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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Spotify's Joe Rogan controversy shows the newfound danger for podcast platforms that have moved away from open RSS distribution to high-profile exclusive deals — Every platform should be worried — This story originally ran in Hot Pod, The Verge's preeminent audio industry newsletter.
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Columbia Journalism Review, The Hill, @ashleyrcarman, @ashleyrcarman, @ashleyrcarman, @syracuseunews, @ultraviolet and @lucas_shaw
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: Joe Rogan, Spotify, and the difference between speech and association
Rebecca Klar / The Hill: Critics slam Spotify for using ‘Facebook playbook’ on Joe Rogan controversy
Ashley Carman / @ashleyrcarman: spotify created its joe rogan problem when it took a podcast freely available on rss and put it behind the platform wall. and the competitors promoting their services as an alternative are going to end up in the same situation eventually https://www.theverge.com/...
Ashley Carman / @ashleyrcarman: lol I genuinely believe this is an issue both rogan fans and haters can agree on. a peacemaker! but all of podcasting is shifting away from the open model
Ashley Carman / @ashleyrcarman: this was inevitable! open ecosystems allow platforms to make curatorial decisions and delist programming while listeners can still access the shows they want, albeit with slightly extra hurdles
@syracuseunews: Spotify is using what @NewhouseSU associate professor @jmgrygiel called the “Facebook playbook” — distancing itself from the responsibility to moderate content it distributes. https://thehill.com/...
@ultraviolet: “It's nice to welcome Spotify to the table, but unless they come up with a policy that also has a clear enforcement mechanism for when somebody repeatedly breaks that policy. It's not enough — it's basically meaningless” -@UltraViolet's @BridgetMarie https://thehill.com/...
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Zack Sharf / Variety:
Graham Nash and India Arie follow Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, pulling their music from Spotify to protest content on Joe Rogan's podcast — Nash said in a statement that he “completely agrees” with his Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young bandmate Neil Young after “having heard the COVID disinformation spread by Joe Rogan on Spotify.”
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Leia Idliby / Mediaite: India Arie and Graham Nash Join Artists Protesting Joe Rogan, Announce Plans to Leave Spotify
Scottie Andrew / CNN: India Arie says she's pulling her music from Spotify over Joe Rogan's comments on race
Marisa Dellatto / Forbes: Graham Nash, India Arie Are Latest Stars To Ditch Spotify Amid Joe Rogan Controversy—Here's The Full List
Althea Legaspi / Rolling Stone: Nash, Young Reunite Against Spotify: ‘I Completely Agree and Support My Friend Neil’
David Ng / Breitbart: More Musicians Boycott Spotify in Support of Neil Young After Joe Rogan Bends the Knee
Brendan Morrow / The Week: Graham Nash, India Arie become latest artists to leave Spotify over Joe Rogan
Christi Carras / Los Angeles Times: Graham Nash and India Arie join Neil Young's Spotify boycott over ‘problematic’ Rogan
Greg Evans / Deadline: Graham Nash And India.Arie Are Latest To Follow Neil Young Off Spotify In Rogan Protest
Marisa Whitaker / SPIN: Graham Nash and India.Arie Pull Music From Spotify
Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters:
Host and executive producer of Gimlet's Science Vs podcast Wendy Zukerman says she'll devote the show to fact-checking misinformation on other Spotify podcasts — The executive producer and host of Gimlet Media's Science Vs podcast said she would devote her fact-checking show exclusively …
Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day:
Spotify made an editorial choice by paying $100M to be Joe Rogan's publisher and can't shirk its responsibility by just adding a content warning to his episodes — Read to the end for Pumpkin Cowboy — Please Do Not Let Spotify Convince You That Joe Rogan Is A Content Moderation Problem
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Kevin Roose / New York Times: Spotify's Joe Rogan Problem Isn't Going Away
Ryan Broderick / @broderick: Sorry, but all of this Joe Rogan/Spotify stuff is making me feel insane! This isn't about content moderation. This isn't about censorship. Spotify is a publisher and they publish Joe Rogan. There's literally no other way to look at this. https://www.garbageday.email/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Doug Grossfeld / Doug's Newsletter: Old Man — Let me start off by saying, I fucking love Neil Young, and I can't imagine …
Peter Suderman / Reason: ‘Public Health’ Has Become a Catchall Excuse for Bad Ideas
Strands of Genius: Strands of Genius: Joe Rogan & Spotify, Wordle, Family Estrangement, The Life & Death of the Mix CD,
Louis Anslow / @louisanslow: Broke: Spotify shouldn't ban Rogan, it's censorship Woke: Spotify should ban Rogan, it's disinformation Bespoke: Podcasts can only be moderated when distributed within a walled garden like Spotify. Podcasts can avoid censorship by using their original distribution method: RSS.
Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer: this is an argument FOR Spotify moderating, right? https://twitter.com/...
A Public Witness: Rockin' in the World? — Over the weekend, a 30-year-old graphic novel skyrocketed to the top of Amazon's bestseller lists.
Cecilia Kang / @ceciliakang: Great analysis by @kevinroose Spotify is not exactly = to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. “Rogan's Spotify standoff is different from most other clashes between creators and tech platforms” via @NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ted Cruz / @tedcruz: .@joerogan Can you smell what the Rock is cooking? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Great @kevinroose take on @joerogan: “They understand that companies' rules are fuzzy and improvisational, and that what chief executives mostly want — no matter what high-minded principles they profess to hold — is for people to stop yelling at them.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@outkick: The Rock comes out in support of Joe Rogan, says he would love to come on Rogan's podcast one day. https://www.outkick.com/...
