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After criticism, Los Angeles County's sheriff says his department is not pursuing a criminal leak probe into LA Times journalist Alene Tchekmedyian — Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Tuesday that his department was targeting a Times journalist in a criminal leak investigation …
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Frank Stoltze / @stoltzefrankly: BREAKING: @LACoSheriff says he is investigating @latimes reporter @AleneTchek in connection with a leak of information, displaying a photo of her at today's newser. This is an extraordinary escalation in the sheriff's attack not only on the paper but also on the First Amendment. https://twitter.com/...
Katie Robertson / New York Times: Los Angeles Sheriff, Accused of Cover-Up, Opens Investigation Into Reporter
@rcfp: The LA County Sheriff's Department's announcement that it has launched a criminal investigation into a journalist because of her reporting is appalling. This blatantly retaliatory conduct aimed at @latimes & @AleneTchek violates the First Amendment. @katie_rcfp's full statement: https://twitter.com/...
Shelby Grad / @shelbygrad: An important message about a free press and the dangers of criminalizing news reporting from LAT executive editor @meridak in the case of @AleneTchek https://twitter.com/...
@latimes: L.A. County Supervisor Hilda Solis, who along with other supervisors has clashed with the sheriff repeatedly, said that she would ask California Atty. Gen. Ron Bonta to “investigate his pattern of unconscionable and dangerous actions like the one today.” https://www.latimes.com/...
@jassyspeaks1st: When you're moving so fast to distance your present self from your past self that the best picture you can find is just a blur https://twitter.com/...
Tom Jones / Poynter: A journalist unveiled a sheriff coverup in Los Angeles. The department is now investigating her.
Josie Huang / @josie_huang: Why is this LA Times reporter being investigated? She wrote about the attempted cover-up of a videotaped incident in which a deputy kneeled on the head of a handcuffed inmate for 3 minutes. Here's the story by @AleneTchek: https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Have never seen something like this, no matter how many times officials have tried to drag and/or demonize reporters https://twitter.com/...
@latimes: The sheriff's attack on reporter @AleneTchek drew immediate condemnation from the newspaper. “His attempt to criminalize news reporting goes against well-established constitutional law,” said @meridak, executive editor of The Times, in a statement. https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Joe Patrice / @josephpatrice: While people crow about “free speech” when the richest person in the world lets people post racist memes on a private forum, here's where the First Amendment is really going in the country — prosecuting journalists for covering government scandals. https://twitter.com/...
Stefanie Dazio / @steffdaz: .@LACoSheriff indicated that @latimes reporter @AleneTchek is under criminal investigation for her reporting this case. Villanueva put Alene's photo up like a mugshot + refused to take Q's from her during a presser. Alene is a terrific reporter. Full stop. https://www.latimes.com/...
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: You know how I openly say Los Angeles law enforcement is full of purveyors of weaponized disinformation and thus nothing they say can be trusted, as they have zero credibility and a track record of attacking journalists? I wasn't lying. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Schmidt / @steveschmidtses: The @LACoSheriff deserves much greater scrutiny. In fact, Sheriffs Departments all over America deserve greater scrutiny. The reason for that is we have a National Kooky Sheriff problem. The @LACoSheriff office is a mess and like many Sheriffs offices it has a political https://twitter.com/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: We need a new sheriff. https://twitter.com/...
@elaheizadi: LAT executive editor Kevin Merida called this “outrageous.” Statement: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kathleen Carroll / @kathleencarrll: Oh good grief. What's more important? Investigating who kneels on an inmate, or investigating the person who tells the public about it? Ask the people who pay your salary, #sheriffvillanueva #givemeabreak @latimes @pressfreedom https://www.latimes.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: A law-enforcement official highlighting a reporter's face under an inflammatory header at a press conference after the reporter wrote newsworthy information the department didn't want written https://twitter.com/...
Jane Coaston / @janecoaston: Also an amazingly bad way to stop people from discussing her story https://twitter.com/...
Greg Greene / @ggreeneva: Let's be clear, this attempt to intimidate journalists is outrageous — but if we want to wonder how it could happen, we have to ask if many law-enforcement institutions have become unaccountable far-right factions, functionally in charge of their cities & impervious to reform. https://twitter.com/...
Jie Jenny Zou / @jiejennyzou: this is a perfect example of what NOT to do as a government agency that specifically made a “transparency promise” https://www.latimes.com/...
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap: LA Sheriff Walks Back Attempt to Intimidate Reporter Over LA Times Story on Police Abuse
Alex Villanueva / @lacosheriff: (1/3) Resulting from the incredible frenzy of misinformation being circulated, I must clarify at no time today did I state an LA Times reporter was a suspect in a criminal investigation. We have no interest in pursuing, nor are we pursuing, criminal charges against any reporters. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Bowen / @acbowen: This would be despicable behavior from any elected official, but the fact that it's coming from LA County's top law enforcement official makes it so much worse. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Schmidt / @steveschmidtses: extremism problem. Beware the sheriffs deputies kitted up for a day of house to house combat in Fallujah as they say. Here we see a public official engaged in a grotesque abuse of power as he assaults the First Amendment and 245 years of American press freedom with a
Kevin Rector / @kevrector: In a brazen attack on the press, L.A. County Sheriff Villanueva said he is investigating the @latimes reporter who revealed an excessive force cover-up that Villanueva himself now stands accused of participating in: https://www.latimes.com/...
Vanessa Romo / NPR: The LA sheriff is investigating a reporter who broke a story on a department cover-up
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Los Angeles Times Executive Editor Kevin Merida condemns the sheriff's “attack on Alene Tchekmedyian's First Amendment rights.” Merida calls it an “outrageous” move and says the “attempt to criminalize news reporting goes against well-established constitutional law.” https://twitter.com/...
Fred Wellman / @fpwellman: Unchecked authoritarian power. Using the state to intimidate the free press. Right out of the fascist playbook. https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: We can all quit Twitter tomorrow. The police targeting you because you said unflattering things about them is far more dangerous
Salvador Hernandez / @salhernandez: Seems like a good time to remind @LACoSheriff employees that @AleneTchek - who has been doing a great job covering the dept - accepts news tips via email that's in her bio https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Reese Jones / @politicussarah: An actual attack on 1st amendment: https://twitter.com/...
