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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
CCDH: Substack profits off creators making millions of dollars sharing vaccine misinformation; Substack defends hosting “writers with whom we strongly disagree” — Newsletter company Substack is making millions off anti-vaccine content, according to estimates
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Meera Navlakha / Mashable: On Substack, COVID misinformation is allowed to flourish
@alexhern: Something that isn't addressed in this article, but is crucial to remember about substack: an unknown number of its writers are directly paid by the company, hand-picked and enticed over through its opaque substack pro deal https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Elise Czajkowski / American Press Institute: Need to Know: January 27, 2022 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard …
@ccdhate: One newsletter by prominent anti-vaxxer Joseph Mercola spread the misinformation that “More Children Have Died From Covid Shot Than From Covid.” His newsletters make an estimated $1M a year. Read more in @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Jamison Foser / @jamisonfoser: So the thing about this is that *Harry Potter is a work of fiction* and in the real world no amount of mockery makes covid misinformation spread by massive and influential platforms like Substack disappear. Instead, people die. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Posner / @sarahposner: This is some next-level venture capitalist pretzel brain shit https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Posner / @sarahposner: Listen up all you people who are paying for Substacks: Are you also paying for real journalism? Because if you're not, you are serious fucking part of the problem.
Sarah Posner / @sarahposner: People paying for Substacks think they're getting something cool and new and close and intimate with the writer. The real reason why there are so many Substacks (of legit people, not the anti-vax scammers) is there are shrinking ways for writers to make money.
Sarah Posner / @sarahposner: So the only way for writers to make money is to give some of it to some idiots who platform conspiracy theorists and who are making millions off of it.
Kaya Oakes / @kayaoakes: As Sarah says in this thread, if you're paying for Substacks you should also be paying for journalism, you know, the kind that happens in newspapers and magazines with editors and fact checkers. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Posner / @sarahposner: IOW, Substack, which pretends to promote a diversity of ideas, is subverting democracy. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Rothschild / @rothschildmd: Substack is also profiting off stolen election conspiracy theories. The “devolution” theory, which claims Trump is still the president and running a secret military government, generates thousands of dollars per month for both its creator, “Patel Patriot,” and Substack. https://twitter.com/...
Rusty Foster / @fka_tabs: Like in HARRY POTTER y'know? 😉😉😉😉 😉 https://twitter.com/...
Lulu Cheng Meservey / @lulumeservey: 6) When it comes to bad ideas, it's neither right nor smart to martyr them and drive them into dark corners where they're safe from examination and questioning. That doesn't work. What works is examination and mockery (like using the Riddikulus charm against a Boggart).
Sarah Posner / @sarahposner: Substack earns at least $2.5 million a year from just five anti-vaccine leaders who have amassed tens of thousands of subscribers, each paying $50 a month." https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@alexhern: Substack's issue is the same as Spotify's: it has an open platform, and a closed editorial product, and it tries to pretend that criticism of the latter is the same as criticism of the former. But unlike Spotify, it's much more successful at that line, because of its obfuscation
Evelyn Douek / @evelyndouek: A lot of “content moderation” just gets lumped in together but we should talk a lot more about how who pays and who profits drives this space and should change different stakeholder responsibilities https://twitter.com/...
Jay Van Bavel / @jayvanbavel: Follow the money of the people spewing out misinformation... https://twitter.com/...
Isaac Saul / @ike_saul: It's almost as if banning people from platforms doesn't actually work! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@alexhern: I say “unknown number” but the more important thing isn't how many there are but who they are. Is substack deliberately using substack pro to build an anti-vax publishing empire? We literally do not know, and the company refuses to divulge any information
Tarl Warwick / The Tarl Times: Youtubes Laughable Misinfo Policy on COVID
@meeranavlakha: Substack is home to a slew of prominent newsletters from anti-vaxxers. The company's philosophy? “It's not against the rules to be disagreeable or wrong.” I wrote about why these newsletters have been allowed to exist, and flourish, on the platform. https://mashable.com/...
Liz Essley Whyte / @l_e_whyte: Anti-vaccine activists flocking to Substack, including Joseph Mercola, who recently used his newsletter to claim that the unvaccinated might soon be imprisoned (which is, to be clear, a conspiracy theory) https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@alexhern: This matters too because it completely blows substack's defence out of the water. You cannot have a “hands off approach to content moderation” if you're actively hand-picking people to pay a special deal to. That is the definition of hands-on. https://twitter.com/...
Chelsea Clinton / @chelseaclinton: Anti-vaxx grift going strong - why is Substack facilitating science denialists' ability to profit from destructive lies (and comfortable profiting themselves)? “Anti-vaxxers making ‘at least $2.5m’ a year from publishing on Substack” via @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@ccdhate: The US tech platform which hosts popular newsletters, retains 10% of subscription revenue. This means @SubstackInc is earning at least $250,000 a year from allowing Mercola and Berenson to spread lies and misinformation https://counterhate.com/...
