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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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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post: Amid controversy, Justice Dept. says it won't seek to compel journalists to give up source information
Reliable Sources / @reliablesources: The New York Times reported a top lawyer for the paper had revealed that the DOJ had sought to obtain the email logs of four of its reporters. NYT reporter Adam Goldman: “The US Attorney's office in DC has a history of trampling on the First Amendment.” https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal: Justice Department to End Pursuit of Reporters' Contact Records Over Leaks
Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review: Joe Biden's mixed signals on press freedom
Freedom of the Press Foundation: In a sea change for press freedom, Biden administration vows not to spy on reporters doing their job
@alfonslopeztena: US Justice Department will no longer use subpoenas or other legal methods to compel journalists to disclose information about their sources https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@rcfp: “To ensure it does not happen again, we look forward to pursuing additional policy reforms with the Biden administration to further safeguard these essential rights,” @rcfp Executive Director Bruce D. Brown said. https://apnews.com/...
@wsjpolitics: The Justice Department said it would no longer seek records of reporters' contacts when investigating government leaks of sensitive information—a change that reverses a longstanding practice after President Biden said he believed it was wrong. https://www.wsj.com/...
Inday Espina Varona / @indayevarona: Following US President Biden's May 21 statement, Justice Dept follows thorough. That's a clear display of policy change and action shifts that happen due to change in executive power. Food for thought. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@cnn: The Justice Department said it will no longer seize reporters' records in leak investigations, a notable policy shift on the heels of disclosures that federal prosecutors aggressively pursued communication data from reporters to identify their sources. https://www.cnn.com/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
@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/...
Steven Potter / @iamstevenpotter: Is plausible deniability still a thing? Asking for a president ...or two. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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/...
Jonathan H. Adler / @jadler1969: Long overdue change from longstanding practice https://twitter.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/...
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/...
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/...
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.”
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/...
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/...
Mike Allen / Axios: Justice Department to stop seizing reporter records
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Affirming Biden's pledge: https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Politi / Slate: Justice Department Vows to No Longer Seize Reporters' Records in Leak Investigations
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New York Times:
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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Fred Ryan / Washington Post: Something appears to be ‘simply, simply wrong’ at the Biden Justice Department
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: ‘Trampling on the First Amendment’: NY Times Reporter Speaks Out on DOJ Seizing His Phone Records
Porter Anderson / @porter_anderson: Media: @brianstelter on @ReliableSources: “Is anyone at the @washingtonpost still under a gag order? Is anybody at @CNN still under a gag order? These are questions that demand answers.” See @charlie_savage & @ktbenner at @nytimes: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sinéad Baker / Insider: Washington Post publisher accuses the Biden Justice Department of ‘unprecedented assault on American news organizations’
Josh Gerstein / Politico: Justice Dept. vows to end court orders seeking journalists' data in leak probes
Kristine Phillips / USA Today: USA TODAY fights FBI subpoena demanding records that would identify readers of Florida shooting story
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/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “To date, no answers have been provided and the meeting has yet to take place. This delay is troubling.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: WaPo publisher Fred Ryan: “This escalation, on Biden's watch, represents an unprecedented assault on American news organizations and their efforts to inform the public about government wrongdoing.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@jesselynradack: But then the govt said, “Abracadabra parallel construction!” and magically got the info.🪄 https://twitter.com/...
Richard Blumenthal / @senblumenthal: This gag order unconscionably concealing DOJ's legally dubious probe of reporters under Trump requires full public disclosure. DOJ now must come clean. Tell the public why prosecutors perpetuated these secret abuses & forced silence. 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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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 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.
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN: Justice Department says it will no longer seize reporters' records for leak investigations
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/...
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Trump administration snooped for anonymous news sources
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/...
Caroline Downey / National Review: Biden DOJ Received Gag Order Preventing NYT from Notifying Journalists of Government Phone, Email Surveillance
Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: Justice Department Says It'll No Longer Quietly Seize Reporters' Records in Leak Investigations
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone: DOJ Says It Will No Longer Use Court Orders to Seize Journalists' Records, Identify Sources
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
Craig Whitlock / @craigmwhitlock: Really outrageous and an abuse of power by the Justice Department https://twitter.com/...
Chris Young / The Reporters Committee …: RCFP statement on Justice Department policy change barring seizure of source information from reporters in leak hunts
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/...
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/...