Tom Tapp / Deadline: Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva Denies Targeting L.A. Times Reporter Even As He Announces Investigation Into Source Of Her Story
Alex Howard / @digiphile: What @LACoSheriff “is doing reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of basic 1st Amendment law. This has been settled for decades”- @DavidLoySD , @FACoalition https://www.latimes.com/... Don't let brazen attacks on press freedom by law enforcement stand unchallenged, @GavinNewsom. https://twitter.com/...
@theserfstv: Not sure if this story is in any way related https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jon Murray / @jonmurray: LA Times reporter reports something that questions the LA sheriff's handling/honesty about a use of force incident. The next day, he puts up the reporter's photo at a news conference. Here is the story by @AleneTchek that got this response: https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Twitter has aggressively defended users' privacy and free speech rights, pushing back on unmasking subpoenas; it's unclear if this will continue under Musk — For all the talk of how Elon Musk wanted to buy Twitter to make it more supportive of free speech, there remain a ton of questions about what it will actually mean in practice.
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Elon Musk / @elonmusk: By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.
Alex Shephard / New Republic: The Case for Not Worrying (Too Much) About Elon Musk Taking Over Twitter
Shaun King / @shaunking: This is EXACTLY what we expected. He intends to allow hate speech and white supremacy, which are legal in the United States, on the platform. He intends to allow misinformation and disinformation, which are legal, on the platform. https://twitter.com/...
Noah Smith / @noahpinion: Of course tons of people are responding to this by saying that only the government can make speech unfree. Sorry, but I think that's not really true. Society has mezzanine institutions between the government and individuals, and these have real power. https://noahpinion.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
John Knefel / Media Matters for America: Mainstream coverage adopts Elon Musk's “free speech” framing - despite his anti-union, anti-speech, anti-worker history
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: This idiot is going to turn Twitter into 4chan https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Martin / @dylanljmartin: “Even if the plan is not to force a ‘real names’ policy on Twitter users, but rather just for Twitter to know the real identity of all its users, that still creates massive risks — especially for people who are already at risk or marginalized.” https://www.techdirt.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: This is an extremely facile understanding of free speech. China has numerous LAWS restricting speech. But, because they are laws, Musk believes the Chinese government doesn't infringe on free speech? https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: I don't care if Elon buys Twitter or not but my god someone please help him do the basic reading here
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: Twitter has tens of millions of users in places like Turkey, Saudi, & India where governments use the “law” to censor political speech/journalism online. Fielding these “legitimate legal” requests is an important part of Twitter's job—and it's not clear Musk grasps that. https://twitter.com/...
Adi Robertson / @thedextriarchy: if we're gonna speedrun the entire history of internet moderation on twitter can we at least make it weirder https://twitter.com/...
@carterforva: The German government bans Nazi shit, Elon. You gonna ban all the Nazi shit on here? https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: You cannot “match the law” and then also say you will “authenticate all humans” and block spam bots. The law protects anonymous speech. The law protects commercial speech. Every service that has ever tried this move has quickly retreated for the same obvious reasons https://twitter.com/...
Jay Black / @jayblackisfunny: Nilay is one of the smartest people on all the internets and if you want things clearly and accurately explained (regarding Elon but also HDMI cables) you need to follow him: https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Actual free speech experts have spent so much time and effort exploring the ins and outs and tradeoffs involved in free speech and content moderation and every single one of them knows this is 100% wrong and ignorant. Not a good first look. https://twitter.com/...
@johnknefel: Most of the immediate coverage of Musk buying Twitter was far too credulous of his “free speech” framing, and very few included his anti-labor history. My quick take on yesterday's news. https://www.mediamatters.org/ ...
@svdate: How about saying something insanely libelous like calling a trained diver a pedophile. Free speech? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Also the people of the United States cannot “ask government to pass laws” to restrict speech. The government is prohibited from doing that by the First Amendment. We rely on the free market to govern speech because private companies can do things the government can't.
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: @Twitter ... And here is my promised @techdirt post on how Twitter has a long story of fighting for *actual* 1st Amendment rights well beyond most other companies... and how unclear it is if Elon will allow the company to continue that tradition. https://www.techdirt.com/...
Tom Angell / @tomangell: FWIW think I'm far more tolerant of letting objectionable speech flow than most of Musk's critics are, but his implicit idea here that government policy necessarily reflects the will of the people is extremely wrong & displays a fairly juvenile view of how US policymaking works. https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Diedrich / @lldiedrich: We might even describe this as a form of content moderation for billionaires. https://twitter.com/...
Dylon Suggs / Matrix Breakers Newsletter: The Future of Twitter and Free Speech
Tara Henley / Lean Out with Tara Henley: All things Elon — Twitter is global headquarters for public meltdowns, so seeing …
Wendell Husebø / Breitbart: ‘Absolutely No Moderation and No Rules’: Establishment Media Melts Down After Elon Musk Signs Twitter Deal
David Thornton / The Racket News: Twitter gets musky
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: Even Elon Musk doesn't know what he means by free speech
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Twitter agrees to be acquired “by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk” for $54.20 per share in cash; the ~$44B deal requires shareholder and regulatory approval
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Jeff Bezos / @jeffbezos: Interesting question. Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square? https://twitter.com/...
Elon Musk / @elonmusk: 🚀💫♥️ Yesss!!! ♥️💫🚀 https://twitter.com/...
@pekingmike: Apropos of something: -Tesla's second-biggest market in 2021 was China (after the US) -Chinese battery makers are major suppliers for Tesla's EVs. -After 2009, when China banned Twitter, the government there had almost no leverage over the platform -That may have just changed
Walt Mossberg / @waltmossberg: There is some interesting speculation being written by smart journalists and others about how @Twitter will change under @elonmusk . I am trying to ignore it, and I advise you to do the same. Speculation and prediction at this stage is almost always wrong.