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On Substack:
Substack says it will stick to its hands-off approach to content moderation amid increased pressure to censor what some see as dubious or objectionable content — Hamish McKenzie, Chris Best, and Jairaj — Last year, in an interview with the New York Times, anthropologist Heidi Larson …
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Lulu Cheng Meservey / @lulumeservey: At Substack, we don't make moderation decisions based on public pressure or PR considerations. An important principle for us is defending free expression, even for stuff we personally dislike or disagree with. We understand principles come at a cost. 🧵
Matt Taibbi / TK News: The Folly of Pandemic Censorship
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: (Also: we do not mind platforming misinformation and disinformation) https://twitter.com/...
@ethanvansciver: Completely appreciate this sentiment, and it's a shame that this needs to be explained to ANYONE in 2022. But it does. Social Justice bullies need to shut the fuck up and let people express themselves without having to pass their ironic morality tests. Stay tough, Substack! https://twitter.com/...
Ashley / @infosec_taylor: We defend free speech including disinformation and hate speech.... except if you post anything sexual. That's icky. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel A. Zendejas / Are We Having Fun Yet?: Society has a Trust Problem
Lulu Cheng Meservey / @lulumeservey: 4) Who should be the arbiter of what's true and good and right? People should be allowed to decide for themselves, not have a tech executive decide for them. I wouldn't want someone to pick out my clothes for me, much less my ideas.
Nick Gillespie / @nickgillespie: As we face growing pressure to censor content published on @SubstackInc...our answer remains the same: we make decisions based on principles not PR, we will defend free expression, and we will stick to our hands-off approach to content moderation.' Yes! https://on.substack.com/...
Lulu Cheng Meservey / @lulumeservey: 3) We made a promise to writers that this is a place they can pursue what they find meaningful, without coddling or controlling. We promised we wouldn't come between them and their audiences. And we intend to keep our side of the agreement for every writer that keeps theirs.
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: I think people misconstruing what “freedom of expression” means is kind of par for the course on this site, but suggesting that allowing misinformation to be published “builds trust” by being performatively hands-off, is an amazing level of cognitive dissonance. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Fleishman / @glennf: No. Every platform starts out with free-speech maximalism as if it's some kind of universal principle handed down by the gods or the stars or whatever, and ultimately devotes 10-20% of its staff to dealing with safety. https://on.substack.com/...
Lulu Cheng Meservey / @lulumeservey: 5) The only area where we humans have a perfect track record is that we've consistently gotten things wrong. Every generation has beliefs and blind spots that make future generations aghast. It would be the height of arrogance to think we've suddenly become infallible now.
Dana Loesch / @dloesch: Good thread. Thank you. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Miller / @emilymiller: Read this from @SubstackInc — it makes me proud to be a part of this mission to ensure free speech so the government must listen to the people. “Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse.” https://on.substack.com/...
@slpng_giants: Another platform, another dishonest “free speech” argument that doesn't apply to businesses. Pathetic to see @SubstackInc, a new content platform, using the same well-worn playbook of Facebook (@meta) and @YouTube, who came before them. Just say you're in it for the dough. https://twitter.com/...
Joscha Bach / @plinz: “We don't have a misinformation problem, we have a trust problem. Censorship of bad ideas makes people less likely, not more likely, to trust good ideas. Censorship [doesn't] make the misinformation problem disappear but the mistrust problem worse."https://on.substack.com/ ...
@bartnijman: “To put it plainly: censorship of bad ideas makes people less likely, not more likely, to trust good ideas.” Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse. https://on.substack.com/...
Lulu Cheng Meservey / @lulumeservey: I read things on Substack all the time that I personally disagree with. Open debate is not always comfortable. But neither, for that matter, is the sea.
Yuri Bezmenov / How To with Yuri Bezmenov: How To Make a Golden Age Mixtape
Lulu Cheng Meservey / @lulumeservey: I respect that writers on Substack are people who like to think for themselves. They tend not to be conformists, and they have the confidence and strength of conviction not to be threatened by views that disagree with them or even disgust them. This is becoming increasingly rare
Lulu Cheng Meservey / @lulumeservey: I'm proud of our decision to defend free expression, even when it's hard, because: 1) We want a thriving ecosystem full of fresh and diverse ideas. That can't happen without the freedom to experiment, or even to be wrong.
Tom Gara / @tomgara: There's a revealed preference thing going on with Substack's approach to content moderation and it's huge success / popularity among media people https://on.substack.com/...
David Ulevitch / @davidu: It's the correct place to land. So obvious, and yet, refreshing. https://on.substack.com/...
Lulu Cheng Meservey / @lulumeservey: 2) People already mistrust institutions, media, and each other. Knowing that dissenting views are being suppressed makes that mistrust worse. Withstanding scrutiny makes truths stronger, not weaker.
Ryan Hoover / @rrhoover: “In the online Thunderdome, it is imperative that you are not seen to engage with ideas from the wrong group” https://on.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Emil Protalinski / @epro: If Substack's hands-off approach to content moderation was just about free speech, maybe the company could make a non-bullshit argument. But Substack makes money by taking a cut from “dubious or objectionable content.” Sorry Substack, this doesn't pass the sniff test. https://twitter.com/...
Timothy B. Lee / @binarybits: We are not on substack but I like this post about their content moderation philosophy. https://on.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@yugacohler: Latest @SubstackInc missive by @hamishmckenzie @cjgbest and @jairajs89 is really excellent. “Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse.” https://twitter.com/...