Scott Stedman / @scottmstedman: Absolutely maddening. Trampling on the freedom of the press. https://twitter.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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
@freedomofpress: “Consider that the records seizures in these cases occurred three years after the reportorial activities in question. How, then, could the Justice Department justify plowing ahead with the secret subpoenas?” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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/...
@freedomofpress: Every one of these newly disclosed actions of surveilling journalists represents an intolerable invasion of press freedom, and expands the war on whistleblowers that has now persisted through the terms of presidents from both parties.
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/...
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 — WASHINGTON - The FBI has withdrawn a subpoena demanding records from USA TODAY that would identify readers of a February story …
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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/...
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/...
New York Times:
Analysis of Trump's social media engagement before and after bans shows a significant drop but some posts still receive equal engagement due to amplification — When Facebook and Twitter barred Donald J. Trump from their platforms after the Capitol riot in January, he lost direct access to his most powerful megaphones.
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@nytimes: Since Donald Trump was barred from Facebook and Twitter, he has posted statements online far less often. But despite the removal of his most powerful megaphones, some statements have still traveled far and wide, a New York Times analysis found. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Philip M. Napoli / Wired: Trump's Failed Blog Proves He Was Just Howling Into the Void
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: This @nytimes today explicitly classifies @Acosta as a liberal journalist and part of the Democratic/liberal camp. That's obviously true, though he would deny it. One way journalists could restore trust is abandoning the “neutrality” fraud & be honest. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: In which the NYT labels BBC News and CNN's Jim Acosta “left-leaning accounts.” https://twitter.com/...
@jilliancyork: Deplatforming obviously works when it comes to dampening the speaker's reach. Whether it's *right* and whether it drives conversations elsewhere are other questions entirely. https://twitter.com/...
Tim O'Brien / @timobrien: “Trump's most ardent supporters continue to spread his message — doing the work that he had been unable to do himself.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jonathan Lemire / @jonlemire: Before the ban, Trump's social media post with the median engagement generated 272,000 likes and shares. Post-ban, that dropped to 36,000 Yet 11 of his 89 statements after the ban attracted as many or more likes or shares as the median post before the ban https://www.nytimes.com/...
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: Journalists at the New York Times analyzed Donald Trump's social engagement before and after he was deplatforned and find some (not all) of his statements still achieve similar reach, shared by a supporter network. False election claims have been dampened. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Timothy B. Lee / Rethinking News:
Blogging's more social and ephemeral aspects have largely migrated to Twitter, which has become a key way for writers to build audiences to sell newsletters to — We didn't stop blogging. We just do it 280 characters at a time now. — I owe my journalism career to blogging.
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Dave Winer / @davewiner: @binarybits @MediagazerChat But you're right about the roles FB and Twitter have played. Although you must know that both were created inn bootstraps of the blogosphere. They both are blogging systems. Always have been. So I don't agree with your chronology either.
Dave Winer / @davewiner: @binarybits @MediagazerChat I would point to this piece if the headline didn't use that awful word connected to blogging. For some reason people do this — but blogging was never alive, so it couldn't be killed. And also I bet more people blog today than did in its heyday.
Brady Dale / @bradydale: Sometimes I wish a cadre of young writers would just resolve to blog again and do it socially from their own websites and just damn the torpedoes https://rethinking.news/...
Timothy B. Lee / @binarybits: It's not a coincidence that a lot of early blogging looked like modern tweeting. https://rethinking.news/...
Timothy B. Lee / @binarybits: Blogging didn't die. It evolved into tweeting. https://rethinking.news/... https://twitter.com/...
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
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Luke Johnson / Public Sphere: Facebook Still Has a Donald Trump Problem
Olivier Douliery / Reporters Without Borders: Facebook's Oversight Board is just a stopgap, regulation urgently needed, RSF says
Tina Carmillia / The Starting Block: The 57th Block: Dark patterns on the flat 'net
Connor Perrett / Insider: Facebook exec implied Trump's suspension would continue past 2023 if he encouraged violence but not if he spread lies
Brahma Chellaney / @chellaney: Social-media monopolies are getting a bit too big for their own boots. Lost in @Facebook's continued Trump ban is its decision to let its censors closely scrutinize politicians' posts. By taking to censorship like ducks to water, tech giants are becoming a threat to free speech.
