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Glenn Kessler's Washington Post “fact check” of an IndyStar story on a 10-year-old who had to get an abortion in Indiana mainstreamed doubting its credibility — On July 1, the Indianapolis Star reported that a 10-year-old rape victim was forced to travel from Ohio to Indiana to receive an abortion.
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Matt Christy / Fox 59: Abortion report confirms Indiana doctor followed law after AG vowed investigation
Tom Scocca / @tomscocca: Glenn Kessler frantically brainstorming hypothetical ethical complaints about anything but his decision to publish disinformation in the Washington Post's fact-check column https://twitter.com/...
Tom Porter / Insider: Doctor who gave abortion to 10-year-old rape victim threatens to sue Indiana AG who told Fox she might have broken the law
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times: A 10-Year-Old Endures the Predictable Result of an Abortion Ban
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “Passions are already heated enough” says the @WSJ editorial board, after heating up passions by doubting reports of a 10 year-old rape victim who needed an abortion. “An Abortion Story Too Good to Confirm,” the Journal had said. It was later verified. https://www.wsj.com/...
Lindsay Beyerstein / @beyerstein: Kessler's fact check is logically flawed, empirically flawed about the realities of rape and criminal justice, inflammatory, and out of step with journalistic standards. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: “...after no one had confirmed its accuracy,” says organization whose mission is to confirm the accuracy of stories. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Taylor / @joshgnosis: I can kinda get why they wouldn't change the headline after the fact but this juxtaposition is just 🙃 https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alexander McCoy / @alexandermccoy4: I also look forward to, every time a national security reporter publishes a story without revealing all their sourcing, Glenn Kessler immediately giving it twenty Pinocchios because he left a voicemail at the CIA and they didn't get back to him. https://twitter.com/...
@drskyskull: “The ten year old doesn't exist!” Later: “Okay, the ten year old exists, but she could've gotten a legal abortion in Ohio!” Now: “We're trying to prosecute the doctor in Indiana for performing the legal abortion.” https://twitter.com/...
David Pepper / @davidpepper: Local journalists are kicking state AGs' asses. https://twitter.com/...
@kegill: @jayrosen_nyu @WSJ Jay, I gave up on the WSJ decades ago. Anything Murdoch touches is toxic and should die rather than provide a platform for a fringe GOP. I was more appalled at @washingtonpost and @GlennKesslerWP because I expect better from the Post.
Aria Gerson / @aria_gerson: Just to be clear: for newspaper reporters, any story that uses anonymous sources, those sources have to be cleared by editors first who know who the sources are + can verify + vet. We're not just throwing rumors out there https://twitter.com/...
Chase Woodruff / @dcwoodruff: The modern front-of-house Fact Check™ vertical is a bizarre institution. Their whole existence is predicated on (and helps reinforce) a belief in the primacy/sufficiency of just-the-facts journalism — so why, then, are most of them opinion columns? https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Bendery / @jbendery: I'm sharing this story here again. Read it. Good on @JuddLegum for providing this narrative of what happened here. https://popular.info/...
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: The story of the 10-year-old pregnant rape victim is growing more and more horrifying. Here's my analysis of the media's role in this fiasco. https://dankennedy.net/...
Emily Nunn / @emilyrnunn: It's shocking to think that real news organizations like WSJ and WaPo would fall prey and then go along willingly with alarmingly anti-female conspiracies and lies pushed by the far right and Fox. But it's happening. And I fear it's going to get worse. https://popular.info/...
Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau: A lot has been said about that mess by Kessler, but this part is what gets me: he doesn't have any real conclusion other than “it's really hard to know.” Beyond the half-baked methods in the piece, there's no point to publishing if it doesn't even lay claim to adding clarity. https://twitter.com/...
Barry Petchesky / @barry: Hey maybe “fact checking” a true and accurate story to fecklessly imply it was made-up should disqualify one from their job as a fact checker. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Blickstein / @adamblickstein: This entire episode further confirms how the gravitational force right wing media disinformation pulls all media in its direction, even if mainstream reporters don't consciously realize it
Abdallah Fayyad / @abdallah_fayyad: According to Glenn Kessler, the real fact-checker is...*checks notes*...the cops https://twitter.com/...
Scott Heins / @scottheins: Glenn Kessler, the WSJ editorial board, and every single editor who thought it was bold “maybe not what you wanna hear but how we have to do our work” journalism to try and discount the Ohio child rape story...they are all a disgrace to the profession
Deborah Copaken / @dcopaken: Too little, too late @WSJ. I know @srudavsky, who wrote the original story. She's as honest, professional, & trustworthy as they come. More saliently, a pregnant 10-year-old, A PRIORI, was raped. Whether or not her rapist has been charged or located. https://www.wsj.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Great piece, to which I'd add: the on-the-record source, the doctor, was labeled “an activist” by the WaPO fact-checker, had her faced pasted on Fox News and is now being threatened with prosecution. Under these circumstances how many such sources can we expect in the future? https://twitter.com/...
