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Internal docs show frequent heated debates among Facebook staff and execs about how to rank, fact check, and moderate content of right-wing pubs like Breitbart — Employees allege content rules aren't enforced for Breitbart and other right-wing publishers for fear of public blowback …
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Alex Heath / The Verge: Inside Facebook's struggle to keep young people
Sara Fischer / Axios: Scoop: Facebook exec warns of “more bad headlines”
Clare Duffy / CNN: Facebook has known it has a human trafficking problem for years. It still hasn't fully fixed it
Washington Post: How Facebook neglected the rest of the world, fueling hate speech and violence in India
Eric Kleefeld / Media Matters for America: Fox News spreads misinformation about Wall Street Journal report showing Facebook coddled Breitbart News
Bill Chappell / NPR: The Facebook Papers: What you need to know about the trove of insider documents
Ryan Mac / @rmac18: Good story from @keachhagey and @JeffHorwitz on the influence of the policy team & political considerations on Facebook's decision-making. It has new stuff, particularly on Breitbart, and builds off what @CraigSilverman and I reported on at BuzzFeed News. https://www.wsj.com/...
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: It's Frances Haugen's world. We're all just living in it.
@keachhagey: Breitbart was a source of constant consternation inside Facebook, internal docs show, with employees demanding “Get Breitbart out of News Tab” and begging Facebook to kick it out of Facebook Audience Network w/ @JeffHorwitz https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Lucas Manfredi / Fox Business: Facebook employees claimed tactics were ‘hostile’, ‘disrespectful’ toward users, document shows
Amol Sharma / @asharma: Facebook had some interesting classifications of publishers as it evaluated the impact of its tools: Reuters was labeled “liberal,” along with the Washington Post, Politico, Axios and Apple News. CNN and the New York Post were labeled “moderate.” https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@keachhagey: Facebook says Breitbart is on News Tab because it only judges publications based on what they do on Facebook, not on what they do in the wider world, and Breitbart follows its rules
@blackamazon: They were racist and they knew it . Clap your hands . They are racist and we know it Clap your hands They are racist and we know it How often did they show it They were racist and it screwed us CLAO YOUR HANDS https://twitter.com/...
Zombies LoveOfBrainsies / @kombiz: I can't stress enough that the head of Facebook news last project before facebook, was starting an anti-union right-wing school choice news website. Facebook knew exactly what it was doing. https://twitter.com/...
@keachhagey: More senior employees often pushed back against these calls, arguing that any steps aimed at removing Breitbart “would be a very difficult policy discussion.”
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: More details on what @MonikaBauerlein & I reported last Oct: Facebook put its thumb on scale for far-right (and, uh, not rigorously reported) sites for fear of blowback from conservatives, ref working—and, I'll posit to say, inclination of C-suiters: https://www.wsj.com/...
Bianna Golodryga / @biannagolodryga: “Employees allege content rules aren't enforced for Breitbart and other right-wing publishers for fear of public blowback, and management expresses wariness of appearing biased, according to internal documents” https://www.wsj.com/...
@keachhagey: After a Facebook engineer revealed that the company had a queue for prominent users to get white-glove assistance avoiding fact-checking strikes that was mostly full of conservative publishers like Breitbart and PragerU, Facebook employees were livid, internal chats show.
Mark Moore / New York Post: Facebook employees tried to suppress conservative news outlets, report shows
@keachhagey: In 2019, Facebook studied what would happen if it removed two key anti-misinfo tools: Breitbart traffic would go up 20%. “We could face significant backlash for having ‘experimented’ with distribution at the expense of conservative publishers,” a researcher wrote. It removed one.
@keachhagey: One researcher suggested there might be a fair way to get Breitbart out of News Tab by removing any publisher that had seen a drop in trust; another researcher said that wouldn't work because Breitbart was already the least trusted news org, per Facebook research
@keachhagey: “We are apparently providing hate-speech-policy-consulting and consequence-mitigation services to select partners,” one Facebook employee wrote. Another added: “Leadership is scared of being accused of bias.”
@keachhagey: One advertiser wrote Facebook complaining about Breitbart's inclusion in the Facebook Audience Network, saying Facebook's block lists didn't work when it came to Breitbart. “Breitbart tries to work around every control we put in place.” (Breitbart it doesn't work around controls)
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: Facebook Employees Reportedly Clashed Over Social Media Giant's Special Treatment of Breitbart
Ryan J. Reilly / @ryanjreilly: “Various employees called Mr. Carlson a ‘white nationalist’ and ‘partisan hack’ who 'looks as though he's a Golden Retriever who has been consistently cheated out of a cache of treats.'” https://www.wsj.com/...
@keachhagey: An internal Facebook study from 2019 found that Breitbart was the least trusted news organization among several dozen studied; the study also found it was “low quality.”
