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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
OnlyFans says it will prohibit users from posting any sexually explicit conduct starting in October, but will allow them to post nude photos and videos — - Popularity of the website has exploded during the pandemic — Many sex workers use OnlyFans to charge customers online
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Dan Primack / Axios: OnlyFans has tons of users, but can't find investors
Todd Spangler / Variety: OnlyFans Will Ban Pornography Starting in October, Citing Need to Comply With Financial Partners
J. Clara Chan / Billboard: OnlyFans to Ban Pornographic Videos
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: OnlyFans bans explicit content
The Wrap: OnlyFans Competitor Accuses Site of ‘Abandoning’ Sex Workers With New No-Sex Policy (Exclusive)
Tom Maxwell / Input: OnlyFans is banning porn, the very thing that made it big
Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: OnlyFans to ban sexually explicit content citing regulatory concerns
Mike Stabile / @mikestabile: “OnlyFans is far from the only platform where adult content creators can sell videos and images. @Pornhub, @ManyVids , and @FanCentro are just some of the other internet platforms that offer similar services.” https://www.vice.com/...
Dr Ola Brown / @naijaflyingdr: Only fans net revenue: 2020: $375 million 2021: $1.2 billion 2022: $2.5 billion Sex sells, based on the company financials, but it also scares off venture capitalists. https://www.axios.com/...
Turbulent Princess / @nlrg_: OnlyFans' FY 2022 free cash flow is enough to buy Tumblr in 2013, or to buy Tumblr in 2019 four hundred times https://www.axios.com/...
@thedailyshow: You misheard us. We said Big Tech should be held accountable for starting *insurrections* https://twitter.com/...
Chris Morris / @morrisatlarge: There have been plenty of Tumblr comparisons with this news - and they're not inaccurate. If the fans vanish, so will any potential investors, not to mention the celeb creators. It'll be real interesting to see how Leo is greeted at next year's AVN, assuming that happens. (18/18)
Sam Barsanti / The A.V. Club: OnlyFans to ban sexually explicit content
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: anyhow i'm sure the place will soon be a shell of its former self and full of d list celebs trying to sell behind the scenes content to hawk their cookbooks or whatever. bleak!
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: i should've realized only fans was gonna pull something like this in march when they kept asking me, a writer, to use the platform to sell blogs. i was like, ‘you guys know what you do...right?’ turns out...no?
Whitney Kimball / Gizmodo: OnlyFans Is Banning ‘Sexually-Explicit Content.’ Yes, Really
Tom Dotan / @cityofthetown: @CaseyNewton @SpencerDailey It also is a massive profitable company already! It did the thing that all tech companies are supposed to do without slumming it with VCs.
Molly Osberg / Jezebel: Website Built on Porn to Ban Porn
@jaycodon: This is the risk of building on a platform. You build on rented land and one day they change their tune. I feel really bad for all the people who have built thriving businesses here. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Hardcastle / @dannerdcubed: I'm bad at business, but I'm not “long-term sustainability via banning the only thing our company is known for” bad. https://twitter.com/...
Jen Steer / KGET-TV: OnlyFans to ban pornography starting in October
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: OnlyFans kicks out the sex workers who built it
Paige Skinner / BuzzFeed News: OnlyFans Says It Will Ban Sexually Explicit Content
Katherine Krueger / @kath_krueger: as always, sex workers MADE the platform—both profitable and a household name—then are the first ones given the boot in a bid for “respectability"/aka more investor $$$ see also: instagram, youtube, now tiktok too https://twitter.com/...
Ej Dickson / @ejdickson: This happens all the time: platforms get big off the backs of SWs' labor, then ban them whenever they get big. Sex workers have been predicting this would happen for years. Listen to them. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: Walking away from a market it all but invented. Insane https://twitter.com/...
Janko Roettgers / @jank0: I imagine the number of creators who post too-racy-for-instagram content to Onlyfans that technically is not porn is a lot bigger than people think.
John Bull / @garius: So this is one of those “we're hoping we can sell ourselves based on our current market value, before anyone notices we fucked over our USP and they're buying a lemon” moments then? Cool. Cool. https://twitter.com/...
Nick Gillespie / @nickgillespie: This seems like a market failure. https://www.axios.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: I see people don't know the difference between having sex on camera and posting nude photos... https://twitter.com/...
Kim Kelly / @grimkim: OnlyFans would be nothing without the sex workers whose labor built it up into a major platform. Now it's tossing them aside, and removing a vital source of income from a population of workers who are disproportionately marginalized and have no protections under U.S. labor law https://twitter.com/...
@axios: Any other company with growth like OnlyFans would be able to raise big money in a matter of minutes. But the online creator platform known for its adult content is struggling to find outside investors, according to multiple sources. https://www.axios.com/...
Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson: Woah that OnlyFans story seems legit. Bloomberg says the site will “prohibit users from posting any sexually explicit conduct, starting in October” as it tries to go mainstream. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl: Sure, the brand is synonymous with explicit sex and that's now off the table, but it's a brand. The people will stay. They certainly won't scatter to the shadows of Telegram groups or cam sites or anything. Trust us, this is going to be huge.