Joan Esposito / @joanespositochi: Shameful how easily the media attacked reporting by an experienced, credible local reporter at the @indystar. Looking at you @NPR @washingtonpost @WSJ. https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: 1. THERE WAS NEVER ANY REASON TO DOUBT THE STORY THAT A TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL WAS FORCED TO TRAVEL TO INDIANA FOR AN ABORTION. The sourcing was strong. The reporter is reliable. The entire thing was a right-wing fever dream. Follow along if interested. https://popular.info/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Good job by @JuddLegum on the timeline of a story which showed how political influence campaigns work . Winding through Murdoch-owned properties - WSJ, New York Post and Fox News. Aided by a terrible judgement call from the Washington Post https://popular.info/...
Justin Baragona / thedailybeast.com: Jim Jordan Has No Regrets for Calling 10-Year-Old Rape Victim's Abortion a ‘Lie’
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: one question I would love to have answered is how exactly Glenn Kessler and his team choose which individual stories they deem deserving of doubt-casting https://twitter.com/...
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: How the very real story of a 10-year-old rape victim turned into a media fiasco
@thehowie: The story was brutal. Of course, better to have it confirmed. But @WSJ owes this family HUGE apology for the dereliction of journalistic responsibility in calling this fanciful without doing their own homework. They basically did WORSE than what they accused others of doing... https://twitter.com/...
Gabriel Roth / @gabrielroth: If you write a “fact-checking” column and you set out to check a fact and you're unable to determine whether the fact is true, one option would be simply not to write a column about it, on the grounds that your column is supposed to contain fact-checking and you have not done any
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
After Roe, reporters may have to rely on a single source, on the record, to tell stories about the end of legal abortion, as others stay quiet to avoid arrest — In America after the end of Roe v. Wade, one brave source, on the record, is often the best we are going to get.
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Bethany Bruner / @bethany_bruner: I was the ONLY reporter in the courtroom this morning as the man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl, impregnating her, leading to an abortion in Indiana, was arraigned. This confirms that the case exists. https://www.dispatch.com/...
Glenn Kessler / @glennkesslerwp: The last line of this fact check was: “If a rapist is ever charged, the fact finally would have more solid grounding.” Now, a rapist has been charged and the story has been updated. Getting lots of angry emails but journalism is an accumulation of facts. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Alicia Sadowski / Media Matters for America: Jesse Watters repeatedly fails in efforts to suppress critical reporting on Ohio 10-year-old who needed an abortion
Katie Robertson / New York Times: 10-Year-Old Ohio Girl Became Flash Point in Abortion Debate
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: The Wall Street Journal has added an editor's note to its editorial regarding the 10-year-old Ohio rape victim who had to travel to Indiana for an abortion 1/: https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / NPR: A rape, an abortion, and a one-source story: a child's ordeal becomes national news
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Re the rape case of the 10-year-old Ohio girl: Left: WSJ Edit Page yesterday calls it a ‘fanciful tale’ Right: Columbus Dispatch today reports arrest of suspect https://twitter.com/...
María Luisa Paúl / Washington Post: Record shows Indiana doctor fulfilled duty to report 10-year-old's abortion
Glenn Kessler / @glennkesslerwp: And fyi, for more than a year I have had a policy of not reading notifications. It's made life on this toxic platform much easier. So if you are screaming at @GlennKesslerWP I'm not hearing it. I do respond to thoughtful or provocative emails, though.
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: Unimaginable abortion stories will become more common. Is American journalism ready? (No.) I wrote about the 10-year-old and the fact-checking. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Tom Scocca / @tomscocca: The question, at bottom, is why Glenn Kessler saw an urgent need to challenge a reporter who'd reported that a law had done the thing the law was written to do
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: Sexual assault stories are among the hardest to cover because by definition the specific act almost never has eyewitnesses. It's hard to corroborate. But that does not excuse casting doubt on victim claims with no evidence when there's so little incentive for them to lie
Izzy Karpinski / Fox 59: ‘Everything they are saying against him is a lie’: Mother of 10-year-old rape victim defends suspect to reporter
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / @aoc: 80%+ of rapes go unreported to police. Should those be treated as false too? How do your opinions impact this coverage of assault? What impact have your actions had on that little girl and her family? As “fact checker,” how do your positions impact @washingtonpost's coverage? https://twitter.com/...
Marisa Sarnoff / Law & Crime: Arrest of Ohio Man, 27, Appears to Confirm Story of a 10-Year-Old Girl Who Travelled to Indiana for Abortion Following Alleged Rape
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: Fox News host Emily Compagno, yesterday, on the story of a 10-year-old rape victim who had to go to Indiana for an abortion: “What I find so deeply offensive, they had to make up a fake one!” Meanwhile, the alleged rapist was just arrested and charged. https://www.dispatch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@bartenderhemry: “This story turned out to be true, but the fact that it FELT false to me says a lot about society” -Glenn Kessler https://twitter.com/...
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: I sincerely hope that journalists do not fail this moment. But I don't know. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: So @WSJopinion finally admits they screwed up their piece on the Ohio rape case — but they do so in the most half-assed way possible. Their original editorial did a lot more than “wonder” about the case. They had categorized it as a “fanciful” tale. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Bates / @andrewjbates46: The headline of this morning's @WSJopinion editorial, “An Abortion Story Too Good to Confirm,” is grotesque. They should update it to “We apologize.” https://twitter.com/...
Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News: Rep. Jim Jordan won't apologize for ‘another lie’ tweet about 10-year-old Ohio rape victim who left state to get abortion
Andrew Perez / @andrewperezdc: The @washingtonpost fact checker has trained himself to view doctors who provide abortions as “activists” on “one side of the debate” who thus cannot be believed. He probably thinks that's being objective. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Susan Matthews / Slate: The Worst Part About the “Unlikely” Story of a 10-Year-Old Who Needed an Abortion in Ohio
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: And if that's how you operate, you have revealed an enormous bias that prevents you from doing credible work as a reporter or as a debunker. And that's what I mean when I say misogyny is a huge security failure. This is how disinformation purveyors use misogyny to promulgate lies https://twitter.com/...
Mark Harris / @markharrisnyc: Correcting the record? 🖕 The record, as recounted by honest people, was fine. @WSJopinion, which is led by Paul Gigot, spun a disgusting fantasy about the story being “too good” to be real, and then had to eat its words. All involved should resign. https://www.wsj.com/...
@thehowie: One of the most shameful moments by mainstream journalism. Which heads will roll? Or is this just the cost of doing business in the Murdoch empire. @WSJ owes a LOT of people an apology, starting with the family. https://www.wsj.com/...
Aaron Rupar / @atrupar: it's remarkable how tweets like this overwhelmingly come from journalists looking to deflect from valid criticisms of their work https://twitter.com/...
@sorayamcdonald: Some of y'all hate “believe women” so much you don't even believe women journalists. But that's on y'all. Bethany did the work. Bethany got the scoop. Believe Bethany. https://twitter.com/...
@sorayamcdonald: The WSJ and WaPo made fools of themselves impugning the credibility of the Indy Star and reporters Shari Rudavsky and Rachel Fradette. It's infuriating. They should apologize for their massive, arrogant fuck-up, which has made life worse for many. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jill Filipovic / @jillfilipovic: A lot has been made of the fact that the initial story was a “single-source story.” But the source was the doctor who performed the abortion! That is a very solid source — and doctors cannot hand journalists a patient's private medical records. https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Valenti / All in Her Head: They Will Never Believe Us
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite: Indiana AG Investigating Doctor Who Treated 10-Year-Old Rape Victim, Threatening Prosecution and Loss of Medical License
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: A 10-year-old Ohio girl's abortion ordeal, and how it became national news - updated with comment from the OB-GYN at the heart of the story - and Indiana AG's promise to try to get her medical license taken away My NPR story with @sarahmccammon https://www.npr.org/...
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair: “They Should Be Ashamed of Themselves”: Child-Rape Case Shines a Harsh Light on Ohio's Draconian Abortion Restrictions
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: 3. Rudavsky sourcing was solid. Papers run stories based on ANONYMOUS sources all the time, which are inherently less reliable. But Rudavsky had an on-the-record quote from Dr. Caitlin Bernard, the obstetrician-gynecologist who performed the abortion. https://popular.info/...
WGN-TV: Indiana Attorney General threatens license of doctor who provided abortion to 10-year-old rape victim
Joseph Choi / The Hill: Indiana AG says state will look at license of doctor who provided abortion to 10-year-old rape victim
Kelly Hooper / Politico: Confirmation of Ohio rape victim's abortion story forces retreat from some conservative doubters
Tom Scocca / @tomscocca: Why were so many people, including the Washington Post's fact-check desk, so invested in acting like it was unbelievable that a no-exceptions abortion ban would block someone from getting a necessary abortion?
Tom Scocca / @tomscocca: These laws are real! If reality is too shocking for you to deal with, you shouldn't have a job in the news business.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Two Gannett papers, one in Indiana and one in Ohio, have humanized the new American reality about abortion. And in doing so, they have highlighted the inhumanity of some partisan punditry. https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@angryblacklady: but just yesterday Glenn Greenwald said this story was fake in service to his conservative overlords who don't want you to think about the chaos they have unleashed on this country. https://twitter.com/...
@erikwemple: All told, I counted 12 sentences that cast doubt on the story — they all stand, uncorrected, alongside an “editor's note” that guts them all. If ever the WSJ editorial board had some editing to do. 3/
Libby Watson / @libbycwatson: absolutely insane to imagine you can just expect a doctor tell you where a 10 year old rape victim lives https://twitter.com/...
Libby Watson / @libbycwatson: especially in this climate! i know reporters who have worked on rape stories would tell you the first thing you need to do is build trust. you can't just barrel in like “hey i'm the pinocchios guy from the washington post, tell me where the girl lives”
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: Lol the @washingtonpost fact checker guy. Anyway, as I frequently tell you—the political media is fail... You guys know what I'm gonna say. This is just example 9 zillion. https://twitter.com/...
Warren Gunnels / @gunnelswarren: In the warped mind of @GlennKesslerWP, if your 1 source is an OBGYN with the guts to go on the record about a 10-year old girl who was raped & unable to get an abortion in Ohio that story isn't fit to print. But if your 1 source is a friend funded by the Koch billionaires run it. https://twitter.com/...
Libby Watson / @libbycwatson: and then of course this https://twitter.com/...