Didi Rankovic / Reclaim The Net: Facebook leaks reveal employees pushed for censorship of conservative news outlets
Jeff Horwitz / @jeffhorwitz: I'm hoping everyone can set aside their disagreements to agree that this is both an excellent burn and an excellent response. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan J. Reilly / @ryanjreilly: “We're scared of political backlash if we enforce our policies without exemptions.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Damon Beres / @dlberes: Honestly I'd be embarrassed to work at a company that Diamond and Silk had this much leverage over https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story: Facebook refused to remove Breitbart as ‘news’ because it could anger Trump — employee chats reveal
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
How Frances Haugen maximized the impact of her leaked Facebook documents, rolling them out first to WSJ and then broadening to a large group of outlets — In a time of mega-leaks, journalists' sources have become power players. Frances Haugen, the former Facebook executive who shared company documents …
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David Pierce / Protocol: Here are all the Facebook Papers stories
Kieran Press-Reynolds / Insider: Facebook recommended QAnon groups to a new user within 2 days of joining the platform, according to a new whistleblower report
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, raises trust and security questions over its e2e encryption
Alex Shephard / New Republic: Facebook Is Even Worse Than Anyone Imagined
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Facebook whistleblower Haugen tells UK lawmakers the company refuses to take responsibility for its harms
@blackamazon: She may not need financial support but she's getting institutional and press support https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: The Facebook Whistleblower Documents: What to Expect
Maria Ressa / @mariaressa: Fascinating. Only way forward is collaboration. #CourageON https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gainor / @dangainor: This “leak” smells worse than a rendering plant. The left is manipulating an attack on Facebook to push government control of the internet. | Inside the Big Facebook Leak https://www.nytimes.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Also compelling reading is @benyt on the #FacebookFiles leak handling, which made me thing two things. One, as @IfeomaOzoma has often pointed out, whistleblowing requires strat comms. Two , where is the NYT Styles piece on the Puerto Rico crypto nomads? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matt Drange / @mattdrange: It's 2021 and I, for one, find this enormously reassuring. Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen tells @benyt that she “auditioned” WSJ's @JeffHorwitz, “and one of the reasons I went with him is that he was less sensationalistic” than other reporters. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alex Thompson / @alexthomp: “We live in a time of mega-leaks...These leaks have given the leakers and their brokers a new kind of power over the news media, raising tricky questions about how their revelations should enter the public sphere.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Facebook whistleblower: “First she handed her documents to The Journal for a boutique rollout. Then she opened the journalistic equivalent of an outlet store, allowing reporters on two continents to root through everything The Journal had left behind.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@stmcneil: “It's remarkable to see these news organizations, large and small, set aside some of their competitive impulses and work together to report out a story that is unquestionably in the public interest,” said @bcarovillano, the head of investigations for @AP https://www.nytimes.com/...
Frank Bajak / @fbajak: The @AP's @bcarovillano on this public service effort by 17 U.S. news organizations he helped coordinate. There is also a smaller European group. https://twitter.com/...
Joan S. Pumpkins / @bostonjoan: Been waiting all weekend for this one https://twitter.com/...
Zombies LoveOfBrainsies / @kombiz: Oh no, she was such a compelling figure till i read this... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Paris Marx / @parismarx: My god, Haugen is also so deep into crypto she joined the crypto colonists and disaster capitalists who wanted to turn Puerto Rico into a technolibertarian utopia. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: AP's @bcarovillano: “It's remarkable to see these news organizations, large and small, set aside some of their competitive impulses and work together to report out a story that is unquestionably in the public interest” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: This is yet another must read @benyt and it leaves me media nauseous: How Frances Haugen Became a Power Player in the Facebook Leaks https://www.nytimes.com/...
@blackamazon: How media covered leaks when it was a white woman and tried to make it sound like it was a brilliant strategy not their own bias https://twitter.com/...
@szhang_ds: In retrospect I should probably have done something similar. I liked @juliacarriew and the Guardian, but was probably too focused on ensuring that I retained control over my message to the exclusion of actually reaching people. Mea culpa. https://twitter.com/...
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: The consortium approach is powerful for whistleblowers and a mixed blessing for news orgs, writes @benyt. (From what I can tell it is also bewildering for lay readers.) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nicholas Jackson / @nbj914: This is great, and newsrooms should work together much more often, and the weird part, if there is a weird part, is that, even in 2021, it takes a project manager from Facebook to force these institutions to collaborate on something. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@pranavdixit: .@FrancesHaugen told @benyt she plans to share the documents with academic writers and publications in countries where she sees the greatest peril, including India and the Middle East. “The reason I wanted to do this project is because I think the global South is in danger.” https://twitter.com/...
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: Lots of media intrigue in the latest @benyt on the massive Facebook leaks but please note that whistleblower is now in Puerto Rico with her “crypto friends” which is a signifier of a whole other horrible terrible thing happening to society https://www.nytimes.com/...
Roger McNamee / @moonalice: I have maximum admiration for @FrancesHaugen. She accepted huge risk to be a whistleblower. She organized and executed a masterful, revolutionary disclosure campaign. I do not agree with all of her recommendations, but so what? She is a hero. https://www.nytimes.com/...
John Carney / @carney: Lots of good details from @benyt about this “consortium” that has been publishing stories based on documents Haugen and company are handing out to establishment media outlets. Inside the Big Facebook Leak https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: Interesting discussion about the power wielded by the Facebook whistleblower, how her approach to journalists and her media presence differs from Snowden's, and a quick aside about her personal wealth and “crypto friends” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: @jayrosen_nyu @mehdirhasan Working with a single outlet was very clean and efficient.
Seamus Hughes / @seamushughes: “But while a glance at Twitter shows that journalists on any beat can slip into a herd mentality, there's little evidence that this leak, with its trove of documentary detail, had deepened that tendency.” by @benyt https://www.nytimes.com/...