Sam Gregory / @samgregory: Facebook recognizes politicians' speech as capable of inciting most harm https://www.nytimes.com/.... Needs proportionality + human rights approach AND now apply to Bolsonaro, Duterte, Modi et al... But glad to see (cf @witnessorg recommendations over years https://blog.witness.org/...) https://twitter.com/...
@morningconsult: According to our May poll: 88% of Democrats, 50% of Independents and 17% of Republicans back the Oversight Board's decision to uphold Trump's Facebook suspension. #FacebookBan https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
AFT / @aftunion: This was the right move. Trump used Facebook and other social platforms to incite insurrection, to spread disinformation, and consistently violated the terms of service fo the platform. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@newrepublic: On Friday, Facebook announced that the “newsworthy” test—the rules exception given to politicians if their posts are deemed to be a matter of public concern— is, if not going away entirely, at least being severely curtailed. https://newrepublic.com/...
Julie Owono / @julieowono: Just finished reading this by @GiladEdelman. We still have a lot (!) to do. But one year after the launch of @OversightBoard, recommendations that many feared wouldn't be effective, bc non-binding, prove to be an interesting tool to harness. https://www.wired.com/... via @wired
Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf: Strong argument for why deplatforming matters, and why Facebook's decision yesterday, to ban Trump for two years, is important. Read my story with @MikeIsaac https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jack Hadfield / @jackhadders: I mean Trump could have just gotten on Gab and sorted this out, but greedy Kushner wanted a piece of the pie! https://twitter.com/...
Davone Morales / ABC News: Facebook executive defends 2-year ban for Trump
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Facebook Exec Defends Two-Year Trump Ban: Fomenting, Praising Acts of Violence Is a ‘Red Line’
@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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Jeff Maurer / I Might Be Wrong: Twitter and Facebook's Experiments with Aggressive Content Moderation Could Not Be Going Worse
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/...
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/...
Ben Deeter / Off The Mall: Off The Mall: June 5, 2021
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/...
Gilad Edelman / Wired: Admit It: The Facebook Oversight Board Is Kind of Working
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/...
MediaPost: Facebook Extends Trump Ban To Two Years, Will Treat All Politicians No Differently Than Others
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/...
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/...
David Watson / Tugboat for Twitter: Favorites June 4 2021 — Republicans have the best of both worlds in terms of the filibuster.
Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain: 5 Quick Thoughts On Facebook's Trump Decision
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American: June 4, 2021 — Today, Facebook officials announced that they would continue former president …
Todd Spangler / Variety: Trump Suspended From Facebook, Instagram for Two Years
Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: What Facebook's two-year Trump ban does and doesn't do
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Facebook announces that politicians' posts will no longer be exempt from the company's rules that prevent users from engaging in harmful speech
Brian Contreras / Los Angeles Times: Trump's Facebook ban may end in time for the 2024 presidential campaign
Transparency Center: Counting strikes — If you post content that goes against the Facebook Community Standards …
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
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
Media Matters for America: Facebook's two-year suspension of Trump proves the tech giant won't take seriously its responsibility for January 6
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
Barbara Ortutay / WREG-TV: Facebook suspends Trump account for 2 years; ex-president calls it ‘an insult’
Shannon Bond / NPR: Trump Suspended From Facebook For 2 Years
Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: Trump Suspended From Facebook for at Least 2 Years
Jacob Silverman / New Republic: Facebook Finally Decides Your Worst Uncle and Donald Trump Deserve the Same Content Moderation
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’
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason: Get Ready for Another Big Deplatforming Debate, Because Facebook Is Tweaking Its Rules Again
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
How some watchdog blogs blur the line between PR and journalism: Checks and Balances Project shares a founder with a PR firm and received a grant from Airbnb — At first glance, Checks and Balances Project looks like a traditional if scrappy news site — an “investigative watchdog blog,” …
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@alanmillernlp, @underoak, @heidilegg, @consumersos, @deborah91473, @edlavacnn, @azs_politics, @sahilkapur, @bobpickard, Talking Biz News, @farhip, @maggienyt, @coreyhutchins and @elaheizadi
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Alan C. Miller / @alanmillernlp: Many groups are creating the “illusion that they are traditional news organizations to pursue their own agendas,” said @BillAdairDuke. “Consumers usually aren't always savvy enough to discern the difference between these sites” & real news outlets. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Andria Krewson / @underoak: Deleted an earlier tweet because a wise friend noted I had things backwards. Trying again: If you care about the now-canceled Sentara-Cone Health merger, (see: https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org / ... ) then you'll care about a Virginia PR firm's ties to a watchdog blog. #ncpol https://twitter.com/...