@evelyndouek: the Spotify/Rogan story getting so much attention is making me wonder if people have content moderation controversy withdrawals??
Pam Vogel / @pamela_vogel: if you want to know why the joe rogan story is way bigger than a bad episode or two, it's past time to read @AlexPattyy: https://www.mediamatters.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@thedailybeast: Joe Rogan might be a moron. But at least he's an honest moron? Or so says hosts @andylevy and @mollyjongfast on today's @newabnormalpod, where they break down the Spotify misinfo controversy. APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/... SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matt Welch / @mattwelch: “that give them a platform” is a tellingly wrong way of looking at this. More like, “that pay them a premium to be the exclusive distributor of content that was already being delivered by their homemade platform, as well as by other distribution channels” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joan Donovan, PhD / @bostonjoan: Yep. Not the same problem of misinformation-at-scale across different platforms. Spotify intentionally took on Rogan, whose entire brand is “controversy!” Neil Young has raised several generations of rockers to use their good fortune to help others. He was underestimated. https://twitter.com/...
Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp: Yep, and it's wild anyone sees it any other way. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: Wrote about Rogan/Spotify, which looks similar to other platform moderation controversies, but is actually quite different for 100 million reasons. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nowhere Girl / @gwynnion: Companies like Spotify and Substack pretend to be neutral content platforms instead of publishers so they don't have to be responsible for what they choose to pay millions of dollars to produce. https://twitter.com/...
Rob Sheridan / @rob_sheridan: All of this. Spotify is not merely hosting misinformation, but FUNDING it. That is why, as I've explained to many angry brogans, this boils down to the ethics of the company and what consumers want to put their money behind. Consumers do this ALL THE TIME. It's not censorship. https://twitter.com/...
Parker Higgins / @xor: it feels like the bad-faith right-wing bludgeoning of an imaginary “platform/publisher” distinction in the 230 debate dampened people's recognition of a real publisher doing very traditional publishing things https://twitter.com/...
Scott Nover / @scottnover: “Spotify doesn't get to just put a content warning on Rogan's episodes and treat him like they would any other podcast because he's not any other podcast. He's their podcast.” @broderick with a similar take. https://www.garbageday.email/ ...
@jaspar: it is kinda weird how people are treating spotify like they're a public platform when spotify is way more like netflix or HBO. https://twitter.com/...
Karl Bode / @karlbode: Substack also actively seeks out bigots and trolls with big cash advances because the harmful controversy generates ad impressions, then stands back with a dumb look on their face pretending they're just an objective observer solely interested in free expression https://twitter.com/...
Nonazisformethanks / @no_nazis_please: Paying a guy $100 million so only you can release his material (and profit off of it) is pretty much the most extreme form of publishing. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Atwood / @codinghorror: “I do wonder if we won't look back on Wordle as a real moment when internet users all kind of agreed they'd rather just use a website than download an app.” https://www.garbageday.email/ ...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: “This isn't content moderation. It isn't censorship. It's an editorial choice. They paid $100 million to be Joe Rogan's publisher and this is what that entails” — great point by @broderick https://www.garbageday.email/ ...
Sam Byford / The Verge:
Joe Rogan posts a video to Instagram defending booking contentious guests, apologizes to Spotify for the backlash, and says he may book more “experts”
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair: “Spotify Needs Him Way More Than He Needs Spotify”: Joe Rogan Drama Exposes the Drift of Audio Giant's Other Mega Deals
Wendy Zukerman / @wendyzuk: Science Vs editor @blytheterrell and I just sent this email to the CEO of Spotify. https://twitter.com/...
Kipp Jones / Mediaite: The Rock Sings Joe Rogan's Praises After Statement on Covid Misinformation: ‘Great Stuff Here Brother’
Diana Bradley / PRWeek: Timeline of a crisis: Spotify, Neil Young and Joe Rogan
Jolie Lash / The Wrap: Graham Nash Joins Neil Young in Spotify Boycott, Calls for His Solo Music to Be Pulled
Brian Fung / @b_fung: It's not that complicated. Rogan's appeal, particularly in the age of “do your own research!!1!11!” is that his process and motives come across as transparent to the audience. He shows his work, even if he is extremely credulous about the results. https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: “I am usually unprepared” is an incredible Adult Son defense https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: “I don't know what else I can do.” @joerogan posts a video about the drama of the last week. he says he still loves Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. https://www.instagram.com/...
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: One of the things that is interesting to me in this statement from Rogan is that he states he does little preparation for his podcast conversations, and often has no idea what he is going to talk about with guests. Millions of listeners and influence, and no diligence at all. https://twitter.com/...
Casey Briggs / @caseybriggs: Science Vs is effectively on strike, only producing episodes that counteract misinformation spread by their parent company https://twitter.com/...
Joan Donovan, PhD / @bostonjoan: Another big development in the Spotify Crisis https://twitter.com/...
Katie Herzog / @kittypurrzog: Funny. The Science Vs episode on transition was so full of misinformation it should have had a warning label. https://twitter.com/...
@derjarjour: This is good, but doesn't address a key thing: Spotify is not just letting Rogan use its platform. Spotify is *paying* Joe Rogan to produce content. Spotify is a publisher in this case, not a platform. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Emerson / @_loveallthis: Seriously baller move to pause production of your Spotify-owned science podcast to investigate the effectiveness of various disinformation-fighting strategies and then email your CEO your plan 👏 kudos @sciencevs https://twitter.com/...
