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Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance:
Netflix reports losing 200K net subscribers in Q1, vs. an estimated 2.5M net additions, and $7.87B revenue, vs. $7.95B est.; Netflix stock drops 25%+ — Netflix (NFLX) reported an unexpected decline in first-quarter net subscribers as the company navigated an exit from Russia and an increasingly saturated North American market.
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Jennifer Maas / Variety: Netflix Loses 200,000 Subscribers in Q1, Predicts Loss of 2 Million More in Q2
Netflix Investor Relations: Fellow shareholders, — Our revenue growth has slowed considerably as our results and forecast below show.
Peter Kafka / Vox: Why Netflix is suddenly losing subscribers
Jordan Parker Erb / Insider: 10 Things in Tech: Netflix is bleeding subscribers
Tiffany Hsu / @tiffkhsu: Ads are coming to Netflix, after years of resistance. And amid subscription fatigue and high inflation, it's far from the only streaming service to embrace commercials in recent months. w/ @koblin https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: EXTRA! EXTRA! Reed all about it (see what I did there?). Hastings says Netflix considering launching cheaper ad-supported tier of the platform. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Henry Blodget / @hblodget: A Netflix buyer would have to be Apple, Amazon, Google, or another monster tech company. No media companies can afford it, even with the stock down 60% from the peak. https://twitter.com/...
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: Netflix shares fall after it reveals subscriptions decline
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: There is a very hard solution for Netflix's problem: make better shows. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Joseph Cotterill / @jsphctrl: I wonder when Netflix (now losing subs for the first time in a decade) will start breaking out Africa subs to reassure its shareholders that it's growing somewhere. (Assuming there is healthy Africa growth.) https://s22.q4cdn.com/...
Allison McDaniel / 9to5Mac: Netflix blames 100M users without paid accounts for revenue and subscriber drop
Eric Jhonsa / TheStreet: Netflix First-Quarter Earnings Live Blog
Alex Morash / @alexmorash: Goodbye Netflix. I won't pay for a streaming service that includes ads, full stop. I'd rather watch nothing at all. https://twitter.com/...
Witney Seibold / SlashFilm: Netflix Seems Like It Will Finally Crack Down On Password Sharing
Sam Ro / @samro: Netflix: “In the near term though, we're not growing revenue as fast as we'd like.” https://s22.q4cdn.com/...
Jeff Baumgartner / Light Reading: Netflix shares plummet 25% amid loss of 200K subs, slowing revenues
@hkeskiva: Netflix $NFLX shareholder letter didn't try to bury the news. First words: “Our revenue growth has slowed considerably” Shareholder letter: https://s22.q4cdn.com/...
Lauren Leffer / Gizmodo: Netflix Is Finally Cutting You Off From Your Ex's Uncle's Account
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: 3/ @YouTube has emerged as viable brand safe AVOD offering, but once launched, @netflix will win over many markets. Long-term, total pie size grows much more, faster.
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: I had to upgrade my account last month when I was watching on a trip while someone was watching at my house. We both had Netflix subs but they were on the living room TV. Netflix counts that as two households, but should it? https://twitter.com/...
Fred Hickey / @htsfhickey: Netflix - what a disaster. NFLX already cut in 1/2 from just 5 months ago ($701 to 349), yet 61% of analysts still had “Strong Buy” or “Buy” ratings with an avg. target price of $504. After hrs. down another 25% to $262. Analysts loathe to downgrade faves https://finance.yahoo.com/...
Joe Weisenthal / @thestalwart: The K shaped recovery! Digital pure play companies like $NFLX getting killed and falling below pre-covid levels. Real life companies like Marriott hitting all time highs. Just like everyone predicted. https://twitter.com/...
Larry Dignan / @ldignan: Netflix $NFLX loses 200K net subs in Q1 and projects a loss of 2 million subs in Q2. Inflation means people cutting budget. Netflix's partial solution to hold operating margins: “more effective monetization of multi-household sharing.” https://s22.q4cdn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Joe Bel Bruno / The Wrap: Netflix Stock Nosedives 24% After Streamer Reports Loss of 200,000 Subscribers in Q1
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: 1/ Back of envelope #'s If @netflix recently raised prices by $2/mo, across 222M subs that's $444M + revs/MONTH. 200K cancelled at $12/mo x 12 mos = $30M in revenue/YEAR loss. Even est 2M future cancellations = $300M in ANNUAL losses. Yet stock down 25% https://www.mediagazer.com/...
@wholemarsblog: Netflix Explores a Version With Ads as Subscriber Base Shrinks So one bad quarter and you throw away all your principles, everything that differentiated your product? $NFLX https://www.wsj.com/...
Sarah Whitten / CNBC: Netflix earnings are out - here are the numbers
Wendy Lee / @thewendylee: “I know it's disappointing for investors,” Netflix Co-CEO Reed Hastings said."Internally we're really geared up and this is like our moment to shine...we're super focused on achieving those objectives and getting back into our investors' good graces."https://www.latimes.com/ ...
Darren Mooney / @darren_mooney: First time Netflix has lost subscribers in more than a decade, I believe. But perhaps more of an indicator that the public think we're out of the pandemic. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: Ah, yes, adding commercials will definitely help flip their subscription numbers! https://twitter.com/...
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: Netflix Loses 200K Subscribers in Q1 2022, Expects 2 Million Subscriber Loss Next Quarter
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Worst quarter since Qwikster. The difference: In 2011, Netflix screwed up. This time the problem isn't Netflix - it's the competition. https://twitter.com/...
Jess A. M. / @jam_etc: 1. they don't fund cool interesting unique things like they used to 2. when they do they never advertise it 3. when it fails due to this, they never renew it for any more seasons the netflix dream is kinda dying a little bit, man! where's all the amazing netflix originals!? https://twitter.com/...
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: 2/ Now long term, it will tap into AVOD dollars. More marketers will shift TV dollars to web. This is overall a good sign as NFLX will need ad-based offering for global domination.
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: Netflix predicted it would add 2.5M subscribers in Q1 but actually lost 200,000 instead. This was a huge miss but even bigger is that they expect to lose another 2M in Q2. 🤯 https://variety.com/...
Tiffany Hsu / @tiffkhsu: Ads are getting a warmer reception on streaming services, execs tell @koblin and me: “It's basically game on.” “Ultimately, fantastic news for the U.S. consumer.” “Free, ad-driven TV isn't sitting at the kids' table anymore.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler: Two predictions: 1) Netflix will figure it out 2) It won't be games https://twitter.com/...
Vicki Notaro Carlyle / @vickinotaro: I was one of them, because €22 a month feels like daylight robbery https://twitter.com/...
Sergei Klebnikov / Forbes: Netflix Loses Subscribers For The First Time In 10 Years, Shares Plunge 20%
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: Netflix Estimates More Than 100 Million Non-Paying Households Use Shared Passwords https://variety.com/... via @variety
Katie Greifeld / @kgreifeld: name names https://twitter.com/...