Josh Kraushaar / @hotlinejosh: “The polished rollout, including Ms. Haugen's Oct. 3 appearance on ‘60 Minutes’ and congressional testimony days later, has led to dark hints from Facebook and its allies that there's something a little too good to be true about her.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Paige Williams / @williams_paige: “Now that I've met so many journalists, and I've seen how hard Jeff works, I feel more grateful for the media than when I started.” At least that's something. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jacob Silverman / @silvermanjacob: Against anti-trust, mixed on encryption, so deep into crypto that she moved to a tax haven — a worldview is assembling itself. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Lessin / @jessicalessin: The Facebook whistleblower says she doesn't need financial support because she bought “crypto at the right time.” She is in Puerto Rico in part to join her crypto friends, who are there seeking a tax shelter. Now I'm entertained. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: In a time of mega-leaks, journalists' sources have become power players. Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower who shared company documents, led a meticulous media rollout, our media columnist Ben Smith writes. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: Top outlets (sort of) team up to make Facebook's awful month worse
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: @BostonJoan I really really really hope you and other researchers get the docs soon, Joan!
Adam Goldman / @adamgoldmannyt: She also got the impression that @JeffHorwitz would support her as a person, rather than as a mere source who could supply him with the inside information she had picked up during her nearly two years as a product manager at Facebook. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Quinta Jurecic / @qjurecic: really striking difference between what's described here and Snowden's approach of “give it all to the journalists and let them figure out what to publish” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tyson Brody / @tysonbrody: So what's the deal with crypto tax arbitrage in Puerto Rico https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: This Slack sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime rad chaotic moment. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk: Facebook Whistleblower Holds Crypto to Support Herself Financially: Report
The Information:
More than 12 news outlets, including AP and Fox Business, form 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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Alexandra S. Levine / Politico: Facebook's Jan. 6 problem: A thin playbook for false election claims
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: In the ocean's worth of new Facebook revelations out today, here are some of the most important drops
Associated Press: The Facebook Papers — WASHINGTON (AP) — As supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol …
Wall Street Journal: Facebook Services Are Used to Spread Religious Hatred in India, Internal Documents Show
Adam Satariano / New York Times: Frances Haugen, Facebook whistle-blower, to testify in Parliament Monday
CNN: Not stopping ‘Stop the Steal:’ Facebook Papers paint damning picture of company's role in insurrection
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News: 'Carol's Journey': What Facebook knew about how it radicalized users
Ramishah Maruf / CNN: Facebook Oversight Board member calls for more transparency
Ben Rhodes / @brhodes: Facebook is an existential danger to democracy and a global public safety hazard. Like previous products that endanger people, it necessitates aggressive government action with strong enforcement. https://twitter.com/...
Conor Friedersdorf / @conor64: This is way too close for my comfort to *the press is the enemy of the people and must be regulated like other dangerous products for the common good* https://twitter.com/...
Aron Pilhofer / @pilhofer: I would bet my bottom dollar this is less collaboration than coordination: shared docs, reporting done independently. Been there many times, and it sucks. This always happens. Always. https://twitter.com/...
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/...
Nikki Main / The Sun: What do the Facebook papers allegedly say?
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/...
Alison Durkee / Forbes: Here Are The Biggest ‘Facebook Papers’ Charges: Zuckerberg Caves To Communist Government And Lets Celebrities Break The Rules, More
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: Someone Tell Mark Zuckerberg Not to Google Himself Today
Dan Milmo / The Guardian: Frances Haugen: ‘I never wanted to be a whistleblower. But lives were in danger’
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: this facebook internal experiment reminds me of this 2017 @broderick piece! https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@kaaashif: thank you @nytimes for highlighting this. we hope @Facebook do something about the fb and WhatsApp role in spreading hate in India. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Facebook knew they were radicalizing people and they did nothing to stop it https://www.nbcnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Laurence Tribe / @tribelaw: To be clear: Facebook's radicalizing business model is NOT free speech. The obstacles to regulating FB's dangerous algorithms aren't constitutional or technical but political and economic. Don't let that Zuckerman dude hide behind the First Amendment. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Maria Ressa / @mariaressa: More evidence of what has been pointed out for years — How Facebook neglected the rest of the world, fueling hate speech and violence in India https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@ap: Facebook in India has been selective in curbing hate speech, misinformation and inflammatory posts, particularly anti-Muslim content, according to leaked documents obtained by @AP. The files show that Facebook has been aware of the problems for years. https://apne.ws/2wAKWPc
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: By Nov. 9 2020, “As much as 1 out of every 50 views on Facebook in the United States, or 10 percent of all views of political material, was of content declaring the vote fraudulent, [a Facebook] researcher wrote” in internal documents disclosed this week. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Amy Kroin / Free Press: A Friday News Dump Details Facebook Role in Coordinating a Coup Amy Kroin Mon, 10/25/2021 - 11:41
@pranavdixit: Not holding Facebook to account in India is one of the Indian press's most glaring failures (among many others). It's increasingly harder to take any tech journalism out of India seriously. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Riedl / @brian_riedl: Its funny to see Ben Rhodes criticizing irresponsible misinformation and propaganda, given that — when working in the Obama White House - he famously bragged about his ability to trick “know-nothing” reporters into publishing Obama White House propaganda as fact. https://twitter.com/...