Johana Bhuiyan / The Guardian: Elon Musk's Twitter takeover: the experts' verdict on what lies ahead
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times: Those Dedicated to Limiting Harmful Posts Worry About Twitter Under Musk
Elon Musk / @elonmusk: I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means
Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Bezos weighs in on Musk's Twitter takeover: ‘Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?’
Matthew Loh / Insider: Twitter says users are leaving in droves a day after Elon Musk purchased the social media platform
@dwuff: Older twitter users who have lived through geocities, web forums, livejournal, myspace, tumblr and twitter, finding out that it may be yet again time to change platforms https://twitter.com/...
Bret Taylor / @btaylor: The Twitter Board has reached an agreement with @ElonMusk https://www.prnewswire.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: There are plenty of models for where this site is likely headed. I'm on those sites all day. I cover extremism and lies for a living. You're not gonna like it.
Becket Adams / @becketadams: for more than 30 years, the Washington Post published agitprop produced by “China Daily,” the official propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party. “ads” disguised as legit news. between 2016 and 2020, the CCP paid WaPo $4.5M+. Bezos purchased the Washington Post in 2013. https://twitter.com/...
Brooke Singman / @brookesingman: EXCLUSIVE: #Trump will not return to #Twitter even if #ElonMusk purchases platform, will begin using his own #TRUTHSocial https://www.foxnews.com/...
Gabe Hudson / @gabehudson: Lot of assholes cite free speech as excuse to taunt marginalized communities when free speech is abt making sure marginalized communities can speak up
Ted Cruz / @tedcruz: Exactly right. Amazing to watch the Left panic at the prospect of free speech on Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
David Sacks / @davidsacks: Things that must be true if Twitter's board is ready to accept @elonmusk's offer: 1) they did a soft market check and there were no other bidders. 2) @Jack is on board. 3) the pressure campaign worked.
Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier: -open source algorithms -defeat spam bots -authenticate all humans https://twitter.com/...
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Brad Pearce / The Wayward Rabbler: Musk Becomes The Prince of Twitter
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: Tesla's stock reacts https://twitter.com/...
Rep. Jim Jordan / @jim_jordan: Free speech is making a comeback. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Parag Agrawal / @paraga: Twitter has a purpose and relevance that impacts the entire world. Deeply proud of our teams and inspired by the work that has never been more important. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: I'm not really sure how or why it happened — and at some point it should be studied with the perspective of some temporal distance - but the neediest, most ardent, and most passionate censorship crusaders are the tattletale-employees of media corporations like this: https://twitter.com/...
James Joyner / Outside the Beltway: Elon Musk Buys Twitter
Ryan Mac / @rmac18: Inside Twitter, employees seemed to be most immediately concerned about what Musk's bid will do for their stock compensation. There's also a minority of employees who are excited by the prospect of his takeover based on internal Slack messages we've seen. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Cooper / @sarahcpr: Welp. We had a good run folks. https://www.cnn.com/...
Tressie McMillan Cottom / @tressiemcphd: Money always wins. https://twitter.com/...
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman / @repbonnie: If you can buy a major social media platform, you can pay your fair share in taxes. Tax. The. Rich. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Hill / @joe_hill: Ballsiest move since Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace and Time Warner snapped up AOL, no way this can go wrong. https://twitter.com/...
Chris O'Brien / @obrien: Should be fun watching Musk fight the EU on this front. https://twitter.com/...
@zubymusic: This is cool. I've been on Twitter for 13 years and have watched it gradually become more and more restrictive, biased, and censorious. Not to mention huge levels of spam and bot activity. I'm confident this is a step in the right direction for freedom and fairness. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: If this happens even to a small extent - if he is serious about following through and able — it will be one of the best and most important developments in US/Western political discourse in some time. Expect a massive backlash from numerous power centers, which need censorship. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: There once was a man named Musk Whose tweets were a little too brusque So he bought the whole Twitter Leaving some users bitter As we hurtle toward democracy's dusk.
Sarah Jeong / @sarahjeong: it's not nearly the funniest part of the list of things he intends on doing but “making the algorithms open source” and “defeating the spam bots” are goals that work against each other
Chris Hayes / @chrislhayes: The only thing I'll say about Elon and Twitter is a quote an old Chicago reporter once said to me about newspaper publishers and their political endorsements: “Nobody ever bought a bicycle they didn't want to ride.”
@evelyndouek: Soon we may be wistfully remembering the good old days when Twitter was run by a different eccentric billionaire who ate only 7 meals a week & appeared to testify before Congress from his kitchen. But we can do better than such nostalgia. Wrote about it: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff: Members of Biden's inner circle and party strategists are concerned about an increase in misinformation. A strategist close to Silicon Valley's biggest megadonors says it's not good for the Democratic party. “I would not trust him... https://www.linkedin.com/... https://www.cnbc.com/...
@reuters: Donald Trump told Fox News that he will not return to Twitter even if his account is reinstated following Elon Musk's purchase. Trump said he will formally join his own Truth Social startup over the next seven days, as planned https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dan Primack / @danprimack: “As planned” https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: A lot of media are about to learn lessons about platform reliance first hand
David Rothkopf / @djrothkopf: The richest guy on the 2021 Forbes 400 owns the Washington Post. Number 2 now owns Twitter. Number 3 owns Facebook. Numbers 5 and 6 started Google. Numbers 4 and 9 started Microsoft. Number 10 owns Bloomberg. Free speech? You decide.
Eric Jackson / @ericjackson: Faber just said this but I had this thought too... one person just did a $44B all cash offer for a public company which was accepted... and I remember being blown away when YouTube got bought for $1.6B in 06
Tom Gara / @tomgara: Incredible, and possibly ominous, that this is the first major news event where nobody has a really funny tweet
Ben Fenton / @benfenton: The sale of this platform to a single private individual with unknowable designs on it should remind us of the transatlantic difference between the value placed on private and public ownership of the media. We are the lucky ones.