Louise Matsakis / @lmatsakis: What Substack is and isn't willing to do on moderation remains super vague. This post seems to imply that they won't take down misleading posts about vaccines. But at the same time, its rules already ban promoting “harmful or illegal activities” https://on.substack.com/...
Doomberg / @doombergt: Outstanding piece by the @SubstackInc team. As long as this is their view, we want to be part of their ecosystem. @SubstackLinda https://on.substack.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: Interesting contrast: Substack just posted its own anti-vaxx policy, which is that generally it is NOT going to remove it, because it doesn't think censorship works. Gonna write about this for @platformer today if you want to get ahead on your reading: https://on.substack.com/...
Substack / @substackinc: As we face growing pressure to censor content published on Substack, our position remains unchanged: We will always view censorship as a last resort, because we believe open discourse is better for writers and better for society. Read more: https://on.substack.com/...
@dongwon: this sucks. @substack what world are you living in? this is such strawman, flimsy bullshit to justify profiting off of hate speech, misinformation, and a system that undermines the very principles you claim to be defending. https://on.substack.com/...
Mark Coatney / Words TK: Let's Start Solving Society's Trust Problem By Solving Substack's Trust Problem
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
NBCU says Peacock has 9M+ paid subscribers, with most on the $5/month ad-supported tier; CFO says content spend will double to $3B in 2022 — NBCUniversal revealed streamer Peacock ended 2021 with 9 million paid subscribers during parent company Comcast's fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday …
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Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: NBCU Sees 2021 Peacock Revenue, Losses Climb, Even As 2022 Content Spend Grows
Jay Rigdon / Awful Announcing: Peacock hits 9 million paid subscribers
Andrew Blok / CNET: Peacock reaches 9 million paid subscribers
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Peacock has 9 million subscribers
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Disney, Amazon and HBO Max all have arguments for being second to Netflix. But there is a clear last place in streaming right now, and it's name is Peacock. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Jon Lafayette / Next TV: Comcast To Double Programming Spending On Peacock to $3 Billion
Dade Hayes / Deadline: Peacock Reaches 9M Stand-Alone Premium Subscribers And 7M More Via Paid Bundles; Comcast Plans 2022 Spending Ramp-Up To $3B
Tony Maglio / The Wrap: Peacock Has Just 9 Million Paid Subscribers
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Peacock has an incredible library. One of the best. What Peacock doesn't have is strong acquisition titles. Why should someone sign up for Peacock, especially if same library is on Hulu? Still no urgency (hit show) to bring people in. How many of these signups are sports related? https://twitter.com/...
Emily Longeretta / @emilylongeretta: Curious to know: are people surprised by how low this number is? Personally, I am since there are a few shows I'd EASILY pay to watch. (#DrDeath 4ever...) https://twitter.com/...
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Comcast reports Q4 media revenue rose 8.4% YoY to $5.83B; Peacock had $335M in revenue and an adjusted $559M loss, up from $254M YoY, and 24.5M active accounts — - Comcast reported earnings for the fourth quarter of 2021 before the bell on Thursday. — The company beat estimates …
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Jennifer Maas / Variety: Comcast Beats Q4 Earnings: NBCU Revenue Rises 9.5% as Peacock Tops 24 Million Monthly Active U.S. Accounts
Jennifer Maas / Variety: Comcast Beats Q4 Earnings: NBCU Revenue Rises 25.6% as Peacock Tops 24 Million Monthly Active U.S. Accounts
Marc Wojno / ZDNet: Comcast reports strong 4Q thanks to growth in wireless, business services and broadband segments
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify is removing Neil Young's music after he gave the company an ultimatum between his music and Joe Rogan's podcast with COVID-19 vaccine misinformation — Folk-rock star had over six million monthly listeners on the service, which he blames for spreading fake info about vaccines
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Ashley Carman / The Verge: Why Spotify can't afford to lose Joe Rogan
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post: Spotify pulls Neil Young's music after his ultimatum regarding Joe Rogan and ‘fake information about vaccines’
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Spotify says it has taken down *20,000* podcast episodes for violating a Covid content policy... a policy that no one has ever seen, enforced by a mysterious moderation team of indeterminate size. @ashleyrcarman asked, Spotify ghosted. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kishalaya Kundu / ScreenRant: Why You Can't Find Neil Young Songs On Spotify | Screen Rant
Oscar Gonzalez / CNET: Neil Young pulls music from Spotify over Joe Rogan COVID misinformation
Lionel Laurent / Bloomberg: Spotify's Joe Rogan Drama Feels Like a Facebook Moment
Alex Paterson / Media Matters for America: Spotify's Joe Rogan and guest Jordan Peterson suggest trans people are a sign of “civilizations collapsing”
Gil Kaufman / Billboard: Geraldo Rivera Supports Neil Young's Spotify Fight, But This Country Singer Disagrees
Shannon Bond / @shannonpareil: Spotify spox confirms WSJ scoop that it's removing Neil Young's music, at his request, over his objections to Joe Rogan's podcast. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Stephanie Brail / Wholistic: Neil Young and the Virtuous Identitarians
Derrick Rossignol / UPROXX: Some Of Neil Young's Biggest Music Is Still On Spotify After His Joe Rogan Spat And Album Removals
Patrick Norton / @patricknorton: @reckless Not saying what the rules are is kind of a tradition, at least for as long as a company can hold that line. Also, -real- curious how and if that moderation exits. Even if they listen at 1.5x speed, that's still more than three weeks of listening for a team of fifty.