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Reed Hastings says Netflix plans to offer cheaper, ad-supported plans and will examine what those plans will look like “over the next year or two” — Co-CEO Reed Hastings revealed the move on an earnings call after the streaming giant disclosed it lost 200,000 subscribers during its most recent quarter.
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Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix Will Launch Lower-Cost, Ad-Supported Streaming Plans, Reed Hastings Says
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Netflix to introduce ad-supported plans in a major shift
Sarah Whitten / CNBC: Netflix is exploring lower-priced, ad-supported plans after years of resisting
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Netflix says it is going to add a cheaper, advertising-supported tier in the next year or two. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Dade Hayes / Deadline: Netflix Will Add Advertising In “Next Year Or Two”; Co-CEO Reed Hastings Finally Concedes “Consumer Choice” Prompting Cheaper Plan
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Netflix says it will “pull back” on spending growth. This is really the kitchen sink approach.
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Netflix CEO now says he's open to a cheaper, ad-supported plan
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: I for one am ~shocked~ that Netflix, upon seeing increased competition, subscriber slowdown, price hike churn, and trouble scaling in key international territories, is going to offer an ad supported tier. Jokes aside, a major albeit inevitable milestone for the SVOD godfather.
Christian Blauvelt / IndieWire: Netflix CEO Signals Support for Lower-Cost, Ad-Supported Plans
Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla: HASTINGS: “Those who have followed Netflix know that I have been against the complexity of advertising .. But as much as I am a fan of that, I am a bigger fan of consumer choice.” $NFLX https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: If after-hours trading holds up, Netflix will lose almost $40 billion in market cap tomorrow morning.
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: “It is pretty clear that it is working for Hulu, Disney is doing it, HBO did it. We don't have any doubt that it works.” Netflix embraces advertising: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
@gayguycandleco: Someone please just put all of these streaming services on one platform and let it become even more outrageously priced than the cable we all left for streaming so we can just get it over with. 🙄 https://twitter.com/...
Natalie Jarvey / @natjarv: Netflix executives used to go out of their way to say they wouldn't introduce advertising to their service. Now Reed Hastings says an ad-supported tier is coming in the next “year or two”
Garett Sloane / Ad Age: Netflix is finally ready to sell ads
Mariella Moon / Engadget: Netflix plans to offer cheaper ad-supported subscription tiers
Danielle / @danielleloucamp: Maybe they shouldn't have given all their money to Ryan Reynolds https://twitter.com/...
@thethirdhan: I know we've joked about how streaming is taking us full circle back to having 100 cable packages but like... https://twitter.com/...
@murderxbryan: Netflix needs to bring in more money so that they can make more content like “is this cake” or whatever that thing is https://twitter.com/...
@centristmadness: People will probably look back on this as an inevitability but imho they simply were bad at programming. They used algorithms based on what people watched the most on their service and ended up with derivative content and HBOMax and Hulu ate their lunch. https://twitter.com/...
Martin Peers / The Information: Netflix's Reed Hastings Bows to Advertising Reality
John Hoey / @johnnyhoey: Streaming services are slowly inventing...cable television? Remember when @SIRIUSXM was promoted as commercial free? I do. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Franklin / @campster: I hope they call it Qwikster 2 https://twitter.com/...
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: Netflix Adding Ad-Supported Option in ‘Year or Two’ According to CEO
Kourtnee Jackson / CNET: Netflix Is Open to a Lower Price Tier — With Ads
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix estimates that its users are sharing passwords with 100M+ non-paying households globally, including 30M+ in the US and Canada, in violation of its rules — There's a whole lot of password-sharing going on across Netflix's customer base — and the streaming giant is eager to get money from the freeloading masses.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC: Netflix estimates 100 million households are sharing passwords and suggests a global crackdown is coming
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press: Netflix aims to curtail password sharing, considers ads
Stephanie Horbaczewski / @iamsteph: So #netflix lost 200k subs for the first time in a decade (bc of Russia) + competition= to monetize existing users better. Adding share fees for accounts they could see $1.6b in revenue @xpangler https://variety.com/... via @variety
Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u: First we blame content costs. Then we blame competition. Then we blame sleep. Then we blame users. “Netflix said that members who are sharing their login credentials outside the home are contributing to its slowing growth in 2022” https://variety.com/...
Blue Heron Farm / @blueheronfarmtx: Are we...Are we all sharing the same one? https://twitter.com/...
Ajit Pai / @ajitpai: “@Netflix said it estimates more than 30 million U.S. and Canadian households are using a shared password to access its content. The company said more than 100 million additional households were likely using a shared password worldwide.” @cnbc @sherman4949 https://www.cnbc.com/...
@wisdom_98: They need to give better service and try to keep their current customers. Focused on the wrong thing https://twitter.com/...
Brian Welk / The Wrap: Netflix Hints at Password Sharing Crackdown, Says 100 Million Households Stream Free
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline: Netflix Says Password-Sharing Solution A Year Away; Reed Hastings Vows To “Get Back Into Investors' Good Graces”
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: 2016: “We love people sharing Netflix,” CEO Reed Hastings. “That's a positive thing, not a negative thing.” https://www.cnet.com/...
@sir_ruffy: Make noise all you want, we pay for multi so we can share the passwords with our friends and family. You don't want people sharing passwords, remove multi device view and stop charging for them. https://twitter.com/...
Highbrow Theological Shade / @wilgafney: Also, Netflix fin'ta harass you even more for traveling and logging into your own damn account. https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Thomas / @laurenthomas: One has to wonder if/when Peloton will navigate a similar phenomenon. For Peloton, subscription prices are going up — but does the company try tiered options for single-member accounts vs. entire households??? https://twitter.com/...
New York Times:
The New York Times Managing Editor Joe Kahn will succeed Dean Baquet as executive editor, starting in June; Baquet “will remain to lead an exciting new venture” — Mr. Kahn, 57, will take over a newsroom undergoing enormous change. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review: Doubling down at the Times — Dean Baquet's departure as executive editor of The New York Times …
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine: The Inside Man — Joe Kahn is the new, old-school editor of the Times. But who is he?
Sam Dolnick / @samdolnick: “One of the finest leaders this institution has ever known is stepping down,” says A.G. Sulzberger https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post: Dean Baquet retires as New York Times editor, to be replaced by Joe Kahn
Andrew Fedorov / The Fine Print: IT'S KAHN! New York Times Picks Next Executive Editor
Steven Perlberg / Insider: The New York Times has named Joseph Kahn, the veteran international editor and No. 2 figure in the Times newsroom, as its next executive editor
Brian Stelter / CNN: New York Times names Joe Kahn as executive editor
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Here's what @adamdavidson said about Dean Baquet's reign as top editor of The Times, which is officially over with the naming of his successor today. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Marc Lacey / @marclacey: “We don't know where the political zeitgeist will move over time,” Mr. Kahn said in an interview. “Rather than chase that, we want to commit and recommit to being independent.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sara Fischer / Axios: The New York Times names Joseph Kahn as next executive editor
Marcus Brauchli / @mbrauchli: Terrific news. Joe Kahn is everything a journalist should be: thoughtful, compassionate, deeply read, always willing to consider another side and reason things out in pursuit of truth. Also, a great friend and colleague. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Adam Davidson / @adamdavidson: Baquet repeatedly defined his form of journalist through the lens of its critics. If he pissed off the left and the right equally, then he felt he was doing things correctly. That is not what journalism is. Journalism is fearless, independent, reporting of the truth. https://twitter.com/...