Emma Kelly / @toomanyemmas: Thus excluding the sex workers that built OnlyFans up to what it is now https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: Ignoring the sexual elements, but things like this make me tell people never to trust platforms to handle monetization. Onlyfans wasn't just a place where people could share pictures with fans. It's a monetization platform for people to build subscribers. https://twitter.com/...
Night Freak / @bubblenoma: This will be devastating for a lot of people's income but also...who wants this? Who is the audience for a PG platform like this? https://twitter.com/...
Dan Primack / @danprimack: My story on OnlyFans included internal projections for 2022 revenue, etc. But from a pitchdeck that began circulating a couple mos ago. No clue how today's announcement impacts that. Also, it's got over $1b in net revenue. So Bberg might wanna update its valuation data.
Caspar Salmon / @casparsalmon: Ooh nice, the business model adopted by Tumblr, the company that is now bigger than ever https://twitter.com/...
@alex: what % of OF is porn? they brag here about $5B in payouts but ... what % of the biz will be left? https://twitter.com/...
Dave Schilling / @dave_schilling: This is quite literally taking money from the working class to enrich the investor class. https://twitter.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl: And then OnlyFans died. https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Seems like this might absolutely wreck a whole lot of people who use that site for that specific purpose https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Katiana Kay / @katianakayy: I told ya 😂 https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox News is mandating all staff share their vaccination status even as its personalities argue that asking about vaccine status is a major intrusion of privacy — New York (CNN Business)The right-wing channel Fox News, whose top personalities have for months assailed the concept …
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Bess Levin / Vanity Fair: Surprise: Fox New Hosts Are Following Strict COVID Protocols While Telling Viewers Masks and Vaccines Are Liberal Plots
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “In a six-week period from June 28 through August 8, Media Matters found that nearly 60% of [Fox News] vaccine segments included claims undermining or downplaying vaccinations.” https://www.mediamatters.org/ ...
Jenn Gidman / Newser: Fox Orders Employees to Disclose Vax Status
Lis Power / @lispower1: Fox News went on a disingenuous PR blitz last month to whitewash its terrible vaccine coverage. The network successfully tricked some into saying Fox had changed its tune — in reality, Fox's vaccine coverage has only worsened https://www.mediamatters.org/ ...
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo: Hannity Can't Seem To Decide Whether Or Not The COVID Vaccine Works (It Does)
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: An update to Fox News' Covid procedures: Employees are now *mandated* to enter their vaccine status into the company's internal system, per memo from CEO Suzanne Scott. https://www.cnn.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: A reminder that the Murdoch family's Fox “News” injects poison into our public discourse, for money and power. Also a reminder that if you subscribe to cable/satellite TV or a streaming equivalent, you are sending money to this evil company every month. https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: Fox News Requires Employees to Report Vaccination Status, Wear Masks and Social-Distance If They're Not Vaxxed
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Fox News Mandates Staffers to Disclose Vaccine Status or Wear Masks
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Fox News Media Requires Workforce To Report Vaccination Status
Ethan Zuckerman:
Facebook's new report reinforces its narrative that most content on the News Feed is not news, but doesn't provide enough data to make meaningful conclusions — What content is popular on Facebook? — This is a surprisingly difficult - and very important - question to answer.
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Washington Post, Brian Boland, @pilhofer, @brandyzadrozny, @brandyzadrozny, @brandyzadrozny, @caseynewton, @newhousesu, @yaeleisenstat, Insider, @brandyzadrozny, @brandyzadrozny, @edbott, @markseibel, @blackamazon, @kevinroose, @ethanz, @bostonjoan, MediaPost, TechCrunch, Adweek and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
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Will Oremus / Washington Post: Facebook shared new data about what's popular on its platform. The answers are deeply weird.
Aron Pilhofer / @pilhofer: This piece perfectly encapsulates the disconnect between what journalists believe about Facebook, and the (likely) reality of Facebook. Belief: FB is nothing but a cesspool of misinformation and right-wing conspiracies. Reality: FB is mostly just weird. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: How did the Epoch Times—an outlet barred from Facebook advertising for repeatedly violating its policies—get its subscription link to all those people? A search in CrowdTangle shows us that it's through viral posts about “cute toddlers,” dogs, and homeless people getting cash. https://twitter.com/...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: The limited data actually shows how this content is weaponized to spread misinfo (and evade FB's enforcement). Among the top 10 links on Facebook is a subscription link to the Epoch Times — the wildly successful right-wing (cultish) misinformation outlet. https://www.nbcnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: One more thing about Facebook's Reach Report yesterday. It really drove home the point that the posts with the most reach aren't political or news but stupid memes, animal videos, recipes, etc. https://about.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: The No. 9 most common domain you'll find in Facebook's News Feed is ... a speaking agency of former Green Bay Packers players?? (via @EthanZ) https://ethanzuckerman.com/...