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: All is forgiven if @elonmusk brings back Vine and Periscope
Alex Koppelman / @alexkoppelman: I'm really looking forward to the collective reaction when Elon succeeds in “defeating the spam bots” and all of us including him lose like 75% of our followers overnight
Emanuel Maiberg / @emanuelmaiberg: the fact that powerful people in media killed my original headline, “Elon Musk Becomes King Shit of Turd Mountain,” is exactly why we need more free speech https://www.vice.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: Somewhat grim but: one of the biggest and constantly changing automated moderation challenges is banning images and videos of child abuse being transmitted. It's thousands per minute, on every network. The idea of turning off moderation and starting from scratch is a non-starter
Ash Sarkar / @ayocaesar: I think it's really cool that tech bros can develop platforms to mine and monetize our data, accidentally become central to the distribution of news, and then sell off crucial parts of information infrastructure to a billionaire whose brain is 80% juul pod. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Rupar / @atrupar: bookmarking this for when Trump's account is reactivated, he starts tweeting again, and Truth Social is a punchline that most people don't even remember https://twitter.com/...
Alex Kaplan / @alkapdc: The founder of a major QAnon channel made up of QAnon influencers who were banned by Twitter following the January 6 insurrection seems to believe that incoming Twitter owner Elon Musk will let QAnon supporters back onto the platform. https://twitter.com/...
Wajahat Ali / @wajahatali: A victory for right-wing trolls and their favorite billionaire. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@mims: as someone who was getting into Digital Minimalism before all this happened, let me just say that if millions of Twitter addicts quit the platform as a result of this, honestly that would be such a gigantic net good (spoken as a former 20-tweet-a-day kinda person)
Eric Jackson / @ericjackson: No way Elon runs this as a non profit
M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler: We wanted flying cars, instead we're going to get flying cars *and* 140 characters. https://twitter.com/...
David French / @davidafrench: Fine with me, so long is Twitter is a hobby, and Elon Musk keeps his eyes on the main thing: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@alexhanna: Now would be a good time for Twitter employees to take some coordinated action, especially in solidarity with your Trust and Safety colleagues whose job is going to be made much harder if this deal goes through.
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Not surprising. Shareholders probably less than enamored with Musk pledging $20 billion or so in stock for this deal, not to mention taking his eye off the ball in a significant way https://twitter.com/...
Dustin Curtis / @dcurtis: There are two Musks. Musk One: save humanity by making it a multi-planetary species. Also try to save Earth with electric vehicles. Musk Two: own what has become the most toxic communication system ever used by humans, because he's addicted to it.
Alex Hern / @alexhern: “I can't stand working for a part-time CEO who focuses all his attention on his second job, I wish that would change” the twitter employee said, holding the withered monkey's paw
Tim Carmody / @tcarmody: I really thought Alphabet would have bought Twitter and destroyed it instead
Sriram Krishnan / @sriramk: New era. Thrilled for @twitter. Congratulations to @elonmusk and think this will be a fantastic moment for what is a service we all care about.
Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier: Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter for $44B, using one of the biggest leveraged buyout deals in history to take private a platform that has become a hub of public discourse and a flashpoint in the debate over speech, by @KurtWagner8 https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Joanna Stern / @joannastern: First person to calculate this deal in Dogecoin wins... a blue checkmark.
Joey Arak / @jarak: Now that this tweet is owned by Elon Musk, allow me to say that Grimes has sucked ever since VISIONS!
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: We're now all tweeting on Elon Musk's social network
Buzz Andersen / @buzz: I'm Twitter user number 538. Been on here since July 2006. My interest has been declining steadily for some time now, but this may finally be it.
Mike Drucker / @mikedrucker: If Elon Musk buys Twitter, I'm never signing in again until five minutes later when I'm bored and open the app without thinking
Tom Gara / @tomgara: People keep focusing on Trump coming back when the real question is Azealia Banks coming back https://twitter.com/...
Logan Bartlett / @loganbartlett: Guess this settles the shitposting vs threads debate once and for all
Dylan Reeve / @dylanreeve: I honestly struggle to imagine any way this will make Twitter better. At least, assuming his intent with owning is to make it adhere more closely to his... values. https://twitter.com/...
@repjayapal: Tax the rich. It's absurd that one person can afford to buy Twitter for more than $40 billion while working families across this country have to choose every day between buying groceries or their prescription drugs. https://twitter.com/...
Henry Blodget / @hblodget: Dear Twitter employees... What the deal deal means for you is 1) most of your stock options will be worth something, and 2) you'll have a new boss. Beyond a couple of minor tweaks, the new boss hasn't said what he'll want you to build and do. It's not clear he knows. https://twitter.com/...
@thekenyeung: Twitter will not hold a conference call on Thursday after releasing its quarterly earnings.
@manan: so everyone joining Truth Social? Or is Twitter acquiring Truth Social & Nunes becomes Twitter CEO. Devin then bans all cow memes.
@lizweil: Alt Musk theory: people will do anything to distract themselves from the true inner chaos of turning 50.
Mat Honan / @mat: Hell of a way to go about getting @elon
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: I for one welcome our new Twitter overlord, and look forward to helping capture others who can work in his sugar mines
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: Alt hed: Dog Catches Car https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8: Here's the note Twitter CEO @paraga just sent employees. Company all-hands scheduled for 2 pm PT to discuss Elon Musk buying the company https://twitter.com/...
@mikeisaac: there will be an All-hands meeting held this afternoon for Twitter employees, per internal email from Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal starring Bret Taylor, Twitter's board chair, and Agrawal
@artemr: I am excited about the promises of technical improvements - the edit button, getting a handle on spam bots, authenticating all humans. But relaxing moderation is going to be a disaster that will turn Twitter into an even worse sesspool than it is now. https://www.prnewswire.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: I'll never forget where I was the moment that Elon Musk bought Twitter (I was on Twitter)
M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler: So the whole thing just resets now, right? Here we go: Eating a poke bowl.
Christina Warren / @film_girl: I'm so happy I'm no longer a tech reporter today b/c I'm not having to work on hot takes on deadline. I can just shitpost for fun.