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Here are some questions Spotify should answer: - What are your Covid content policies for podcasters, and do podcasters know what they are? - How big is your moderation team, and are they contractors or employees? - How much time is each deleted episode reviewed for?
Nilay Patel / @reckless: You can criticize the big social media companies all you like, but Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Snap, etc will put their executives on the record to talk about content moderation. Spotify won't even say what its rules are.
Mark Coatney / @mcoatney: @reckless I mean there are a lot of shortcuts here, no? Like they can look for keywords from transcripts; they can block multiple shows from same host, etc
Nilay Patel / @reckless: @ElliotPinto1984 Substack is going to have its own moderation problems in the end. Everyone does. What if one of the highest-revenue-driving Substackers decides to endorse the idea that your race determines your IQ?
Nilay Patel / @reckless: @mcoatney We can guess all day. Spotify should tell us — and importantly, tell the podcasters it distributes on its platform.
Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: Spotify was hit by a strange outage today, with hits by Taylor Swift, Adele, Dua Lipa suddenly left unavailable to play
John Bergmayer / @bergmayer: Spotify chose a path that gave it more control over the “podcasts” it hosts, which makes it responsible for their content. Maybe it will work out for them in the end but this was predictable
John Bergmayer / @bergmayer: Here's my take on the recent Spotify / Rogan / Neil Young stuff from 2018 https://publicknowledge.org/ ...
Jem Aswad / Variety: SiriusXM Relaunches Neil Young Radio, a Day After His Music Was Removed From Spotify
Hannah Sparks / New York Post: Jordan Peterson on Joe Rogan show: Being trans is like ‘satanic ritual abuse’
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone: Widow of Gang of Four's Andy Gill Slams Spotify for Choosing Joe Rogan Over Neil Young
Bernard Zuel / @bernardzuel: As if Spotify, a morals-free zone at the best of times, for whom music is the widget-du-jour, would choose a musician with solid-but-not-spectacular-following over the continuing and expanding shitshow that is MRA/anti-vax/proto-fascist talking heads. https://twitter.com/...
Jimmy Dore / @jimmy_dore: I bet Neil is super happy now that he will be “rocking in the censored world” he dreamed of! Spotify to Take Down Neil Young's Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/...
Ciara McVey / Hollywood Reporter: Spotify Pulling Neil Young's Music After He Slams Joe Rogan for COVID Misinformation | THR News
Gavin Sheridan / @gavinsblog: Imagine choosing Rogan over Neil Young. https://twitter.com/...
insideradio.com: Spotify Sides With Its $100 Million Investment. Pulls Neil Young Music; Keeps Joe Rogan Podcasts.
Ashley Carman / @ashleyrcarman: for today's hot pod newsletter, i get into why spotify was never going to side with neil young. podcast economics! streaming economics! rogan commands a $1 million minimum ad spend while young costs spotify money every time someone listens https://www.theverge.com/...
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Neil Young Pulls His Music From Spotify In Protest Of Joe Rogan-Spread Vaccine Misinfo
Ashley Carman / @ashleyrcarman: this also, to me, represents a critical turning point for spotify. it's no longer a music streaming company and instead, has fully committed itself to podcasting, potentially to the detriment of its reputation. it's financially incentivized to promote rogan https://twitter.com/...
Ayomikun Adekaiyero / Insider: Spotify removes Neil Young's music upon request over Joe Rogan's COVID misinformation
Amee Vanderpool / SHERO: Huckleberry Hype — Your paid subscriptions and one-time tributes to SHERO allow …
Sari Beth Rosenberg / @saribethrose: The fact that @Spotify chose Joe Rogan over Neil Young is absolutely disgusting.
Dermot Casey / @dermotcasey: So who's migrated from Spotify to Apple Music and can fill me in in the experience https://twitter.com/...
T.J. Moe / @tjmoe28: This is the proper way to respond when crazy people try to control what other pay can and cannot say. Bravo, Spotify. https://www.wsj.com/...
Heather Korbulic / @korb_heather: So, @Spotify prefers the person spreading misinformation over the polio survivor who advocates for vaccines that SAVE lives. Neil Young is a national treasure, what a disgusting decision. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Cooke / Complete Music Update: Spotify confirms it is removing Neil Young's music following his Joe Rogan podcast protest
Greg Evans / Deadline: SiriusXM Relaunches Neil Young Radio Limited Channel Following Spotify Removal
Tatiana Cirisano / @tatianacirisano: There's a lot going on here but I'm thinking about Hipgnosis, which spent $150M on 50% of Neil's catalog last year...what happens now? https://twitter.com/...
@xeni: Some of us deleted our Spotify accounts when they first signed the deal with Rogan. It's time for you to join us.
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: Young posts to his website: “Spotify has become the home of life threatening covid misinformation. Lies being sold for money.” https://neilyoungarchives.com/ ...