Cliff Levy / @cliffordlevy: Big congrats to Joe Kahn on his promotion to @nytimes executive editor. Joe is a superb journalist who will take our newsroom to even greater heights. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dominic Ponsford / @domponsford: My interview from a few years ago with newly announced New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn https://pressgazette.co.uk/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: having a nice, normal sit with the newspaper i now run https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: The Times will be remembered as a great news organization that willingly served the people who hated the American republic. https://twitter.com/...
Rosie Gray / @rosiegray: Is it considered age discrimination that the NYT doesn't let people over 65 serve as executive editor...
Alex Press / @alexnpress: lotta people noticing how weird this photo is but I can't get past this guy's middle initial being “F” but without any name attached, his parents just wanted his initials to be JFK. rich Boston people are so scary https://twitter.com/...
@cjr: New: In picking Joe Kahn, the New York Times' managing editor, to replace Dean Baquet as executive editor, the newspaper is signaling that it has no plans to rethink its approach, @kylepope writes https://www.cjr.org/...
Ben Welsh / @palewire: Click into this piece and you'll read that the role of an NYT editor is now defined almost exclusively as a leader of Internet business development. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Everything about these two paragraphs bodes very ill for progress at the NYT: https://nymag.com/... Sounds so much like Baquet. See: https://presswatchers.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Chait / @jonathanchait: If you care about the New York Times, you should read every single word of this @ShawnMcCreesh profile of its new editor, a terrific character study with plenty of Kremlinology https://nymag.com/...
Gerry Smith / @gerryfsmith: Joe Kahn will take over a bigger staff and a stronger business than Dean Baquet did 8 years ago. Since 2014, NYT's newsroom has grown from 1,300 journalists to more than 1,750. Its stock price has tripled. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Will Stancil / @whstancil: It seems to me that rich kids grow up thinking the institutions they are part of are working well, which is absolutely not something I want the top editor of America's most important journalistic institution to believe https://twitter.com/...
Rusty Foster / Today in Tabs: KAHN HEIR — White smoke issued from the chimney of the New York Times this morning …
Michael Oti Adjei / @otiadjei: Reading about the key characters behind the growth of the New York Times including the departing Dean Baquet and incoming Joe Kahn was such an eye opener. So much experience. No easy path to top media executive roles.
@shannonfreshour: “to get to the appearance of neutrality, you have to do violence to the truth..” Point blank fact https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Attached: Internal memo from @nytimes publisher A.G. Sulzberger on Kahn's appointment. “Joe is planning to send a note later this week sharing some early details about his senior leadership team ...” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ajit Niranjan / @niranjanajit: this critique of the new york times' trump coverage applies just as much to business and politics reporting that ignores the scientific reality of climate change https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: One might think it's impossible to write a 6,000-plus-word story without quoting a single woman, but ... one would be wrong! https://nymag.com/...
Jessica Lessin / @jessicalessin: Congrats to @nycscribe who will be an excellent executive editor of @nytimes. A very thoughtful leader for our industry. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Diane Brady / @dianebrady: When I worked with Joe Kahn at the WSJ in Asia, I always felt smarter with every encounter. Congrats on his appointment as executive editor of New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/....
Tom Watson / @tomwatson: Sadly, @nycscribe thinks the threat to liberal U.S. democracy is just the temporary “political zeitgeist.” Respectfully, how can readers trust a journalist who arrives at this wildly erroneous conclusion? https://www.cjr.org/...
Jack Shafer / Politico: The New York Times Has a New King. It Won't Change Much.
Tim Morris / @tmorris504: Joe Kahn will succeed Dean Baquet, whose eight-year tenure as NYT executive editor is expected to conclude in June. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: The NYT had the opportunity to bring in a new voice; to address the systemic editorial challenges that, while even producing world-class journalism, has eroded trust in the institution (both of the Times and of journalism). https://www.nytimes.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: The most interesting (to me, at least!) line in the @nytimes piece on the ascension of @nycscribe is this, and how he goes about it will be consequential https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: NYT: “Joseph F. Kahn, ... has been selected to be The Times's next executive editor, the top newsroom job.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Our scoop at @PuckNews, from February: https://puck.news/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Sulzberger: Joe Kahn “brings impeccable news judgment, a sophisticated understanding of the forces shaping the world and a long track record of helping journalists produce their most ambitious and courageous work.” https://twitter.com/...
John Johnson / Newser: In New York Times ' New Editor, a Big Personality Shift
bookforum.com: Jennifer Wilson on Elif Batuman's new novel; Joe Kahn has been named the new executive editor of the New York Times
Gloria Oladipo / The Guardian: New York Times names Joseph Kahn as executive editor
Ariel Zilber / New York Post: New York Times names Joe Kahn its new executive editor
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: New York Times appoints Joseph Kahn as executive editor
Quint Forgey / Politico: Joe Kahn named top editor of NYT
American Press Institute: Need to Know: April 19, 2022 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: Not naming mass shooters (much) is now the norm (Poynter)
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: New York Times Appoints Joseph Kahn Executive Editor
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A profile of Joe Kahn, whose focus on China shaped his career, during which he won two Pulitzers and helped turn The New York Times into a 24-hour operation — Joe Kahn, the next executive editor of The New York Times, has had a steady rise in journalism. It began with a decision to turn his focus to China.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: My profile of Joe Kahn: a decorated journalist who saw the potential of China before others, whose affluent childhood was disrupted by tragedy, and who is now tasked with leading The New York Times amid the challenges of a polarized era. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ed O'Keefe / @edokeefe: “I would not have thought that being a foreign correspondent in China would be good preparation to be executive editor of The New York Times in 2022.” - @nycscribe, on how his career prepared him to lead the @nytimes. (By @grynbaum) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: @nytimes @deanbaquet An excellent profile of the NY Times's new executive editor, Joe Kahn, and how he worked his way up in journalism: https://www.nytimes.com/... by @grynbaum
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Dean Baquet turned 65 a while ago, and today The New York Times has a new editor: Joe Kahn. He rose in a very traditional way. Here's the Times article about their new boss: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Oti Adjei / @otiadjei: Its the educational background of these top media executives for me https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: Here's Joe Kahn as an undergrad in 1986. Drawing commissioned by The Harvard Crimson. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kate Kelly / @katekelly: Love this: “At one point, Harvard's president, Derek Bok, got so fed up with Mr. Kahn's dogged reporting that he barred university officials from speaking to The Crimson.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Bauder / @dbauder: As is tradition, Times stays inside with its new executive editors. https://apnews.com/...
Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken: Now I want a publication I work for to publish a glowing profile of me. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@jtanews: The New York Times named Joseph Kahn its next executive editor, the fifth Jewish editor in the position since its creation in 1964. https://www.jta.org/...
@gillianwong: Kahn's experience with Chinese officials, well versed in propaganda and deception, was newly relevant. “I would not have thought that being a foreign correspondent in China would be good preparation to be executive editor of The New York Times in 2022.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tarpley Hitt / Gawker: New New York Times Editor Joe Kahn Was a Big Loser in College
Kathryn Hopkins / WWD: Joseph Kahn Takes the Helm at The New York Times
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
A look at the woman behind Libs of TikTok, a Twitter account that reposts videos along with incendiary framing and is shaping LGBTQ+ right-wing media coverage — A popular Twitter account has morphed into a social media phenomenon, spreading anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and shaping public discourse
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Andrew Lawrence / @ndrew_lawrence: hes saying that the article about libs of tik tok was a foreign intelligence operation involving the german government and quite possibly the biden administration https://twitter.com/...
@libsoftiktok: Hi @TaylorLorenz! Which of my relatives did you enjoy harassing the most at their homes yesterday? https://twitter.com/...
Matt Binder / @mattbinder: all the info in the Libs of TikTok piece was already publicly available online. but Taylor had one thing that no one else had which made the report possible...Glenn Greenwald accidentally confirming their identity lol https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: De-anonymizing somebody online in a major outlet is a form of doxxing, period. Even if done with public records. Even if done to somebody you dislike. That doesn't mean it's not justified by circumstances, but let's not mince words when justifying it.
J.D. Vance / @jdvance1: Bezos's mouthpiece (the Washington Post) doxxing Libs of Tik Tok is further evidence that the purpose of the corporate media is industrial scale harassment. Time for defamation reform for the media, and to break up their Big Tech enablers.
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Say there are two women with the same, very specific name. They live in the same exact neighborhood. One is a TikTok influencer. Nice family, cute kids, loves a good handbag. One runs an anti-LGBT TikTok aggregator. She's a regular on Tucker Carlson—but never shows her face.
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Lol that was fast. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Binder / @mattbinder: right wingers have no idea what Taylor Lorenz published. they're just making things up based on the outrage. no home addresses or phone numbers were shared by any reporter. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Edison Hayden / @michaelehayden: Let the record show that the Pizzagate Boys are total cowards who apparently cry at the sound of their own doorbells https://twitter.com/...
Matt Binder / @mattbinder: just want to point out that this tweet that Libs of TikTok just posted herself has more identifying information than anything Taylor Lorenz published https://twitter.com/...
Robby Soave / @robbysoave: @TaylorLorenz I ask this in genuine good faith: How do you square this sort of reporting with your stated position that doxxing is never okay? It seems you are likely to direct no small amount of harassment toward this woman as a result of exposing her.
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: Meet the Queens woman behind Libs of TikTok, secretly fueling the right's outrage machine (with help from Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald). She promoted January 6 and pretended to be at the Capitol that day. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Andrew Lawrence / @ndrew_lawrence: Online influencer Glenn Greenwald thinks its absolutely sick that someone would spend all day online trolling people https://twitter.com/...
Alex Thompson / @alexthomp: Showing up at people's homes is standard journalism that more reporters should do. like half of “all the president's men” is Woodstein showing up at people's homes. https://twitter.com/...
David Klion / @davidklion: If every Twitter account with more than 10,000 followers (which is to say, a tiny minority of accounts) had to disclose its identity as a matter of company policy, what would be bad about that? What public interest is served by enabling high-visibility anonymous accounts?
@christinapushaw: The Bezos Post's internet hall monitor is so excited to “expose” @libsoftiktok. Here is my comment: 🤡 https://twitter.com/...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: She went door knocking and ... he just ... tweeted it out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Libs of TikTok has become a powerful force online, shaping right-wing media, impacting anti-LGBTQ+ legislation & influencing millions by posting viral videos aimed at inciting outrage. I wrote abt the account, the woman behind it, and why it matters https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Benjy Sarlin / @benjysarlin: It's wild how quickly this account took over my feed, but the story really gets at why — there's an endless demand for main characters on the right when culture wars are ascendant. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: This is a stupid viral lie being spread by Taylor. She announced she intended to publish @libsoftiktok's name. After, @libsoftiktok provided proof Taylor went to her relatives' houses and asked me to report it to deter Taylor from stalking more people. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: His show is starting to make Infowars look like the Encyclopedia Britannica. 2 a.m. unhinged subway rant stuff from the most watched show on cable TV. No effort at all to establish a basis in factual information. https://twitter.com/...
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D / @rvawonk: Oh see this right here changes the game entirely. Libs of TikTok lost any possible claim to being just a private citizen when they trademarked their account as a “news reporter service.” Taylor Lorenz was right to write this, and I'm glad she did. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@hezbolsonaro: For some reason Glenn Greenwald has changed his view on anonymous outlets that harass and defame people and try to get them fired https://twitter.com/...
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: Looks like this was a business address. Was ambiguous from Google Street View. I'm still uncomfortable with the Post's focus on this individual's personal details and the silent editing of a story without explanation. Hopefully there is a public discussion of their standards.
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: It looks like the Washington Post silently edited the story to remove a link to the person's address, so at least somebody at the Post agrees with my concerns.
Jack Saint / @lackingsaint: really just terrible awful news about libsoftiktok, an account which has always stood for such integrity and respect for the rights of private citizens https://twitter.com/...
Kristine Coratti Kelly / @kriscoratti: Statement from @cameronbarr re: reporting from @TaylorLorenz https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Taylor Lorenz is about to “expose” the private citizen behind some anonymous account on Twitter, and when people criticize her for it, she and her friends will claim Taylor is the Real Victim™ and anyone criticizing this type of “journalism” will be guilty of causing her trauma. https://twitter.com/...
Kat Bouza / Rolling Stone: Taylor Lorenz Wrote About Libs of TikTok — and Conservatives Won't Shut Up About It
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Gonna be a lot of people online today talking about the privacy rights of a twitter account that specializes in generating social media pile ons and getting people fired
Steve Schmidt / @steveschmidtses: 8/ particularly well understood or covered. Bravo to @washingtonpost and @TaylorLorenz for doing it so well. Once again @FoxNews and a small number of players are all clustered together at the sight of a spreading cultural metastasis. No surprise at all.
Christopher Hooks / @cd_hooks: Am I wrong or didn't “doxing” used to mean dumping a person's address, phone number, job, family members, contact info of close relations, ssn, etc. on the internet? When did it become “here is this person's name?”