@newhousesu: Is Facebook a hotbed of misinformation and conservative ideology? The social media giant released internal data that says no. Prof. @jmgrygiel says, ""This is yet more PR." https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Yael Eisenstat / @yaeleisenstat: 🙏@WillOremus for adding this clarifier on why a former Facebook employee spoke anonymously. Hope more journalists will follow suit. It's part of what prompted me to write about the abusive use of non-disparagement agreements at FB, to help expose... 1/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Gilbert / Insider: Facebook made up a new popularity ranking so you will stop talking about what's actually popular on Facebook
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: I can't tell how many times the post was *seen* because Facebook doesn't share that data in CrowdTangle and only offers the top 20 posts in a grading-their-own-homework report. I asked for more data, but was told, “No.” From a Facebook spokesperson: https://twitter.com/...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: The top post with that link was liked, shared, and commented on 3.5 million times. It wasn't about far-right news or covid misinformation, but puppies being freed from some rubble. Crying emoji. https://twitter.com/...
Ed Bott / @edbott: Facebook is making a big deal of releasing new data. The data is “generally worthless,” says @brianboland. Thread: https://twitter.com/...
Mark Seibel / @markseibel: An obscure page involving the Green Bay Packers is most viewed link? Call me skeptical. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@blackamazon: ...... we gotta start talking to more lay content creators and SEOs https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: As @EthanZ points out, something very weird is happening with this FB “widely viewed content” report. https://ethanzuckerman.com/...
Ethan Zuckerman / @ethanz: Is a speakers bureau for former Green Bay Packers players really the most popular URL on Facebook in Q2 2021? Or is something really strange going on with FB's transparency efforts: https://ethanzuckerman.com/...
Joan Donovan / @bostonjoan: When EZ starts ranting, we all sit back and listen. (If someone could please make a browser extension that changes the word “data” into random nouns, I'd be very happy.) https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Colin Kirkland / MediaPost: Facebook Reports Content Improvement, Concedes ‘There Is No Perfect Here’
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Facebook releases a glimpse of its most popular posts, but we don't learn much
David Cohen / Adweek: Facebook Debuts New Quarterly Widely Viewed Content Report
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Facebook releases a report on the most-viewed content in News Feed
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Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
Facebook, for the first time, shares a report on the most widely viewed domains, links, posts, and Pages on Facebook in the US during Q2
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@caseynewton, About Facebook, Columbia Journalism Review, @kevinroose, @brendannyhan, @alexweprin, @kevinroose, @randfish, Wired, @catthekin, @juddlegum, Ad Age, @ariezrawaldman, @ceciliakang, @profcarroll, @alicetiara, @anthony, @reaganbattalion, @shannimcg, @bostonjoan, @brandyzadrozny, Midday Macro, @jesselehrich, @willoremus, @jason_kint, Gizmodo, @polotek, @kevinroose, @kevinroose, @kevinroose, @digiphile, @jason_kint, @ethanz, @emilybell, @glenngabe, @issielapowsky, @rmac18, @anthony, @minimaxir, @martinsfp, @spandi_s, @swodinsky, @shiraovide, @benedictevans, @andymstone, @sarafischer, @willoremus, @willoremus, @issielapowsky, @issielapowsky and @willoremus, more at Techmeme »
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Casey Newton / @caseynewton: There's *some* value in having a quarterly view of the most-viewed content on Facebook, but what we really need is a real-time view. https://transparency.fb.com/ ...
Anna Stepanov / About Facebook: Introducing the Widely Viewed Content Report
Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review: Apple's plan to scan images on users' phones sparks backlash
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: I'm all for more data, but this new FB “widely viewed content” report (which I think represents the most labor-intensive effort ever made to dunk on me personally?) is just a tremendously weird document. https://about.fb.com/...
Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan: My August 2020 tweet below on what's potentially misleading about focusing on highest-engagement public page posts on Crowdtangle. FB data shows... -all most-viewed content is .1% of all views (top pages/posts even less) -most views aren't of pages at all https://transparency.fb.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: According to Facebook the second most popular link on the platform in Q2 2021 was to “https://purehempshop.com/” Yahoo was number 6. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: Nice @WillOremus analysis of the oddness of today's big FB content report, featuring a comms quote that I may never recover from. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Rand Fishkin / @randfish: The more I reflect on it, the more I'm convinced Facebook saw the “most engaged-with” content, decided they'd be skewered if they published it, and so instead showed the more innocuous list of URLs w/ the most “scrolled-past views.” FB is such a dumpster fire🙄 https://twitter.com/...
Claire Atkin / @catthekin: If the publication is only 10% disinformation and then 80% cute animal videos, the whole thing goes on the blocklist. This manipulation tactic is tried and tried again by the Epoch Times: https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: 1. So yesterday, Facebook released its first “Widely Viewed Content Report” which purports to reveal “What People See On Facebook” It's designed to counter the impression that Facebook is a megaphone for right-wing politics But this report is absurd Follow along if interested
Garett Sloane / Ad Age: Facebook reveals most widely viewed content in News Feed
Ari Ezra Waldman / @ariezrawaldman: This report is NOT Facebook being transparent. It's Facebook cynically *performing* transparency in a way that actually obscures the truth. This isn't an accident. The co is purposely skewing the narrative while making it look like it's just doing what we asked. https://twitter.com/...