Richard Verrier / @rverrier: Why Spotify picked Joe Rogan over Neil Young in its misinformation fight @mattdpearce @thewendylee https://www.latimes.com/...
Maury Brown / @bizballmaury: The lede is that it's chosen Joe Rogaine over Neil Young. Spotify 🤦🏻♂ ️ https://twitter.com/...
@racheld: Your move, @taylorswift13 (and other powerful artists who care about science and TRUTH). https://twitter.com/...
David Rothschild / @davmicrot: Buy the LP and get the digital copy for free https://neilyoung.warnerrecords.com/ exercising free speech through the free market. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Griswold / @hashtaggriswold: Neil Young seriously went “it's either me or him” and get him'ed https://twitter.com/...
Jort-Michel Connard / @torriangray: This just makes it sound like Spotify has a two-tiered system of enforcement. They'll remove COVID disinformation, but not if it's promoted by a podcast that's too popular. Pure window-dressing. https://twitter.com/...
Charles Johnson / @green_footballs: “Also, to be completely honest, we make a lot more money from Joe Rogan's disinformation and right wing fuckery,” they did not add. https://twitter.com/...
@live1dnews: I hope @taylorswift13 @MileyCyrus @edsheeran @billieeilish take a stand too! Use your power! https://twitter.com/...
@rschooley: If you are paying someone 100 million dollars you'd think you'd be able to say to them, “Hey, knock off the crap that's getting people killed.” https://twitter.com/...
Deirdre Bosa / @dee_bosa: well shoot. will take Neil Young over Joe Rogan any day. https://www.wsj.com/...
@esotericcd: Folks, this is fine. It's noisy buzz but it's fine. And I think Neil's a bit off on this one, but I daresay that there are exactly zero serious Neil Young fans out there who are ready to abandon him because of THIS. And not, say, LANDING ON WATER. https://www.wsj.com/...
Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken: Good for Neil. https://twitter.com/...
Dennis Perkins / @dennisperkins5: Now deleting @SpotifyUSA. More of a physical media guy anyway. #DeleteSpotify https://twitter.com/...
Ron Waxman / @ronwaxman: I have never more respected Neil Young than at this moment. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: There are sides and @Spotify chose its side: macho, insane, dangerous ignorance. https://twitter.com/...
Kuppy / @hkuppy: He's gonna really miss that $1.63 monthly royalty check from Spotify... https://twitter.com/...
Tim Colin / Uniquely American: Binary Disinformation — Our culture is quick to dismiss the perspective of non-establishment voices …
Anastasia Tsioulcas / NPR: Spotify removes Neil Young's music after he objects to Joe Rogan's podcast
Dylan Smith / Digital Music News: Spotify to Remove Neil Young's Music Following Ultimatum: 'We Regret Neil's Decision'
Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing: Spotify chooses Joe Rogan over Neil Young
Martin Peers / The Information: What Neil Young's Protest Means to Spotify
Matt Schimkowitz / The A.V. Club: Neil Young to keep on rockin' in the free world without Spotify after Joe Rogan ultimatum
Due Dissidence: Podcast: The Neil Young/Joe Rogan Spotify Turf War of 2022 (Or, The Vindaloo Was Too Spicy)
Jackson Richman / Mediaite: Spotify Takes Down Neil Young's Songs in Response to Ultimatum Over Joe Rogan's Podcast
Zachary Snowdon Smith / Forbes: Spotify Will Reportedly Remove Neil Young's Music After Dispute Over Joe Rogan
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Spotify is removing Neil Young's music after falling out over Joe Rogan
Tom Parker / Reclaim The Net: Spotify drops all Neil Young music after he demanded Joe Rogan removal
Spencer Kaufman / Consequence: Disturbed's David Draiman Applauds Spotify for “Making the Right Call” in Neil Young vs. Joe Rogan Decision
Ryan Hedrick / Barrett Media: Spotify Backs Joe Rogan, Will Remove Neil Young's Music
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast: Spotify Removes Neil Young's Music After Joe Rogan Showdown
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Rana Ayyub, a journalist and Washington Post columnist in Mumbai, has received 26K+ tweets, mostly abusive, since she criticized Saudi Arabia's role in Yemen — Indian authorities must immediately conduct a swift and thorough investigation into threats made to Mumbai-based Washington Post columnist …
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Rana Ayyub / @ranaayyub: 26.4 thousand tweets, most are abusive, rape and death threats, calling me a terror sympathiser. Most tweets are by the Indian right wing & Saudi nationalists who are attacking me after i posted a tweet in solidarity with Yemen and calling out the Saudis. Hello @TwitterIndia https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Quah / Vulture:
Radiolab creator and host Jad Abumrad is leaving after almost 20 years; Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser, named co-hosts in late 2020, will take over the show — Oh, you like podcasts? Sign up for Vulture's new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here. — Radiolab is moving into a radically new era.
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Jad Abumrad / @jadabumrad: Hey everybody. I have some big personal news. I am stepping aside as host of Radiolab. This show that I started in 2002 - in my basement - is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary, and this feels like the right time. https://www.wnycstudios.org/ ... (1/6)
insideradio.com: Jad Abumrad Is Leaving Radiolab; Cohosts Lulu Miller And Latif Nasser Take Over Series.