Erin Gallagher / @3r1ng: @etbrooking @alexstamos You'd think in the year 2022, one might know enough ask “who benefits from conflating the act of doing journalism with doxing?” and that answer would be obvious, especially for a former CSO of a major tech platform. https://twitter.com/...
Conor Friedersdorf / @conor64: If you think the anonymity question w/r/t Libs of TikTok is uncomplicated—that the name itself is *obviously* newsworthy—would you feel the same about a large follower, influential account that posted mocking videos of cops, some misbehaving, some out-of-context unfair gotchas?
Philip Bump / @pbump: you: tucker carlson could not possibly do anything more ridiculous this week than promote testicle tanning tucker carlson: [hands you his beer] https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: @BGrueskin @emilybell I agree! My point is just that it used to be easier to define — are you an elected official, do you run a public company. Now the terms are a lot more fluid: how many Twitter followers do you have, and were you quoted by Glenn Greenwald, etc. A lot more room for debate
Timothy Burke / @bubbaprog: totally unhinged conspiracy theory promotion on America's most-watched cable news program https://twitter.com/...
@the_moviebob: Counterpoint: If this is about the “LIBS OF TIKTOK” creature? No it's not. You can't bully a bully or inflict cruelty on the cruel. Bad things happen to bad people. Make bigots afraid to speak their hate again. Make their kids ashamed people will find out what their parents are https://twitter.com/...
Eric Owens / @ericowensdc: @conor64 Yes. It's obviously newsworthy. If you wish to be anonymous, protect your anonymity. Do not give interviews to Fox News and The Daily Caller, for example. There is no right to anonymity.
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Rather than debate “doxxing” I hope people can read this story and see the striking escalation of attacks against gay and trans people, and the crucial role this account has played in the right wing media ecosystem https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jane / @janeost_: i'm just a smol bean hate peddler backed by republican operatives doing my best to get vulnerable people killed, why are you not respecting my privacy
@libsoftiktok: I doxxed a private citizen and her extended family and people are being mean to me online https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Says the tech Venture capitalist who made his money in tech. https://twitter.com/...
@pwnallthethings: The result of a policy like this would be that it is impossible for many people to express public views about matters unrelated to their employer without clearing it with their respective employer's PR team (which for many would mean closing the account). https://twitter.com/...
Rocco / @rocco_castoro: Chuds complaining @TaylorLorenz's reporting on @libsoftiktok 's Chaya Raichik doxxes a “private person” won't be stoked on this FL corporate filing for Libs of Tik Tok LLC. Especially if the Seth Dillon listed as its manager is @TheBabylonBee CEO @SethDillon. https://twitter.com/...
Meredith Shiner / @meredithshiner: anyway it's never a good personal approach to step into Taylor Twitter, but that story today was important and people's lives are being ruined by an extremist propaganda machine with a direct pipeline from this account to the highest-profile “media” outlets in the ecosystem.
@hasanthehun: this woman is quite literally cutting propaganda for the republican party by blasting random queer teachers on the tl and trying to get them fired. unmasking her is journalism. making it seem like this is just some random twitter acc is odd. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Hemingway / @heminator: Notice how the many corporate media folks just say that LibsOfTikTok is “anti-LGBT” and “anti-gay.” I know plenty of gay people that don't approve of the rhetoric that account is highlighting. This isn't a settled question. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: In conclusion, people should check out this very good piece of reporting and journalism about this very scenario. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: One of the leading anti-LGBTQ influencers online publicly claims to be an insurrectionist and at the Capitol on Jan 6th https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Kathryn Tewson / @kathryntewson: In the most chef kiss moment of all of this, it turns out the person who doxed LOTT most thoroughly is Greenwald himself: https://twitter.com/...
Alex Pareene / The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter: They Know How Journalism Works! They're Just Against It! — On Tuesday, Washington Post …
Jacob Siegel / The Scroll: What Happened Today: April 19, 2022
Scott Nover / @scottnover: I don't think doxxing is a particularly helpful word. Just say what you mean: If you think an account should be able to anonymously smear gay people to millions on TikTok, or that the founders of a multibillion dollar company should be allowed to be cartoon apes, just say so.
Lindsay Beyerstein / @beyerstein: And since Chaya Raichik has over 600k followers in her own right and she's being aided and abetted by the likes of Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Joe Rogan, reaching hundreds of millions of people, her accusations of child molestation are serious.
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Look how the WashPost and other liberal corporate outlets doles out or denies the “journalist” label all based on whether they like the political outcome of one's reporting or whether you're supporting or subverting the liberal orthodoxy of the moment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Lawrence / @ndrew_lawrence: we're through the looking glass here people
@eoinhiggins_: One of the funnier parts of this absolutely unhinged meltdown is that Glenn called himself the “godfather” of the homophobic account in question and is now whimpering over being used as confirmation for a key point in the story. https://twitter.com/...
Andy Swan / @andyswan: The right gets mad when you lie about them. The left gets mad when you tell the truth about them. https://twitter.com/...
@junlper: the libsoftiktok account owner is a real estate salesperson and used to run a twitter account that pretended to be a plant in joe bidens white house lol
@bigblackjacobin: Biggest mark in the world if you pay for someone to aggregate Tik Tok content for you https://twitter.com/...
Alex Goldman / @agoldmund: Reporting the name of someone who already has a public profile and also uses a twitter account to sic hordes of trolls on other people is not doxing. It's reporting. It's like the most basic building block of reporting.
@kt_so_it_goes: my opinion here is predictable: if you want to be anonymous you'd better be good at actually being anonymous (she was horrible at it) and you'd better not build your brand on cruelty to ordinary people with no power (she did), or you're toast
Meredith Shiner / @meredithshiner: It's wild to me the institutions that have employed @TaylorLorenz to do important reporting on influential, dark places on the web that are reshaping our society are fundamentally incurious about the organized online campaigns against her, who coordinates them and why.
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Taylor Lorenz wrote this two fucking weeks ago!!! Do you not see how corporate journalists have created a framework where they can do *anything* to anyone they want and nobody can do anything to them, including criticize them (because it generates “harassment")?? https://twitter.com/...
@dklmarxist: Half of libs of TikTok account is trying to get a they/them teacher fired for wearing a button with a trans flag, not really in a place to complain about doxxing.
@junlper: libsoftiktok all of a sudden is not the biggest fan of free speech or expression,,, https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Ingraham / @_cingraham: Nice piece here tracing how the far right “Libs of Tik Tok” account is pushing anti-gay hate speech and conspiracy theories into the conservative mainstream https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Glenn Fleishman / @glennf: This is tendentious bullshit. The reason doxxing was coined as a term is that it is a combination of the release of identifying, often private information and the intent to incite abuse and harassment. Reporting on a powerful, anonymous political figure is hardly doxxing. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: It's all just a business.
