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Sources: over 12 news outlets, including AP and Fox Business, formed a consortium to sift leaked Facebook docs from Frances Haugen, reporting stories separately — It's not often that major news organizations coordinate to sift through a large trove of leaked company documents and agree …
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Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News: 'Carol's Journey': What Facebook knew about how it radicalized users
CNN: Not stopping ‘Stop the Steal:’ Facebook Papers paint damning picture of company's role in insurrection
Ben Smith / @benyt: Limits of journalistic collaboration. The Facebook consortium described here has devolved into a pretty bitter argument, per a slack shared w me https://www.theinformation.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: this facebook internal experiment reminds me of this 2017 @broderick piece! https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Amy Klobuchar / @amyklobuchar: An unaccountable Facebook is a danger to our democracy. We're not going to get many more chances to get this right. https://twitter.com/...
Julian Sanchez / @normative: So, the obvious (and justified) takeaway from this is that it's wildly irresponsible for FB to have allowed this. The slightly less obvious & more disturbing inference is that QAnon content would have to have ALREADY been pretty popular with conservatives to yield this result. https://twitter.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: This is *high stakes* timing for the media vs Facebook as it coordinates with quarterly earnings day. While no-one reports to purposely damage stock price, if a huge group of major outlets publish simultaneously and it's outweighed in markets by Facebook results...that's a moment https://twitter.com/...
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap: Facebook-Created Fake Users Proved Algorithm Radicalized People in 2019
Ian Kar / @iankar_: Not sure how other content/media ppl feel about this but w/o knowing what's in the docs, I find this a bit much. There's a difference between journalism and collusion against private companies https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Paris Martineau / @parismartineau: Facebook should have just tweeted that they were mad because all the tech reporters were hanging out in a Slack group called ‘Apparently we are a consortium now’ https://www.theinformation.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jesse O'Neill / New York Post: Workers say Facebook was warned of 2020 election misinformation: report
Nina Jankowicz / @wiczipedia: Important reporting from @BrandyZadrozny. Critically, as she notes, many researchers were confirming and re-confirming the danger of Group recommendations for years before Facebook took action. So much wasted time. https://twitter.com/...
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: And they tried to destroy the careers of some of us (with the enthusiatic help of plagiarist, misogynist ex-bosses and their failson lickspittle helpmeets) for calling them out, to boot https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Mac / @rmac18: In July 2019, a Facebook researcher created a test account modeled after a “conservative mom” from the South. It started by following Fox News and Sinclair Broadcasting. FB fed it a recommendation for QAnon content within three days and continued to do so. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Joan S. Pumpkins / @bostonjoan: Whatever happens, it is critical that the media doesn't become the story here. What these internal studies represent is a new basis to build shared facts across journalism, research, gov, and industry. https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Jo Peltier / @melissajpeltier: Want to know how your formerly sweet auntie went full raging Q-Anon? Facebook knows how. And it helped. https://twitter.com/...
Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp: Haha. I shouldn't laugh but this is sadly familiar. The rule with this stuff should be ‘we all hold the line’. Did they all really start folding over a piece from The Information? https://twitter.com/...
Kate Starbird / @katestarbird: “... FB research ... in 2019 ... found that misinformation shared by politicians was more damaging than that coming from ordinary users. Yet the company maintained a policy that year that explicitly allowed political leaders to lie without facing the possibility of fact checks.” https://twitter.com/...
Lorax B. Horne / @bbhorne: There's never a smooth path to publication on these stories, collaboration is a trust exercise and media outlets are not organized in a way to facilitate these broader alliances. https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: There's really just one template now that every elected or major company employs and, well, it's not about the merits of the story itself. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “And now it's a media story” https://twitter.com/...
Amir Efrati / @amir: :( thought this would last til Monday. @benyt shows that is not likely. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Di Stefano / @markdistef: 🚨 On Monday, more than a dozen news organisations including AP, CNN, USA Today and Fox (!) are planning to drop stories on Facebook's head. They've been coordinating on the whistleblower's documents through a private Slack group. Story with @SylviaVarnham https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Amir Efrati / @amir: Facebook consortium led by @AP in the U.S. @bcarovillano: “[I]t's remarkable to see these news organizations, large and small, set aside some of their competitive impulses and work together to work on something that is unquestionably in the public interest.” https://twitter.com/...
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / @skirchy: It doesn't have to go down this way. Collaborations can be stressful and intense and usually the stories are difficult and complex. But in two collaborations I've worked on having one great big newsroom has been rewarding journalistically. There's so much to learn from each other https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau: Another brutal story about negligence by decision-makers at Facebook. https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Ryan / @melissaryan: Andy Stone is gonna have such a case of the Mondays, https://twitter.com/...
She-Ra Frenkel / @sheeraf: @Bernstein @swodinsky The embargo was lifted on a small number of documents today based on the WSJ story that went up. There's a lot more coming and new documents being released every day.
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: The consortium of publications that Frances Haugen handed her documents to blew up tonight ahead of a Monday embargo. Get ready for lots of Facebook stories to drop tonight and tomorrow. It's a mess. https://twitter.com/...
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: Told you. They knew and they did. not. care. https://twitter.com/...
Tim O'Brien / @timobrien: “Company documents show the degree to which Facebook knew of extremist movements and groups on its site that were trying to polarize American voters before the election.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ed Dead Redemption / @edzitron: The years and years and years of the media taking Facebook at their word and giving them puff press was a bad idea https://twitter.com/...
Nick Wingfield / @nickwingfield: Good read by @SylviaVarnham and @MarkDiStef, who go full @benyt on the media sausage-making behind a wave of Facebook whistleblower-inspired stories expected next week. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Ben Smith / @benyt: *I didn't get this from another Times reporter, and the Times denies jumping the gun.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: The Facebook Papers: A consortium of 17 US news outlets, including CNN, obtained redacted versions of documents “provided by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen as evidence to support disclosures she made to the SEC.” Stories are starting to come out https://www.cnn.com/...
Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew: For years Facebook treated reporters who came to it with concerns about how it seemed to be pushing people toward extremism and conspiracies like we were hysterical scolds making mountains out of mole hills but actually it knew that we were right https://www.nytimes.com/...
@theinformation: On Monday, more than a dozen news outlets are releasing Facebook stories based on documents leaked by whistleblower Frances Haugen. @SylviaVarnham and @MarkDiStef report on how the coordinated release came together—and how Facebook plans to respond. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Amir Efrati / @amir: New: Frances Haugen wanted a lot more publications to cover the Facebook docs. So she worked to get them sent over to AP, WaPo, NYT, Fox Biz and many more outlets. On Monday, hold on to your hats... https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Mark Di Stefano / @markdistef: Here's Associated Press tonight; “Every outlet has freedom to pursue whatever story it wants. Nonetheless, it's remarkable to see these news organizations... set aside some of their competitive impulses and work together to work on something unquestionably in the public interest”
@blackamazon: Only white sources. No mention of the reports on racial overtones or targeting. Makes the entire story about how “white people are mislead” And not that Facebook let itself be hunting grounds for people of color for YEARS Gotta love the “learning” going on from white news https://twitter.com/...