David ImeI / @durvidimel: .@JadAbumrad is the biggest reason I'm obsessed with good storytelling. @Radiolab was the catalyst for me getting deep into this industry back in 2011. What an incredible run. 👏👏👏 https://twitter.com/...
Zuri Berry / @zuriberry: A very nice write up by @nwquah on Radiolab's transition. I think his commentary on the consistency of the show's sense of wonder was on point, and also why I drifted from it. But it'll be worth tuning back in to see what they do next. https://www.vulture.com/...
Aaron Scott Opb / @aaronscottopb: I was recently asked which interviewers I most looked up to, and I replied that I learned more from sitting through two interviews with @JadAbumrad than from two years of graduate school. Thank you for being a true inspiration to so many of us, Jad! https://twitter.com/...
Ken Burns / @kenburns: Can't wait to see and hear what's next. Congrats on all you've done. You've changed how so many of us think about science and storytelling. https://twitter.com/...
Anil Seth / @anilkseth: Sad for the rest of us but good for you @JadAbumrad - @Radiolab has been part of my listening life since the early days & its impact across the world has been immeasurably valuable. Thank you & @rkrulwich for igniting so many minds 🙏🏽 & long may the journey continue https://twitter.com/...
Anna Sale / @annasale: Jad invented something totally new, and grew it into a juggernaut collective of storytellers who found opportunities and space that never would've existed without him. The best way to be an artist. Thank you. https://twitter.com/...
Katie Hasty / @katiehasty: A big hats-off to Jad Abumrad, a journalist and host that has heavily influenced the way I think about media today and for always. https://twitter.com/...
@macfound: Congratulations @JadAbumrad on 20 great years! In 2011 we recognized him as a MacArthur Fellow for “inspiring boundless curiosity within a new generation of listeners” on @Radiolab. 🎙️ #MacFellow https://twitter.com/...
Joel Werner / @joelwerner: Huge news. I can't even... Jad literally changed the way I think about the thing I do every day. An incredible legacy. https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Thorn / @jessethorn: This guy rules in case you were wondering. I hope he is proud of himself. (Literally.) https://twitter.com/...
@tylerkenthill: The first time I heard radiolab I was driving through the Mojave desert on my way to my sophomore year of college. I heard “After Life” and - like others have said today - I thought “I want to do THAT for a living.” I started making radio docs that fall. Thanks Jad. :') https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Dorsey / @electryandorsey: I've been a big @Radiolab fan since the first time I heard it. It's made me a more appreciative and interested person, and I really appreciate how much that is to do with Jad just being a truly remarkable person, but also with how great his partners are. Changing of the guard. https://twitter.com/...
Ira Glass / @iraglass: He waited till now, of course, because he wanted it to be Biden who appoints the new head of @Radiolab. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Feifer / @heyfeifer: Whoa, actual “end of an era” material here. Congratulations @JadAbumrad on absolutely everything https://twitter.com/...
Nick Quah / @nwquah: wrote about Jad Abumrad stepping away from Radiolab https://www.vulture.com/...
Jad Abumrad / @jadabumrad: Why now? I've been working towards this moment for years. And I look around now at this incredibly talented group of people, and it's clear to me that they're so “ready.” (2/6)
Grant Blankenship / @grant_blank_: No exaggeration here, but any understanding of audio storytelling I when I (thankfully) landed in public radio were 90% due to listening critically to those original Radiolabs in the car between newspaper photo assignments. Thanks, Jad, and good luck. https://twitter.com/...
Shreya Dasgupta / @shreyadasgupta: 20 years! Radiolab was the first sciency audio show I heard and fell in love with. https://twitter.com/...
Karen Duffin / @duffinkaren: Ughh. I'll miss Jad's story genius, but I'll also miss his generosity. I made my very first big story with Jad - I was brand new, he's ofc a legend... but he made so much space for me to be my own nerdweirdo self. Helped me find my voice and my confidence. Still so grateful. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Feng / @emilyzfeng: One of my favorite audio shows and the biggest single reason I decided to become an audio reporter https://twitter.com/...
Lulu Miller / @lmillernpr: Big news. Bigger gratitude. https://twitter.com/...
Rusty Foster / Today in Tabs: Stepping Down — (Creeeeak... clunk, clunk, clunk, thump, boiiiiing) Today (today? yeah …
Tyler Falk / Current: Jad Abumrad steps down from ‘Radiolab’
Brookings:
Three case studies quantify the spikes of online harmful speech mentioning female journalists after prominent men targeted them on social or broadcast media — On March 9, 2021, Fox News host Tucker Carlson took aim at a favorite target: a New York Times journalist.