Mark / @kept_simple: it's getting to the point that you can't even incite a pogrom against queer teachers without someone revealing the name that appears in public documents related to the licensing of your personal brand
Broccoli Rob / @turnip_tops: the fact that this person was “doxxed” by 1) their domain registration, 2) an LLC filing by those Babylon Bee idiots and 3) Glenn Greenwald's tweets is just too perfect https://twitter.com/...
Ben Shapiro / @benshapiro: Guys, we have to stop billionaires like Elon Musk from taking over companies like Twitter because they won't operate those companies like Jeff Bezos does WaPo, which unleashes Taylor Lorenz on the families of anonymous Twitter accounts.
Trey Vaught / Real News Revolt: The Washington Post Targets a Private Citizen to Protect Grooming Teachers
Kim Zetter / @kimzetter: Surprised to find Twitter arguing about newsworthiness of uncovering identity of someone hiding behind anonymity to spread misinfo and hate. The prominence of their posts makes them now a public figure, and knowing identity/history provides context for understanding their posts.
Steve Schmidt / @steveschmidtses: This 👇 story below is essential reading. Understanding the Right Wing Smear Machine and the malice that drives it is essential. Apparently, the use of good old fashioned shoe leather journalism in pursuit of facts has given great offense to @ggreenwald, one of Putins https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: .@LibsofTikTok has become a powerful cross-platform social media influencer, spreading anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and fueling the right wing media's outrage machine. I wrote abt the account, the woman behind it, and why it matters 🧵https://www.washingtonpost.com / ...
Lincoln Michel / @thelincoln: So if I understand today's right wing talking points, running an account that tries to get teachers fired for their speech is not cancel culture but any reporting on the account that tries to cancel people is cancel culture. Got it.
Mike Wilson / Nothing but the Truth: Peak Mainstream Media
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Of course. Hope everyone has a chance to read the piece https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Becket Adams / @becketadams: “fueling the right's outrage machine” is such a hilariously telling way to describe an account that simply reposts left-wing social media content. https://twitter.com/...
@eoinhiggins_: Well reported feature here, you can see why the right is shriek-crying about it https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: I'd be happy to compare journalistic accomplishments with the editors and employees of WPost who keep concocting titles for me other than “journalist” to see who merits the term. Being called an “online influencer” by Taylor is like being called a war criminal by David Frum. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Griffing / Mediaite: Washington Post Defends Taylor Lorenz in Statement Highlighting News Value of Naming ‘Libs of TikTok’ Creator
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: I really want to see the parallel world in which people visit Taylor's house and the homes and workplaces of her relatives to dig up dirt on her. I have a strong feeling the people defending Taylor doing this to private citizens won't be similarly supportive if it's done to her.
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Put aside the bonkers claim here, Carlson wants Taylor Lorenz to register as an agent of a foreign (German) government under FARA - the same Carlson who shills for Orban & whose father was “listed as a director of a Washington-based firm that has lobbied for Mr. Orban in the” US https://twitter.com/...
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: “It was in the public record.” I have been threatened by extremist groups using public records. I have friends who have been swatted using public records. The act of taking somebody's public information and pointing to it in a charged context is the doxxing.
Lindsay Beyerstein / @beyerstein: There are already cracks appearing the the facade that she's just a simple realtor with a passion for homophobia.
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: Anyway, folks in the media with a strong understanding of why amplification of harmful speech on social media platforms is different than the existence of that speech in the first place really should be a bit less hypocritical here if they are looking to maintain trust.
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: A few questions for Greenwald: what's the name of twitter account? How many followers does it have? Does it have a political impact? How would you characterize its politics? Does the account foment animosity towards a minority group? What's your relationship with that account? https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: 🤪🤪🤪 https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: Serious people on here are arguing that a reporting out the networks and people behind a massive disinformation and propaganda complex is equivalent to “doxxing”. Journalism ethics people and digital security people need to talk to each other more.
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: If you do A, you're reporting. And you're saving the other Chaya Raichik from being associated with an anti-LGBT hate account. If you do B, you're not reporting. You're guessing. And you're absconding from the hard part of being a reporter.
Lindsay Beyerstein / @beyerstein: Calling their critics child molesters is the GOP's main domestic agenda. I'm serious.
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: A reporter has figured out that this is solvable: The domain records for the anti-gay TikTok business absolve the other influencer in the same neighborhood. It appears they're two different people. But the reporter still has to confirm this.
Lindsay Beyerstein / @beyerstein: The point of the story is that the anonymous operative behind LibsofTikTok is Chaya Raichik and we should care about that because she's calling named individuals child molesters and her content is being amplified by the biggest names in right wing media. https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: @meredithshiner fwiw WaPo has been great! My editor totally gets it and the managers have been so supportive. I'm not pressed abt any of this stuff. Idiots online can whine all they want and post wild lies about me, I'll keep doing my stories 💪🏻. Hope ur staying safe out there!💓
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: This is ultimately a story about how online influence warps our political discourse and shapes policy, as well as the right wing media's symbiotic relationship w/ a massive political influencer. Read my whole thread below👇🏻 @mattyglesias https://twitter.com/...
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Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: I can see why some people would pick B. It's easier. It makes a vicious Substack. And you don't have to leave the house. But A is what reporters do — and have done for centuries. It's what the truth is. When it comes to hate accounts with big money allies, the truth matters.
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: The reporter calls the number associated with the anti-gay TikTok business. Quick hang-up. Okay. What's the next step for a reporter? Is it: A) See if you can confirm it in person. B) Guess and hope you're right.
Lindsay Beyerstein / @beyerstein: So, it is inherently newsworthy when the name of one of the most influential operatives in the pedophilia smear campaign is discovered. We should all be curious about who she is and how she's connected to national figures in the GOP and the RW media.
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Taylor Lorenz is an interesting journalist/media figure, and I've definitely contributed to this, but I'm not sure what we're getting out of having a media news cycle about her every week.
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Taylor purposely wrote the article to imply the confirmation came from me. She had already announced to multiple people she knew the name and would publish it. The WP tried to pretend I provided the confirmation because they're lying gossips who lie routinely about their enemies.
Christopher Ingraham / @_cingraham: @oneunderscore__ “Posting more exclusive content,” like links to public TikTok videos lmao
@cjciaramella: If you love calling anyone who disagrees with you a groomer, you should definitely support loosening up libel laws. It will be a big win for you! https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Evergreen reminder - as everyone On Here is talking about a specific polarizing story - to read it for yourself before devouring everyone's takes https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Andrew Perez / @andrewperezdc: This story is largely based around someone registering a website with their name and phone number. How is anyone melting down over that lol https://twitter.com/...