John R Stanton / @dcbigjohn: And also baseless claims by well known bad actors seeking to undermine criticism of their policies doing exactly what they are intended to do. He definitely responds to those. https://twitter.com/...
Helen Kennedy / @helenkennedy: Well this is goddamn pathetic. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Watson / @tomwatson: The combination of arrogance and lunacy in this tweet are hard to match in the annals of fact-checking journalism. https://twitter.com/...
@benjaminmillar: To: glenn.kessler@washpost.com Subject: Media folk making not reading replies their entire personality does wonderful things for public perception of journalism, just terrific stuff https://twitter.com/...
@nameshiv: The alleged fact checker who failed to check the facts has kindly pointed out that he is actually correct to not check the facts because he also doesnt check the replies https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: I want j schools to do a specific course on this. Sexual assault stories are uniquely hard to report out. But no one does this. I learned how to report these things the hard way, with conflicting stories and lawyers. https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: This is wild and abhorrent misunderstanding of sexual assault, and especially when it involves a minor. https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: Why would a 10 year take a rapist to court? Lotta men demonstrating that they've never had to care for a child in any meaningful way.
Alex Howard / @digiphile: If you're a journalist on Twitter, please read your @-mentions & DMs. If you don't want to hear feedback, or answer questions from @WashingtonPost subscribers (like me) here, please delete your account, & post your email address on articles. Thank you for correcting the record. https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: Law prof @JonathanTurley wrote an op-ed in the @nypost questioning a report about a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio who was forced to travel to Indiana for an abortion The column was printed with the URL “activist-tale-of-a-10-year-old-rape- victims-abortion-looks-like-a- lie” https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Fitting that perhaps the biggest abortion story since the SCOTUS overturning of Roe v. Wade stems from regional/local newspapers, because that's where the reporting on this issue will be playing out for months and years. A brand-new test for a hollowed-out American media sector. https://twitter.com/...
@ijbailey: @laurahazardowen This is so important in a post-Roe world, but also one in which most rapes aren't even reported. Should we refuse to report anything that doesn't go through official law enforcement channels? And, as you alluded to, for a lot of legit reasons, one source might be all we get.
Sarah Weinman / @sarahw: @laurahazardowen What's telling about this whole paragraph is that it could just as easily apply to one-source stories from police departments https://twitter.com/...
Peter Sterne / @petersterne: @laurahazardowen I think it's worth pointing out that Kessler's claim that the Star published the story without making any effort to confirm is completely baseless. We simply don't know what steps the paper took to confirm the story!
Peter Sterne / @petersterne: @laurahazardowen You can say “the paper only attributed the story to one source” or “the story only had a single on-the-record source” but there's no way for an outside columnist like Kessler to know what reporting the paper did that didn't make it into print.
Peter Sterne / @petersterne: @laurahazardowen Right, and this is one reason I don't like referring to Kessler as a fact-checker. Journalists should turn over their reporting to actual fact-checkers, the people who work for their news org and are tasked with confirming facts internally before publication.
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: @petersterne totally. i don't understand the seeming expectation that the paper should have turned over its reporting/unidentified sources to an outside fact-checker. there's a lot of assuming that not responding to his questions means it didn't happen
Jessica Valenti / @jessicavalenti: Only 5% of rapes result in an arrest. That doesn't mean the other 95% didn't happen https://twitter.com/...
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: “Fact checkers” attacked a 10-year-old rape victim's abortion story, and the rest is conservative history
Cristina Silva / @cristymsilva: Countless abortion stories will never be told at all. It won't be because they're lies. It will be because telling them is too risky, because patients and doctors and staffers and volunteers will face arrest for coming forward. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Irin Carmon / @irin: “Kessler didn't note in the original column that some of the agencies he'd contacted hadn't responded.” One of those agencies had in fact received the abuse report. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Olivia Krauth / @oliviakrauth: I've heard this song before. https://twitter.com/...
Susan Benkelman / @sbenkelman: “Countless abortion stories will never be told at all. It won't be because they're lies. It will be because telling them is too risky, because patients and doctors and staffers and volunteers will face arrest for coming forward.” Well said @laurahazardowen https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: An absolutely disgusting excuse for journalism, @WSJ. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Perez / @andrewperezdc: Nice, would really like to see an investigation into the decisions to write and publish this shit too https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Ed Bott / @edbott: The @WSJ Editorial page? I have never seen a more wretched hive of scum and villainy... https://twitter.com/...
Moira Donegan / @moiradonegan: A sexual assault survivor was not allowed to cover sexual violence at the Post. But this guy is. https://twitter.com/...
Jane Coaston / @janecoaston: If the lede of your op-ed is contradicted by the editors note to the op-ed than perhaps the problem is more pronounced https://twitter.com/...
Laura Bassett / @lebassett: Mealy-mouthed update on an editorial that still has the same hed and dek: “An Abortion Story Too Good to Confirm” “Biden told a tale of a 10-year old rape victim that no one can identify.” Imagine calling a 10-year-old's rape “too good to confirm.” https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: All souls who would seek to know the nature of @WSJopinion read herein. https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: And yet, the headline is still An Abortion Story Too Good to Confirm" https://twitter.com/...