@bplewis: also think twice before tweeting your joke about this whole going private thing. chances are someone else has already made that dumb joke
Tom Coates / @tomcoates: Okay so it happened. Thinking of everyone at Twitter right now and the almost certain large amount of uncertainty and anger this is likely to generate. Hope their options got bought out at least there are no more RSUs to vest. https://www.prnewswire.com/...
@russellholly: Well I'm sure this app is going to be a lot of fun for the rest of the night. Week. Month. https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Ward / @byjacobward: Musk buys $twtr. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” said Mr. Musk of his new company, which will now be privately held. https://www.prnewswire.com/...
@robaeprice: Elon Musk official statement: “I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.” https://www.prnewswire.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: BREAKING @Twitter agrees to be bought by @ElonMusk https://www.axios.com/...
David Axelrod / @davidaxelrod: Welcome back to Twitter, Donald Trump! (Brace yourselves, America.) https://www.axios.com/...
Jim Banks / @repjimbanks: This is a huge win against the woke mob and haters of free speech! I would encourage @elonmusk to immediately: - Allow all factually true and legal content to be posted - Restore the accounts of all duly elected government officials https://twitter.com/...
John Naughton / Memex 1.1: Tuesday 26 April, 2022 — The History Man — My friend, the historian Peter Clarke …
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: This is going to be such a headache for him and possibly for us https://www.nytimes.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: This could be enough to finally kill this app and set us all free https://twitter.com/...
PolitiTECH / Making It All Click: Elon Musk Takes Title of Twitter
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: Elon Musk Acquiring Twitter for $44 Billion
The Verge: Elon Musk says he wants to improve Twitter by “making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans”
Brooke Singman / Fox News: Trump says that, regardless of Elon Musk's Twitter purchase, “I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on Truth”, whose stock closed down 12.9% on Monday
Dan Primack / Axios: Twitter agrees to be bought by Elon Musk
Adriana Lee / WWD: Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover Is Now Real
Colin Kirkland / MediaPost: Twitter Accepts Musk's $44 Billion Buyout Offer
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
EU internal market commissioner Thierry Breton warns Elon Musk that Twitter must follow the new Digital Services Act rules or face fines or even a ban in Europe
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Isobel Asher Hamilton / Insider: EU warns Elon Musk that being too lax on Twitter moderation could get the platform banned in Europe
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Will Elon Musk put Twitter on a collision course with global speech regulators?
Clandestine / Clandestine's Newsletter: Globalists Fear Free Speech
@marietjeschaake: Why is expecting companies to respect the law a battle? ↘️ https://twitter.com/...
@biannagolodryga: This will not be a picnic for Musk: EU warns Elon Musk over Twitter moderation plans. “'Elon, there are rules. You are welcome but these are our rules. It's not your rules which will apply here.'” https://www.ft.com/...
Matt Levine / Bloomberg: Elon Got His Deal
Kenny Stancil / Common Dreams: ‘Elon, There Are Rules’: EU Says Twitter Must Comply With New Digital Services Act
Zachary McAuliffe / CNET: Musk, Twitter Must Comply With EU Rules, Official Says
Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: The Elon Musk Twitter takover sparks controversy and conspiracy
Graeme Wearden / The Guardian: EU warns Elon Musk that Twitter must stick to digital rules - business live
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify reports Q1 revenue rose 24% YoY to €2.66B, including €282M from ads, up 31% YoY; paid subscribers rose 15% YoY to 182M, despite losing 1.5M in Russia — Spotify Technology SA's paid subscriber forecast for the current quarter fell just short of analyst estimates …
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Variety, @eldsjal, Engadget, Music Ally, @pkafka, The Verge, @anthonyc3004, @anthonyc3004, @spotifynews, @jonporty, The Hollywood Reporter, Spotify and Spotify, more at Techmeme »
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Todd Spangler / Variety: Spotify Zooms to 422 Million Users in Q1, Growing Overall Listeners Amid Rogan Controversy and Loss of Russia Subscribers
Daniel Ek / @eldsjal: We delivered another strong quarter building on momentum from 2021. Grateful for the tireless work of the @Spotify team on behalf of creators and listeners around the world https://newsroom.spotify.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Cooper / Engadget: Spotify still grew despite Joe Rogan boycotts and Russia closure
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: Spotify Q1 2022 financials reveal 182m subscribers and 422m active users
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Spotify hit its Q1 #s. CEO Daniel Ek tells me he didn't see any impact from Joe Rogan/Neil Young fight (Remember? That was this year). Also no sign of whatever malaise is plaguing Netflix. “I feel like a lot of people make more of a comparison with Netflix than it ought to be.” https://twitter.com/...
Anthony Coyle / @anthonyc3004: $SPOT Q1 c'td: 4.0m podcasts on platform end Q1 vs 3.6m end Q4, podcast consumption growth double-digits yoy, podcast share of total consumption new all-time high, >85% new podcast creatoin happening on their Anchor platform. Net net, looks good enough vs v low expectations.
Anthony Coyle / @anthonyc3004: $SPOT Q1 ctd: Q2 guide in-line despite Russia shutdown. GM 25.2% as co continues to heavily invest. Re 2-sided Mktplace, they rolled out self-serve campaign in US, doubling no of new custs, 85% retention existing custs. Rolled out Spotify for Artists in 9 new languages...
@spotifynews: Our growing users & subscribers at a glance. Read more about $SPOT Q1 2022 here: https://newsroom.spotify.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@jonporty: Spotify's first quarter earnings are here, and despite #DeleteSpotify trending a couple months ago due to the Joe Rogan controversies, it doesn't seem to have had much of an impact https://www.theverge.com/...
Marie Woolf / Canadian Press:
Rachel Curran, a Meta Canada policy manager, tells a parliamentary panel the company has “serious concerns” about an online news bill modeled on Australia's law — OTTAWA - Digital giant Meta says it has “serious concerns” about the federal government's online news bill …
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Anja Karadeglija / National Post: Facebook could block news in Canada over revenue-sharing bill, exec says
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Facebook is vaguely threatening to block news in Canada, over a bill to force revenue-sharing with news orgs. FB did this last year in Australia —and completely bungled it. Would they be so thick as to try it again? https://nationalpost.com/...