William Vaillancourt / thedailybeast.com: Tucker Calls Reporter Who Unmasked Libs of Tik Tok Creator a German Stooge
Steve Schmidt / @steveschmidtses: 7/ why it is an important story, no matter how angry the extremists get. The viciousness of social media harassment and the use of propaganda to attack, dehumanize, stigmatize and neutralize political opposition is a profoundly important feature of our politics that is not
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: The Libs of TikTok story is the most-read article on @washingtonpost's site this morning https://twitter.com/...
@eigenrobot: taylor lorenz desecrates our space less for pay than as a means of demonstrating power. power to destroy our friends; power to destroy our beloved enemies; power to destroy our independence, our communities, our freedoms but her world is dying
Bonnie Kristian / The Week: Out with Alex Jones-style conspiracy theorizing. In with Libs of TikTok.
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: A journalist is writing a piece about an anonymous twitter account. There is going to be a big backlash about it. But the same twitter account gives interviews to Tucker & NY Post, and pushed the “teachers are groomers” narrative that conservatives are using to reshape public ed. https://twitter.com/...
Mark / @kept_simple: I think at this point many people's brains probably are poisoned enough to think that journalism is about posting takes and that actually looking into something is a form of harassment https://twitter.com/...
Philip Bump / @pbump: Read about the rise of a go-to right-wing Twitter account that followed a now-familiar path to the fringe. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kristofer Goldsmith / @krisgoldsmith85: Chaya Raichik quit her job in real estate to run the targeted harassment account “Libs of TikTok” full time. There posts viral manipulated content, accusing teachers of being “groomers” and pedophiles. Now the rightwing disinfo hate machine are casting her as the “real” victim. https://twitter.com/...
@sturgeons_law: LibsofTikTok makes $ publicizing the behavior of random citizens & directing mass scrutiny to them. It's also a regular source for the biggest news network & for policymakers. Its activity & function aren't easily distinguished from what its partisans say about Lorenz. https://twitter.com/...
Madeline Osburn / The Federalist: WaPo Peddles Anti-Semitic Trope In Doxxing Attack On ‘Libs Of TikTok’
Avi Yemini / @ozraeliavi: This was Taylor Lorenz a couple of weeks ago. She was crying victim of “harassment”. Today she tracked down and harassed family members of the @libsoftiktok account for an article she's working on. It turns out Taylor's the perpetrator, not victim. https://twitter.com/...
Will Chamberlain / @willchamberlain: It's not just @TaylorLorenz who is responsible for doxxing @libsoftiktok Taylor has an editor, Christina Passariello (@cpassariello) who absolutely should explain herself https://twitter.com/...
Amber Athey / @amber_athey: I've reached out to @washingtonpost to ask if they can confirm that @taylorlorenz went to the homes of family members of @libsoftiktok. Here are the SPJ's ethical guidelines on minimizing harm. https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Timeline, PhD / @garbageape: Libs of TikTok Anonymity: Good, protecting the weak and righteous. GarbageApe Anonymity: Evil, the powerful escaping justice. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Fucking unbelievable: @TaylorLorenz, after sobbing on national TV 2 weeks ago, claiming she's the victim of “harassment,” showed up at the house of the relatives of the citizen behind @libsoftiktok and badgered them, according to @libsoftiktok. The bullies claim to be bullied.
Seth Tower Hurd / Seth Tower Hurd's The Five: WaPo Doxxes Twitter User, NY Times Attemps to Report on Airline Mask Joke as News, CNN Accused of Inciting Protestors to Riot (The Five for 04/19/22)
Ariel Zilber / New York Post: Taylor Lorenz slammed as ‘hypocrite’ for ‘doxxing’ ‘Libs of TikTok’ creator
Arthur Chu / @arthur_affect: The whole POINT of Libs of TikTok is to put a giant spotlight on random people and get them inundated with threats and harassment until they quit their jobs https://twitter.com/...
@christinapushaw: Taylor Lorenz was just crying on MSNBC about her experience with “online violence” but she has no problem using Bezos money to stalk a private citizen's relatives by showing up at their HOMES. Because she's mad that @libsoftiktok reposted videos of degenerate predators.
@libsoftiktok: Words cannot express how appreciative I am of the support I'm receiving right now. Thankfully I'm currently holed up in a safe location. I'm confident we will get through this and come out even stronger. Grateful for all the thoughts and prayers ❤️
Chris Boutté / The Rewired Soul: The Real Problem with Libs of TikTok
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: “Libs of TikTok” unmasked in Washington Post exposé
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Warner Bros. Discovery suspended external CNN+ marketing and laid off CNN CFO Brad Ferrer, replaced by Discovery's CFO for streaming and international — Warner Bros. Discovery has suspended all external marketing spend for CNN+ and has laid off CNN's longtime chief financial officer …
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@axios: SCOOP: CNN+ looks doomed. Warner Bros. Discovery has suspended all external marketing spend for CNN+ and has laid off CNN's longtime CFO as it weighs what to do with it moving forward. https://www.axios.com/...
Damon Kiesow / @dkiesow: CNN+ launched March 29. Pulling the plug now is a pure indictment of executives not the product itself or the staff who built and launched it. https://www.axios.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Wow. @sarafischer reports that CNN and its owner, Warner Bros. Discovery, are “misaligned” on the new streaming network CNN+, which is an enormous investment. CNN execs are frustrated that new leadership is moving quickly to dismantle CNN+, says Fischer. https://www.axios.com/...
David Sirota / @davidsirota: One takeaway here is that CNN and other such outlets can survive on old legacy platforms (traditional cable) that have high entry costs they can pay, but when they're forced to compete on an even playing field (the Internet), they struggle to find an audience. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: “What to watch: Sources say a plan is being considered to replace Chris Cuomo's 9:00pm EST primetime slot with a live newscast, instead of personality-driven perspective programming.” https://www.axios.com/...
Sopan Deb / @sopandeb: it's good that CNN was/is trying something new. you'd rather have that than legacy outlets just doing the same thing repeatedly. that it's not working isn't unique to CNN. it speaks to a larger, shrinking industry overall and ultimately, that's not good for journalism.
Greg Lukianoff / @glukianoff: It seemed like a bad idea but I nonetheless feel for everyone involved in this ambitious project. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Sunset the CNN+ app, divide some form of live news video to the CNN app (advertising), and docs to HBO Max (subscriber funded). But it's still not live news on the app, and the linear network without anchor/opinion driven segments become a tougher sell when there's no major news. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: CNN is a core resource when there's breaking news/major event. It's not a habit. Building habits around news is tough — see NYT building out games/cooking to help turn its entirety into a habit. Especially in the US. CNN is global, but US audiences love anchored opinion hours.
Pradheep J. Shanker / @neoavatara: Edsel. New Coke. CNN+. https://twitter.com/...
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: CNN+ facing steep cost cuts as new management takes helm
Sam Adams / @samuelaadams: I for one cannot understand why the plan to have everyone spend hundreds of dollars on dozens of separate streaming services every month has not been more successful https://www.axios.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Directional change is aspirational. We all get it. But advertisers are notably skittish of hard news (CNN's Ukraine coverage + Applebees, for ex), ratings are down 70% in key demo since Cuomo, short term loss is potentially Fox's big gain, + how much loss can you afford to take? https://twitter.com/...