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@donmoyn, @oliverdarcy, @jeremymbarr, @karlbode, @taylorlorenz, @micheleberdy, @kathleen_belew, @courtneyr, @krisgoldsmith85, @jeanguerre and @brooklynmarie
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Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: What happens when Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald target female journalists? A dramatic increase in threatening, toxic and sexually explicit online attacks. They can pretend they are not responsible, but they can't say they don't know. https://brookings.edu/... https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Brookings Institution publishes research finding that after Tucker Carlson targets a female journalist, “the prevalence of hateful speech targeting those journalists increases in the immediate aftermath, often taking days to decrease...” https://www.brookings.edu/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: I wrote a story about this last April: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Karl Bode / @karlbode: people enabling all of this stuff know exactly what they're doing, building, and profiting off of https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: I am the female journalist Brookings studied in this report. I'm so grateful for the work they've done to expertly quantify just a sliver of this sustained attacks on me and other women in media https://www.brookings.edu/... https://twitter.com/...
Michele A. Berdy / @micheleberdy: What a reprehensible, disgusting man who incites other reprehensible, disgusting men. https://twitter.com/...
Kathleen Belew / @kathleen_belew: I'm confused about why a study was needed—is this just to verify the truth about what the targeted women have been telling us this whole time? https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Courtney Radsch / @courtneyr: After Tucker Carlson mentioned NYT journalist Taylor Lorenz on air, harmful speech in her Twitter mentions rose 115% - and she's not alone. The @IWMF and @CSMaP_NYU investigate “The Tucker Carlson Effect” #onlineharassment #gender #disinformation https://www.brookings.edu/....
Kristofer Goldsmith / @krisgoldsmith85: Tucker Carlson (and Glenn Greenwald, who obsessively monitors Twitter for mentions of his name) knowingly endanger women journalists as if for sport. Their rampant sexism, and that of their disgusting fans, is extremely profitable for these small, insecure men. https://twitter.com/...
Oscar Lopez / New York Times:
Journalists in cities across Mexico held vigils on Tuesday after a surge in attacks on media workers; some say the attacks are leading to information blackouts — The killing of three media workers in less than a month triggered protests in cities across the county this week demanding an end to the violence.
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Amy Isackson / NPR: Reporting on your colleagues' murders changes how you work
Patrick J. McDonnell / Los Angeles Times: Journalists throughout Mexico say enough to killings and crimes against press
Oscar Lopez / @oscarlopeznyt: In Mexico, the killings of journalists has become almost horrifyingly routine. But this month has felt especially brutal for many in the country. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Deibert / @michaelcdeibert: “It's infuriating, it's enraging, because journalists always give our soul, our heart, our body. From one moment to the next, they take away that passion, that commitment, that love, that dedication that you have toward journalism.” https://www.nytimes.com/... #PeriodismoEnRiesgo
@pressfreedom: A spate of journalist killings has deeply shaken #Mexico's embattled press corps, leading to a wave of nationwide protests and underscoring the country's position as one of the world's deadliest for media workers. https://cpj.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@ap_corpcomm: Vigils, marches: @chrisshermanAP reviews response to killings of journalists in Mexico on @kcrw. https://www.kcrw.com/...
Duncan Tucker / @duncantucker: Yesterday was the first time I've seen such large and widespread protests over press freedom in Mexico. As the journalists quoted in this piece say, it's now a question of whether it will lead to real change. @lopezobrador_'s govt must take concrete action to protect the press. https://twitter.com/...
John L. Smith / @jlnevadasmith: Journalists throughout Mexico say enough to killings and crimes against press https://www.latimes.com/...
@reuters: 'You can't kill the truth by killing journalists': Protests are underway in Mexico after the murder of journalist Lourdes Maldonado, the third reporter to be killed in the country this month https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
bookforum.com: Hua Hsu to publish his memoir this fall; Vigils across Mexico mourn slain journalists
Jan-Albert Hootsen / Features & Analysis: ‘Watershed’ protests demand end to violence against journalists in Mexico
Tarpley Hitt / Gawker:
A look at The Root under G/O: 15 of 16 staffers have quit since April due to myriad issues like a new EIC and blurred lines between advertising and editorial — When The Root launched as an offshoot of The Washington Post in 2008, it aimed to fill the gap between print and online media …
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Wes Fenlon / @wesleyfenlon: You have to give G/O Media bosses credit for being the most innovative in the biz when it comes to destroying beloved publications. No one else is operating on their level. https://www.gawker.com/...
@gawker: Michael Harriot, who resigned in November, told Gawker: “As a staff, we came to the conclusion that, basically, The Root is over.” https://www.gawker.com/...
Shanita Hubbard / @msshanitarenee: we know things at The Root are bad but to go on record say Vanessa is no different from a slave protecting their slave master is one hell of a thing to say about someone and remain anonymous. you can't take a public shot like that and hide ya hand. https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Bernhardt / @jonbernhardt: entry number whatever in “spanfeller and his goons bought GMG as an explicit ideological project to thoroughly destroy it as a company and a brand, while making what money they could on the way out” https://www.gawker.com/...
Benjamin McKean / @blmckean: “At times, it verged on absurd. For Mother's and Father's Day, they sold pieces to a liquor company. But because it was liquor, the corresponding articles couldn't reference children. 'We had to write all these Mother's Day pieces without talking about kids,' one editor said.” https://twitter.com/...
@dariccott: 1. WTF 2. There's so many amazing journalists that got their start at The Root, so this is heartbreaking 3. WTF 4. This explains why my recent past applications never got a response 5. WTF 6. This is an incredibly structured piece 7. WTF 8. 30K pay gap?! 9. WTF 10. OMG, WTF https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Crockett Jr / @sacrockettjr: It be your own people: https://www.gawker.com/...