Cecilia Kang / @ceciliakang: great 🧵 reach v. engagement is an important distinction https://twitter.com/...
David Carroll / @profcarroll: Until there are enforceable regulations there are only public relations. https://twitter.com/...
Alice E. Marwick / @alicetiara: OK everyone, strap in, this thing is nutso. It claims that the /sixth most visited link on Facebook in Q2/ was........ https://www.yahoo.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: Pretty interesting that Twitter is the 5th most viewed domain on Facebook, with 116.1M content viewers in Q2 2021 https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Reagan Battalion / @reaganbattalion: This guy's issue is simple, too many people who are on Facebook are conservative, and too many conservatives have opinions and are willing to share them, so he is doing whatever he possibly can to get @Facebook to shut down conservatives. https://twitter.com/...
Shannon McGregor, PhD / @shannimcg: A whole-ass team of probably very smart people at Facebook had to write this rather vague & meaningless report, all just part of the continued “ @kevinroose is wrong” campaign. What a truly fucking weird time to be alive. https://about.fb.com/...
Joan Donovan / @bostonjoan: Someone explain to me how “https://www.playeralumniresources dot com” is the most popular site in Facebook newsfeeds? It's a green bay packers web page and somehow manages to her tens of millions of views? Someone over there is a genius! THE ROOSTER BREAKS IT DOWN. https://twitter.com/...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: This Facebook “transparency” report is clearly a stunt meant to clap back at a single reporter who made a list that mildly embarrassed some Facebook execs. It's incredible stuff. Whoever is in charge of this self-dunking effort, just phenomenal job. https://twitter.com/...
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Jesse Lehrich / @jesselehrich: “It's like ExxonMobil releasing their own study on climate change,” said a former Facebook employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to a nondisparagement clause. “It's something to counter the independent research and media coverage that tells a different story.” https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: You thought Facebook was all Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino posts? Wrong, says a new Facebook report. We're actually full of.... whatever this stuff is! (Holds up giant bag of sundry link spam and CBD products) My story on the company's strange new data: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Not sure I've ever seen an anonymous quote from a former Facebook employee labeled with a clear explanation for why they can't speak on the record. Bravo for making this clear, @WillOremus. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: Facebook's ‘Widely Viewed Content’ Report Promises Ben Shapiro Isn't That Popular
Marco Rogers / @polotek: This is some fantastic PR bullshit right here “In the face of criticism, Facebook contends that posts with links represent a vanishingly small percentage of content and that reach, not engagement, is a better measure of how widespread content actually is” https://www.protocol.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: For example, as @jamisonfoser points out, knowing that https://youtube.com/ is the most widely-viewed domain on FB doesn't tell you what people are actually watching. Could be cat videos, could be QAnon! https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: Another issue: the report shows what posts, domains and links got the most reach in Q2, but it doesn't actually have apples-to-apples reach data for what @FacebooksTop10 actually measures, which is the engagement on *link posts*. There might be a reason for that!
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: It's also helpful to understand why this report exists at all. As I wrote about last month, it's the product of a yearlong fight between executives over how to rebut the narrative that FB is a right-wing echo chamber. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: “The cynical side of me reads this report as transparency theatre - a chance for @Facebook to tell critics that they're moving in the direction of transparency without releasing any of the data a researcher would need to answer a question”- @ethanz https://ethanzuckerman.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: This is really good. “I am genuinely glad that Facebook is releasing more data about what's popular on their platform. I am also genuinely astonished that this is what Facebook produced for their first effort.” https://twitter.com/...
Ethan Zuckerman / @ethanz: Stop fucking waiting for the platforms to give us data. They're not going to give us data. We need to get our own data. https://ethanzuckerman.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Excellent read on ‘transparency theater’ of Facebook's content report by @EthanZ - a document that raises more questions than answers https://ethanzuckerman.com/...
Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe: Popcorn eating time :) -> Facebook for the first time shares a report on the most widely viewed content on Facebook in the US, including Q2's most-viewed domains, links, posts, and pages https://www.protocol.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky: It's hard to see how Facebook argues views “more accurately” depict people's experience of using Facebook. I think most of us forget a lot of what we idly scroll past, but not the stuff we like or comment on. https://www.protocol.com/...
Ryan Mac / @rmac18: very funny that facebook designs its product to be checked daily, if not hourly, but decides to put out a report with *quarterly* stats https://twitter.com/...
@anthony: Facebook tries to make the argument that “widely viewed” matters more than “most engaged” but if people are interacting with posts, that's a strong sign that the post resonated more with the viewer: https://transparency.fb.com/ ...
Max Woolf / @minimaxir: According to Facebook, this GIF from Tumblr is one of the most viewed links on all of Facebook in the past quarter, with 49.1M content views. https://transparency.fb.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp: Oh interesting. Facebook releases “an overview of the most widely viewed content in News Feed” “The top-viewed news domains account for only 0.31% of all content views in News Feed. Of those outlets, mainstream media dominate by views.” https://about.fb.com/...