@edmontonjournal: “We didn't know the scope of it until it was tabled very recently. I will say we do have some pretty serious concerns.” #Canada https://edmontonjournal.com/ ...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Oh sure, they should just accede to shakedowns orchestrated by big media companies. Calling this revenue sharing is just wrong. It's an indirect tax, taking from one industry to benefit another. FB did bungle it in Australia, but the law there set a terrible precedent. https://twitter.com/...
Amanda Darrach / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Dean Baquet and Joe Kahn as Kahn succeeds Baquet as The New York Times' executive editor, on growing subscriptions, objectivity and democracy, and more — · Dean Baquet & Joe Kahn: What's next for the New York Times? — Last week, after years of public speculation on the matter …
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@voxshelby, @jayrosen_nyu, @froomkin, @ashtonpittman, @sifill_ldf, @joeltrose, @jamisonfoser, @pcdunham, @markhughesfilms, @vabvox, @tomwatson, @adamdavidson, @keitholbermann, @vabvox, @froomkin, @froomkin, @owillis and @nickkristof
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Shelby / @voxshelby: @froomkin Seems unable to discern between Democrats and democracy. I would have thought that language skills are high on the list for his position.
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Man, this is frustrating. The new editor of the New York Times, Joe Kahn, and the outgoing editor, Dean Baquet, sit for an interview @CJR's Kyle Pope. (Do read the whole thing.) https://www.cjr.org/... Pope asked if conservatives are a winnable audience. Kahn's reply: https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: “Of course I think there's a threat to democracy right now,” says @deanbaquet, surprisingly. https://www.cjr.org/...
@ashtonpittman: New York Times' new editor, Joe Kahn, thinks democracy is a partisan issue: “I honestly think that if we become a partisan organization exclusively focused on threats to democracy ... we will lose the battle to be independent. https://twitter.com/...
Sherrilyn Ifill / @sifill_ldf: So focusing on “threats to democracy” would make the NYT “a partisan organization.” Doesn't that pretty much say it all? Disappointed that the editor appears to think that being non-partisan is a more importamt journalistic imperative than being committed to democracy. https://twitter.com/...
Joel T. Rose / @joeltrose: Cool, the new editor of The NY Times is already the chuck todd of dean baquets. https://twitter.com/...
Jamison Foser / @jamisonfoser: the belief that focusing on threats to democracy would make the New York Times “partisan” tells you everything you need to know about the New York Times. https://twitter.com/...
PCD / @pcdunham: They are still operating on the notion that if they platform conservatives in the op-ed section, somehow they will draw conservative readers. They will never draw conservative readers while the oped section has become another venue for conservative garbage. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Hughes / @markhughesfilms: New NYT editor Joe Kahn says covering threats to overthrow democracy is a “partisan” approach that he rejects. So, he sees liberty as merely an “option,” & defending it against forces of evil & destruction is “biased?” He's an unethical hack who sympathizes w/fascism. https://twitter.com/...
Victoria Brownworth / @vabvox: “If we become a partisan organization exclusively focused on threats to democracy...” Wow. Does this mean the NYT under Kahn will be even worse than under Baquet at both-sides journalism? Should we expect a both-sides-ing of Putin's war against Ukraine? These are real concerns. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Watson / @tomwatson: So it's “partisan” to focus on threats to American democracy. Interesting theory from @nycscribe. 🫤 https://twitter.com/...
Adam Davidson / @adamdavidson: I am genuinely confounded. Covering threats to democracy would be partisan? And, if so, they shouldn't do too much of that coverage? How can he say these words. Also: what does “independent” mean here? How do you lose it by covering threats to democracy? https://twitter.com/...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: Congrats @nytimes. You found another foppish bothsidesist just like @deanbaquet https://twitter.com/...
Victoria Brownworth / @vabvox: I do urge folks to read this, because regardless of your personal take on the NYT,this is still the paper that defines a lot of coverage—as we've seen for the past six years at least. And Dean Baquet set that bar and Joe Kahn is his hand-picked successor. https://www.cjr.org/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Wow. This, from Joe Kahn, the next editor of the NYT, is the smarmiest most deceitful and clueless straw-man depiction of what critics are asking for I've ever seen. Ever. NOBODY has said anything remotely like that. For shame. This is fake news. https://www.cjr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: “We're in a toxic environment where attacks on the New York Times are seen as a way to get traction on social media,” scoffs Joe Kahn, the NYT's next editor. Great attitude. https://www.cjr.org/...
Oliver Willis / @owillis: which is why the ny times gave one of the threats a mens catalog photo shoot https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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The New York Times Company:
Dean Baquet will lead a new one-year local investigative journalism fellowship at The New York Times, which will offer free co-publication to local news outlets
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@nytimespr: We're proud to announce a new fellowship for investigative journalism focused on the state and local level, to be led by outgoing executive editor Dean Baquet. https://www.nytco.com/...
Eduardo Medina / New York Times: Dean Baquet Will Lead Local Investigative Fellowship Program for The Times
Ross Maghielse / @maghielse: I think the “decline of investigative journalism” at the local level is a little more narrative than reality — many local news organizations still produce and spend $ on robust investigative reporting — but this should be a welcome development. NYT can and should contribute here. https://twitter.com/...
@fenitn: Shoring up local and state government accountability reporting and lifting up journalists from underrepresented backgrounds? Love to see it https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: This is a great new program >> https://twitter.com/...
Cecilia Kang / @ceciliakang: lifting local news - and diversity in journalism. love everything about this and envy all the fellows of the future https://twitter.com/...
@talmonsmith: From AG, our publisher: ‘We want this fellowship to help seed a diverse new generation of great investigative journalists at a time when fewer organizations are able to support this essential work. To support other news orgs, well offer co-publication at no cost to local outlets’ https://twitter.com/...