Dan Ilic / @danilic: Wendy is a legend. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: This is a good thread that I think is probably very accurate. https://twitter.com/...
Arthur Chu / @arthur_affect: If you actually watch the show this is the least surprising thing in the world Like if the whole “Whoa, I had NO IDEA” reaction gif were an act (which for a normal talk show it probably would be) he'd have to be a much better actor than the entire rest of his career indicates https://twitter.com/...
@debunk_the_funk: We've seen this pattern before. 1) promote anti-science nonsense with confidence 2) say “I'm a big dummy who just has conversations” when criticized 3) don't actually apologize 4) repeat step 1 two weeks later https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: Just trying to imagine the reaction if any woman in any profession anywhere (especially a highly paid one) said, publicly, “yeah, I don't even prepare for my job!” https://twitter.com/...
Renee DiResta / @noupside: On JRE & misinfo: I went on the podcast in early 2019 after Joe reached out a few times. He wanted to talk ab how state actors were messing around on social media, felt that independent of “collusion” claims, ppl should understand that. I said, your audience is going to hate me...
Coleman Hughes / @coldxman: Every show host is going to get specific things wrong over the course of a long career. What makes Rogan great is that he has healthier attitude towards error-correction and the pursuit of truth than anyone else in his league (Tucker? Don Lemon? etc. Gimme a break!) https://twitter.com/...
Robin Black / @robinblackmma: My Guy @joerogan is honestly the kindest most generous person I've ever met. That's not an exaggeration. That's the truth. #BINK Enjoy The Hostilities My Friends. https://twitter.com/...
Ian Schafer / @ischafer: I know Spotify will figure this out, but it's hard to make the “platform” argument when you pay content providers to exclusively put their content on it. That's a “media company” and media companies have the responsibility to be curators. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: More interesting question is how Spotify applies public “rules” to lesser known podcasters. When this pops up next, Spotify goes “we removed stuff!” YouTube does this. But Spotify knew what Rogan was when $100M was spent on having him — including his guests/views — exclusively. https://twitter.com/...
Rob Slater / @robslater10: Rogan's premise at its absolute ground floor is a good one. Personable, inquisitive guy brings on interesting people you've probably never heard of to have an off the cuff conversation for hours. The problem is that *always* leads you to Alex Jones. Always. https://twitter.com/...
Asra Q. Nomani / @asranomani: Posted Sunday night, in his own words @joerogan, “Thank you to all the supporters and even thank you to the haters because it's good to have some haters.” Wait for him to break into Neil Young song. Full video: https://www.instagram.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dr Jordan B Peterson / @jordanbpeterson: Rogan addresses the issues https://www.instagram.com/... @joerogan
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: At some point, no diligence is negligence. https://twitter.com/...
Gary Legum / @garylegum: A hundred million bucks to be the podcast version of Cliff Clavin. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: He ends with a very Trumpian “thank you to the haters”. “Thank you to the haters: the decline of American Civilization, a history”
Brian Fung / @b_fung: Do any epistemologists listen to Joe Rogan? What I would really love to read is an expert on How We Know Things unpacking Rogan's approach to knowing things. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Kilmeade / @kilmeade: Such a calm well thought out reaction but can't understand how interviewing experts with differing views is even an issue...disclaimer from Spotify comical https://twitter.com/...
The New York Times Company:
The New York Times acquires Wordle, the simple word game that has amassed “millions of daily players”, for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures” — Wordle, Josh Wardle's stimulating and wildly popular daily word game, is joining The New York Times's portfolio of original …
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Josh Wardle / @powerlanguish: An update on Wordle https://twitter.com/...
Marc Tracy / New York Times: The New York Times Buys Wordle
Alexis Benveniste / New York Times: The Sudden Rise of Wordle
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: BREAKING: Wordle has a new owner ...... and it's The New York ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜ Price: “low seven figures” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: The NYT is investing in the lettaverse send tweet
Katie Rogers / @katierogers: From five-letter words to low-seven figures. Best Wordle score I've seen yet. https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: GREAT. WOWZA. EXTRA. ROGUE. https://twitter.com/...
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Wordle will be free forever because you can right-click to save the whole game
Isaac Fitzgerald / @isaacfitzgerald: Anyone who is mad at this has never had to worry about paying rent in their entire life. https://twitter.com/...
Steven Perlberg / Insider: Fresh from acquiring Wordle, The New York Times' gaming boss breaks down how games are set to become a key pillar of the paper's subscription growth
Chuck Wendig / @chuckwendig: Whatever happens to the game, I am glad he's getting something good out of it. It's a game that has brought many of us small shared joy daily in a time of great stress. https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Six / Christopher Six's Pick Six: What the Wordle? — Thoughts for the day — I'm not a Wordle guy. It's not that I don't like puzzles, I just missed it.
@staronline: The Admin's definition of buying games: Second hand copy of last year's game at a flea market. New York Times' definition of buying games: https://www.thestar.com.my/...
@vogon: one thing about the wordle discourse that has been killing me all day is: wordle is entirely client-side, none of it runs on the web server, and the entire game is 63 kilobytes the network traffic from a million plays of the game costs $1.25
Mauricio Cabrera / The Muffin por Mauricio Cabrera: ¿Por qué el NYT compra Wordle?
@dongwon: I'm glad the wordle guy got paid for making something really nice. But I'm sad the thing that I like is, once again, being ingested by a massive media company.
Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen: Creator of Wordle: I can't keep running this thing; I love the NYT puzzle peeps, they inspired me to make this thing you love, so I sold it to them! Twitter: How dare you give this thing we love a sustaining home!