Spandi Singh / @spandi_s: NEW IN THE ALGO & CONTENT TRANSPARENCY SPACE: Today @Facebook launched the 1st edition of its Widely Viewed Content Report (WVCR), with info on the top 20 public domains, links, pages, & posts viewed by U.S. users in the News Feed in the last quarter. https://transparency.fb.com/ ... 1/11
Shoshana Wodinsky / @swodinsky: lmao “sorry about the crowdtangle stuff—but this is just as good, right” https://about.fb.com/...
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: Welcome to the inaugural “@kevinroose made-Facebook-do-it” report: https://about.fb.com/...
Benedict Evans / @benedictevans: Interesting. People keep posting the crowdtangle charts showing ‘bad’ stuff ranked highly, and FB people kept saying 'yes, but that's not what people actually see', but never gave numbers to back that up. https://twitter.com/...
Andy Stone / @andymstone: What do people actually see on Facebook? Find out here in our first Widely Viewed Content Report, which will be updated quarterly in our Transparency Center: https://transparency.fb.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: 100%. Quarterly view masks when viral misinfo spikes in reach in real-time. It helps tell the story FB wants to show, which is broadly, this type of bad stuff is tiny compared to everything else, but it hides fact that bad stuff sometimes does have high reach & that's problematic https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: @kevinroose @FacebooksTop10 One thing Facebook hammers on throughout its first report is that the “top 10” of almost anything still makes up only a tiny fraction of all the content on its vast platforms. https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: @kevinroose @FacebooksTop10 Facebook has long complained that @FacebooksTop10, dominated by right-wing sources such as Dan Bongino & Daily Wire, represents a skewed picture of what's popular on its platform. I wrote about this debate in depth last year: https://onezero.medium.com/...
Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky: My girl @birnbaum_e more or less asked as much on their press call. In reply, Guy Rosen said: “There's a few gaps in the data that's been used to date, and the narrative that's emerged is quite simply wrong.” https://www.protocol.com/...
Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky: NEW: Facebook is sharing a report for the first time on the most widely viewed content on the platform in the US last quarter. Seems like a fairly clear effort by Facebook to counter the narrative that Facebook is dominated by far-right personalities. https://www.protocol.com/...
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Major outlets like WaPo have featured past architects of failed policies in Afghanistan criticizing Biden's withdrawal, leading to distorted coverage — After two decades of war, President Biden finally made the decision to fully withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan. It did not go as planned.
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Popular Information, @juddlegum, Morning Consult, @politicalelle, @jaycaruso, @dawsonsfield, @parkermolloy, @juddlegum, New York Magazine, @cirincione, @alfranken, @jamblinman, @jamblinman, Beltway Breakdown, @elongreen, @jamblinman, @adamjohnsonnyc, @jamblinman, @rschooley, @bjaninemorison, @rod3000, The Guardian, @votevets, @mattyglesias, @jamblinman, @juddlegum, @michaelcdeibert, @juddlegum, @poet_economist and Today's Edition Newsletter
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Popular Information: Where are the anti-war voices? — Yesterday's newsletter detailed how the media …
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: I spoke to a veteran communications professional who has been trying to place prominent voices supportive of the Afghanistan withdrawal on television and in print. They told me it has been next to impossible. https://popular.info/... https://twitter.com/...
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult: Voters Blame Biden and Those in Afghanistan for Country's Chaos More Than Trump and His Predecessors
Erielle Davidson / @politicalelle: Key terminology is THIS withdrawal, which has been nothing short of a disaster. Plenty of people may or may not support ending US presence in Afghanistan. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Caruso / @jaycaruso: Oh, please. The last 10 years have been a nonstop exercise in discussing the support for the Afghanistan withdrawal. The issue now is not about the support or opposition to withdrawal, but the Biden administration's abysmal handling of the withdrawal. https://twitter.com/...
@dawsonsfield: When both sides of the Swampy media are united, it is a very powerful thing. Imagine how the media would have portrayed the withdraw from Afghanistan if Trump were still in office! #SwampMedia https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Pretty alarming stuff in the latest edition of @JuddLegum's Popular Information newsletter about media's pro-war bias https://popular.info/... https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: 1. I took at look at the media coverage of Afghanistan. Lots of experts criticizing Biden's decision to withdraw. But they are the SAME PEOPLE who responsible for two decades of failure in Afghanistan. Supporters of withdrawal almost entirely absent. https://popular.info/...
Joe Cirincione / @cirincione: Terrific piece by @JuddLegum on the distorted narrative mainstream media produces when they only cite supporters of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - and never note how they've been not just wrong about these wars but misleading to the public. https://popular.info/...
Al Franken / @alfranken: No doubt Biden has screwed up withdrawal from Afghanistan. But many of his critics are the same people who've been tragically wrong about Afghanistan for the past 20 yrs & the media is quoting them w/out context. READ THIS: Popular Information: https://popular.info/...
Jeremy Dorn / @jamblinman: Idk, maybe it's just the coverage I'm personally reading/watching (although I try hard to be good with the range of media I ingest), but it really feels like even the most typically fair, accurate, balanced media networks are doing a poor job on this topic.