Jodi Kantor / @jodikantor: The thing that this announcement does not— perhaps cannot— express is how much fun these reporters are going to have https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Clarey / @christophclarey: Can't think of a better use of a great editor's time than to try to help rebuild local and regional news. It has been decimated in the USA and in other countries and is one of the cores of democracy. Need watchdogs at all levels of society. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Baquet's next act >>> https://twitter.com/...
@pressgazette: Outgoing New York Times executive Dean Baquet is set to lead a new year-long local investigative journalism fellowship at the title. He said: “I would love to have the chance to help train a new generation of investigators.” https://www.nytco.com/...
Erica L. Green / @ericalg: “The year-long fellowship will produce investigative projects focused on the state and local level...It will offer a rare opportunity for up-and-coming journalists, especially those with backgrounds that are underrepresented in newsrooms and investigative reporting.” https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: This is great! Investigative journalism thrived under @deanbaquet (along with Cooking) and perhaps this will give him a chance to redeem himself for his disastrous failure to adjust to the asymmetrical nature of US politics. https://twitter.com/...
Cliff Levy / @cliffordlevy: “I care deeply about investigative reporting,” Dean Baquet said. “And I fear a future where there's less of it as more and more news organizations have to cut back. I would love to have the chance to help train a new generation of investigators.” https://www.nytco.com/...
Melissa Brown / @itsmelissabrown: “...we'll offer co-publication at no cost to local print, digital, radio and TV outlets.” This is excellent. https://twitter.com/...
Cliff Levy / @cliffordlevy: 👏Tremendous news: The great Dean Baquet, “perhaps the finest editor The Times has ever known,” will lead a new local investigative journalism fellowship at The Times. https://www.nytco.com/...
Kathryn Hopkins / WWD: The New York Times Reveals Dean Baquet's New Role
Variety:
Sources: Warner Bros. Discovery cuts development of new TBS and TNT scripted shows; it's unclear what will happen to the current slate of scripted programming — TNT and TBS are moving out of the scripted game under new parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, which CEO David Zaslav has promised …
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline: TBS Comedy Series ‘Kill The Orange-Faced Bear’ Axed As Warner Bros. Discovery Leadership Examines Slate
M.H. Williams / @automaticzen: Ouch. Sorry, TNT. https://twitter.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl: So RIP Turner basically. That sucks. https://variety.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Good reminder (not that journalists need it - they're well aware) that M&A stories are always layoff stories. A lot of talented people, many not executives, are going to lose their gigs, and just a few years after being bounced around by another parent company. Devastating. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Bischoff / @ebischoff: Who would have predicted? Oh right, me. #StrictlyBusiness https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
John Rogers / @jonrog1: No, I'm not going to comment. I'm going to throw my Yo-Yo Ma mix on and go back to typing my pilot, and simply extend my condolences to a lot of very talented execs with whom we made some very successful television. https://variety.com/...
Kerry Flynn / @kerrymflynn: DON'T YOU DARE TAKE AWAY MY SNOWPIERCER, DAVID!!!!! https://variety.com/...
Paul Scheer / @paulscheer: I can't imagine this bodes well for my yet unannounced scripted show on TBS. Also this is not a joke. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Barsanti / The A.V. Club: Warner Bros. Discovery will no longer develop new scripted shows for TNT and TBS
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: Why is EVERY broadcast and cable network not following this strategy? You cannot launched scripted shows on linear TV anymore (all streaming now) Smart move David Zaslav $WBD https://twitter.com/...
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Discovery reports Q1 revenue rose 13% YoY to $3.16B; the CFO estimates the WarnerMedia part of 2022's profit baseline will be about $500M lower than expected
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@sherman4949, The Wrap, The Streamable, Warner Bros. Discovery, @great_katzby, @loudmouthjulia, @lucas_shaw, @sherman4949, @sarafischer and The Wrap
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Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: “There's meaningful churn on HBO Max. Much higher than we have seen.” — David Zaslav says in todays earnings conf call
Jason Gurwin / The Streamable: Discovery Reaches 24 Million DTC Subscribers in Q1 2022, Giving New Warner Bros. Discovery 100 Million Streaming Subscriptions
Brandon Katz / @great_katzby: The average monthly churn rate fo premium SVOD series in the US at the end of 2021 as 5.2%, per @AntennaData. According to @Kantar, #HBOMax lowered its churn rate to 5% as of October. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: HBO Now churned pretty high. It's how we got the “Game of Thrones Effect” saying. Trying to program for a wider audience (young women, for example) should theoretically help. The question is has churn diminished on Max compared to Now, and is churn still tied to HBO cyclical. https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: It's fun watching discovery insult the business it bought at every opportunity. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Warner Bros. Discovery shares are down 7% after new mgmt said WarnerMedia had some “unexpected projects” that led to readjustment 2022 profit forecast $500m lower. CNN+ was one of those projects. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Tom Ambrose / The Guardian:
The Mail on Sunday editor rejects a meeting with the House of Commons speaker about a story saying Labour's Angela Rayner distracted Boris Johnson with her legs — David Dillon had been called to a meeting with Sir Lindsay Hoyle after running a story widely condemned as sexist
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Glen Owen / Daily Mail: Tories accuse Angela Rayner of Basic Instinct ploy to distract Boris: MPs claim Labour deputy leader likes to put PM ‘off his stride’ by crossing and uncrossing her legs at PMQs
@angelarayner: Women in politics face sexism and misogyny every day - and I'm no different. This morning's is the latest dose of gutter journalism courtesy of @MoS_Politics 🧵👇🏻1/9
Dan Hodges / Daily Mail: No Mister Speaker: In the name of a free Press, The Mail respectfully declines the Commons Speaker's summons for The Mail on Sunday to appear …
Nathan Sparkes / Hacked Off: Exclusive: IPSO has never upheld a complaint of sexism against the press
Pippa Crerar / Mirror.co.uk: Angela Rayner blasts Tories for ‘vile lies’ of Basic Instinct ploy to distract Boris Johnson
Camilla Turner / Telegraph: Mail on Sunday editor refuses Speaker's summons over ‘misogynistic’ article about Angela Rayner
Amelia Womack / @amelia_womack: Absolutely horrified at the claims made about @AngelaRayner at #PMQs The misogyny directed at her is a basic attack on women existing. It's completely unacceptable and shows the dire state of politics and the journalism of papers like the Daily Mail. Sending my support Angela
Marina Purkiss / @marinapurkiss: The fact that Angela Rayner was a working glass girl Who dropped out of school Who was pregnant at 16 Who went from full-time carer to being Shadow Minister Should make us respect her more Not less ...and a damn sight more than politicians who arrive via Eton conveyor belt
Nicola Sturgeon / @nicolasturgeon: Solidarity from across the political divide to Angela Rayner on this. It's a reminder of the deep misogyny women face every day. Tho the line about Johnson's Oxford debating ‘skills’ is truly laughable - from what I've seen she can debate him out the park! https://twitter.com/...