Richard Stengel / @stengel: Algorithms are not neutral mathematical equations—they have biases like people do. Just as a bar can be held accountable for serving a drunk customer, the tech companies have to be held accountable for serving content that can lead to violence. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Michael S. Smith II / @michaelssmithii: Now do countries in the Western Balkans. https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Ryan / @hannahd15: *rubs hands together gleefully* leaked slack messages https://twitter.com/...
Ben Hallman / @ben_hallman: Don't know what happened here, but the only limit on journalistic collaboration is the willingness of partnering orgs to communicate and act in good faith. https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Haynes / @charliehtweets: can't wait to start my new job on Monday running facebook's PR. I'm looking forward to getting a coffee, opening up the computer and having a nice relaxed first day! https://twitter.com/...
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: A researcher created an account to see what Facebook users experience in India. For three weeks, it follow all recommendations generated by Facebook's algorithms. “The result was an inundation of hate speech, misinformation and celebrations of violence.” https://www.nytimes.com/... 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.
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Chas Danner / New York Magazine: What Was Leaked in the Facebook Papers?
Katherine Huggins / Mediaite: Ben Smith Shares Slack Conversation Revealing Chaos Over Facebook Papers Collaboration
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/ ...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “And now it's a media story” 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/...
Amir Efrati / @amir: :( thought this would last til Monday. @benyt shows that is not likely. 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/...
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/...
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/...
Connectpoliticditto / @cpoliticditto: Am I the only naïve person that didn't realize all the news orgs coordinate their stories via Slack https://twitter.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/...
@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/...
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: Told you. They knew and they did. not. care. https://twitter.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”
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/ ...
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/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: *I didn't get this from another Times reporter, and the Times denies jumping the gun.
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/...
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/...
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/ ...
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/...
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/...
@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/ ...
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
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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David Z. Morris / CoinDesk: Why Everyone Is Mad at Sam Altman's Worldcoin
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: It's striking to see Facebook double down on a PR strategy of lecturing journalists about how to do their jobs - in response to WaPo reporting on a whistleblower complaint filed to the SEC, FB retorts that, a “single-source” story is “beneath” WaPo. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Hussein Kanji / @hkanji: When a person in the video conference questioned this policy, Kaplan, the vice president of global policy, responded by saying, “Do you want to start a fight with Steve Bannon?” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Aaron Huertas / @aaronhuertas: Facebook PR team undefeated in elbow dropping rakes instead of stepping on them. That's innovation, baby. https://twitter.com/...
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: Haven't really seen a Facebook response like this before. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
CNN: The Facebook Papers are here — You'll be hearing a lot about the Facebook Papers in the days to come.
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/ ...
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/...
Amy Kroin / Free Press: Facebook Crisis Grows as New Whistleblower and Leaked Documents Emerge Amy Kroin Mon, 10/25/2021 - 10:07
Mic Wright / Conquest of the Useless: Thick white sauce: Steve Bannon, Guy Hands and Andrew Neil — three studies in getting away with it
Nick Mark MD / @nickmmark: This is particularly awful news, even by Facebook standards. https://twitter.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/...
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
@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/...
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: Because I told you all that years ago. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
@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/...
Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Citizen Lab: the iPhone of Ben Hubbard, an American reporter for NYT, was hacked in 2020 and 2021, likely by Saudi Arabia using NSO's Pegasus; NSO denies claim — Invasive hacking software sold to countries to fight terrorism is easily abused. Researchers say my phone was hacked twice, probably by Saudi Arabia.
Discussion:
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Bill Marczak / The Citizen Lab: Breaking the News: New York Times Journalist Ben Hubbard Hacked with Pegasus after Reporting on Previous Hacking Attempts
Bill Marczak / @billmarczak: New @citizenlab report “BREAKING THE NEWS”, in which we show how New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard was hacked with Pegasus twice (July 2020 and June 2021), both after he complained to NSO about previous hacking attempts against him https://citizenlab.ca/...
Dominick Reuter / Insider: NYT reporter says hackers used a ‘zero-click’ tool to get inside his phone: 'It's like being robbed by a ghost'
John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton: NEW: iPhone of @NYTBen was hacked with #Pegasus spyware *after* he complained to NSO Group about previous targeting. THREAD Our @citizenlab investigation: https://citizenlab.ca/... https://twitter.com/...
Chriscreama Warren / @film_girl: This is so fucked up and so beyond scary. I don't even know the solution b/c even if you have a separate device, you can still be a target https://citizenlab.ca/...
Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search: Rogue in Vogue: What Can Happen When Specialized Software Becomes Available
Abir Ghattas / @abirghattas: 👉🏽 @NYTBen was repeatedly targeted with #NSO Group's #Pegasus spyware over a three-year period from June 2018 to June 2021. The targeting took place while he was reporting on #Saudi and writing a book about Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman #MBS https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytben: After yet another hacking scare, I decided to work with @citizenlab to see what they could find. Had I been hacked? With what? By whom? What, if any, of my info was stolen? Here are the results, with a number of questions left unanswered. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sarah Leah Whitson / @sarahleah1: On #Saudi and #UAE hacking activists, journalists, even their wives, over and over and over again, and @NSOgroup profiting over and over and over again https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cory Doctorow / @doctorow: The technical forensics linking NSO surveillance to the hacks against Hubbard's Iphone can be found in Citizen Lab's new “Breaking the News” report: https://citizenlab.ca/... 13/
John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton: 3/ A member of the @nytimes tech security team later found another #Pegasus infection attempt from 2018. Here it is, inviting him to cover a protest at the #Saudi embassy in Washington DC. Clicking on the link would infect his device with the spyware. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Goldman / @adamgoldmannyt: In the two attempts in 2018, it appeared that Saudi Arabia had launched the attacks because they came from servers run by an operator who had previously targeted a number of Saudi activists. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cory Doctorow / @doctorow: That's why they used NSO Group's Pegasus malware to hack the @nytimes's @NYTBen. https://www.nytimes.com/... 12/
@ghadaoueiss: I am a victim of spyware. My photos were stolen&used to smear me across social media and the press. No one should have to go through this. No journalist, activist, academic or citizen should feel unsafe just for owning a phone. We need to fight for the right to privacy! https://twitter.com/...
