sure we've had enough cultural or academic reflection about rates of adults and even older (middle age +) adults coming out as trans. I can't wait to see more scholarship on this topic! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lauren Crothers / @laurencro: I just know in my bones that this will resonate with -and probably save the lives of - a number of people who feel alone. “I want to stop hiding. I want to be able to live in the sunlight.” Such beautiful words from @GinaSKChua https://www.nytimes.com/...
Gautam Hans / @dispositive: “There are a lot of people who are 14 years old who would like to know that this is not a death sentence,” she said. “It's not a millstone. It's something you can be proud of, it's something you can celebrate and something you can live with.” https://twitter.com/...
Anna Louie Sussman / @annalouiesuss: Inspiring words (and gorgeous photos) from a gifted editor, under whom I once had the honor of working when @Reuters many years ago. A Top Editor Becomes Her ‘True Self’ https://www.nytimes.com/...
Darlene Superville / @dsupervilleap: Ms. Chua is now perhaps the most senior transgender journalist in the country. She said in an interview that she is speaking out because “it's good to just have people be able to say, ‘Here is an example of somebody who can transition and not get fired.’” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dr. Amy J. Ko / @amyjko: Every bit of trans representation helps, especially in journalism. So glad to have you visible and with us @GinaSKChua! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Margarita Noriega / @margarita: Glad to see more of your awesome leadership and life experience shared here, @GinaSKChua ☀️ https://www.nytimes.com/...
@niemanlab: “At a time when a recent flood of bills being introduced in mostly Republican-led states that aim to restrict transgender rights, Ms. Chua said her own experience had led her to think more deeply about how the media covers stories like hers.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sandra E. Garcia / @s_evangelina: “I want to stop hiding. I want to be able to live in the sunlight.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Molly Hensley-Clancy / @mollyhc: Reporting on trans/queer issues can be hard and exhausting. For me, after this week, it was really lovely to wake up and read this joyful story. “Everybody who knows me says I'm smiling a lot more.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
David McCabe / @dmccabe: “For most people, the pandemic lockdowns will be remembered as a time that shrank our worlds, stripping away most of life as we knew it. For Gina Chua, the executive editor of Reuters, it was when her world opened up.” https://www.nytimes.com/... via @katie_robertson
Josh Block / @joshablock: Gina Chua is speaking out, she said, because “it's good to just have people be able to say, ‘here is an example of somebody who can transition and not get fired.’” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Columbia Journalism / @columbiajourn: “We reach billions of people as an industry, and I think we have a responsibility to ensure that the stories we tell are representative, truly representative, of the world that we live in,” says @GinaSKChua ('88 M.S.). #CJSAlumni https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joseph Ax / @josephax: “I want to stop hiding. I want to be able to live in the sunlight.” A great profile from @nytimes of @GinaSKChua, who transitioned during the pandemic and is an inspiration to all of us in the @Reuters newsroom https://www.nytimes.com/...
Julia Symmes Cobb / @jsymmescobb: Reuters, like most news organizations, has a LONG way to go to become truly diverse at a leadership level, but I'm so proud to work for a company that has leaders like Gina: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Amaris Castillo / @amariscastillo: “There are a lot of people who are 14 years old who would like to know that this is not a death sentence. It's not a millstone. It's something you can be proud of, it's something you can celebrate and something you can live with.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson: “There are a lot of people who are 14 years old who would like to know that this is not a death sentence... It's something you can be proud of.” My profile of @GinaSKChua, the executive editor of Reuters: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Meghan Morris / @meghanemorris: “Everybody who knows me says I'm smiling a lot more,” says Reuters' exec editor, who transitioned last year. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Max Lockie / @staphwriter: One time at Reuters, Gina canceled a meeting I had done a lot of prep for so I was a little bummed. Then I found the reason was for her to fly to Myanmar to negotiate the release of 2 journalists held captive. Very cool to see her in the Times today https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lauren Young / @laurenyoung: “We reach billions of people as an industry, and I think we have a responsibility to ensure that the stories we tell are representative, truly representative, of the world that we live in,” says @GinaSKChua of @Reuters. #Pride2021 #WorkingAtTR 🌈🌈🌈 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michelle Manafy / @michellemanafy: Gina Chua is returning to the Reuters offices post-pandemic as one of the most senior transgender journalists in the country. | She is speaking publicly because “it's good to say, ‘Here is an example of somebody who can transition and not get fired.’” https://www.nytimes.com/...