Jeremy Dorn / @jamblinman: Here's the link to yesterday's newsletter, which analyzes which voices are being quoted in MSM about Afg. withdrawal (hint: it's almost exclusively pro-war people and/or those who were directly involved in creating the debacle we had to withdraw from): https://popular.info/...
Anna Gawel / Beltway Breakdown: A tragedy on all fronts — President Joe Biden. Former President Donald Trump. The U.S. military.
Elon Green / @elongreen: the eagerness with which politics reporters are being led around by the nose by people who either made the decision to invade Afghanistan w/ no exit strategy, or were happy to indefinitely continue the occupation, is truly gross. Just cover the horse race, you'll do less damage!
Jeremy Dorn / @jamblinman: Thanks to @JuddLegum for doing the actual legwork to verify my personal thoughts/feelings about media coverage around Afghanistan in this way-too-long Twitter thread from yesterday: https://twitter.com/... Read Judd's Popular Information newsletter (and/or his TL) for more.
Adam H. Johnson / @adamjohnsonnyc: The distinction between opposition to Biden and the DODs “execution” of the withdrawal and opposition to the withdraw as such is intentionally being conflated by those lobbying for the latter—and very few questioners attempt to make this distinction to their mostly pro-war guests https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Dorn / @jamblinman: I just rly don't get this dynamic where MSM blasts Dems for making a hard decision that causes an inevitable mess, but walks on eggshells with literally hundreds of GOP scandals during the last admin because they don't want to lose access the GOP doesn't give them to begin with
Schooley / @rschooley: This feels familiar to those of us with long memories. https://twitter.com/...
B. Janine Morison / @bjaninemorison: The last few days of reporting on TV has been abysmal. No objectivity, overly emotional, very leading questions to all guests. I've turned off my TV unless Biden is addressing the nation. These reporters and hosts think we care about their opinions when we are looking for facts. https://twitter.com/...
Rod McGuinness / @rod3000: Good article. Media outlets are relying on many of the people (blaming Biden) are responsible for two decades of failure in Afghanistan https://popular.info/...
@votevets: Whether it is intentional or not, voices in the news are much more likely to bash President Biden right now, than talk about how the administration is moving quickly to correct the situation. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Many excellent points in this @JuddLegum piece https://popular.info/... https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Dorn / @jamblinman: Don't get me wrong, some of the negative coverage around Afghanistan is deserved. It hasn't been a smooth transition, to say the least. But the speed & ferocity of coverage is insane! I'm rarely seeing the context of the situation Biden inherited (not to mention 2001-15).
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: 2. As an example, I looked at this Washington Post piece. It cites seven people critical of Biden's decision to withdraw and zero who supported. Not mentioned: many of the critics played a central role in two decades of failed policies in Afghanistan. https://popular.info/... https://twitter.com/...
Michael Deibert / @michaelcdeibert: How about they put the voices of actual Afghans on television and in print instead? https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: 5. As recently as June of this year, Panetta was touting the “progress” that had been made in building up the Afghan security forces and government. Panetta, of course, was wrong about all of this. https://popular.info/...
Joseph Robertson / @poet_economist: Very important reading... let's read, observe & think more critically & do whatever we can now to save lives & prevent evil from taking root. https://popular.info/...
Robert B. Hubbell / Today's Edition Newsletter: Today's Edition: Biden places children's health over politics.
Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson:
Memo: 65 families of NYT colleagues, with 128 people, have made it out of Afghanistan, and NYT plans to find ways to cover the country under Taliban rule — Here's the note from NYT's @meslackman to staff tonight on our colleagues from Afghanistan https://twitter.com/...
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@nytimespr: .@meslackman, assistant managing editor for International @nytimes, shares an update regarding our colleagues in Afghanistan. https://twitter.com/...
Barton Gellman / @bartongellman: Bravo @nytimes for what must have been heroic efforts to save its Afghan employees and families. https://twitter.com/...
Alice Speri / The Intercept: U.S. Media Organizations Scramble to Get Hundreds of Afghan Colleagues to Safety
Steve Herman / @w7voa: All @nytimes colleagues and their families have departed #Afghanistan, according to the newspaper. https://twitter.com/...
Cliff Levy / @cliffordlevy: After several harrowing days, NYT employees and their families in Afghanistan have made it to safety. “We can all breathe a bit easier, knowing that 65 families — 128 men, women and children — are headed to freedom,” assistant managing editor @meslackman tells the newsroom. https://twitter.com/...
@katiegnelson: @NYTimesPR @meslackman @nytimes Wonderful news. As always, thanks to @nytimes for keeping their reporters and field staff safe.
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: 65 families safe https://twitter.com/...
Paul Farhi / @farhip: Breaking: @nytimes says its Afghan employees and their families—128 people in all—have left Afghanistan. International editor Michael Slackman: “We are relieved and overjoyed to be able to tell you tonight that our brave colleagues in Afghanistan made it to safety.”