Heidi Legg / @heidilegg: “A proliferation of unconventional news sites and watchdog outfits that may be blurring the lines between PR and journalism.” Please, please read. The new journalism — and the PR firms behind it - The Washington Post by @ElaheIzadi https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@consumersos: So it is 5 to 1: I love a challenge. I still have the advantage. https://twitter.com/...
Deborah Johnson / @deborah91473: Another reason why media literacy is so important. cc: @MLynchOnAir https://twitter.com/...
Ed Lavandera / @edlavacnn: I wouldn't confuse this with journalism or even suggest that's it's close. https://twitter.com/...
@azs_politics: Kudos to @utilityreporter for shoutout in today's WaPo article. Uncovering secretly-paid-for journalism in the APS vs Solar City shootout (as part of WaPo's re-uncovering of the same outfit.) 2015 @azcentral: https://www.azcentral.com/... Today's @ElaheIzadi : https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sahil Kapur / @sahilkapur: “In this new age, many groups have seized the opportunity to give the illusion that they are traditional news organizations to pursue their own agendas.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Bob Pickard / @bobpickard: “The PR industry has been booming. PR specialists now outnumber journalists more than 5 to 1...the relationship between PR and news has grown hazier.” I don't know any PR pro who celebrates this concerning trend which emphasizes our ethics imperative. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: The Checks and Balances Project's investigations draw ethical scrutiny
Paul Farhi / @farhip: Journalism, if you can call it that. @ElaheIzadi with the latest in line blurring. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: The new journalism — and the PR firms behind it - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Corey Hutchins / @coreyhutchins: “As traditional local newsrooms have shrunk or shuttered, a sprawling new landscape of online news outlets has emerged. Some of these sites ... can also depart from journalistic practices and ethics in ways not always clear to readers” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Mark Jacob / Local News Initiative:
Local news apps remain a niche product but outlets are pushing to improve them, touting them as a better customer experience that boosts engagement and loyalty — Local news organizations are working hard to improve their news apps and get readers to download them, touting …
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@pilhofer, @ckrewson, @timafranklin, @scmitchp, @timothyorourke, @dmitryshishkin and American Press Institute
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Aron Pilhofer / @pilhofer: So lets talk about news apps for a second here. The @LocalNewsIni wrote an interesting piece yesterday that includes a few key points I agree with, and some I think need more scrutiny — and data. https://localnewsinitiative.northwester n.edu/ ... It is well, well worth a read.
Chris Krewson / @ckrewson: This summarizes all the issues I had with the Medill piece. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Franklin / @timafranklin: Key metrics show that apps spark higher reader engagement, stickiness and loyalty. So why the “app-rehension” among local news orgs to push them? The @LocalNewsIni @MedillSchool explores. https://localnewsinitiative.northwester n.edu/ ...
Mitch Pugh / @scmitchp: Gotta say I'm 💯 on this thread from @pilhofer on apps. Read the article but also read this thread. 👇 https://twitter.com/...
@timothyorourke: Thanks to @MarkJacob16 and the @LocalNewsIni team for featuring us in their smart piece on #LocalNews apps 📲 Our take: Get readers local news, fast ... and get out of the way. Read >>> https://localnewsinitiative.northwester n.edu/ ... Download the @sfchronicle app >>> https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
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.
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Travis Waldron / @travis_waldron: Pretty much! https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Danielle Ohl / @dtohl: Evan is right. Be more like Evan. 🙂 https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Draper / @kevinmdraper: What's curious about Alex's comment in here is not only is it extremely insulting to people he ostensibly represents whose dues paid for the organizing campaign at his shop, also tactically they harm the chance of passing the very dues raise he supports! 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/ ...
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/...
@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/ ...
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/ ...
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
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nyguild.org: NewsGuild of New York to Host In-Person May Day Rally for Media Workers on 5/1; Will Picket Condé Nast and Call Out The New York Times
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/...
Daniel Politi / Slate:
Fox News and CNN decided not to broadcast Trump's recent speech live, his first major speech since February, with Fox News airing a pre-taped Watters World show — Former President Donald Trump made a return to the political arena Saturday night with a speech at the North Carolina Republican Party State Convention in Greenville.