@citizenlab: Read @NYTBen's account of our investigation of how we discovered his phone was hacked with Pegasus @nytimes: I Was Hacked. The Spyware Used Against Me Makes Us All Vulnerable. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeffrey Vagle / @jvagle: NSO Group creates malware for despots who wish to spy on journalists and activists, but in classic bully behavior, avoids riling opponents who might pose a real threat to their livelihood. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: NYT reporter details being attacked by Pegasus malware
Bill Marczak / @billmarczak: We attribute the spyware to NSO Group with high confidence. NSO Group says that it couldn't have been them for “technical and contractual reasons,” but it's quite likely they're wrong. We conclude it was their spyware with high confidence, as we show in our report.
@nytimesworld: “I hoped to find out when I had been hacked, by whom and what information had been stolen. But even with the help of professional internet sleuths, the answers were elusive,” writes @NYTBen. https://www.nytimes.com/...
John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton: 2/ It began in 2018: @NYTBen shared a suspicious message with my colleague @billmarczak. It was a #Pegasus infection attempt. We @citizenlab attributed it to #SaudiArabia. Ben wrote it up & complained to NSO Group. NSO issued a predictable denial. https://twitter.com/...
Cristin Goodwin / @cristingoodwin: I don't get a vote for the Nobel Peace Prize but @citizenlab work to protect journalists & human rights, and share info with the world about the risks of these tools and weapons is truly admirable. https://twitter.com/...
Haris Alisic / @harisalisic: Behind every hacking of a journalist there is Israeli software. So fitting for the only apartheid regime in the Middle East. I Was Hacked. The Spyware Used Against Me Makes Us All Vulnerable. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Primack / @danprimack: There is a big difference between taking investment from a Saudi company (or individual) and taking investment from the Saudi government. For tech startups, most of the incoming $$ is from the latter. https://twitter.com/...
John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton: 6/ Remember the #pegasusproject? Yeah, @NYTBen 's number is on that list of potential targets, too. Along with @nytimes colleague @azamsahmed who extensively reported on Pegasus in Mexico. July report by @ronenbergman & @PatrickKingsley: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Adam Levin / @adam_k_levin: “As long as we store our lives on devices that have vulnerabilities, and surveillance companies can earn millions of dollars selling ways to exploit them, our defenses are limited, especially if a government decides it wants our data.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: Israeli spyware NSO Group “canceled its contracts with Saudi Arabia” after Saudis killed Khashoggi. NSO resumed the following year with “contractual restrictions.” It cancelled again when the Saudis used its spyware to hack phones of 36 Al Jazeera staff. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Thaddeus E. Grugq / @thegrugq: @jsrailton ... What was NSO expected to do? Serious question. (You can DM or email if you'd prefer)
Financial Times:
Fox launches Fox Weather in a new HQ with 120 meteorologists and a ceiling that changes color with the weather, as critics say it will face credibility issues — TV channels bet that reports of increasingly extreme climate can pull them out of a ratings nosedive
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: Fox Weather is Stockpiling Meteorologists and Taking on the Weather Channel
Brian Flood / Fox News: FOX Weather launches with trailblazing app that will change how Americans consume weather news, analysis
George Winslow / TV Technology: Fox Weather Goes Live
Gerry Smith / @gerryfsmith: Fox Weather execs say they won't ignore climate change, but climate experts are skeptical. “We should assume, unless proven otherwise, that this network will be used to further promote climate denialism,” says @MichaelEMann https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Michael Sadowski / @sustainnyc: Some? “Some observers question whether Fox News will face a credibility problem.” Fox News hopes round-the-clock weather coverage will brighten outlook https://www.ft.com/... #nottheonion
Henry Mance / @henrymance: Fox News: climate change isn't happening also Fox News: check out our new dedicated weather app for updates on extreme floods and hurricanes! https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Anna Nicolaou / @annaknicolaou: in real life succession, the Lachlan vs James battle has moved to...............weather reporting James Murdoch is funding climate change reporting at the AP. Lachlan is starting a Fox News weather channel, which will “not ignore” climate change https://www.ft.com/...
Rebecca Baird-Remba / @thecitywanderer: newscorp is launching a fox-branded weather channel... incredible. an IRL succession story line. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Joiner / @samjoiner: Fox News is moving into... 24 hour weather coverage. It includes a new studio that will “change colour with the weather, the ceiling turning red during severe events” 🤨 https://www.ft.com/...