Connectpoliticditto / @cpoliticditto: Am I the only naïve person that didn't realize all the news orgs coordinate their stories via Slack https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: Facebook Was Not Prepared to Deal With Jan. 6 Insurrection, According to Newly Leaked Documents
Karissa Bell / Engadget: Facebook researchers were warning about its recommendations fueling QAnon in 2019
John Wright / Raw Story: ‘History will not judge us kindly’: Facebook internal messages show employees fuming on Jan. 6 over company's role in Capitol riot
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Stunning New Reporting Details Internal Concerns at Facebook About Election Misinformation Leading Up to 1/6
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Facebook whistleblower releases documents to multiple news outlets showing company knows the harm it causes
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Whistleblower claims Facebook VP Joel Kaplan defended a Breitbart exemption from platform rules, asking: “Do you want to start a fight with Steve Bannon?” — Latest complaint to the SEC blames top leadership for failing to warn investors about serious problems at the company
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Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: Haven't really seen a Facebook response like this before. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Charles Johnson / @green_footballs: Wow. The latest allegation is that Facebook specifically EXEMPTED hate sites like Breitbart “News” from policy enforcement. New whistleblower claims Facebook allowed hate, illegal activity to go unchecked https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Tim O'Brien / @timobrien: “Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives repeatedly claimed high rates of success in restricting illicit and toxic content — to lawmakers, regulators and investors — when in fact they knew the firm could not remove this content and remain profitable.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@nandoodles: Back in 2017, we at Sleeping Giants mass emailed Carolyn Everson about Breitbart and she actually replied. But unsurprisingly, she lied. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@seyiakiwowo: When will we ask what info did they know before joining Facebook? Black & Brown women have been saying this for years. You didn't listen before signing the contract? Leading me to believe there's an white savourism in tech + now trying to be on the right side of history. https://twitter.com/...
Mic Wright / Conquest of the Useless: Thick white sauce: Steve Bannon, Guy Hands and Andrew Neil — three studies in getting away with it
Bob Cesca / @bobcesca_go: Wasn't there a story a while back about a similar deal between FB and Shapiro's The Daily Wire? https://twitter.com/...
Melanie Ensign / @imeluny: FB's PR org is one of the most ethically bankrupt teams I've ever met. Sadly, this void is deeply fundamental to their charter & all the other employees know it. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Carvell / @timcarvell: Just checking, @fbnewsroom - is this the bad story you warned us about, or is this one that you didn't even see coming? https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: One of the most depressing aspects of this is that the ‘comms official’ was pretty much right. The Honest Ads Act etc - never came to pass.FB enjoyed record $$ https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: I've not seen a single one of these actually committed to listening to the targets of Facebook decided the targets were expendable and everyone watched and agreed And then Facebook creates a MORE racist experience While everyone said they would “get to it” https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants: Knew it. Knew it exactly when it was happening. Here it is. Definitive proof that @facebook made special concessions for Breitbart when they set up their “trusted news” tab. @campbell_brown, their head of news, wouldn't answer why. Now we know. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@alex: Steve Bannon is a punk, but it's amazing that FB managed to convince itself — Joel Kaplan is an enormous gaffe-machine and bad policy machine for Zuck — that he was a risk to the company https://twitter.com/...
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: Would you say ... they don't care? https://twitter.com/...
Brendan Morrow / The Week: New Facebook whistleblower alleges company wanted to avoid ‘a fight’ with Steve Bannon
Josh Russell / @josh_emerson: lol, wonder why they never bothered to release anything to the public and offered zero transparency??? no one was ever held accountable. https://twitter.com/...
Nick Mark MD / @nickmmark: This is particularly awful news, even by Facebook standards. https://twitter.com/...
Leslie Lazlo Cravensworth / @lkjonessoc: @Blackamazon Now they are manufacturing journalistic accountability by repeating the refrain “whistleblower papers” like a spell to make people forget that the Cambridge Analytica “reveal” was in 2018
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: Because I told you all that years ago. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Facebook is like a tobacco grower, an asbestos manufacturer and a lead-paint supplier, all rolled into one company https://twitter.com/...
@clmanussier: @Facebook The answer is YES. Being on the same side as Bannon and Breitbart is to align yourselves with LITERAL NAZIS and White Supremacists. That one shouldn't even have been difficult for you. #pathetic https://twitter.com/...
Nina Jankowicz / @wiczipedia: .@CindyOtis_ and I told ya. Glad we have more insiders backing up the alarm bells we raised last year and earlier. https://www.wired.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Willis / @owillis: Meanwhile I get flack from liberals for being too harsh on the msm. We deserve to keep losing this war we won't fight. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Davis / @juliadavisnews: Facebook official about the controversy re Russian election interference: “It will be a flash in the pan. Some legislators will get pissy... in a few weeks they will move onto something else. Meanwhile we are printing money in the basement, & we are fine.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Bill McKibben / @billmckibben: Facebook exec said not to worry that the company was destroying democracy because “we are printing money in the basement.” What Exxon does to the climate climate, Facebook does to the political climate https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: Facebook responded to this by insulting the Washington Post instead of addressing the whistleblower's allegations. https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants: Anyone who has been begging @Facebook to deal with hate and incitement over the last few years already knew that they ignored all of it in favor of engagement, but to see these claims from a whistleblower is at least validating. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Matt Ortega / @mattortega: This is basically how traditional media operates. Bend over backwards to try to placate conservatives out of fear. Guess what? It never works. You cannot placate these people. Here they are still attacking “Big Tech” as censorious of conservatives. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: They're gonna run out of whistles https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj: Pretty brazen for Facebook to argue that an official / sworn SEC whistleblower complaint is not newsworthy They know this is BS https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: My joke idea for a new Facebook name has been “Whistleblowers Inc.” because it would make stories about Facebook whistleblowers too confusing to follow. Anyway there's a new Facebook whistleblower https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Andrew Ba Tran / @abtran: “I, working for Facebook, had been a party to genocide.” Another new whistleblower claims Facebook allowed hate, illegal activity to go unchecked https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jesse Lehrich / @jesselehrich: .@Facebook really seems to think they can just go full Trumpian war against the press & it'll end well. here's journalist-turned-FB spox Erin McPike berating WaPo for writing a story off a single... whistleblower's sworn affidavit? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Garrett M. Graff / @vermontgmg: Increasingly seems like Facebook is operating like Trump's PR shop—it's statements are written not for the public but for an audience of one: https://twitter.com/...
@gregbensinger: Facebook exec, per an affidavit: “Some legislators will get pissy. And then in a few weeks they will move onto something else. Meanwhile we are printing money in the basement, and we are fine.” What I don't see FB doing here is actually denying that https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
John Wright / Raw Story: ‘Do you want to start a fight with Steve Bannon?’ Facebook accused of exempting Breitbart from ban on false reports
CBS San Francisco: New Facebook Whistleblower Says Executives Shrugged as Algorithm Stoked Hate, Misinformation
Bob Cronin / Newser: New Facebook Whistleblower Supports Other's Testimony
Mike Peterson / AppleInsider: New Facebook whistleblower claims company allows hate, illegal activity
Carrie Mihalcik / CNET: New whistleblower reportedly alleges Facebook put profits over combating hate speech, misinformation
Los Angeles Times:
Sources: citing unsafe working conditions, a half-dozen camera crew workers walked off the Rust set hours before Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer — Hours before actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of “Rust” with a prop gun …
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New York Times: Live Updates: Assistant Director Declared Gun Safe Before Alec Baldwin Fatally Fired It, Affidavit Says
Andreas Wiseman / Deadline: ‘Rust’ Director Joel Souza Out Of Hospital - Update
Lesley Goldberg / The Hollywood Reporter: ABC's ‘The Rookie’ Bans “Live” Guns on Set
Chris Lindahl / IndieWire: Prop Gun Fired by Alec Baldwin Contained a ‘Live Single Round,’ Says IATSE Local 44
Jennifer Maas / The Wrap: Injured ‘Rust’ Director Joel Souza ‘Gutted’ by On-Set Death of Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
Stephanie Topacio Long / Bustle: The Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ Shooting, Explained
Rubén Rosario / WSVN-TV: ‘Rust’ crew voiced complaints before fatal on-set shooting
Paul Sacca / TheBlaze: Alec Baldwin shooting update: ‘Rust’ actor given ‘cold gun;’ tragic 911 call; touching tributes to Halyna Hutchins by husband and director
Meg James / @megjameslat: Updated!! ‘Rust’ crew describe on-set gun safety issues and misfires days before fatal shooting. One crew member was so alarmed that he sent a text to a production manager: “This is super unsafe.” New details...from the set of Alec Baldwin film. https://www.latimes.com/...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: For anybody facing dangerous work, you should know that under federal law (Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act), you have the right to talk freely to journalists about your working conditions. https://www.latimes.com/...