@elaheizadi: Update from NYT on evacuating their local Afghan staff: “Our brave colleagues in Afghanistan made it to safety.” Group of 128 includes staffers' families: men, women and children https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer ‘pro-voting’ Rubin / @jrubinblogger: @katie_robertson @meslackman I'm not crying, you're crying!
Christian Vanderbrouk / @urbanachievr: Good news. Pray for many more stories like this one. https://twitter.com/...
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap: New York Times Says Afghan Employees and Families Have Been Evacuated
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: The Taliban spin machine
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DW.COM:
Taliban have killed a family member of a DW journalist they were seeking and raided the homes of three other DW journalists — Journalists and their families are in grave danger in Afghanistan. The Taliban have no compunction about carrying out targeted killings as the case of a DW journalist shows.
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The Hill, @nighatdad, @c4ciaran, @roh_yakobi, @alanfryermedia, The Daily Beast, @marigathoithi, @hillelneuer, @alesbon, @samfr, @annettedittert, @ggatehouse, @dwnews and @frudbezhan
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Nighat Dad / @nighatdad: This says a lot about Pakistani policy enthusiasts calling press briefing of Taliban a progressive one just two days ago. Speechless! https://twitter.com/...
Ciaran Jenkins / @c4ciaran: Boris Johnson said the future of Afghanistan was not yet written, but it's already looking frighteningly like the past. https://www.dw.com/...
@marigathoithi: While the world is still waiting to see whether the Taliban will keep their pinky promise about respecting human rights... https://twitter.com/...
Hillel Neuer / @hillelneuer: yes, but we need to wait and see if the taliban will respect our very strongly worded press statement requesting that they respect human rights and women's rights and geneva accords and humanitarian law, we expect them to and we will be watching closely https://twitter.com/...
Alessandra Bonomolo / @alesbon: The list of the Taliban revenge killings of journalists, activists, allies and their families is already long and heartbreaking. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Freedman / @samfr: Hopefully all the “they'll be different this time the new Taliban are inclusive” pundits have decided to shut up now? https://twitter.com/...
Annette Dittert / @annettedittert: So much for it's a new sort of #taliban. https://twitter.com/...
Gabriel Gatehouse / @ggatehouse: Deutsche Welle say the Taliban killed a relative of one of their reporters while searching for him. Keep this in mind when we hear UK/US leaders suggesting the Taliban of 2021 may be a more friendly sort of organisation than the one they've been fighting for 20 yrs https://twitter.com/...
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Twitter starts testing a button on Revue creators' profiles that allows users to subscribe to their newsletters — It's here 🧡 Today, we're starting to test a feature that allows people to subscribe to your Revue newsletter directly from your Twitter profile. It's available to all Revue creators immediately. To start though, your newsletters will show only for a test group on Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
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Tony Haile / @arctictony: Subscribe to someone's newsletter direct from their profile page in two clicks. https://twitter.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: Helping creators build their following Nice job @Twitter $TWTR 👇 #creatoreconomy https://twitter.com/...
Jewel Wicker / @jewelwickershow: You might notice a familiar face (and feed) in Revue's latest announcement. One of the reasons I switched to using their platform was the potential to link my newsletter with my Twitter feed & make it easier for my followers to subscribe. Happy the rollout has begun. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Wuebben / @wuebben: Proud of the team and this work. A big step forward to help writers grow their audience. https://twitter.com/...
Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: Twitter is testing a newsletter subscription button on profile pages
Lance Ulanoff / @lanceulanoff: Exciting news, especially because I've had a Revue newsletter for ages. https://www.getrevue.co/... https://twitter.com/...
Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh: Substack walked so Twitter could run https://twitter.com/...
@twittersupport: Some of you on Android and web can now head over to your favorite creator's profile not just for Tweets, but to discover and subscribe to their Revue newsletter too. Check out this new feature we're testing 👇 https://twitter.com/...
Jack Marshall / @jackmarshall: if Twitter is the primary driver of signups for a newsletter, it's going to be increasingly difficult to justify not using Revue to power it. as many newsletter writers are finding, distribution and growth is the primary challenge. technology is largely interchangeable. https://twitter.com/...
@jaycodon: Why would anyone pick a newsletter CMS other than Revue at this point? So long as it offers core functionality, this integration with Twitter profiles is a huge win. Distribution is the secret sauce. Who helps a creator actually grow? https://twitter.com/...
Lara Cohen / @larakate: So many writers and journalists connect with their audiences on twitter. Today, the first step in linking their news letters directly to their fans on the platform. Stoked for the possibilities here. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Cassinelli / @mattcassinelli: Dope - my newsletter is right on my Twitter profile now (web only currently) https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: Twitter launches Revue integration to directly promote paid newsletters in creator profiles
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: This product would be much better if it didn't force users into a low-end block-based writing system... https://twitter.com/...
Jack Appleby / @juiceboxca: If I ever start a newsletter or write, it'll probably be through Revue. Love what @Twitter's doing, making long-form writing as in-platform as possible. https://twitter.com/...
Simon Owens / @simonowens: Good example of how the Twitter ownership gives Revue a leg up over Substack, making it easier for writers to grow their audience off the back of Twitter's social graph. https://twitter.com/...