Jess Barnes / Cord Cutters News: Fox Weather Launches for iOS and Android
@jasonfrazertv: Here's more info on what you can expect from @FoxWeather. I'll be on from 6am-12pm EST. However, our coverage continues 24/7! Don't have the app yet? Download it on your mobile device by visiting the Google or Apple stores and search Fox Weather. https://www.foxnews.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Fox is launching a Weather channel, but internal sources say it will only be covering weather systems that come from the left (thanks, I'll be here at Dad Jokes all week)
Gerry Smith / @gerryfsmith: Fox is launching a new streaming service for weather with 3D-radar, storm chasers, stadium cams, 42 kinds of alerts and a meteorologist with the last name “Freeze.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Justin Guay / @guay_jg: First you deny climate change exists Then you pivot to stream 24 hour daily coverage of the chaos that denial has unleashed Unbelievable https://www.ft.com/...
Jackson Richman / Mediaite: Fox Launches New Weather Channel With Forecast of ‘No Politics’
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Interview with LA Times politics columnist Jackie Calmes, who calls on reporters to end false equivalence by never using quotes with lies without refuting them — Jackie Calmes, a veteran former New York Times White House reporter, lit up media Twitter over the weekend with a powerful …
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@eugene_scott, @jonfavs, @froomkin, @jayrosen_nyu, @froomkin, @janinezacharia and @jkelly3rd
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Eugene Scott / @eugene_scott: This is the reality at so many mainstream media organizations that conservatives have painted as liberal https://twitter.com/...
Jon Favreau / @jonfavs: NYT political reporters won't admit this but I'd bet most of them feel this way. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Sick of false equivalence, former NYT political reporter @jackiekcalmes told me the Times “needs to loosen up. Because there isn't any one-hand-on-the-other hand anymore.” She'll be on @ReliableSources w/@brianstelter. Should be good. https://presswatchers.org/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “I felt more pressure of the bothsidesism sort coming from the New York Times than I did from the Wall Street Journal,” she said, “...the New York Times is sensitive to the fact that it is known to be a liberal paper, so it bends over backwards.” https://presswatchers.org/...
@janinezacharia: “If reporters know, based on their reporting, that a politician has lied to them, then they should either not use the quote at all, or, 'if you do use it, to show the rhetoric...you must follow up right behind that quote with words of your own to point out why that is false.” https://twitter.com/...
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
The “Rust” tragedy reflects troubling trends on sets, including inexperience and complacency, as production companies cut costs to keep up with content demand — The details of what went horribly wrong on the New Mexico set of “Rust” will be gathered in the coming weeks through multiple public and private investigations.
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Andi Ortiz / The Wrap: Hilaria Baldwin Offers Support to Halyna Hutchins' Family and ‘My Alec’ After ‘Rust’ Tragedy
Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times: Search warrant reveals grim details of ‘Rust’ shooting and Halyna Hutchins' final minutes
Jason Guerrasio / Insider: Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on the set of ‘Rust,’ killing its cinematographer. Here's a timeline of the shocking incident.
Lee Brown / New York Post: Rookie armorer on Baldwin set said ‘best part’ of job proving ‘how safe’ guns are
@adragondemands: All of this news about the “Rust” set gun accident has me thinking about all the documented stunt accidents on Game of Thrones. If nothing else, as this article explains, in the era of “Peak TV”, “bigger” means fewer trained crew. https://variety.com/...
Caleb Howe / Mediaite: Hollywood Armorer Mike Tristano Explains Why Prop Gun Fired By Alec Baldwin Must Have Had Real Bullets
@variety: Production veterans pointed to a number of concerning industry trends that are reflected in the behind-the-scenes story of the tragedy on the set of “Rust” https://variety.com/...
Shafiq Najib / RADAR: Alec Baldwin's Gun Handler Once Handed Non-Inspected Firearm To 11-Year-Old Actress, Deletes Social Media Following The Fatal Accident
Merle_p / @merlep01756164: Great background information. It sounds like the producers of Rust might have hired non-union workers against regulations that forbid them from doing so in this case. https://variety.com/...
Clayton Davis / @byclaytondavis: Cynthia Littleton (@Variety_Cynthia) with a must-read today! Halyna Hutchins' life and passion loss must not be in vain. It must bring overdue change. ‘Rust’ Tragedy Reflects Troubling Trends on Movie and TV Sets: ‘We Did This to Ourselves’ https://variety.com/... @Variety
Paul Scheer / @paulscheer: And for those who have questions about why or how this can happen. This is a pretty straight take on the situation, while this is one incident it's a much larger issue https://variety.com/...
Robert King / @rking618: Great article from Cynthia Littleton of Variety about the money and peak TV issues that lead to this kind of Rust set issue. Very knowing. https://twitter.com/...
@boneysoups: this explainer over-relies on a producer's perspective. “Peak TV” doesn't explain the brutal exploitation of workers in an industry turning record profits. “Peak TV” doesn't explain IATSE's overwhelming willingness to strike. https://variety.com/...