Deadline: ‘Rust’ Production Company To Launch Internal Safety Review After Fatal Accident, Possible Prior Gun Incident & Camera Crew Walkout
Aaron Keller / Law & Crime: Armorer in Film Set Shooting Wanted to ‘Show the World’ That ‘Guns are Awesome’ but Said Recently That ‘Loading Blanks Is, Like, The Scariest Thing’
Natalie Musumeci / Insider: Halyna Hutchins' husband reacts to her death on set of Alec Baldwin movie: 'I don't think there are words'
@mailonline: Assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin gun also worked on The Crow where Brandon Lee was killed https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ ...
Variety: Prop Gun That Killed Cinematographer on Alec Baldwin Film Contained ‘Live Single Round,’ Union Claims
Gabrielle Chung / People.com: Rust Movie Crew 'Didn't Feel Safe' Before Shooting Incident Involving Alec Baldwin, Says Source
Dominic Patten / Deadline: IATSE Says Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ Prop Gun Had Live Round; Cops Say “Hasn't Been Determined”
Andrea Marks / Rolling Stone: How Can a Prop Gun Kill?
Dana Kennedy / New York Post: Union members walked off ‘Rust’ set over safety issues, text message claims
Jordan Hoffman / Vanity Fair: “Cold Gun!” Called Out on Rust Set Before Fatal Shooting, Record Shows
RFE / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Actor Alec Baldwin Told Prop Gun Safe Before Shooting That Killed Ukrainian-Born Cinematographer
Jessica Wang / Hollywood Life: Alec Baldwin Was Told Prop Gun Was Unloaded Before Fatal Shooting, New Docs Say
Wren / @sirwrender: Hot take: as a producer on the film, Alec Baldwin is largely responsible for the conditions on set, the corners that were cut, and the bad situation which resulted in a completely avoidable tragedy. Blanks CAN be used safely, but weren't. https://www.latimes.com/...
@nytimes: The director Joel Souza — who was shot Thursday after Alec Baldwin fired a gun used as a prop — was released from a hospital in New Mexico late Thursday and is expected to make a full recovery. The circumstances of the shooting are under investigation. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Gray Connolly / @grayconnolly: Every weapon is assumed to be loaded until made safe and unloaded. I realise everyone hates Alec Baldwin etc but he is an actor, most of them are morons, and he made an elementary error that many people make. Whoever was in charge of the props/pyrotechnics should be in the dock. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Bassett / @lebassett: What is the point of a “prop gun” if it can kill people?? Isn't that just a gun? https://twitter.com/...
John Boch / The Truth About Guns: Alec Baldwin's ‘Rust’ Movie Set Reportedly Plagued With Multiple Firearm Mishaps, Safety Protocols ‘All But Ignored’
Brigid Kennedy / The Week: Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, killed on Baldwin movie, had reportedly advocated for safer on-set conditions
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: 3 RUST crew members tell @megjameslat / @amykinla a complaint about incompetent gun handling preceded Hutchins' shooting; that safety protocols were not being followed. Production manager was warned via text: “This is super unsafe” https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Paul Farhi / @farhip: Good explainer here about the basics of guns on movie sets. https://apnews.com/...
@refocusedmedia: Some additional insight, posted just 2 days ago.. this tragedy was avoidable on so many levels #RIPHalynaHutchins https://twitter.com/...
Julian Sanchez / @normative: Why, in 2021, is any film production using any prop weapon remotely capable of firing an actual projectile? Even if accidents like this are extremely rare, it just seems totally unnecessary. https://twitter.com/...
Haley Yamada / ABC7: TIMELINE: Alec Baldwin's prop gun misfire joins list of fatal movie set accidents
@rasmussen_poll: And yet the “prop gun” was still pointed directly at non actors, and the trigger pulled https://twitter.com/...
Emma-Jo Morris / @emmajonyc: Knowledge of gun safety matters when handling a gun. https://twitter.com/...
Jess McGuire / @jessmcguire: I had wondered if the current protests by the IATSE union might relate to this incident in a more general way ie “yes the union have been warning everyone that crew members are overworked & there are safety concerns on film sets” But THIS FILM'S CREW WALKED OFF SET THAT MORNING https://twitter.com/...
@sowetanlive: Alec Baldwin was handed what was described as a safe “cold gun” on the set of his movie “Rust”, but the prop gun contained live rounds when it was fired, according to details of the police investigation into the fatal shooting released on Friday. https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/ ...
@elleschneider: If this information is accurate, it's DAMNING. And that Halyna may have stayed after safety concerns were raised speaks to how hard it is for underrepresented crew to advocate for themselves or walk away from a big opportunity, lest their career and reuptation be impacted. Awful. https://twitter.com/...
David Slack / @slack2thefuture: Another thing everyone on set should know: NOBODY hands a weapon to an actor except a propmaster or armorer. NOBODY. This is basic set safety. If it happened as reported here, this is a huge issue. If it happens around you, walk away immediately. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Adam Conover / @adamconover: Before Halyna Hutchins' death, there had been THREE prior gun misfires on the same shoot. That's not an “accident”. That's neglect. And the same unsafe conditions are being faced by countless crew across the country. Our industry needs immediate change. https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@foxbusiness: Alec Baldwin's ‘Rust’ movie set shooting: Insurance ‘should be available’ to cover damages, expert says https://www.foxbusiness.com/ ...
@thr: ABC cop drama #TheRookie is banning “live” weapons on its set, effective immediately, following the fatal shooting on the set of Alec Baldwin's #Rust https://thr.cm/H7nlIRq
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: Huge mistake and not the fault of Alec Baldwin, the actor, if accurate. May be a different story for Baldwin, the producer. More to be revealed. https://twitter.com/...
Francesca Fiorentini / @franifio: Half a dozen crew members walked off the set in protest of conditions hours before Baldwin killed a cinematographer with a gun that the production managed *was told* was unsafe. Another clear example of workers rights being the key to safety for all. https://twitter.com/...
Natalie Shure / @nataliesurely: Devastating and damning stuff https://twitter.com/...
Mark Harris / @markharrisnyc: I don't think many people understand the combination of exhaustion, time pressure, and “We have to make our day” that defines many film and TV sets. So much needs reforming, but to start, do this. It's very doable. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
@fox29philly: An assistant director of the film “Rust” told Alec Baldwin that a weapon he gave him was safe to use in the moments before the actor fatally shot a cinematographer, according to court documents in Santa Fe, New Mexico. https://www.fox29.com/...
Jemele Hill / @jemelehill: I was today years old when I realized Hollywood productions were actually using live weapons on set. Can someone explain to me why this was ever done in the first place? https://twitter.com/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: The ‘Rust’ producers replaced union crew members engaged in a work stoppage with non-union substitutes hours before the shooting incident, LAT reports. https://www.latimes.com/...