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: Thanks to the local journalists who did “confirm” the story, including @bethany_bruner, who was in court. HOWEVER, the idea that each horror story resulting from Dobbs and these extreme state laws should be presumed false is an attempt to hide the consequences of their policies.
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: Yes, reporting like this absolutely must continue. But, we already know — by looking at the policing of pregnancy outcomes under Roe and the pre-Roe history — what can and will happen. Add in tech-related surveillance, and there will be new problems as well. This is reality.
Cristian Farias / @cristianafarias: Not to pile on, but the implication here is a that our understanding of reality should depend chiefly on the word of cops and the criminal legal system. Uvalde, the murder of George Floyd, and other horrors should've laid that idea to rest. https://twitter.com/...
@coreypein: This warrants a retraction, not a fucking mealy-mouthed “editor's note” on an unsigned column that cast false aspersions on journalists who did their jobs. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Kleefeld / @erickleefeld: Step 1: Wall Street Journal editorial, “An Abortion Story Too Good to Confirm.” ("All kinds of fanciful tales travel far on social media these days...") Step 2: WSJ posts editor's note, acknowledging that actual journalists at a different publication have now confirmed the story. https://twitter.com/...
@seandkennedy: Editorial pages are separate from a newspaper's reporters and news departments, but as someone who has worked in newspapers for close to 20 years, this is a nightmare. Unacceptable. https://twitter.com/...
Kelley Root / @kelleyroot: Sadly, this was not a “fanciful tale.” Children do get raped. Children do get pregnant. It's a real issue and it must be addressed. https://twitter.com/...
@jayshams: If only the Wall Street Journal had the resources to report instead of publish unfounded opinions... https://twitter.com/...
Scott Butterworth / @mrbutterworth: @ErikWemple Or retracting altogether
@blackamazon: Again when do we discuss the laziness of journalism when it comes to marginalized or victimized people https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: WSJ editorial page debunked a true story. https://twitter.com/...
Charles Ornstein / @charlesornstein: Today, an editorial by @WSJopinion suggested the story of the 10-year-old was false. Will the editorial board apologize? Does this change its view? https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alec MacGillis / @alecmacgillis: Just hours after this editorial appeared in WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela / @nataliapetrzela: Gleefully calling any story about a child's abuse and abortion “fanciful” or “too good” to be true is absolutely 🤮 https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: The editor's note leaves an astounding juxtaposition, as it cites the Dispatch as confirming a story that the Journal itself had characterized with this headline and subhead 2/: https://twitter.com/...
Eliza Orlins / @elizaorlins: Grateful for the journalists who show up. I'm used to people questioning what I see as a public defender. Yet, everything I talk about is happening in plain sight in open court. Imagine how different things could be if journalists actually covered what happens in local courts. https://twitter.com/...
Norman Ornstein / @normornstein: We can all yearn for the day when the Wall Street Journal editorial page apologizes https://twitter.com/...
Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq: .@EmilyCompagno FYI, feel free to admit you messed up https://twitter.com/...
Rex Chapman / @rexchapman: There is no bottom. https://twitter.com/...
Melody Schreiber / @m_scribe: “If performing or receiving an abortion now counts as activism, well, then journalists will need to be okay quoting ‘activists’...” Thanks to @laurahazardowen for this. Also if getting an abortion makes you an activist, some journalist would be activists. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Amanda Becker / @amandabecker: Put down the WaPo. *Definitely* put down the WSJ op-ed page. This right here is the analytical take you need to read about our post-Roe world, the unthinkable situations that will nonetheless be true, and if/how MSM can meet this moment: https://twitter.com/...
Isaac Saul / @ike_saul: I mean, this is so, so f*cking bad. It is more than correction worthy. @WSJopinion do the right thing. https://twitter.com/...
Isaac Saul / @ike_saul: Biden asked the nation to imagine what its like for that 10 year old girl — a rape victim, pregnant — to have to travel to get abortion services. Now we should also imagine what it's like for her family to watch an unaccountable media ecosystem slander the story as a lie.
Nick Riccardi / @nickriccardi: Good @laurahazardowen piece on the 10-yr-old's abortion story. We are going to have to get used to “thinly sourced” stories like this because so much of this stuff is, by law if not inclination, is private. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Nick Riccardi / @nickriccardi: (Also tbc as I tweeted earlier an on the record source with 1sthand knowledge is not thinly-sourced, I'm using that ironically)
Noah Berlatsky / @nberlat: Glenn Kessler and the post failed their readers, and need to update policies and figure out how not to do that again. https://twitter.com/...
Kat Abu / @abughazalehkat: This is the PJ Media reporter Megan Fox who spurred the gross and disproven WSJ op-ed which described a 10-year-old's rape as a “fanciful tale”. Fox is now taking credit for the rapist's arrest and ignoring her extremely gross 35+ tweet thread from a week ago. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matt Ford / @fordm: Not identifying underage victims of sexual abuse by name is, for very good and very obvious reasons, one of the few universal rules left in American journalism. Exploiting it like this is shameful. https://twitter.com/...
David Pepper / @davidpepper: The national right-wing disinformation machine whipped up a frenzy to deny the reality of the horrific laws their extremists are imposing on a majority who disagree. Ohio AG Yost was a prime instigator. And they were 100% wrong. This will happen again and again... https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: I'm so very NOT shocked that the WSJ editorial page was on the wrong side of this. https://twitter.com/...