Amy Kaufman / Los Angeles Times: Peer of ‘Rust’ gun handler expresses shock: 'I'm surprised any of this happened on her watch'
Hollywood Reporter: Guns, Ammo, Accountability: Hollywood Munitions Experts Grapple With ‘Rust’ Tragedy
Cheyenne Roundtree / The Daily Beast: ‘Inexperienced’ Armorer on Baldwin Set Raised Alarm Bells on Prior Film
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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
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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
Martha Ross / Mercury News: Hilaria Baldwin garners sympathy for ‘my Alec’ after Halyna Hutchins' death
Soo Youn / The Guardian: Rust assistant director who gave Alec Baldwin gun ‘was subject of 2019 safety complaint’
Chris Lindahl / IndieWire: At Halyna Hutchins' Candlelight Vigil, Officials Vow to Fight Putting Production Budgets Over People
Lesley Goldberg / The Hollywood Reporter: ABC's ‘The Rookie’ Bans “Live” Guns on Set
Tony Maglio / The Wrap: ‘Rust’ to Shutter Production ‘At Least Until the Investigations Are Complete’
Natalie Musumeci / Insider: The armorer of Alec Baldwin's movie ‘Rust’ told a podcast that guns are ‘not really problematic unless put in the wrong hands’
Ryan Naumann / RADAR: Alec Baldwin Puts Upcoming Film Projects On Hold As He Processes Pulling Trigger On Prop Gun That Killed Halyna Hutchins
Grace Ferguson / The Daily Dot: Trump Jr. sells shirt that says 'Guns don't kill people, Alec Baldwin kills people'
Tyler McCarthy / Fox News: Alec Baldwin's wife Hilaria breaks silence on accidental shooting incident: ‘There are no words’
Jenny G. Zhang / Gawker: “Negligence and Unprofessionalism” Blamed for Death on Alec Baldwin Film ‘Rust’
Chris Murphy / Vanity Fair: Keep Guns Off Film Sets, Hollywood Demands After Halyna Hutchins's Death
Kisha Forde / E! Online: Rust Search Warrant Details What Happened After Alec Baldwin's Prop Gun Went Off
NBC 6 South Florida: Baldwin ‘Practicing’ With Gun When It Went Off, Careful With Weapons on Set, Warrant Says
@cbsnews: Husband of cinematographer fatally shot on Alec Baldwin movie set speaks out: “Halyna inspired us all” https://www.cbsnews.com/...
Sydney Kalich / NewsNation Now: What went wrong on the ‘Rust’ movie set?
Tobin Bell / @officialtobin: We so often rely on the assurances of armourers, AD's, stunt coordinators and SFX specialists for our safety in potentially dangerous situations on movie sets... this I know. My heart flies to you Alec, and to Halyna and her family. #actorslife #HalynaHutchins https://twitter.com/...
@newsmax: “There is no reason whatsoever for an actual bullet to be in a real gun on a movie set.” Actor @John_Schneider reacts to Alec Baldwin's fatal prop-gun shooting and explains the procedure to handling weapons on movie sets on Saturday's “Wake Up America Weekend.” https://twitter.com/...
Gremliny Nussboo / @emilynussbaum: Enraging details of what happened on the set of Rust. https://www.latimes.com/...
Tatiana Tenreyro / The A.V. Club: Rust production halted after death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
Eoin Higgins / The Flashpoint: “This Is Film Industry Culture”
Jorge Fitz-Gibbon / New York Post: Alec Baldwin ‘canceling other projects’ after fatal movie-set shooting
frankie's MILKSHAKE CLUB: When a Man in a Trench Coat Hands a Marvel Script Over In a Manila Envelope
@ericbolling: We don't know all the details, but it's beyond alarming Hutchins was aimed at. The first thing you learn when training with a firearm is to assume the gun is loaded at all times... the next is: NEVER point it at a human being unless you intend to fire at that human being. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Elliott-Gibbs / Mirror: Alec Baldwin shooting victim's sister says she cannot ‘comprehend’ on-set death
@nytnational: Alec Baldwin on Friday spoke publicly for the first time about the fatal shooting on the set of the film “Rust,” where officials said he had fired a gun used as a prop. “There are no words to convey my shock and sadness,” he said on Twitter. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: Alec Baldwin Told Gun Was Cold; Rust Assistant Director Under Scrutiny for Past Safety Complaints
Claudia Black / @theclaudiablack: If you're an aspiring actor, and as my advice was good enough for a young Mcavoy I pray you'll listen now. When we were filming Pitch Black a producer came to give me a choice. They had a problem and needed to do a reshoot with me and a stuntie. The shoot thus far had been rough https://twitter.com/...
Chelsea Quezada / handle with care: This is my “Joker” — In this week's handle with care, thoughts on the season premiere of …
Stacey Prussman / @staceyprussman: Regardless of your personal feelings abt Alec Baldwin. According to set fire arm procedures he followed them,you are not supposed to mess m/move anything in the gun once received.When given a firearm on set they call cold gun & it's supposedly safe. #Setsafety is a huge problem https://twitter.com/...
@9newssyd: “I would've been lucky to do another movie with a person like that,” Lane Looper, a crew member on the Rust film set where the shooting happened, said. #9News https://www.9news.com.au/...
@wbtv_news: The shooting death of a cinematographer on the set of the Alec Baldwin movie “Rust” is a reminder of the dangers that can exist on film and television sets. https://www.wbtv.com/...
@noahharald: Hell yes to showrunner Alexi Hawley. Also using @ndsinnott as an expert in this article. Double hell yes. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Davis / @juliadavisnews: Alec Baldwin was handed a loaded weapon by an assistant director who indicated it was safe to use. The assistant director did not know the prop gun was loaded with live rounds, according to a search warrant filed in a Santa Fe court. https://apnews.com/...