Shannon Watts / @shannonrwatts: NEW: In addition to union issues on the Santa Fe set of “Rust” starring Alec Baldwin, there were THREE previous misfires on the prop gun, according to a Los Angeles Times source: “...there was a serious lack of safety meetings on this set.” #nmleg https://www.latimes.com/...
Christopher Tsang / ScreenRant: Rust Movie Crew Reportedly Didn't Feel Safe Prior To Shooting Incident
Jen Yamato / @jenyamato: RUST camera crew walked out and were replaced by nonunion crew the morning of the accident, @MegJamesLAT reports: — “corners were being cut” — prior misfires on a prop gun — Halyna Hutchins “had been advocating for safer conditions for her team” https://www.latimes.com/...
Eric Vespe / SlashFilm: Official Warrant Reveals Alec Baldwin Was Unknowingly Handed A Weapon With Live Rounds On The Set Of Rust
Reagan Gomez / @reagangomez: Oh WOW. This story just gets worse and worse. My God. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew A. Cherry / @matthewacherry: You don't ever need live guns on set. Add audio in post and muzzle flashes in VFX. https://twitter.com/...
Cheyenne Roundtree / The Daily Beast: ‘Inexperienced’ Armorer, Tight Budget, Walk Offs: Trouble Was Brewing on Baldwin Film
Marta Evry / @venice4change: Only a day before the tragic shooting on the set of #RustMovie, a crew member on the film commented on a pro-IATSE Instagram video by actor and producer @AlecBaldwin Baldwin complaining of unsafe work hours. Link to the original post: https://www.facebook.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matthewprigge / UPROXX: The Set Of Alec Baldwin's Movie ‘Rust’ Was Reportedly Riddled With ‘Accidental Prop Gun Discharges’ And Terrible Working Conditions
Eric Deggans At Npr / @deggans: Looks like the LATimes has a pretty comprehensive account of what happened in the Alec Baldwin film set shooting. They say he was handed a gun that was supposed to be “cold,” or without blanks or ammunition inside.. https://www.latimes.com/...
Miss Forson / @lydiaforson: I do hope production houses learn from this, when cast, crew make certain demands and you only care about finishing your project - this can happen. Sadly it is the most popular face that will suffer through the media frenzy. https://www.latimes.com/...
John Durant / @johndurant: Production crew had walked out on Alec Baldwin, the film's producer and star, over working conditions. Union workers were replaced, which wouldn't have happened without Baldwin's consent. The gun had already misfired. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ ...
Miss Forson / @lydiaforson: I do hope production houses learn from this, when cast, crew make certain demands and you only care about finishing your project - this can happen. Sadly those who do speak up are often branded “difficult” to work with. This is so sad. https://www.latimes.com/...
Claudia Grisales / @cgrisales: From thread/story: “Corners were being cut — and they brought in nonunion people so they could continue shooting,” source tells @latimes. There were two misfires on the prop gun on Saturday and one the previous week, they said, and “serious lack of safety meetings on this set.” https://twitter.com/...
David Badash / Raw Story: ‘Ghoulish’ Lauren Boebert branded a ‘sociopath’ for attacking Alec Baldwin
Katharine Trendacosta / @k_trendacosta: I was honestly thinking that this HAD to be the case. With proper safety being observed, this should not have happened. THIS is why the union is fighting for better conditions. These people save lives and deserve safety in return. https://twitter.com/...
Valerie Complex / @valeriecomplex: “We've now had 3 accidental discharges. This is super unsafe,” according to a copy of the message reviewed by the Times." This is ludicrous. How have @IATSE not just gone on strike is beyond me https://twitter.com/...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: just to nitpick, especially in regard to gun safety, rules are either followed strictly or they aren't followed. https://twitter.com/...
Tyler Dinucci / @tylerdinucci: Live rounds here can be blanks but this absolutely terrible that the actor was told it was a cold gun before shooting. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Haskoor / Decider: 3 Accidental Gun Discharges Occurred on ‘Rust’ Set Before Alec Baldwin Fatal Shooting: “This Is Super Unsafe”
Carl Zha / @carlzha: That's how Bruce Lee's son Brandon Lee was killed. By a prop gun firing blanks... https://twitter.com/...
Danielle Haynes / UPI: Assistant director yelled ‘cold gun’ before handing pistol to Alec Baldwin, police say
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: Another highly significant bit of reporting here that, if borne out, suggests significant exposure for the production team. https://twitter.com/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: Deep in this story, a worthwhile clarification of what the term “live round” means to the entertainment industry. It doesn't mean a bullet, apparently. (I assume they meant to write something other than “a source close to The Times” there.) https://twitter.com/...
Mr. Problems / @lolennui: worse by the fucking minute, workers rights are a matter of life and death https://twitter.com/...
Grace Randolph / @gracerandolph: Okay, NOW Alec Baldwin is in serious trouble as he's also one of the producers... https://twitter.com/...
John Cardillo / @johncardillo: “There were two misfires on the prop gun on Saturday and one the previous week, the person said, adding “there was a serious lack of safety meetings on this set."" A misfire is when a gun doesn't fire. We really need clarification here. https://www.latimes.com/...
@t_nyc: And guess what happens when they do scenes with guns? Every take they have to reset the guns. Rushing the overworked and exhausted one or two @IATSE armorers working 12-14+ hour days to reload the guns as fast as possible, where they hand them off to.. actors with no training
@t_nyc: I have been on many sets with LOTS of guns shooting “blanks”. They don't shoot out projectiles, but they DO shoot out an explosive force depending on “load” (1/2 load is strongest, 1/4 load, “NY load"). MANY times I saw the more dangerous/deadly (and LOUD) 1/2 load used
@t_nyc: A half load “blank” in a movie set prop gun(which are REAL GUNS!) can easily kill you if fired within five feet. Our job as grips was often to protect the camera operator from the literal explosive charge coming at them.
@t_nyc: There was one night on The Punisher when the armorer(also working 12-14+ hours a day) was handing out like thirty fully loaded automatic rifles with “blanks” and i was like wow we have to trust all of these strangers with our lives #IASolidarity
@t_nyc: Has never been a single moment that I didn't trust my fellow @IATSE members in the Special FX department with my life. They would set up building-size explosions right next to us. I trust them with my life. And yet ANYONE I trust can make a mistake while working 12-14+ hours https://twitter.com/...
Seamus Duff / Irish Mirror: Gun fired by Alec Baldwin in fatal shooting ‘had been declared safe to use’
Richard Lawler / @rjcc: @kokupuff ohhh, I see some of the RW wild tweets now, smh. this is what I was talking about https://twitter.com/...
Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp: This whole situation just looks worse and worse. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Miller / Emily Posts: A Bullet or a Blank? How Alec Baldwin Shot and Killed a Woman With a Real Gun
Nate Day / Fox News: Alec Baldwin's ‘Rust’ movie conducting ‘internal review’ after reported complaints of set conditions
Laura Hurley / CINEMABLEND: The Rookie Bans Live Weapons For Season 4 After Fatal Shooting On Alec Baldwin's Rust
Andrew R. Chow / TIME: Halyna Hutchins' Death Could Change The Way Guns Are Used In Hollywood
Shafiq Najib / RADAR: Police Issue Search Warrants For Ranch Where Alec Baldwin Accidentally Shot Film Crew Members
Noah Lanard / Mother Jones: Stories of Terrible Conditions on “Rust” Set Were Emerging Even Before Fatal Shooting
Martha Ross / Mercury News: Alec Baldwin and wife Hilaria need to stay off social media, except to honor Halyna Hutchins, crisis experts say
Greg Greene / @ggreeneva: My wife to me just now — her family works in the film industry: “movies are definitely where unions are so critical for these very reasons. people literally die.” What an absolute tragedy. https://twitter.com/...