Connie Schultz / @connieschultz: I have many words for this. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Wilder / @vv1lder: “If performing or receiving an abortion now counts as activism, well, then journalists will need to be okay quoting ‘activists,’ unless they only want to tell the anti-abortion movement's side.” https://twitter.com/...
@thesarahkelly: I'm bracing myself for some really gross discourse about whether reporters who've had abortions can cover reproductive rights fairly https://twitter.com/...
@jesseltaylor: so, you know how one side insisted that the 10 year old rape victim was fabricated, then when it was revealed she wasn't, immediately leapt to immigrant-bashing? well, both sides https://twitter.com/...
@sluggahjells: @GlennKesslerWP One @GlennKesslerWP should issue an apology to @srudavsky & @Rachel_Fradette. By even writing his latest terrible “fact checker” piece, he went and delegitimized their reporting in the midst of major right-wing skeptics. Simply put, Glenn Kessler just isn't fit for that role. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jim Bazán / @jamesbazan: @GlennKesslerWP And yet you asserted it was not a fact without a factual basis for that assertion.
David Darmofal / @david_darmofal: Just a reminder that Glenn Kessler tried to raise questions about whether this girl even existed. There is often a moral bankruptcy in WaPo's “fact-checking”. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Scire / @sarahscire: “Countless abortion stories will never be told at all. It won't be because they're lies.” such a powerful clear-eyed piece here from @laurahazardowen https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Sarah Posner / @sarahposner: Read every single word of this: https://twitter.com/...
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: If you're a journalist who works for the Wall Street Journal, how do you feel about your paper muddying the waters in the rape of a 10 year old? Does that make you feel good about your work place? Do you think it reflects well on you? https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Chapman / @fawfulfan: The fact you think there has to be an arrest to corroborate a rape story is itself a really egregious error of judgment. *Most* rapists are never caught, any law enforcement or survivor advocate group can tell you that. The word from a named doctor on the record should be enough. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Megerian / @chrismegerian: A lot of national pundits questioning whether this case was made up. But only a local reporter showed up to find out for sure. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / CNN: Authorities confirm story about 10-year-old rape victim as abortion debate rages
Media Matters for America: These media figures discredited a report on a 10-year-old girl needing a medical abortion. There was just an arrest in the case.
The Guardian:
Guardian News and Media appoints The Intercept's EIC Betsy Reed as editor of Guardian US, replacing John Mulholland, who earlier announced he would step down — GNM press office — Guardian News and Media today announces the appointment of Betsy Reed as new editor of Guardian US.
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: Guardian names Betsy Reed, The Intercept's top editor, to run its U.S. newsroom.
Betsy Reed / @betsyreed2: Personal news! I'll be editor of @GuardianUS starting in September. Thrilled to be joining such a vibrant, acclaimed, kickass news org. Can't wait to work on their indispensable journalism at this perilous and fascinating moment.
Nausicaa Renner / @nausjcaa: I am extremely sad to lose my friend and colleague @betsyreed2 to the Guardian US — but it also comes with some professional news for me: I'm becoming deputy editor of @theintercept under @RogerDHodge and I am very excited. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Betsy Reed / @betsyreed2: I am so going to miss @theintercept. Beloved colleagues. So many great stories. The best of times. I will read and root for you forever.
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Sean Lyngaas / CNN:
Report: in the days before January 6, Chinese hackers targeted US journalists with malicious emails to find out if there would be a peaceful transfer of power — Washington (CNN Business)In the days before the January 6, 2021, insurrection, Chinese hackers sent out a flurry of malicious emails …
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@snlyngaas, @runasand, @marymargolohan, @snlyngaas, @proofpoint, @snlyngaas, @snlyngaas, TechCrunch and The Hill
Discussion:
Sean Lyngaas / @snlyngaas: News Corp has hired a law firm to determine if any of the data accessed by the hackers included personally identifiable information that would require the company to notify regulators or affected parties, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.
Runa Sandvik / @runasand: New report from @proofpoint details phishing attacks targeting journalists. I spoke to @snlyngaas about what it all means and how we can do more to protect newsrooms. https://www.cnn.com/...
Mary Margaret Olohan / @marymargolohan: omg. China literally baited journos with Trump election fraud claims https://twitter.com/...
Sean Lyngaas / @snlyngaas: New —> In the days prior to #January6th riot, Chinese hackers shifted their targeting to White House correspondents at major US news networks, per @proofpoint, as Beijing scrambled to collect intel on whether there'd be a peaceful transfer of power in US: https://www.cnn.com/...
@proofpoint: New from our @threatinsight team via @snlyngaas @CNN: Advanced persistent threat (APT) actors are attempting to target/leverage journalists and media personas in a variety of campaigns, including those well-timed to sensitive political events in the U.S. https://ow.ly/...
Sean Lyngaas / @snlyngaas: Affected News Corp journalists will be offered the opportunity to review the law firm's findings to see if any data was related to newsgathering or sources, the person said.