@thr: “It is now policy on #TheRookie that all gunfire on set will be with Air Soft guns with CG muzzle flashes added in post,” showrunner Alexi Hawley wrote. “There will be no more ‘live’ weapons on the show. The safety of our cast and crew is too important” https://thr.cm/P4ebPND
Fern / @fernkurago: I'm a safety competent person for a general contractor (construction), my job is to ensure safety conditions are being met by the companies involved at projects. I get to work with union and non union shops daily. Unions are the most effective way for a safe workplace, period. https://twitter.com/...
Kaitlin / @thefactualprep: I get that dunking on Alec Baldwin is easy here due to his past of being an asshole, but he seems sincere in this statement. It could've been made any a publicist, but at least he's trying. https://twitter.com/...
Michael J. Stern / @michaeljstern1: To the back-seat lawyers who have been screaming “manslaughter!”, the fact the assistant director yelled “cold gun” (meaning not loaded), as the gun was handed to Baldwin, will make a manslaughter charge unlikely. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Laura Belmonte / The Full Belmonte: The Full Belmonte, 10/24/21 — “Tens of millions of Americans are now cleared …
Raw Story: Fatal Alec Baldwin film set shooting followed outcry by union crew members over safety protocols
@latimes: After three prop gun accidents on the Rust set, including two on Saturday involving Alec Baldwin's stunt double, one worker texted the production manager: “We've now had 3 accidental discharges. This is super unsafe.” https://www.latimes.com/...
@thedailybeast: EXCLUSIVE: The 24-year-old armorer on Alec Baldwin's film set allegedly gave a gun to an 11-year-old actress without checking it properly on the set of her last movie. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@latimes: “There should have been an investigation into what happened,” a crew member said. “There were no safety meetings. There was no assurance that it wouldn't happen again. All they wanted to do was rush, rush, rush.” https://www.latimes.com/...
@mailonline: Assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin gun also worked on The Crow where Brandon Lee was killed https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ ...
@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/...
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/...
@foxbusiness: Alec Baldwin's ‘Rust’ movie set shooting: Insurance ‘should be available’ to cover damages, expert says https://www.foxbusiness.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 those who do speak up are often branded “difficult” to work with. This is so sad. 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/...
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/...
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/...
Reagan Gomez / @reagangomez: Oh WOW. This story just gets worse and worse. My God. https://twitter.com/...
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/...
Natalie Shure / @nataliesurely: Devastating and damning stuff 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/ ...
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/...
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/...
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/ ...
@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
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/...
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/...
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/ ...
@rasmussen_poll: And yet the “prop gun” was still pointed directly at non actors, and the trigger pulled 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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Carl Zha / @carlzha: That's how Bruce Lee's son Brandon Lee was killed. By a prop gun firing blanks... 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/...
Emma-Jo Morris / @emmajonyc: Knowledge of gun safety matters when handling a gun. https://twitter.com/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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Cameo makes its first acquisition, buying Represent, which develops and operates direct-to-fan ecommerce sites for celeb clients like Leonardo DiCaprio — Cameo, the startup that has built a fast-growing business selling video shout-outs from celebrities (and others), is extending into a new line of fandom business.
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Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Cameo buys fan merch platform Represent
Sara Fischer / Axios: Cameo makes its first acquisition
Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter: Cameo Enters Merch Business With Its First-Ever Acquisition Of ‘Represent’
Cameo / @bookcameo: We're excited to create new opportunities to connect celebs with their biggest fans through our recent acquisition of @Represent: https://cameoblog.medium.com/ ...
Ad-Eek / @adweek: Cameo is diving into the merchandising pool with its acquisition Monday of marketing and merchandising platform Represent—its first ever acquisition. https://www.adweek.com/...
Steven Galanis / @mr312: I'm incredibly excited to share that Cameo is getting into the merch game through our acquisition of @Represent. Read all about it here. https://cameoblog.medium.com/ ...
Diane Haithman / The Wrap: Cameo Acquires Celebrity Merchandise Platform Represent
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LA-based esports collective FaZe Clan to go public through a SPAC merger, valuing the company at ~$1B — Backed by the singer Pitbull and other entertainment and sports celebrities, FaZe Clan targets Gen Z and millennial consumers — Youth-focused online platform FaZe Clan Inc. is nearing …
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Todd Spangler / Variety: Esports Company FaZe Clan Valued at $1 Billion After Deal to Go Public in SPAC Merger
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: This guy's company is now valued at $1 billion. Wild. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jason Wild / @jasongwild: Youth-focused FaZe Clan is close to a SPAC merger that would take it public at a $1 billion valuation. Its backers include Pitbull and sports stars. https://www.wsj.com/...
Erika Wheless / Ad Age: FaZe Clan plans to go public
Stephen Witt / New Yorker:
Profile of Patrick Soon-Shiong, a controversial doctor who bought LA Times with “little due diligence” thinking owning it would be “easier than curing cancer” — The billionaire doctor has become one of Los Angeles's most prominent civic leaders, after a boundary-pushing ascent in medicine.
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Michael Luo / @michaelluo: On buying @latimes. “He made the acquisition with very little due diligence, because he thought that it had to be easier than curing cancer,” Pearlstine told me. “I'm not sure whether he still believes that.” Ha. https://www.newyorker.com/...
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