Max Kennerly / @maxkennerly: Yes, Wordle accepts “youse” as a valid word. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ellie Hall / @ellievhall: If you love Wordle, you should be happy as hell about this news. People deserve to be compensated for their work. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Russell / @manruss: “We're looking forward to providing an enhanced and more nuanced Wordle experience. By which, we mean we'll be placing it behind a paywall.” https://twitter.com/...
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: Hot take I wish NYT would be as generous to its employees on raises as it's been in offering various companies $$$$$ to acquire em https://twitter.com/...
@jonporty: Look it's obvious. Wordle will stay cross-platform, but only the NYT will get the next-gen raytracing patch
Benjy Sarlin / @benjysarlin: It's fine for the NYT to like a game but do they have to fill up my timeline with it like this https://twitter.com/...
Brian Feldman / @bafeldman: wow... and the acquisitions keep coming. axios has acquired Second Grade Spelling Flashcards by Sylvan Learning for its Pro subscribers
Ben Adida / @benadida: Congrats to @powerlanguish and thank you for bringing us a little bit of daily joy. And now I'm having a ball thinking through how the streak data will be migrated to the NYT. Love it. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Chait / @dhchait: @levie ANTITRUST https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Koerth / @maggiekb1: This feels like investing heavily in sea shanties in January 2021. https://twitter.com/...
Jonn Elledge / @jonnelledge: would anybody like to buy, I dunno, something? I'll probably even take six figures at a push https://twitter.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Wardle's post doesn't use the word “initially.” Just says it'll be free. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: rude to Ben https://twitter.com/...
Dave Lee / @daveleeft: See .. that's the risk there. NYT just spent “low seven figures” on a lightweight web game that can be instantly copied. They must be confident they can lock down the IP? https://twitter.com/...
Shalom Goodman / @shalomgood: Wordle in the @WSJ in 2010 https://twitter.com/...
Adam B. Vary / @adambvary: https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tero Kuittinen / @teroterotero: Not all digital creatives are unreservedly happy for their peer minting $2.5M for a knockoff of a 50 year old game https://twitter.com/...
Sean Hollister / @starfire2258: NYT's own story STRONGLY hints this thing's going behind the paywall as soon as they can possibly make it happen. Dedicates FOUR grafs to explaining the NYT's paywall, not including this telltale bit below: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@engadget: Wordle, the game everyone's obsessed with, gets bought by the New York Times https://www.engadget.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: I'd been wondering what would happen first: the Wordle guy would make money off his creation or the “ladies and gentlemen, The Weeknd” teenager would stop tweeting on Friday. Happy to see that @CraigWeekend's posting has outlasted the pureness of Wordle https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Seifert / @dcseifert: fascinating what the premier media company in the world decides to spend its war chest on https://www.theverge.com/...
Brad Sams / @bdsams: Microsoft adds “NYTs” to list of companies competing against Game Pass https://twitter.com/...
@phillyd: This is giving me “Some Good News” getting purchased vibes for some reason, especially because of the line that reads, “The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players.” INITIALLY? BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO https://twitter.com/...
Sean Hollister / @starfire2258: Either that or regular NYT subscription reminders every time you complete a Wordle, I suppose
Tom Coates / @tomcoates: I'm actually completely okay with this. I think it's good that Josh Wordle gets some benefit from building such a wonderful thing, and it guarantees it'll keep going. Well done everyone. https://www.nytco.com/...
@kfury: Congrats. This is really well deserved. (For those curious, the rumored acquisition price was around $2-4 million!) https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: 1500 word essay on whether the NYT buying Wordle changes the moral calculus of Wordle clones in various app stores. This will be 30 percent of your grade and there will not be extensions https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Extra credit: 500 words on whether the NYT will be justified in sending an army of lawyers after app store Wordle clones once it moves the game behind a paywall https://twitter.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: “The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players.” Initially carrying a lot of weight here. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Levie / @levie: NYT Crossword and Wordle are now owned by the same company. This has antitrust written all over it.
Jessica Lessin / @jessicalessin: My two favorite ways to take a break from social media—Spelling Bee and Wordle—now under one roof. Perfection. https://www.nytco.com/...
Jack Mirkinson / @jackmirkinson: headline three months from now: NYT Company Vows To Block Wordle Unionization
Aaron Levie / @levie: Literally every company is buying a game studio today. https://twitter.com/...
Dominique Delport / @domdelport: That was quick ! Congrats @nyt for your #wordle move ! let's remember that NYT earns 50M$ yearly with crosswords and cooking receipes subs. https://twitter.com/...
Zack Beauchamp / @zackbeauchamp: That “initially” is doing a lot of troubling work https://twitter.com/...
Scott Tobias / @scott_tobias: Will my stats port over from one site to the other? Imagining a George-Constanza-with-the-Frogger- machine scenario here. https://twitter.com/...
Helaine Olen / @helaineolen: The New York Times buying Wordle is the most not surprising story of the year. https://twitter.com/...
Nancy Armour / @nrarmour: Just don't ruin it https://twitter.com/...
Mark Thompson / @everyteam_mark: NYT playing on easy mode is it https://twitter.com/...
Pepe Silvia / @pjputh: The entire field of Anesthesia is now being sponsored by the NYT https://twitter.com/...
Jason Schreier / @jasonschreier: I guess they couldn't afford Bungie https://twitter.com/...
Dave Itzkoff / @ditzkoff: well that's just ⬜️🟨🟨 🟩⬜️ https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Nothing gold can stay https://twitter.com/...
Jack Mirkinson / @jackmirkinson: “The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players” “initially” lol everything sucks https://twitter.com/...