Saint Maudvishai / @avishaiw: At NYU, we took a mandatory course on set-safety. THE CROW was a case study. No union propmaster on set, for a job that should have been an armorer's anyway. How was this allowed to happen. After taking time to grieve, this is going to have to be a capital-D Discussion. https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Leishman / Collider: ‘Rust’ Camera Crew Had Walked Off the Set Hours Before Prop Gun Incident
Marisa Dellatto / Forbes: Crew Members Say There Was ‘Lack Of Safety’ On Movie Set Where Alec Baldwin Shot Two
Jenny G. Zhang / Gawker: Crew on Alec Baldwin's ‘Rust’ Protested Grueling Working Conditions Before Shooting
Lindsey Bahr / Associated Press: EXPLAINER: Guns on movie sets: How does that work?
Tatiana Tenreyro / The A.V. Club: Rust crew reportedly complained about unsafe working conditions before Alec Baldwin prop gun accident
Brian Welk / The Wrap: Hours Before Fatal Shooting on Alec Baldwin's ‘Rust,’ a Half-Dozen Crew Members Quit to Protest Work Conditions
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Victoria Traxler / Santa Fe New Mexican:
Sheriff's office: Alec Baldwin discharged a “prop firearm” that killed a cinematographer and injured the movie director of Rust, being filmed near Santa Fe, NM — Actor Alec Baldwin discharged a “prop firearm” that killed a cinematographer and injured the director of the movie Rust …
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@alecbaldwin, NBC News, @indiewire, @alecbaldwin, Los Angeles Times, The A.V. Club, CNN, New York Post, Variety, @nbcnews, @nytimes, @matthewacherry, @frankthorp, @theserfstv, @rothschildmd, @amarch4ourlives, @npr, @awolfeful, @popcrave, @gracerandolph, @joellemonique, @caitiedelaney, NME, @deorro and @scotthortonshow
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@alecbaldwin: 1- There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours. I'm fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred and
@indiewire: Prop Gun Fired by Alec Baldwin Contained Live Bullet, Says IATSE Local 44 (Update) https://www.indiewire.com/... “IATSE Local 44 sent an email that said the gun used in the scene contained ‘a live round’ and the production's propmaster was not a member of Local 44.”
@alecbaldwin: 2- I am in touch with her husband, offering my support to him and his family. My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna.
Dorany Pineda / Los Angeles Times: Vigils in Burbank and Albuquerque for cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
Alex McLevy / The A.V. Club: UPDATED: Prop gun fired by Alec Baldwin that killed crew member contained “live” bullet, IATSE says
Kerry J. Byrne / New York Post: Husband of Baldwin shooting victim says Halyna Hutchins ‘inspired us all’
Cynthia Littleton / Variety: ‘Rust’ Tragedy Reflects Troubling Trends on Movie and TV Sets: ‘We Did This to Ourselves’
@nbcnews: “Rust” filmmaker Joel Souza remembers Halyna Hutchins as an “incredibly talented” cinematographer after surviving the movie set accident, involving a prop gun, that resulted in Hutchins' death. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
@nytimes: Breaking News: Alec Baldwin was told that a gun was safe before he fired it on the set of the film “Rust,” fatally striking the cinematographer, an affidavit said. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew A. Cherry / @matthewacherry: They had a non union prop master handling guns on set? SMFH 🤦🏾♂ ️ https://twitter.com/...
Frank Thorp V / @frankthorp: Wow this pic of Alec Baldwin by Jim Weber at the @thenewmexican —> Article here: https://www.santafenewmexican.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@theserfstv: What's not being widely reported on the Alec Baldwin story is how bad the working conditions were. Union members were replaced with non union workers and several left the set due to safety concerns https://www.latimes.com/...
Mike Rothschild / @rothschildmd: This is exactly why IATSE voted to strike - to stop needless risk of life because of unsafe sets and working conditions. No doubt the timing of the incident will be fodder for conspiracy theories, but sets have been unsafe for a long time before this. https://twitter.com/...
@amarch4ourlives: Our hearts are with the victims, their families, and the crew. Too many lives are needlessly lost to accidental gunshots. When owning or handling a gun, safe storage and usage is essential. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@npr: Alec Baldwin says he is cooperating with the investigation into the shooting on the set of Rust that killed the film's cinematographer and injured its director. Baldwin, who is also a producer of the film, fired the prop gun during filming. https://www.npr.org/...
April Wolfe / @awolfeful: I don't think this is the end of the story. Word has already been getting around about violations on this set. I want to wait until everything is reported out to make sure all is true, but I can't see a way now where IATSE members aren't riled up about this before the vote. https://twitter.com/...
Pop Crave / @popcrave: Alec Baldwin releases statement regarding the shooting incident on the set of his movie ‘Rust’: “There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours.” https://twitter.com/...
Grace Randolph / @gracerandolph: UPDATE - the crew handed Alec Baldwin a prop gun with a live round in it, obviously not to his knowledge. IATSE clarifies that crew involved with prop gun was local to New Mexico and non-union. https://twitter.com/...
Joelle Monique / @joellemonique: I knew immediately this was the case. This is always the case when big accidents happen on set. This is heartbreaking, because it could have been avoided. https://twitter.com/...
Caitie Delaney / @caitiedelaney: A live round shouldn't be anywhere near a set for any reason, this is so insane https://twitter.com/...
Scott Horton / @scotthortonshow: I remember hearing Liddy on the radio talking about playing a bad guy on Miami Vice and how he insisted they use camera tricks to make it look like he was aiming at his adversary because he refused to fire even blanks toward a person out of a real gun. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Twitter now lets users subscribe to Revue newsletters directly from tweets in the timeline — Anna from Revue — I know you don't normally hear from me on a Friday, but I've got something pretty great to announce: … This is all part of our mission to help you grow.
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@revue: 📣 We've got big news. (You're really going to like this.) Starting today, your followers can subscribe to Revue newsletters directly from Tweets in their timeline. This is already enabled for all Revue writers on desktop and mobile web, with iOS and Android to follow soon. ✨ https://twitter.com/...
Alexa Heinrich / @hashtagheyalexa: Absolutely weighing the pros and cons of moving my entire subscriber list and newsletter to Revue thanks to this update... https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Williams / @cheersfelicia: So proud of the awesome work by @offinga and the Revue team for this latest launch!! Continually stoked about the future of long form writing on Twitter!! https://twitter.com/...
David Navarro / @davidnavarro: You know we are doing pretty cool stuff at @Twitter and this is no exception. The best part is that it comes at a perfect time when I'm thinking of starting my own newsletter. More about this soon 😉 https://twitter.com/...
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Matt Karolian / @mkarolian: This is actually a pretty BFD. For years publishers have struggled to find transactional value with Twitter, and updates like this have the potential to change that rapidly. https://twitter.com/...
@scottmelker: This is amazing. @revue making it easier for people to subscribe to my newsletter directly from Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
@jaycodon: This makes Revue unbelievably compelling for creators dependent on Twitter for growth. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Park / @mep: May the record show that @hannahtchang is the PM behind this launch. She and the team nailed it 📝 https://twitter.com/...
Kayvon Beykpour / @kayvz: You can now subscribe to Revue newsletters directly from Tweets in the timeline! We hope this'll help writers who use Revue grow their subscriber-base more quickly. Let us know what you think! https://twitter.com/...
Eric Holthaus / @ericholthaus: Twitter has enabled one-click subscribe for newsletters on @Revue! If you're not already, subscribe to @Currently for daily weather and climate justice updates. It's free. And now it only takes one click! https://www.getrevue.co/... https://twitter.com/...