Sopan Deb / @sopandeb: finding it weird how many media figures are celebrating this. jobs will be lost, and there are a lot of good journalists who work at CNN plus https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Willis / @owillis: nobody could have predicted this thing that had zero demand and was a vanity project for a bad head of network and his band of cult-like journalists/employees would not work out https://twitter.com/...
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: Report: Warner Bros. Discovery Halts CNN+ Marketing; Is this the Beginning of the End for the Streamer?
Dave Lee / @daveleeft: Depressingly predictable. CNN+ had no defined audience, no incentive to pay, no fresh thinking. Frustrating how these projects will be cited as proof that people won't pay for news, when really it's a case of execution. https://twitter.com/...
Paris Marx / @parismarx: you mean CNN's liberal audience wasn't drawn in by the prospect of watching Chris Wallace? https://twitter.com/...
Veronica Irwin / Protocol: Discovery and CNN executives are fighting, and it's killing CNN+
@reesetheone1: Somehow Dems and Joe Biden will be blamed for this as well. CNN has been the third wheel network since Fox took over on the right and MSNBC went lean forward under the Obama years. They don't have an identity. https://twitter.com/...
Krystal Ball / @krystalball: Well that was fast lol https://twitter.com/...
@edasante77: Discovery's CEO doesn't mess around, it'll be lights out for CNN in general if it doesn't boost the bottom line. https://twitter.com/...
@sarthakgh: Yet another win in the anti Galloway index He not only had a show on the service but also spent years advocating for a CNN subscription service https://twitter.com/...
Kelly Ellis / @justkelly_ok: Who exactly did they think was going to subscribe? Whomst among us looks at 24-hour news channels and says “you know what, I need even more of this” https://twitter.com/...
David Poland / @davidpoland: This is actually good news. Don't throw good money after bad. There will be a CNN+ or some such thing. This product was not ready to go. It wasn't a value, even at $3 a month. https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Baschez / @nbashaw: CNN+ is 21 days old That's like 1/10th of a Quibi! (shut down after 6 mo's) https://twitter.com/...
David Uberti / @daviduberti: *whispers* 150,000 subscribers so far doesn't seem bad! https://twitter.com/...
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: Is it just me or does the Discovery Warner Bros. post close vibe has a AOL/Time Warner and AT&T/Warner Media feel to it already? https://www.mediagazer.com/...
Ned Ryun / @nedryun: Seriously. He's an arrogant dunce. Pretty much got what he deserved. https://twitter.com/...
@sylabdul_inc: Zaslav is here to put out fires! Hes not messing around! CNN+ was a mistake before it was even released. The blunder kilar made strolling out the door WBD cut spending for cnn app, likely doomed https://www.axios.com/...
Scott Rising / @rising: maybe people decided 24-hours of news was enough and they didn't need a + https://twitter.com/...
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Days Seem Numbered for CNN+, but Could Its Shows Live On?
Chris / @chrismnovak: Wow who would've ever foreseen such a thing happening? https://twitter.com/...
Isaac Saul / @ike_saul: I really can't believe anyone at CNN ever thought this was going to work. https://twitter.com/...
Brigid Kennedy / The Week: The CNN+ woes continue: Report
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Discovery execs weigh merging CNN Plus with HBO Max
Jackson Richman / Mediaite: CNN Reportedly Suspends Marketing Spending for CNN+, Lays Off Chief Financial Officer
Mollie Cahillane / TVNewser: Report: CNN+ Suspends All External Marketing, Lays Off CNN CFO
James Cridland / Podnews:
Spotify tells applicants that it canceled the Greenroom Creator Fund, announced in June 2021; it isn't clear whether the live audio fund ever paid out any money — In June 2021, Spotify announced the Spotify Greenroom Creator Fund for US creators to “support and reward creators for the communities …
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J. Clara Chan / Hollywood Reporter: Spotify Shuts Down Greenroom Creator Fund Amid Live Audio Rebrand
Matt Deegan / Matt on Audio: Tech Trying to Do Radio & Consistency
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Spotify closed down its Greenroom Creator Fund with shift in live audio strategy
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Rolling Stone CEO Gus Wenner says 2021 was the company's most profitable year in two decades, due to a renewed investment in live events and a focus on creators — Rolling Stone will debut its inaugural “Creators” issue Tuesday, featuring the first in-depth profile of YouTube star MrBeast.
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@jeffjarvis, @baekdal, @heyitschili, @fernriddell, @karissabe, @axios, @dcherring and @baekdal
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Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Looks like Rolling Stone & Penske trying to build the next Vidcon. More than that, here's an old, big-media outlet paying respect to creators. Interesting from @sarafischer. Rolling Stone pivots to creators https://www.axios.com/...
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: Heh... I mean, that mostly just illustrate how out of date this magazine is. Not just that it took this long, but also that they then chose to feature MrBeast of all people. https://twitter.com/...
@heyitschili: Look I've gone this long without knowing who MrBeast is and I feel like going a little longer like this. https://twitter.com/...
Dr Fern Riddell / @fernriddell: Hey @RollingStone I am also creative https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Karissa Bell / @karissabe: I know a lot of old folks are going to roll their eyes at this but as someone who grew reading RS religiously .. I think this is really smart! https://twitter.com/...
@axios: For the first time ever, Rolling Stone's cover will feature a social media celebrity for its inaugural “Creators” issue. https://www.axios.com/...
Bloomberg:
Sources: Amazon, Disney, Reliance, Sony, Zee, and Dream11 are vying for the broadcast rights to the cricket Indian Premier League, expected to be worth $5B+ — Amazon.com Inc., The Walt Disney Co. and billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd. are among those that have signaled …
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Karan HM / MediaNama: TLDR: Aadhaar, Future Retail, Flipkart, Amazon, Dream11, IPL, Reliance Jio, Google Wallet
Vishwanath Nair / BloombergQuint: SBI Seeks Accountability From Future Group On Stores Taken Over By Reliance Industries
Venkat Ananth / @venkatananth: interesting. - Dream11 has purchased bid documents for IPL media rights. going big on fancode would be a safe guess - others include (now) usual suspects Amazon, Sony, Zee & Disney/Star - reliance is most curious (with the recent launch of Sports18) https://www.bloomberg.com/...
LSM:
Q&A with the chief editor of Novaya Gazeta Europe, launched as a parallel operation to Russia's Novaya Gazeta, which suspended work due to Russian censorship — One of the last independent publishers which suspended its activities in Russia was the influential newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable:
TiVo study finds 28% of US viewers resubscribed to pay TV after cutting the cord; 29% say it is because it is the best way to watch sports and major live events — Cutting the cord can be complicated. That's why we here at The Streamable try to make it as simple as possible for you.
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