Katie Notopoulos / @katienotopoulos: Congrats to Mr. Wardle, we're all happy for you. However, if anyone ever posts their Wordle results to Twitter after today, their account will autodelete for bad posting https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ernie Tedeschi / @ernietedeschi: The Times is now obligated to use “knoll” and “shire” in a single headline. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Epstein / @bombur: Everybody's talking about Sony buying Bungie, but the real gaming industry consolidation story is NYT buying Wordle. https://www.nytco.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Huge transfer deadline day news. Wordle just has to complete its medical and agree personal terms https://www.nytco.com/...
Rodger Sherman / @rodger: hold up HOLD UP ........ the Wordle inventor's name is Wardle?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!? https://twitter.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: The bad news: The NYT bought Wordle. The good news: Every other pub and news platform can now stop doing stories on Wordle.
Daniel Summers / @wfkars: Good for them, I suppose, and I knew it was only a matter of time before it stopped being free. But since I don't subscribe to Games, I guess it was fun while it lasted. https://www.nytco.com/...
Jay King / @byjayking: I am officially a Wordle guy now. Always have been, really. https://twitter.com/...
Tonya Riley / @tonyajoriley: NGL I'd sell out for low seven figures too...just glad it's remaining free. https://www.nytco.com/...
Graham Starr / @grahamstarr: congratulations to mr. wordle on his million-dollar sale https://www.nytco.com/...
Stephen Shankland / @stshank: 1. I'm not big on Worlde postings but NYT just bought it so wow. 2. I hope they don't stuff the results tweet with URLs & trackers & other awfulness. It's great not worrying about that when sharing results (even if you're sick of people sharing results). https://www.nytco.com/...
Joe Gabriel Simonson / @sayssimonson: “Consolidation and concentration are on the rise in sector after sector. Concentration threatens our markets, threatens our economy, and threatens our democracy.” — Elizabeth Warren https://twitter.com/...
Dan Lamothe / @danlamothe: I am uninterested in your Wordle. I am on the record about this. I *am* interested in actual Wordle news, though: https://www.nytco.com/...
Andrea Woo / @andreawoo: Wordle, a game that Brooklyn-based software engineer created for his partner, has been acquired by the NYT “for an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures.” https://www.nytco.com/...
Lauren Pelley / @laurenpelley: IS NOTHING SACRED https://www.nytco.com/...
Brenna Clarke Gray / @brennacgray: hey everyone remember when we used to have simple joy https://twitter.com/...
Farnaz Fassihi / @farnazfassihi: Wordle is coming to The New York Times Games! Yay. https://www.nytco.com/...
Damien Cave / @damiencave: Nice move @nytimes. Stays free in case you're wondering. Play on! https://twitter.com/...
Christina Jewett / @by_cjewett: The @nytimes bought #Wordle and I gotta say: It makes me happy to work for a news organization that has some business savvy (after watching the newspaper that first injected printer's ink into my blood steadily decline). https://www.nytco.com/...
Robert Jimison / @robertjimison: The games creator says he was inspired by other games from The New York Times when he created Wordle “New York Times Games play a big part in its origins,” Mr. Wardle said in the company's statement, “and so this step feels very natural to me.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Fred Smith / @fredsmith914: This makes a lot of sense! The guy who made Wordle did it for fun but it was too big to not get constant monetization calls and eventually “I'll give you a lot of money” is hard to turn down. There are much worse endings than this. https://twitter.com/...
Ariel Edwards-Levy / @aedwardslevy: assume the price negotiation process for wordle was like “ok, $1,200,973” 🟩⬛🟨🟨 ⬛🟨⬛
Joe Flint / @jbflint: Now I'm definitely only playing Lewdle!
@jephjacques: Congrats to the guy for getting paid, but a big fuck to the NYT https://twitter.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Tomorrow's 5 letters: Bravo https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: If you have a thing that a lot of people like The New York Times would like to buy it from you. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Somehow a 7-figure exit feels both too high and too low to me. https://twitter.com/...
Marco Arment / @marcoarment: The New York Times has purchased our favorite simple JavaScript web page for over $1M and generously assures us that it will “initially remain free”. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “Wordle was purchased from its creator, Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, for a price ‘in the low seven figures,’ The Times said. The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Ritz / @budgetben: It was nice while it lasted 😣😣😣 https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Chris Vannini / @chrisvannini: Why Wordle Joined The Athletic https://twitter.com/...
Matthewprigge / UPROXX: ‘The New York Times’ Is Buying Wordle, And Nerds Are Freaking Out
Simon Sharwood / The Register: New York Times outlays seven-figure sum for 1,900 lines of JavaScript - yes, we mean Wordle
Rina Torchinsky / NPR: ‘The New York Times’ buys Wordle
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
NYT internet culture reporter Taylor Lorenz moves to The Washington Post as a columnist writing about technology, online life, influencers, business, and more — The star reporter with a massive online following thinks the Post gets the internet in ways other outlets don't.