@twittersupport: We're bringing Revue newsletter subscription right to your timeline. Now on web, you can subscribe to a newsletter directly from a Tweet that gives you a preview of what's included in that newsletter. https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: This is a very nice feature. I just wish it wasn't limited to only Twitter's own newsletter service. No more walled gardens...!! https://twitter.com/...
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost:
Morning Consult: 44% of US adults say streaming services carry too many ads, 69% say the ads are repetitive, 53% say they find the ads somewhat or very invasive — Much as advertisers appreciate the targeting capabilities of ads on streaming services, it's no secret that there are still …
Steve Kovach / CNBC:
A 2019 email confirms Google asked Roku for preferential treatment for YouTube in Roku's search results, despite Google's claims to the contrary — - Google said Thursday it would remove YouTube apps from the Roku app store on Dec. 9 as the two sides fight over a new agreement.
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@ophirgottlieb, 9to5Google, @dcexaminer, @stevekovach, @stevekovach, @jonwalkerdc, @plantmath1, @stevekovach and Tubefilter, more at Techmeme »
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Ophir Gottlieb / @ophirgottlieb: $ROKU YouTube is about to pull its apps from Roku, fight is going all the way to Congress https://www.cnbc.com/... @Roku claims Google asked for preferential treatment Google called those claims baseless 2019 email viewed by CNBC shows Google did ask for preferential treatment
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Roku vs. Google: Who's to blame in a battle that only stands to hurt YouTube users? [U]
@dcexaminer: Google said it would remove its subsidiary YouTube's apps from Roku due to “baseless” claims made against it. Now, the fight between the tech companies has escalated into a large public feud, with key members of Congress weighing in. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ ...
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: Now @amyklobuchar and @davidcicilline are siding with Roku as they push their Big Tech antitrust legislative agenda. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: Google declined to comment on the email. “I don't have the email in question,” a spokesperson told me. I asked them to ask about it. They declined to. Full story: https://www.cnbc.com/...
Jon Walker / @jonwalkerdc: In fairness how could anyone at Google know that email leaves a digital paper trail. https://twitter.com/...
Plant / @plantmath1: CNBC has called out Google lying. Google states they never asked for preferential treatment on Roku, and lo and behold they did just that. This is a battle. Congressional involvement may lead to Roku winning/Google caving. $ROKU $GOOG https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: Google said it never asked Roku for special treatment in search as a condition to allow YouTube apps on the platform. An email I saw from Google to Roku as the two sides were negotiating shows Google asked for precisely that. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review:
Cook County (MN) News-Herald editor, the CEO of CherryRoad, which owns 26 small papers, and a researcher discuss the future of small-market papers in the US — As recently as six years ago, Minnesota's Cook County News-Herald employed seven full-time staff.
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@laurahazardowen, @kellystrib, @kellystrib, @ckrewson, @afcc_esq, @cjr, @cjr, @dankennedy_nu, @journalismnews, @spj_tweets, @laurahazardowen, @laurahazardowen, @cjr, @cjr, @whatworks_nu, @localmediarocks, @kerrymflynn and @simonowens
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Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: Last month: @akrondevilstrip's founder asked to go on sabbatical Friday: Staff told there's no more $ Yesterday: “We learned that the majority of the board of directors had resigned. That's when the staff was laid off.” Today: $75K GoFundMe ?? https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Kelly Smith / @kellystrib: “I think all towns need a paper ... people need to have the ability to find out what's going on in their local communities.” https://twitter.com/...
Kelly Smith / @kellystrib: The hedge fund that owns the Pioneer Press also owned the International Falls Journal. A company offered to buy the northern Minnesota newspaper but Alden rep said “it's just easier for us to close.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Chris Krewson / @ckrewson: The last graf is FANTASTIC. Perhaps the foxes are the best stewards for the henhouse, indeed. https://hbswk.hbs.edu/...
@afcc_esq: @akrondevilstrip ... Why would these “alleged co-owners” invest more? That said, if they DO invest more, and without contractual paperwork, alert P.T. Barnum. And who let Chris Horne get to this point in the first place? Did Knight Foundation, Lenfest, etc. have no paperwork-based accountability? 2/x
@cjr: “I heard from a lot of people, 'I wish we hadn't taken it for granted when we had the paper. We're going to support this new paper going forward.' Which is true. We've gotten back more subscribers locally than I believe the old paper had when it closed.” https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: New: @LHarrisWrites talks with the editor of the MN Cook County News-Herald, the CEO of the company that bought the paper, and a researcher about the possibilities for small-market newspapers across the country https://www.cjr.org/...
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: Yikes. Some pretty wild details about the demise of the @akrondevilstrip from @laurahazardowen. Among them: a lack of transparency and the members — i.e., the owners — getting cut out of the decision-making process. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@journalismnews: “Public radio has taken the already powerful funding strategy of nonprofits and made it its own ... In an industry where needs abound, but funding can be tight, 'the advantage that public media stations have is that they've been at this game a lot longer.' https://www.theverge.com/...
@spj_tweets: “It was a model built on community trust — which made it extra-surprising when, on Monday, The Devil Strip's staff suddenly announced on social media that the site had been shut down, and all its staffers laid off.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: Here's the founder's Medium post from last month: https://medium.com/... Here are the philanthropic donations The Devil Strip had received as of the end of 2020: https://thedevilstrip.com/... [end]
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: But the GoFundMe, announced as abruptly as the shutdown, surprised people too. “I was (am?) a co-op member and I'd like to know if it's all possible to look at any financial records” “I want to contribute additional funds, however we need more details before we go blindly”
@cjr: In a county of 5,400, Minnesota's Cook County News-Herald has around 2,400 subscribers https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: “We had many people saying, 'Well, we're supposed to be working reduced hours, but if I do, the hours I'm contracted to do, we'll never get the paper out.' So they do whatever it takes to get it done. That sense of duty is very, very strong.” https://www.cjr.org/...
What Works / @whatworks_nu: More details about the demise of the @akrondevilstrip from @laurahazardowen at @niemanlab. Among them: a lack of transparency and the members — i.e., the owners — getting cut out of the decision-making process. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Nancy Lane / @localmediarocks: The abrupt shut down of @akrondevilstrip leaves me with more questions than answers. How does the board of a non-profit allow this to happen? How do they not know the financial situation? Why didn't the staff know? Something went terribly wrong here. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Anna Kramer / Protocol:
Twitter says its research shows its algorithms amplify right-leaning content more than left-leaning content, but doesn't know what causes the amplification — Twitter is publicly sharing research findings today that show that the platform's algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians …
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The Guardian, @rasmus_kleis, @evan_greer, @ruchowdh, @chemoelectric, @polizeros, @edtubb, @rseymour, @toniintexas1, @davidmichaels, @jamesrbuk, @bruce_arthur, BetaNews, @supriyadwivedi, @marklemley, @mikebeauvais, @lisaocarroll, @anna_c_kramer, @markjacob16, @bluelinebadger, @timmaughan, @rolandsmartin, @johniadarola, @realsabijoy, @_juvine, The Verge, @lat_cql, @ekp, @parkermolloy, ZDNet, @raistolo, Garbage Day and @jordanuhl
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Dan Milmo / The Guardian: Twitter admits bias in algorithm for rightwing politicians and news outlets
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: Twitter deserves credit for - again - leading on open self-examination and data-sharing, ahead of larger competitors, w/@ruchowdh et al's work https://blog.twitter.com/... Also, as e.g analysis of news coverage shows, Twitter is not alone in amplifying some voices more than others... https://twitter.com/...