Adam Weinstein / @adamweinstein: Starting to think this Spanfeller fellow may be an herb https://twitter.com/...
Dave Levitan / @davelevitan: Man, G/O Media is just a plague from @tarpleyhitt: https://www.gawker.com/...
Leah Finnegan / @leahfinnegan: Eight former and current Root staffers told Gawker that management seemed to want less of the overtly provocative work its writers were known for in favor of “a softer, gentler, more upbeat site.” @tarpleyhitt https://www.gawker.com/...
Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper: oh look, Jim Spanfeller flushed another flourishing website down the toilet https://www.gawker.com/...
Timothy Burke / @bubbaprog: We regularly had liquor brands do big buys/day sponsorships/tag sponsorships whatever & at no point were we ever told “you can't write about kids” or in fact that we ever could NOT write about anything. Everything about G/O is bizarre. https://www.gawker.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kerry Flynn / @kerrymflynn: “Sometimes it seemed staff were being subtweeted by their own boss. In fairness, some did it back.” Important read by @tarpleyhitt on the mass exodus at G/O Media's The Root: https://www.gawker.com/...
The Guardian:
President Erdoğan says the journalist arrested for allegedly insulting him “will not go unpunished” but that “it has nothing to do with freedom of expression” — Sedef Kabaş arrested for posting comment allegedly about Turkey's president to her 900,000 Twitter followers
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Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
YouTube permanently bans Dan Bongino for trying to evade a previous suspension; the pro-Trump pundit had previously said he planned to leave the platform — YouTube on Wednesday permanently banned conservative commentator Dan Bongino from the platform, saying he attempted to evade a previous suspension.
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USA Today, @oliverdarcy, Mashable, insideradio.com, @edbott, @qsteph, @nandoodles, @stuartathompson, @profcarroll, @joshsternberg, @zamaan_qureshi, @projectlincoln, @nandoodles, @jason_kint, @nandoodles, @green_footballs, @mattgertz, @slpng_giants, New York Times, UPROXX, Breitbart, The Wrap, UPI, Variety, Engadget, Mediaite, Deadline and Reclaim The Net, more at Techmeme »
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Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: YouTube says Dan Bongino has been permanently banned for attempting to evade a previous suspension. Earlier this week, Bongino said he was quitting YouTube for Rumble, the video sharing platform favored by conservatives which he is an investor in. https://thehill.com/...
Ed Bott / @edbott: “You can't ban me, I quit!” screams Dan Bongino as he throws all of his toys from the pram. https://twitter.com/...
THEE Stephanie / @qsteph: .@YouTube also needs to enforce their rules and regulations against accounts that are monetizing hate and lies. https://twitter.com/...
Stuart A. Thompson / @stuartathompson: Bongino's in a better position than most after this YouTube ban. he said last week that his Rumble following had 2 million subscribers vs just 800,000 on YouTube. https://thehill.com/...
David Carroll / @profcarroll: @joshsternberg ... And by “taking on” we mean asking adtech vendors to enforce their own policies instead of looking the other way and hoping no one notices
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: This is directly the work of @nandoodles and @catthekin, who have taken on bad-faith actors and how they're monetized through ad tech. https://twitter.com/...
Zamaan Qureshi / @zamaan_qureshi: Last year, @FBoversight identified Dan Bongino as a “disinformation superspreader” on Facebook. He regularly spouts Covid falsehoods and straight-up lies. YouTube's action against Bongino today and in subsequent weeks are necessary but far too late. Facebook must suspend Bongino https://twitter.com/...
@nandoodles: ATTENTION REPORTERS: If YOU'RE COVERING THIS, ASK GOOGLE WHY THEY ARE STILL MONETIZING THE SAME EXACT CONTENT ON HIS WEBSITE VIA @GoogleAds. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: This is a big deal. He may present it as his choice but it effectively wipes away much of his presence. I would like to understand the violations better, putting aside for a minute his views. YouTube was comfortable driving Russia Today to be 2nd most popular news channel so... https://twitter.com/...
Nandini Jammi / @nandoodles: HOLY SHIT!!!!!! https://twitter.com/...
Charles Johnson / @green_footballs: Excellent. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: When life gives you lemons, put them directly into the blender and make lemonade. https://twitter.com/...
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: YouTube Bars Right-Wing Media Personality Dan Bongino
Matthewprigge / UPROXX: Rightwing Star Dan Bongino Has Been Permanently Banned From YouTube After Trying To Circumvent What Had Merely Been A Suspension
Allum Bokhari / Breitbart: YouTube Permanently Blacklists Dan Bongino
Antoinette Siu / The Wrap: YouTube Permanently Bans Dan Bongino
Doug Cunningham / UPI: YouTube permanently bans right-wing commentator Dan Bongino
Todd Spangler / Variety: Fox News Host Dan Bongino Permanently Banned by YouTube
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: YouTube bans Fox News host Dan Bongino for evading suspension
Jackson Richman / Mediaite: Dan Bongino Gets Permanent Ban from YouTube
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