Discussion:
@taylorlorenz, Washington Post, @teddyamen, @charlottetklein, @joshconstine, @larakate, @dpaqreport, @noahshachtman, @jeremymbarr, @hunterw, @thunderwooddd, @sophiasgaler, @adamdavidson, @carloslozadawp, @angelmendoza___, @stuartathompson, @smilotweets, @jakesherman, @vahn16, @willoremus, @wpjenna, @rzhongnotes, @miriamelder, @micsolana, @djlavoie, @esaagar, @thefineprintnyc, @ashleyrparker, @choire, @levinejonathan, @philiprucker, @genepark, @pbump, The Hill, bookforum.com and Barrett Media
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Taylor Lorenz— / @taylorlorenz: Personal news! so excited to join the @washingtonpost as a Columnist, writing about technology, online life, influencers, memes, business, culture, & more! I'll also be doing more multi media projects (!!!) and working to reach audiences in new ways across the internet!! 🥰
Teddy Amenabar / @teddyamen: It's fantastic news that @TaylorLorenz is joining The Post. It's even more encouraging to see the reasoning, because The Post's Audience and Video teams have been working for years to build on smart ideas. There are so many people responsible for that. https://www.vanityfair.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Charlotte Klein / @charlottetklein: Media scoop: @TaylorLorenz is leaving the New York Times for the Washington Post, where she'll be a columnist on the Features staff https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Josh Constine / @joshconstine: Taylor legitimized an entire wing of journalism, opening the door for so many young reporters to build a career around their passion for decrypting internet culture — aka Culture. That's a win for all of us who live here. https://twitter.com/...
Danielle Paquette / @dpaqreport: Big win for the @washingtonpost. Congrats to the visionary @TaylorLorenz! https://twitter.com/...
Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman: Between @josephmenn's hire and this ... WaPo just supercharged its tech coverage. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Just 7 and a half years after I conducted this horrible interview with you about the Daily Mail's social media operation over Gchat for a publication that no longer exists (Capital New York), glad we will be colleagues https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Hunter Walker / @hunterw: This is very cool! https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Underwood / @thunderwooddd: Some of my favorite stories I've edited at The Times have been from @TaylorLorenz. A delightful journey, cannot wait to see what you do next! https://twitter.com/...
SophiA Smith Galer / @sophiasgaler: Brilliant brilliant news https://twitter.com/...
Adam Davidson / @adamdavidson: Congratulations. That's great. Though, to the VC community, I believe this means the NYT no longer exists. It was, simply, a company that published Taylor's work. Now what is it? Nothing. https://twitter.com/...
Carlos Lozada / @carloslozadawp: “At the Post, she hopes to take her beat and ‘blow it up bigger.’” Welcome to the @washingtonpost, @TaylorLorenz. https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Angel / @angelmendoza___: suddenly the times' wordle acquisition doesn't hurt as much https://twitter.com/...
Stuart A. Thompson / @stuartathompson: Selfishly this really sucks because I was *this close* to working with Taylor BUT ofc this is an amazing job https://twitter.com/...
Elliot Smilowitz / @smilotweets: losing my mind with excitement, taylor is a generational talent and a super fun coworker. so excited to share a newsroom with her again https://twitter.com/...
Jake Sherman / @jakesherman: huge get for the @washingtonpost https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Grayson / @vahn16: holy shit, this rules https://twitter.com/...
Jenna Johnson / @wpjenna: Yeeeeees! Such great news. 🎉🎉🎉 https://twitter.com/...
@rzhongnotes: oh hey its that person that blocked me when i pointed out that she didnt do any research on china while reporting on tiktok :V https://twitter.com/...
Miriam Elder / @miriamelder: “I think the Times is an incredible institution but mainstream media organizations have kind of struggled to figure out how they deal with talent,” Lorenz tells @charlottetklein https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Mike Solana / @micsolana: imagine working at the times on a serious beat, doing serious work on a serious topic. no twitter drama. no office drama. you just do your job. but out of loyalty you stand by this woman for years while she lights your brand on fire. then she walks away and calls you a loser. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Lavoie / @djlavoie: Reporters with this depth of knowledge/insight rarely get the chance to be a columnist. I am VERY excited to see what @TaylorLorenz can do with this new role. https://twitter.com/...
@esaagar: tl;dr: Taylor Lorenz is leaving @nytimes for the Washington Post because the Times didn't like her unhinged unprofessional behavior online Congratulations to The Post and their managers! If you're a Youtuber and said a bad word 19 years ago. Watch out! https://www.vanityfair.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@thefineprintnyc: A few weeks ago we asked @TaylorLorenz if she was interested in taking over the @nytimes media column and she told us: “I feel like I have the best job in media already, unless they want to give me a huge raise, in which case, I'll take over any column.” https://thefineprintnyc.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jon Levine / @levinejonathan: “Evolve in their ways”... you mean be more tolerant of unhinged public Twitter meltdowns and false accusations ? Maybe they will. We shall see! https://twitter.com/...
Philip Rucker / @philiprucker: “Taylor Lorenz Hopes The New York Times Will ‘Evolve In Their Ways’ As She Leaves For The Washington Post: The star reporter with a massive online following thinks The Post gets the internet in ways other outlets don't” https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Gene Park / @genepark: the taylor/gene fusion dance can finally begin (thnx for the shoutout on my work @TaylorLorenz, congrats and welcome. so glad for us!!!!!) https://twitter.com/...