Dustin W. Stout / @dustinwstout: i'll be turning this on immediately. https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Amazon acquires the rights to the 57th Academy of Country Music Awards, marking the first time a major awards show will be live streamed exclusively — Amazon.com Inc. acquired the rights to the 57th Academy of Country Music Awards, saying it will mark the first time a major awards show has been live streamed exclusively.
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Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: Academy of Country Music Awards Move to Amazon for 2022
Chris Willman / Variety: Academy of Country Music Awards Will Bypass Networks, Stream Exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in 2022
Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter: ‘ACM Awards’ Becomes First Linear Awards Show To Go Digital In Exclusive Deal With Amazon
Melinda Newman / Billboard: Academy of Country Music Awards Move to Amazon Prime Video for 2022
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: The future of TV will be streamed... https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters:
Facebook says it will spend $5M on multi-year deals with 25 local journalists for its Bulletin newsletter — Facebook Inc (FB.O) has chosen 25 local independent journalists to be paid out of a $5 million pot to write for its newsletter site Bulletin through multiyear deals, the company told Reuters on Thursday.
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JuliaYarbough / @juliayspeaks: Local news. Writers. Family Caregiving. Yep - it's all connected. And I am #honored... more ahead: https://www.reuters.com/...
@blackamazon: Lol only after the refuse to acknowledge that the outcries from journalists over their original paltry 33k a year deals wasn't enough https://twitter.com/...
@deitaone: EXCLUSIVE-FACEBOOK SAYS IT HAS SELECTED 25 LOCAL JOURNALISTS TO BE PAID THROUGH $5 MILLION PUSH ON ITS ‘BULLETIN’ NEWSLETTER PLATFORM
Tarpley Hitt / Gawker:
A closer look at the lead up to the implosion at Current Affairs, which the EIC calls “a horrible call in judgment”, and the uncertain aftermath for the outlet — The staff of Current Affairs announced Wednesday morning that they had been fired by their boss …
Discussion:
@chaykak, @tarpleyhitt, @sonjatrauss, @joeywreck, Fox News, @bhayankur, @petersterne, bookforum.com, The Uprising, VICE, National Review, The Wrap and @lyta_gold
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Kyle Chayka / @chaykak: in 2017 I profiled Current Affairs' EIC / firer of everyone Nathan Robinson for @ringer. That's when his mom told me his British accent is kinda fake https://www.theringer.com/...
Tarpley / @tarpleyhitt: Talked to three staffers and nathan j Robinson about what happened at @curaffairs https://www.gawker.com/...
@sonjatrauss: So there were only 3 staff members and Robinson at the magazine? This is a conflict involving 4 people? https://twitter.com/...
@joeywreck: Nathan Robinson of @curaffairs fired his workers when they tried to organize into a co-op. Do not pretend to support socialist policies and then run away when it gets tough for you. https://twitter.com/...
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News: Critics mock left-wing Current Affairs mag after boss fires staffers for attempting to form worker co-op
Ankur Bhardwaj / @bhayankur: The editor in chief of a socialist magazine fired the entire staff as they were trying to form a workers' co-op. 😁 https://twitter.com/...
Peter Sterne🌹 / @petersterne: Gawker's @tarpleyhitt talked to Robinson and some of the (former) Current Affairs staffers about what happened. https://www.gawker.com/...
Hunter Walker / The Uprising: Inside The Chaos At ‘Current Affairs:’ “It's Only The Boss That Has A Problem With Socialism.'
Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: Socialist Publication Current Affairs Fires Staff for Doing Socialism
Caroline Downey / National Review: Socialist Editor Crushes Labor Organizing Effort at Leftist Magazine
Angela Fu / Poynter:
Journalists at 3 NJ Gannett newspapers say they are unionizing with NewsGuild; Gannett declined to voluntarily recognize the unit, triggering a NLRB election — Journalists at three Gannett papers in Central Jersey and the Jersey Shore announced Thursday they are unionizing.
Matt Burgess / Wired:
Researchers say they've found a “likely state-sponsored” Chinese online influence operation that attacks the BBC's reporting and claims it uses a “gloom filter” — The alleged digital operation has deployed hundreds of websites and social media accounts to attack the broadcaster's reporting.
Discussion:
Ryan Fedasiuk / @ryanfedasiuk: Read more about the Communist Youth League and its role in mobilizing volunteer internet trolls 👇🏻 https://twitter.com/...
@m_miho_jpn: .@RecordedFuture reported an online influence campaign by Chinese trolls & fake news websites. It is being linked to the CCP and seems to be a response to the BBC's reporting on human rights abuses against Uyghurs and state-backed misinformation campaigns. https://www.wired.com/...
Ryan Fedasiuk / @ryanfedasiuk: New analysis from @RecordedFuture indicates that CCP-managed trolls are shifting their gaze overseas. In April I warned for @ChinaBriefJT that “the scope of the Party's public opinion war (舆论战; yulun zhan) is broadening to include foreigners.” https://www.wired.com/...
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