Sean Lyngaas / @snlyngaas: News Corp, which owns the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, is still doing “analysis and remediation work” on the hack of its networks that it disclosed in February, per a News Corp spox. Investigators blamed China-linked hackers for the breach. https://www.cnn.com/...
Jordan Valinsky / CNN:
The New York Times is working with Hasbro to release a board game version of Wordle in October for a suggested price of $19.99 — New York (CNN Business)Wordle is jumping from the P-H-O-N-E to the B-O-A-R-D. — Hasbro is partnering with the New York Times, which owns the popular online word puzzle …
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TechCrunch, Axios, The Verge, The New York Times Company, Polygon, Nerdist, New York Post, CBS News and ScreenRant
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Noah Garfinkel / Axios: Wordle to be reimagined as a board game
The New York Times Company: Hasbro and New York Times Games Are Bringing Wordle to Life in a New Board Game
Toussaint Egan / Polygon: Wordle is getting an official party game
Eric Diaz / Nerdist: A Wordle Board Game Is Coming This Fall
Zoe Christen Jones / CBS News: New York Times and Hasbro to release Wordle board game
Thomas McNulty / ScreenRant: Wordle Enters The Physical World Through Official Hasbro Game
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Twitter is testing custom timelines built by developers that merge content around specific themes, starting with one about The Bachelorette in the US and Canada — Twitter is testing a new feature that will show users custom timelines built by developers that will merge Tweets …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Beyoncé joins TikTok, gaining 3.3M+ followers in her first day on the platform, and offers her entire catalog for users to choose from as music for their videos — Pop superstar Beyoncé has joined the short-form video app (link) — and her entire catalog is now available …
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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: Beyoncé joined TikTok yesterday and already has 3.5m followers
Danica Baker / Tone Deaf: Beyonce posts first ever video on TikTok
Sharon Knolle / The Wrap: Beyoncé Finally Posts to TikTok, Makes Entire Catalog Available to TikTokers (Video)
Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News: Beyoncé's on TikTok now, and so is her entire musical catalog
Carlos De Loera / Los Angeles Times: Beyoncé finally joins TikTok, bringing all of her music along for the ride
Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter: Beyoncé has arrived on TikTok — Lately, creators across the internet have been singing the line …
Nina Raemont / CNET: Beyoncé and Her Music Arrive on TikTok
Hattie Lindert / The A.V. Club: Queen Bey blesses subjects by joining TikTok (and bringing her musical catalog with her)
Derrick Rossignol / UPROXX: Beyoncé Joins TikTok And Starts By Showing Love To Her Favorite ‘Break My Soul’ Videos
Tomás Mier / Rolling Stone: Beyoncé Joins TikTok and Shares First Video Thanking Fans for Releasing the ‘Wiggle’
Mia Sato / The Verge: Beyoncé — and her music — is now on TikTok — She announced her arrival with a fan compilation
Brianna Silva / WHDH-TV: My soul is ready: Beyoncé has joined TikTok
Andy Bustard / HipHopDX News: Beyoncé Makes TikTok Debut With Cardi B's Help
Gavin Bridge / Variety:
Analysis: the annual value of US TV and streaming sports rights will reach $21.5B in 2022 and $26.5B by 2023, a 74% increase since 2015 — F1's recent huge U.S. media rights hike — from $5 million a year to a reported $75M (+1,500%) to $90M (+1,700%) — has the feel of déjà vu.
Annabelle Dickson / Politico:
UK's Online Safety Bill is expected to be dropped from parliamentary schedule next week, halting the bill's progress until the fall, amid Johnson's resignation — LONDON — Progress on Britain's proposed new content regulation law is expected to be delayed until the fall …
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Nadine Dorries / @nadinedorries: Which part of the bill legislates for hurt feelings, Kemi? https://twitter.com/...
Chris Williams / The Register: Tories spar over UK's delayed Online Safety Bill
Darren Jones MP / @darrenpjones: We put a huge amount of work into the Online Safety Bill on the @OnlineSafetyCom - cross party, both Houses, over many weeks - and that's after years of talking about it. The Online Safety Bill should not be dropped. 👇 https://twitter.com/...
Alan D Miller / @alanvibe: We need to ensure Online Safety Bill is kicked into touch #together It's an abhorrent attack on the core of our Society: without free speech & open debate we have no freedom Outsourcing censorship to Big Tech is cowardly dangerous & wrong. Stay vigilant on this https://twitter.com/...
Neil Brown / @neil_neilzone: If - *if* - the #OnlineSafetyBill has gone away and it is not just a temporary calendaring hiatus (as it might well be), I imagine the pressure on the sketchy Part 3 #DEAct judicial review will increase. People got product to shift.
Yuan Yi Zhu / @yuanyi_z: It is not impossible the Culture Secretary doesn't actually know what's in the Online Safety Bill. https://twitter.com/...
Eleanor Langford / @eleanormia: The plan reportedly still is for it to be tabled in the autumn A DCMS source has insisted it is not true the bill is being dropped entirely
Eleanor Langford / @eleanormia: Hearing that the Online Safety Bill has been dropped from government business next week with a view for it to “come back in the autumn” (aka when there's a new PM Read: it's being dropped Pretty key piece of govt legislation gone
Julia Hartley-Brewer / @juliahb1: Government's Flagship Online Safety Bill Set To Be Dropped From Commons Business. It may just be temporary but we now have more time to fight this dangerous attack on our freedom of speech online. https://www.politicshome.com/ ...