Philip Bump / @pbump: @TaylorLorenz In which the relative merits of The Post and a regional Newark-area newspaper are compared. https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Taylor Lorenz leaving New York Times for Washington Post
Eduardo Razo / Barrett Media: Taylor Lorenz Leaves NY Times, Joins Washington Post
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Sources: Vice Media secretly organized a music festival in Saudi Arabia; staffers have raised concerns about its work in the country after Khashoggi's murder — Youth media company organised March 2020 event despite pledge to stop all work in Saudi Arabia — When social media influencers turned …
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@ericgarland, @dabeard, The Wrap, @kenbensinger, @maryamalkhawaja, @jimwaterson, @dralakbarov, @deankissick, @gumby4christ, @ayocaesar, @thoughtland, @ankaravoice, @joshspero, @anthony, @mediaevan, @jessehawken, @emilybell, @adamjohnsonnyc, @errolnazareth, @evanhill, @rocco_castoro and @jwsal
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Eric Garland / @ericgarland: Vice Media kept taking money from the Bonesaw Mafia after Khashoggi. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
David Beard / @dabeard: After Saudi Arabia ordered the assassination and dismemberment of a @WashingtonPost columnist, what media outfit would partner with it? Turns out, Vice Media. But Vice, which pledged to cut ties after #JamalKhashoggi's murder, tried to do it secretly. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Vice Organized $20 Million Saudi Government Festival in 2020 (Report)
Ken Bensinger / @kenbensinger: Vice: we won't work with Saudi Arabia; it murdered a journalist Also Vice: we opened an office in Riyadh and are doing business with Saudi Arabia https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Maryam Alkhawaja / @maryamalkhawaja: This is disgusting - probably learning from all the governments who talk about human rights then do business as usual? Vice Media secretly organised $20m #Saudi government festival https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson: I don't think people realise just how much Saudi Arabian money is sloshing around in British/American media at the moment. Just *incredibly* large sums flowing in as the country tries to rebrand itself away from awkward stuff like “murdering journalists”. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Fuad Alakbarov / @dralakbarov: Saudi Arabia is desperate to spend huge money to rebrand itself in the eyes of western youth https://twitter.com/...
Dean Kissick / @deankissick: Booking Chainsmokers, Jean-Michel Jarre and Tinie Tempah for the ancient walled city of Al-'Ula is pure VICE, it's the Platonic ideal of VICE. When I was there we had a plan to send will. i. am into space, I forget for which client. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@gumby4christ: Vice Media secretly organised $20m Saudi government festival featuring Jean-Michel Jarre and The Chainsmokers https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@ankaravoice: This is just brazenly unethical. Vice Media secretly organised $20m Saudi government festival in 2020, despite its pledge to pause work in Saudi Arabia after the state-ordered murder of Jamal Khashoggi. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... @maysoonzayid @YahyaAlhadid @AreejASadhan
Josh Spero / @joshspero: “Vice last year opened a dedicated office in the Saudi capital Riyadh” —> Vice Media secretly organised $20m Saudi government festival https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: Vice publicly said it would pause all work in Saudi Arabia following the state-ordered murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Since then, the company aggressively pursued business opportunities there and secretly organized a $20m Saudi government festival https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Evan DeSimone / @mediaevan: There is a lot of Saudi money in digital media and it's been there a long time. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Jesse Hawken / @jessehawken: Very normal and very cool. Sadly in Saudi Arabia the “Dos and Donts” are pretty harsh https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Adam H. Johnson / @adamjohnsonnyc: Bold, edgy, youthful, hard hitting! https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Errol Nazareth / @errolnazareth: @VICE “is still happy to take money from a country that was literally responsible for the state-sanctioned murder of a journalist.” Sickening. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Evan Hill / @evanhill: Contractors who worked on the music festival were asked to sign non-disclosure agreements, and Vice's name did not appear on public marketing material. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
AT&T structures its WarnerMedia split as a spinoff, giving shareholders an estimated 0.24 shares of WarnerMedia-Discovery stock for each share of AT&T stock — The transaction will spin off 100% of AT&T's interest in WarnerMedia to AT&T's existing shareholders in a pro-rata distribution …
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Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Light Reading, Deadline, Axios, @sherman4949, Reuters, @drewfitzgerald, Bloomberg, UPI, Media Play News, @loudobbs, Advanced Television, New York Post, Insider, Next TV, The Wrap and Hollywood Reporter
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Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal: AT&T to Slice Dividend After Spinoff of WarnerMedia
Alex Sherman / CNBC: AT&T to spin off WarnerMedia in $43 billion Discovery media merger, cuts dividend
Jeff Baumgartner / Light Reading: AT&T to take WarnerMedia for a spin — AT&T shed more light on its ultimate plan for WarnerMedia …
Dade Hayes / Deadline: AT&T Opts For Spin-Off Method In WarnerMedia Discovery Transaction; Shares Fall On Dividend Hit
Sara Fischer / Axios: AT&T to spin off WarnerMedia
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: AT&T makes official it will spin (rather than split off) WarnerMedia tax free, just the latest move in the vertically integrated, de-vertically integrated, vertically integrated, de-vertically integrated, horizontally integrated history of the company. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Drew FitzGerald / @drewfitzgerald: The long wait is over: Warner Bros. Discovery's new ticker will be WBD. (AT&T's annual dividend will also drop to about $8 billion after a spinoff) https://www.wsj.com/...
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: AT&T Favors WarnerMedia Spin-Off Over Split, Wall Street Disagrees
Lou Dobbs / @loudobbs: Does AT&T ever have good news for its investors? Who are they're kidding? AT&T said it would roughly halve its dividend payout and divest its WarnerMedia division through a spinoff that will give shareholders 0.24 shares for each AT&T share they own https://www.wsj.com/...