Diane Abbott MP / @hackneyabbott: This is Glen Owen the Mail on Sunday journalist who wrote the ridiculously misogynistic story about Angela Rayner and her legs. Interesting that he feels entitled to judge female MPs by their looks. https://twitter.com/...
Boris Johnson / @borisjohnson: As much as I disagree with @AngelaRayner on almost every political issue I respect her as a parliamentarian and deplore the misogyny directed at her anonymously today.
Hannah Jane Parkinson / @ladyhaja: I actually think the most cringe bit of that awful Mail article re @AngelaRayner at PMQs is the Tory MP quoted as saying “she knows she can't compete with Oxford Union debating skills”, when it's consensually acknowledged she's ripped Johnson to shreds every single time
Jessica Elgot / The Guardian: Angela Rayner: ‘I begged Mail on Sunday not to publish Basic Instinct story’
David Leigh / @davidleighx: These curious details make me wonder just how Glen Owen put his Mail “story” together https://mol.im/... via @MailOnline
Jason Grove / Daily Mail: Angela Rayner's Sharon Stone laughter: Labour deputy leader joked on podcast in January about ‘mortifying’ Basic Instinct comparisons
Chris Bryant / @rhonddabryant: The article attacking @AngelaRayner betrays the misogyny and sheer unbridled nastiness of the anonymous Tories and the journalists who put it together.
Otto English / @otto_english: Of all the revolting things in that Angela Rayner hit piece in the Mail on Sunday this ranks high. Dripping with contempt for anyone who hasn't been privately educated or been to Oxbridge or afforded all the connections and privilege that come with it. https://twitter.com/...
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Twitter confirms it quietly “limit[ed] the visibility” of promotional tweets via its ad platform about HBO documentary Q: Into the Storm in 2021 — Twitter told the director of “Q: Into the Storm” it had “made the decision not to allow promotion of this documentary” when he tried to advertise the film.
Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Real-time TV ad measurement service iSpot.tv raises $325M from Goldman Sachs and says it had $75M in revenue in 2021, up from $51M in 2020 — The firm helps marketers track whether their ads spurred a visit to their website or a purchase. The new funding is the latest in a flurry of deals around TV ad metrics
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iSpot.tv, Ad Age, Next TV, GeekWire, The Hollywood Reporter and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »
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iSpot.tv: Goldman Sachs to Invest $325 million into iSpot.tv to Accelerate Modern TV Measurement Currencies
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Goldman Sachs will invest $325M in iSpot, helping to break Nielsen's lock on TV ad measurement
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter: Goldman Sachs Invests $325M in Nielsen Rival iSpot.tv
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Alphabet reports YouTube Q1 ad revenue of $6.87B, up 14% YoY but below estimates of $7.48B, and blames Q1 2021's “exceptional” direct response ad performance — YouTube advertising sales for the first three months of 2022 grew 14%, to reach $6.87 billion …
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CNBC, Engadget, TechCrunch, Digiday, PhoneArena, MediaPost, Hollywood Reporter and Deadline, more at Techmeme »
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Steve Dent / Engadget: Ads are coming to YouTube Shorts
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Google tells shareholders that YouTube Shorts is doing great, don't worry about TikTok!
Alan Friedman / PhoneArena: YouTube's ad revenue for Q1 is a big disappointment; investors sell their Alphabet holdings
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost: Google's Growth Continues, Alphabet Slips In Profit, But Reports $68B For Q1 2022
J. Clara Chan / Hollywood Reporter: YouTube Ad Revenue Growth Slows, Falls Short of Wall Street Expectations
Nicholas Diakopoulos / Columbia Journalism Review:
A deep dive into predictive journalism, the value of computational methods in news media, developing a responsible journalistic practice of prediction, and more — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — Whether it's who is going to win an upcoming election, how a pandemic will unfold next month …
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Jane Singer / @janebsinger: Fascinating exploration @ndiakopoulos of ‘predictive journalism’ — broadly, incorporating forecasts in news. Sophisticated use is growing, notably in political and health coverage, aided by input from machine learning and output via data viz. https://www.cjr.org/... @TowCenter
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The New York Times has doubled its Opinion staff to over 150 people since 2017, adding audio and graphics staff and beefing up copy-editing and fact-checking — The New York Times has doubled its Opinion staff to over 150 people since 2017, adding new departments for audio and graphics …
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Rubina Madan Fillion / @rubinafillion: I've been at @nytopinion for three years, and in that time I've seen the department rapidly diversify, including in its top ranks. From @Axios: “The Times' opinion leadership team of 10 includes six women of color.” https://www.axios.com/...
Simon Owens / @simonowens: “Opinion and its focus on multi-media projects are among the best retention vehicles for the Times' subscription, said Kathleen Kingsbury, opinion editor of the Times.” https://www.axios.com/...
Dmitry Shishkin / @dmitryshishkin: Because ‘Give me perspective’ or ‘Bring me context’ is one of the most important news user needs out there. Not surprising at all. https://www.axios.com/...
Debra J. Saunders / @debrajsaunders: NYT Opinion section doubles in size Thanks @sarafischer for your usual fine reporting. Do you know if there was any effort to expand ideological diversity? In country where Trump won 46.8% of vote, it would be nice to have more than 2% (my guess). https://www.axios.com/...
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