John Schwartz / @jswatz: “I think part of the decision was, 'I can do it and not get killed. I can do it and mostly not get killed and still go to the bathroom.... I want to stop hiding. I want to be able to live in the sunlight.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alexander Kaufman / @alexckaufman: It's rare to find feel-good media story these days but here's a nice profile of Reuters' new executive editor Gina Chua, who transitioned at 60, got a promotion mid-pandemic, and now serves as one of the country's highest-ranking trans journalists. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record:
Live streams for Cox radio and TV stations were down on Thursday, sources say due to a ransomware attack — Live streams for radio and TV stations owned by the Cox Media Group, one of the largest media conglomerates in the US, have gone down earlier today in what multiple sources have described as a ransomware attack.
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NBC News, @kevincollier, @k8em0, @helloericma, File411's Newsletter, @malbertnews, @gregotto, @lululemew, @oliverdarcy, FTVLive, @mattblaze, nexttv.com, Too Much TV Newsletter, The Hill and The Desk
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Kevin Collier / NBC News: TV news stations become apparent target in next cyberattack
Kevin Collier / @kevincollier: New: Employees at multiple @cox_media local news stations tell me they've been unable to access email or other internal networks since yesterday, in what appears to be a another ransomware attack. Developing story. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Katie Moussouris / @k8em0: “First it was gas. Then it was meat. Now it's local television stations.” #ransomware https://twitter.com/...
Eric Ma / @helloericma: First it was attack on gas companies. Then it was meat distributors. Now it's local television stations. Who's next? The cyber-security industry is growing on a massive scale. @deeper_network is a leader in the industry and we haven't even gotten started. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Mark Albert / @malbertnews: At least 2 TV news stations completely offline in what cybersecurity experts say appears to be #ransomware attack on parent company, @NBCNews rpts: https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Greg Otto / @gregotto: I don't mean this as a media critique as much as a way to point out how bad the ransomware problem is: the media coverage of ransomware attacks is only now beginning to catch up with the pace of incidents https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “They wouldn't let us say anything on social media about why we weren't on the air. We feel a need to let our viewers know.” https://twitter.com/...
Scott Jones / FTVLive: Cox Stations Hacked
Matt Blaze / @mattblaze: We tend to think of radio and TV broadcasting as something we can rely on for news and information if the 'net goes down... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Farrell / nexttv.com: Hackers Reportedly Target Cox Media Group Stations
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Newsrooms, including CNN, Quartz, and NBC News, are beginning to welcome fully vaccinated staffers back to offices with “soft” reopenings this month — New York (CNN Business)A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here.
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Yasmine El-Sabawi / @yasmineelsabawi: “Everyone from printing press operators to field correspondents have continued to show up in-person, sometimes at significant personal risk.” Newsrooms begin to welcome vaccinated staffers back to offices https://www.cnn.com/...
Kate Kaye / Digiday:
Ad tech execs say Google's rules for fingerprinting restrictions are confusing, which could impact ad tech partners depending on how Google enforces its rules — Google's stance on fingerprinting is as clear as mud, say ad tech execs. — Fingerprinting is a method that pieces together information …
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Kate Kaye / @katekayereports: Tech firm Flashtalking argues its identity tech — which uses a fingerprinting-style method gathering several datapoint from someone's device — satisfies Google's fingerprinting ban because it provides an opt-out. Does it? The answer is as clear as mud. https://digiday.com/...
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Assistant Editor - Digital, NC — 
Video Producer - YouTube, NY — 
Senior Managing Ed. - Daily Desk — 
Content Managing Editor — 
Editor, MA — 
Team Editor - Breaking News, ON — 
Senior Reporter & Event Host, NY/CA — 
Associate Editor, Remote — 
Retail Reporter, MN — 
Senior Data Editor, DC — 
Managing Ed. - Berks County, PA — 
News Editor - UK, Remote — 
Staff Writer, TX — 
Multimedia Journalist, PA — 
Service Journalism Editor, CA — 
Content Director, Remote — 
Sports Reporter, ME — 
Los Angeles Issues Reporter, CA — 
Reporter - Middle East — 
Executive Editor, OR — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
Senior Media Editor — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Lexington County Reporter, SC — 
Reporter - Offshore Wind — 
General Assignment Reporter, FL — 
Staff Reporter, CA — 
Data Editor, NY — 