Evan Greer / @evan_greer: Transparency alone doesn't solve structural or business model problems, but it is really really good that Twitter is doing this research and then PUBLICLY SHARING IT (ahem) and other platforms should all do the same https://www.protocol.com/...
Rumman Chowdhury / @ruchowdh: The latest from META — an analysis of algorithmic amplification of tweets from elected officials in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, UK, & US. The team: @fhuszar, @s0f1ra, Conor O'Brien, @__lucab, @sagemintblue @mrtz. 1/n https://blog.twitter.com/...
Djinn Djinn / @chemoelectric: Well, publish your software under copyleft and let us solve that problem for you, Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
@polizeros: @mediagazer @anna_c_kramer Using Twitter lists really helps in filtering out noise. Make lists based on any criteria. When you read them and click on links you help the algo deliver what you want.
Ed Tubb / @edtubb: We should be having more active and forceful conversations about how comfortable we are with algorithmic content curation. I'm not really sure I've heard a compelling affirmative case for why this stuff is a force for good. The opposite? Oh, boy. https://twitter.com/...
Rich Seymour / @rseymour: My WAG on this would be that the algorithm biases toward top down idea generation. Arguably the minority right wing has a hierarchical structure that agglomerates likes and shares while the majority left's diversity diffuses them. https://twitter.com/...
@toniintexas1: One reason i continue to use Twitter is because I can, to some degree, turn off the algorithms by choosing “show latest tweets” instead of the other way. Hope they never change that https://twitter.com/...
David Michaels / @davidmichaels: @mediagazer @anna_c_kramer Being outraged and angry about politics works. I plays to a base of people who feel that they are not in control. Algorithms amplify tweets with likes and retweets.
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: Interesting (and well-timed) contrast with Facebook, in that Twitter is actually releasing its own internal research - even if uncomfortable - itself. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson / BetaNews: Twitter's algorithms actually promote right-wing ideologies, not liberal ones
Supriya Dwivedi / @supriyadwivedi: “...the most powerful discrepancy between right and left was in Canada (Liberals 43%; Conservatives 167%)” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Mike Beauvais / @mikebeauvais: Look at that: Twitter admitted that its algorithm is biased towards right-wing politicians and news organizations. The worst bias was in Canada where Conservative tweets were amplified nearly 4x more than Liberal ones. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Lisa O'Carroll / @lisaocarroll: Compelling read . Twitter admits bias in algorithm for rightwing politicians and right wing news outlets. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Anna Kramer / @anna_c_kramer: NEW: Twitter released its own research today that shows that the home feed amplifies right-wing political content more than left-leaning. I sat down with META team leader @ruchowdh to learn what Twitter will do with that information https://www.protocol.com/...
Mark Jacob / @markjacob16: The whole idea that mainstream media lean left is bullshit and always has been. https://twitter.com/...
@bluelinebadger: This is really hard because of the differences I've described before. The GOP coalesces around the same talking point and repeats it ad infinitum. The DEMs debate and have nuance to their positions. It's harder to amplify that. Removing bots would be a great start though. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Maughan / @timmaughan: shut it down https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@rolandsmartin: Nope. The right wing will still claim bias. When I was at @CNN, I said that the network could hire 1,000 conservatives and they would still whine. That's the playbook of the grift of @BrentBozell @theMRC and the whole right wing apparatus https://twitter.com/...
John Iadarola / @johniadarola: I'm sure this will lead to the right no longer whining about how biased against them twitter is. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Sabrina Joy Screamens / @realsabijoy: Tech platforms obviously have a lot of work to do to improve their products, but we need to stop ignoring our role in what kinds of content get amplified. Algorithms absolutely influence behavior, but they also respond to our behavior. & most users across the political spectrum... https://twitter.com/...
Juvine / @_juvine: My guess is the way engagement is tied to the algorithms. More right-leaning tweets get more disagreement, arguments, and hate. With social media having a likely larger left-leaning population, less hate on left-leaning tweets. (Or a simple like and no comment) https://twitter.com/...
@lat_cql: This is partly why constantly QRT'ing the Ben Shapiros of the world, or whatever insipid right-leaning op-ed the NYT published that day (to name two examples) just to dunk is imprudent. https://twitter.com/...
Ellen K. Pao / @ekp: Twitter amplifying right-wing politicians is not new, but hopefully with Facebook's reputation taking even faster, they'll actually do something about it https://www.protocol.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: It's honestly amazing that people on the right keep pushing the “social media is biased against conservatives!!!” line even though every social media platform's algorithm is tilted *in their favor* https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: Right-wing elected officials' content amplified by Twitter algorithm
Stefano Zanero / @raistolo: The “we are not sure why” part is the most worrying one. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: Extremely tedious Twitter discourse
Tonya Riley / CyberScoop:
FTC study on the six largest ISPs finds that some fail to fully inform consumers on how their data is monetized, such as using browsing history to serve up ads — Internet service providers fail to disclose to consumers how they use sensitive data, obscure privacy practices and make it difficult …
Discussion:
BleepingComputer, Wired, @adam_k_levin, @karlbode, @jeffstone500, @tonyajoriley, @raehodge, @linakhanftc, @duckduckgo, @senblumenthal and @senmarkey
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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: FTC: ISPs collect and monetize far more user data than you'd think
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Security News This Week: An International Operation Knocked a Notorious Ransomware Group Offline
Adam Levin / @adam_k_levin: “While several ISPs in our study tell consumers they will not sell their data, they fail to reveal to consumers the myriad of ways that their data can be used, transferred, or monetized outside of selling it...” https://www.cyberscoop.com/...
Karl Bode / @karlbode: The FTC's new report shows what I've documented for years: ISPs collect all kinds of data on your online behavior, sell it to a collection of poorly disclosed middlemen (they just call it something else), then offer consumer privacy tools that often don't work https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Stone / @jeffstone500: We spend a lot of time worrying about the way Big Tech betrays user privacy, but the FTC just dropped a 2-year investigation into how ISPs: + access raw internet traffic + use sensitive data for ads + obscure privacy practices more via @TonyaJoRiley —> https://www.cyberscoop.com/...
Tonya Riley / @tonyajoriley: FCC acting chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel says the agency is also taking a “close look” at ISP privacy practices. Today's FTC meeting raises questions about which agency should spearhead the efforts. Tip @Techmeme https://www.cyberscoop.com/...
Rae Hodge-Goblin / @raehodge: FTC report: With “ad-driven surveillance,” ATT, Comcast, Verizon and other ISPs amassing pools of suuuuper sensitive and granular consumer data to target you. Data #surveillance of LGBTQ and racial minorities pointed out specifically: https://www.cnet.com/... #privacy
Lina Khan / @linakhanftc: At our open meeting today, staff presented a study on the privacy practices of major internet service providers, detailing how these firms often surveil users, aggregate data across a staggering array of services, and deprive users of meaningful choice. https://www.ftc.gov/...
@duckduckgo: New FTC report on ISP collection of browsing history: https://www.ftc.gov/... Our app has Smarter Encryption that upgrades your website connections to HTTPS (encrypted) where we can. This shields many specific pages you are visiting from ISPs: https://duckduckgo.com/app
Richard Blumenthal / @senblumenthal: Broadband firms monitoring our web browsing. Cell phone providers selling location data to advertisers. This new @FTC report is an urgent call for strict rules & strong enforcement to protect against broadband companies' spying. https://twitter.com/...