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: AT&T to spin off WarnerMedia in $43B Discovery deal
Matthew Fox / Insider: AT&T sinks after it says it will slash annual dividend 47% following WarnerMedia spinoff
Jon Lafayette / Next TV: AT&T Opts To Spin Off Assets in WarnerMedia-Discovery Deal
Sara Fischer / Axios:
After a disappointing IPO, Jonah Peretti tells staff BuzzFeed will limit hiring to critical positions and projects a single-digit decline in commerce sales YoY — BuzzFeed is limiting hiring to only critical positions, and will not be adding any new jobs unless there's a business-case justification …
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Michelle Manafy / @michellemanafy: BuzzFeed is limiting hiring to only critical positions, and will not be adding any new jobs unless there's a business case justification. The hiring slowdown is meant to preserve cash, per a source familiar with the effort. https://www.axios.com/... @sarafischer
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: “Bottom line: It's a tough time to take a company public, especially via a SPAC.” Indeed. https://www.axios.com/...
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: Rooting for Buzzfeed to make it, but wonder if given Comcast's $400M investment in Buzzfeed & its anemic subscriber count for Peacock (10-15M), would it consider buying the whole biz and leveraging it to drive subscriber growth + boost digital revenues? https://www.mediagazer.com/...
Claudia Morell / WBEZ Chicago:
Chicago Public Media completes its Chicago Sun-Times acquisition, after raising $61M in support for the deal; the funding is mostly pledged over five years — URL Copied! — DONATE … Chicago Public Media and the Chicago Sun-Times have made their partnership official Monday …
Discussion:
Chicago Sun-Times, insideradio.com, Barrett Media, @w_katz1, @mattmoog, @jimfriedlich, @danahoule, @davemckinney, Current, @whuntah, @mattmoog and Robert Feder
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David Roeder / Chicago Sun-Times: $61 million in donations help complete Sun-Times sale to WBEZ parent
Walter Katz / @w_katz1: This is the most important media story in Chicago in years. With the backing of Michael Sacks, Robin Steans and Lenny Gail, @JoyceFdn @macfound @chitrust and others, the venerable Sun-Times is now part of the nonprofit Chicago Public Media. Competition and accountability! https://twitter.com/...
Matt Moog / @mattmoog: We are extraordinarily grateful for the generous philanthropic funding we received for this transformational opportunity for the @suntimes and for Chicago journalism. 2/5 https://chicago.suntimes.com/ ...
Jim Friedlich / @jimfriedlich: At $61 million in foundation & individual support, the Chicago & national response to @wbez + @Suntimes is a watershed event in local news. It creates a new powerhouse public-service news enterprise & a high water mark in the field of news philanthropy. @lenfestinst @mattmoog https://twitter.com/...
Dana Houle / @danahoule: One of the best things that's happened in the 11 years I've lived in Chicago. I hope it's a model for some other metro areas. https://twitter.com/...
Dave McKinney / @davemckinney: As @mattmoog just said, this now-completed marriage of two Chicago journalism giants is “a nice ray of hope in what's been a tough couple of years.” To finding the truth and a long-lasting relationship together, @WBEZ and @Suntimes. https://www.wbez.org/...
Leigh Giangreco / Current: With $61M pledged, Chicago Public Media now owns the ‘Sun-Times’
@whuntah: Some of my happiest memories working in journalism were at the @Suntimes. And I'm very excited to once again work alongside many of the great journalists over there. https://twitter.com/...
Manori Ravindran / Variety:
HBO Max continues its European expansion, coming to 15 countries on March 8, including the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, and Croatia — HBO Max is continuing a steady roll-out in Europe with its second wave of countries. … This covers Bosnia and Herzegovina …
Discussion:
TechCrunch, The Wrap, Reuters, Mashable, Advanced Television, CNET, Media Play News, 9to5Mac, The Streamable, Digital TV Europe, @jasonkilar, Broadband TV News, C21Media, Deadline, MediaPost and Next TV
Discussion:
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: HBO Max is expanding to 15 more countries in March
Adam Chitwood / The Wrap: Here's What's New on HBO and HBO Max in February 2022
Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: EXCLUSIVE HBO Max to launch in 15 European countries on March 8
Kourtnee Jackson / CNET: HBO Max gears up for launch in 15 more countries
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: HBO Max Confirms March 8th for Second Wave of European Launches
Lauren Forristal / The Streamable: HBO Max Announces Next Phase for European Expansion
Jason Kilar / @jasonkilar: 👀 @hbomax continuing to go global. Next up in 5 weeks: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. Thereafter: Greece, Turkey, Iceland + Baltics. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Dziadul / Broadband TV News: HBO Max confirms second wave of European launches
Ruth Lawes / C21Media: WarnerMedia confirms HBO Max launch date for second wave of European territories
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: HBO Max To Expand Into 15 More European Markets In March
Jon Lafayette / Next TV: HBO Max To Launch in 15 European Countries March 8
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Google's Q4 ad revenue came in at $61.24B, up 33% YoY; YouTube's ad revenue rose to $8.63B, up 25.4% YoY — - Alphabet beat on the top and bottom lines for the fourth quarter. — The stock jumped in extended trading after the report. — The company also announced a 20-for-1 stock split.
Discussion:
Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, @richlightshed, @jasxnallen, @somospostpc and Wall Street Journal
Discussion:
Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube Q4 ad revenue rose 25.4% YoY to $8.63B; Netflix posted $7.71B in revenue, up 16% YoY, during the same quarter
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: YouTube is an incredible business — not other way to say it —> up to $8.6 bn of quarterly revenues and $29 billion for full year 2021 $GOOGL 55% goes to creators @youtube remains in a class by itself for the #creatoreconomy https://twitter.com/...
Jason Allen / @jasxnallen: Revenue generated by Youtube Ads $GOOGL $GOOG Q4 2021: $8.6B Q4 2020: $6.9B Q4 2019: $4.7B Q4 2018: $3.6B Google also doing a 20 for 1 stock split 👀
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