Eleanor Langford / @eleanormia: I understand the Bill was dropped next week to make room for the Labour motion of no confidence A govt source says: “Labour reduced the amount of time for genuine parliamentary business so they could play politics. They are reaping what they sowed.”
Paul Rainford / Light Reading: Eurobites: Proximus targets SMEs with Odoo's help
Kemi Badenoch / @kemibadenoch: This would be the right move. The bill is in no fit state to become law. If I'm elected Prime Minister I will ensure the bill doesn't overreach. We should not be legislating for hurt feelings. https://twitter.com/...
James Vincent / The Verge: UK's ambitious plan to overhaul online safety laws delayed by government chaos
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: UK's Online Safety Bill on pause pending new PM
Eleanor Langford / PoliticsHome: Government's Flagship Online Safety Bill Set To Be Dropped From Commons Business
Sam Courtney-Guy / Metro.co.uk: Online Safety Bill ‘dropped until next PM comes in’ when it could be killed off
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Sources: the US DOJ is likely to reject Alphabet's concessions and file an antitrust lawsuit in the coming weeks over Google's dominance of the online ad market — The US Justice Department is likely to reject concessions offered by Alphabet Inc., clearing the way for an antitrust lawsuit …
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Columbia Journalism Review, @jason_kint, AdExchanger, @ideagov, @gerritd, @tsgiles, @edbott and @blusuitdillon, more at Techmeme »
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review: Google feels the antitrust heat over its online ad business
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: As expected - and BIG. When Google “concession” offer leaked last week, it was on par with Steve Bannon news last Friday he was willing to cooperate with 1/6 cmte days prior to his trial. In other words, something to ignore for anyone studying closely. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Ad Exchanger: DOJ Rejects Google's Antitrust Concessions; Instacart+ Plugs Into The Retail Media Network Network
Alan W. Silberberg / @ideagov: Hmm. This could be a big deal. DOJ Poised to Rebuff Google Concessions, Clearing the Way for Antitrust Suit https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Gerrit De Vynck / @gerritd: this stock photo is exactly how I feel trying to keep track of antitrust lawsuits against Google https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Tom Giles / @tsgiles: Big news on Alphabet: You know how Google proposed some concessions to avert a DOJ antitrust lawsuit? DOJ is poised to reject those proposals, clearing the way for a suit in the coming weeks. Great scoop by @leah_nylen https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The UK's The New European closes its fundraising scheme after raising £1M from 2,000 readers who it says now own 16.7% of the business — UPDATE 14 July 2022: The New European last night closed its fundraising scheme having raised £1m from 2,000 new co-owners.
Science:
A study comparing the consumption of partisan online news to TV news suggests that television is the top driver of partisan audience segregation among Americans — Abstract Partisan segregation within the news audience buffers many Americans from countervailing political views, posing a risk to democracy.
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@davmicrot, @rasmus_kleis, @brendannyhan, @jeffjarvis, Opinion Today, @kmmunger, @shoaibdaniyal, @hholdenthorp, @rasmus_kleis and Cinque link a settimana
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David Rothschild / @davmicrot: 🚨New Paper🚨"Quantifying Partisan News Diets in Web and TV Audiences" in @ScienceAdvances with Dan Muise @homahmrd Baird Howland @markusmobius @duncanjwatts: if you are concerned about partisan-segregation, you should be focused on TV, not online https://www.science.org/... 1/7 https://twitter.com/...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: Important work bringing empirical evidence to discussions that are often data-light and assertion-heavy. Outside the US, worth remembering dynamics are likely to be very different as TV audiences in e.g Europe far less polarized. See comparative work led by @richrdfletcher ⬇️1/3 https://twitter.com/...
Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan: “to the extent that Americans do consume news, it is overwhelmingly from television” https://www.science.org/... and “partisan segregation is more prevalent, more concentrated, and more persistent on TV than it is online https://www.science.org/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Yes, including lackeys in the halls of Congress. Note this paper, too, on media playing a larger role than social media: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Silver / Opinion Today: Opinion Today — Americans Divided Over Direction of Biden's Climate Change Policies Brian Kennedy …
Kevin Munger / @kmmunger: I was a discussant for this at ICA, have been eagerly waiting for the publication to drop. One of the most important empirical media papers of all time. High-quality quantitative description reveals the premises of trendy debates to be flatly false and those debates irrelevant https://twitter.com/...
Shoaib Daniyal / @shoaibdaniyal: If this is true for America, it is a 100 times truer for a poor, high illiteracy country like India. Social media might be sexy to study but radical political ideas in India spread most through Hindi language news programming. https://twitter.com/...
@hholdenthorp: Striking paper showing Linear TV still driving a lot more partisan segregation than the web. @DavMicRot @ScienceAdvances https://twitter.com/...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: “It is sexier to dive into the deep corners of social media, but if you worry about the typical American's understanding of politics & society being clouded by partisan information there is a dire need for more research outlining what is being produced & consumed on television”⬇️ https://twitter.com/...
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