Ed Markey / @senmarkey: It's not just Big Tech gobbling up troves of sensitive information about us. The broadband behemoths are tracking our every move online too. It's unacceptable that if you're over the age of 12 in this country, you have ZERO privacy rights online. Congress must act. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Hobbes / Confirm My Choices:
The media's warnings about the illiberal left fall apart under scrutiny, create moral panics, and are used to justify anti-democratic measures — During the 1990s, the media convinced Americans that frivolous lawsuits were out of control. — The canonical example was the 1994 “McDonald's hot coffee” case.
Discussion:
@jayrosen_nyu, New York Times, @adamdavidson, @sorayamcdonald, @rkearney, @zfurnas, @athertonkd, @paul_bowers, @jon_christian, @sethcotlar, @athertonkd, @triagegirl, @bmaz, @jeffbercovici, @michaelberube1, @gbbranstetter, @ryanlcooper, @davidminpdx, @shanedingman, @samthielman, @confusion_reign, @lemieuxlgm, @tabathasouthey, @katykelleher, @_cingraham, @digiphile, @electrostani, @froomkin and @chick_in_kiev
Discussion:
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “Journalism thrives on unconventional narratives. It may appear that Republicans are a threat to democracy, but the true threat lies on the left is a more compelling story than things are what they seem.” https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ...
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times: 'Nobody Trusts Anybody Now, and We're All Very Tired'
Adam Davidson / @adamdavidson: +1. A must read takedown of the lurid claims about the evils of “cancel culture” https://twitter.com/...
@sorayamcdonald: “Thousands upon thousands of words dedicated to the same arguments, the same low-stakes anecdotes, the same tortured historical analogies. ... few of these stories even attempt to offer any original reporting or perspective.” https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ...
Ryan Kearney / @rkearney: This by @RottenInDenmark is the best evisceration of that Applebaum piece (and “illiberal left” stories in general) that you'll read. https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ...
Zander Furnas / @zfurnas: This piece by @RottenInDenmark is *so* good. Critical reading for anyone in the “woke-ness"/"cancel culture gone too far" space imo https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Kelsey Deatherton / @athertonkd: something good in this (all of it is good) is that it highlights how much of this moral panic focuses on the threat from the *attempt* to ban something, rather than the ban succeeding (because it often doesn't!) Here's Taibbi, playing right into that https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Brutal South / @paul_bowers: “We are being asked to believe that America is marching toward totalitarian dictatorship solely on the strength of unconvincing anecdotes and statistics that do not hold up to clicking the links the authors themselves provide.” https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ...
Seth Cotlar / @sethcotlar: This is really insightful as well. https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ...
Kelsey Deatherton / @athertonkd: “I don't think I'm reaching for the stars when I say that if you're going to compare a modern-day political movement to some of history's worst atrocities, you had better have strong evidence to back it up.” https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ...
@triagegirl: This response to Anne Applebaum's public tantrum about people being held accountable starts with a review of the “litigation panic” of the 1990's which resulted in you losing your right to sue corporations. #tw https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ...
@bmaz: Corollary to this article is that Anne Applebaum is severely overrated and not particularly useful: The Methods of Moral Panic Journalism https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ...
Jeff Bercovici / @jeffbercovici: This is very good https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ...
@michaelberube1: OMG is this good. It's like a one-stop, all-purpose response to every single “political correctness / woke cancel culture” narrative of the past 30 years. Kudos to @RottenInDenmark, who is now officially on my go-to list. https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ...
Gillian Branstetter / @gbbranstetter: “Why are readers of national publications constantly being told that they should worry about the left potentially, sometime in the future, becoming as bad as Republicans are now?” 🎯 @RottenInDenmark https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ...
Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper: “On one hand, a few prominent figures faced routine professional consequences for their publicly stated views. On the other, thousands of people, including children, were beaten to death in the streets despite doing nothing wrong.” https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ...
David Menschel / @davidminpdx: Easily the best of the oodles of pieces that have been written about “cancel culture.” https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ...
Shane Dingman / @shanedingman: A good reminder to check whether there's anything to panic about before you start writing all-caps moral panic screeds: https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ...
Sam Cthulhman / @samthielman: This is a great piece and it's such an embarrassment that the @nytimes has made moral panic journalism *an entire beat,* with a full-time reporter on it and everything. You guys are gonna get far-right exterminationists entrenched at Yale and pretend not to know how it happened https://twitter.com/...
Robert James / @confusion_reign: This is a good summation of all the endless “wokeness is fascism!” essays. Good timing- yesterday one of the usual suspects was tweeting about how “wokeness” is evil because a single college student who didn't want repairmen in their room unannounced. No anecdote is too small! https://twitter.com/...
Scott Lemieux / @lemieuxlgm: I love this piece by @RottenInDenmark comparing the illiberal campus left panic with the frivolous lawsuit panic of the 90s. Both are based around cherry-picked anecdotes many of which collapse on any collision with the facts https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ...
Tabatha Southey / @tabathasouthey: Oh, just drop everything that's not a baby and read @RottenInDenmark on the hack journalism of the “wokeness” panic. Reports of the death of free speech are, to lift a line, “absurdly, wildly, screamingly untrue.” https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ...
Katy Kelleher / @katykelleher: I liked this. I think wokeness panic is about something - it's reacting to an annoying vibe. But writers are making careers whining about an annoying vibe! It's so lazy! https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Ingraham / @_cingraham: Yup. See also the mainstream press' uncritical embrace of Alex Berenson's contrarian book on marijuana legalization, which turned out to be based on nonsense https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: “The reason right-wing media constantly highlights obscure documents & non-mandatory corporate trainings is that they cannot find legitimate examples of Democrats using their power to install illiberalism”-@RottenInDenmark https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/ ... Obscures the threat to democracy https://twitter.com/...
Amardeep Singh / @electrostani: Great piece that breaks down the media hysteria about “woke mobs” on college campuses. (tl;dr it's overblown. It's conservative backlash we should worry about.) It condenses in one place ideas and data points @RottenInDenmark has been talking about on podcasts for many months. https://twitter.com/...
Diana Tsui / New York Times:
Profile of Blacktag, a streaming service launched last week as a destination for Black audiences around the world with plans to share IP with creators — A new streaming platform wants to be a destination for Black audiences around the world. — When Ousman Sahko Sow and Akin Adebowale founded Blacktag …
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Axel Springer CEO denies that the company planned to appoint Axios “top management” as EIC of Politico and says there is no intention now to buy Axios — With the German media giant under fire at home, billionaire CEO Mathias Döpfner—all six-foot-seven of him …
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Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: Great new details from @joepompeo on Axel Springer's purchase of Politico (and not Axios), along with reporting inside today's staff meeting with CEO Mathias Dopfner https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Tibor Martini / @tibor: „(A source shared an audio recording with me.)" Die Stimmung bei Politico ist anscheinend an Tag 1 schon so gut wie im konstant leakenden Bild-Newsroom. https://www.vanityfair.com/...
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Leaked recording: Axel Springer CEO told Politico staffers he made “a mistake” in saying he planned a paywall for Politico: “No decision has been made”
Discussion:
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Have updated story with more details from leaked audio from the town hall. Dopfner also denied reporting from the New York Times about his negotiations earlier this year with Axios. An Axios spokesperson said they would not comment on private discussions. https://www.axios.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: The CEO of Axel Springer, which bought Politico for $1 billion, told the Wall Street Journal that it would eventually go behind a paywall. I shared that with you on this platform. Now he says he was mistaken, and shouldn't have said it. https://www.axios.com/...
Neko Jackson / The AfterParty ▞ w/ Neko Jackson: Politico's New Owner Openly Shares His Wish to Bias Reporters
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: NEW: In a town hall this AM, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner said it was “a mistake” to tell @WSJ that he planned to institute a paywall at @politico. “My answer honestly was very unfortunate,” he said in an audio recording obtained by @axios: https://www.axios.com/...
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