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Meridith McGraw / Politico: Trump reemerges on the trail and plays the hits of yore
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
YouGov survey of ~2,000 UK adults shows 10% would be willing to pay to read online news articles, 47% for movies and TV, and 33% for music — Six in ten in the UK are now willing to pay for online content with 10% saying they would pay to read online news articles, according to new research.
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Raju Narisetti / @raju: Higher than the reality of ‘actual paying subscribers to monthly total audiences’ at the most successful subscription leaders in US news industry (thus globally): Survey suggests 10% of UK population now willing to pay for online news: https://pressgazette.co.uk/... via @pressgazette
Eduardo Suárez / Reuters Institute:
Q&A with Brazilian journalist Patrícia Campos Mello on social media and authoritarianism, COVID disinformation, and online harassment — Brazilian journalist Patrícia Campos Mello discusses journalism and online harassment ahead of Reuters Memorial Lecture on 8 June 2021
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@meeraselva1, @eduardosuarez, @rasmus_kleis, @risj_oxford, @risj_oxford and @risj_oxford
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Meera Selva / @meeraselva1: “We're not used to being the target. We're not used to being news.” Brazilian journalist @camposmello who will deliver tomorrow's @risj_oxford Memorial lecture on media freedom, on becoming the target of online trolling https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ...
@eduardosuarez: “You can't blame platforms alone, but in a country with the right conditions they can undermine democracy and public debate” Here's my interview with brave Brazilian journalist @camposmello, who will deliver our Reuters Memorial Lecture next Tuesday https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: “I don't think platforms by themselves can do this. But if you find the right conditions in a country, they are really dangerous tools to undermine democracy” @camposmello tells @eduardosuarez https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ... June 8 she delivers 2021 Reuters Memorial Lecture @risj_oxford
@risj_oxford: “Platforms have different standards as to how concerned they're going to be about the misuse of their tools, depending on how important the country is perceived to be” Read our interview with brave Brazilian journalist @camposmello https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ...
@risj_oxford: “We're not used to being the target. We're not used to being news. I never had to consider what was going to happen if I published this or how I would protect our family or my mental health” Read our interview with brave Brazilian journalist @camposmello https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ...
@risj_oxford: “You can't blame platforms alone, but in a country with the right conditions they can undermine democracy and public debate” 🇧🇷 Brazilian journalist @camposmello discusses journalism, big tech, online harassment ahead of our Reuters Memorial Lecture https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ...
Jem Aswad / Variety:
How music publishing companies plan to maximize the value of their recently acquired multi-million-dollar song catalogs, as the value of copyrights soar — In recent years, as streaming has rapidly become the format of choice for much of the world — and the primary revenue source for recorded music …
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@lordlivingston, @revohloonews, @artsjournalnews, @stanyanfan49, @rocket_songs and @thatericalper
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Jake Livingston / @lordlivingston: Our a&r team helps create new copyrights from our proven hits. I don't know what the other company does aside from creating press releases with subtly misleading language. @Variety https://variety.com/...
@revohloonews: “I believe that proper song management requires 500-1,000 songs per person, not 20,000, like the majors,” says CEO @MMercuriadis, https://variety.com/...
@artsjournalnews: What Are Companies Planning To Do With All Those Music Catalogs?: Universal, Hipgnosis, Primary Wave, and others have paid multiple hundreds of millions for music catalogs ranging from Bob Dylan's to that of Stevie Nicks. But “music publishing and rela... https://variety.com/...
Roy Kelly / @stanyanfan49: “It's not just a song Charlie, it's a place in your heart,” becomes, It's intellectual property, creative content, to be strategically exploited across many platforms with synergistic opportunities to enhance revenue streams with a high ratio of success. https://variety.com/...
Rocket Songs / @rocket_songs: @jemaswad is a pretty sharp guy in addition to being a 💯writer, so we're surprised he didn't know what most smart #musicpublishing firms do with their catalogs. They start monetizing the 80% of their catalog which is fallow @rocket_songs https://variety.com/... #mustread
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
YouTube brings Shorts, its TikTok rival, to the UK, Canada, and Latin America, letting users pick soundtracks from YouTube videos and 250 licensed labels — One of Google's strong advantages in the world of online video has been the sheer size of YouTube: currently, the site …
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