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Twitter reinstates Trump's account, after Elon Musk ran a Twitter poll where 51.8% of 15M+ users voted yes to reinstatement, saying “the people have spoken” — Donald Trump on Saturday said he had no interest in returning to Twitter even as a slim majority voted in favor …
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Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Reinstate former President Trump
Elon Musk / @elonmusk: The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Van Boom / CNET: Kanye West Returns to Twitter After Elon Musk Brings Trump Back
Shelby Talcott / Semafor: Elon Musk invited Donald Trump back to Twitter. But Truth Social may get in the way.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / @aoc: Idk man, last time he was here this platform was used to incite an insurrection, multiple people died, the Vice President of the United States was nearly assassinated, and hundreds were injured but I guess that's not enough for you to answer the question. Twitter poll it is https://twitter.com/...
David Sacks / @davidsacks: Trump is not my preferred candidate for '24 but his continued banning was an unjustified and unwarranted interference with the marketplace of ideas. https://twitter.com/...
James Macpherson / The James Macpherson Report: Twitter Welcomes Back Trump
Pocharapon Neammanee / Insider: Rep. Adam Schiff says reinstating Trump on Twitter was a ‘terrible mistake’: ‘It just underscores the erratic leadership of Twitter now under Musk’
Truth Paradigm Relays: 11.19.22: DISTRACT from HOUSE investigation! Is it a TRAP? Twitter + TRUMP? The BEE is back! PRAY!
Markos Moulitsas / @markos: Huh, I thought the business of Twitter was attracting advertisers. How does bringing back an insurrectionist coup plotter accomplish that? https://twitter.com/...
Caleb Howe / Mediaite: ‘God Help Us All’: NAACP Calls for ‘Immediate Pause’ By All Twitter Advertisers After Musk Restores Trump Account
Alison Sider / Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk Reinstates Donald Trump's Twitter Account After Online Poll
Mary L Trump / @maryltrump: Stay.
Mark Cuban / @mcuban: According to Elon that ship has already sailed. Maybe he thinks trump will sell more $8 checks. (It won't ) Or he just wants to show record user growth to investors and find a different way to monetize it? https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Elon Musk reinstates Donald Trump's Twitter account
@reuterstech: Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Elon Musk ends Trump's Twitter ban
Micah Meadowcroft / @micaheadowcroft: This was about original sin https://twitter.com/...
Caleb Howe / Mediaite: HE'S BA-AACK: Trump's Twitter Account Active for First Time Since January 2021, Reinstated Just Minutes After Musk Announced ‘The People Have Spoken’
Justin Klawans / The Week: Elon Musk reinstates former President Donald Trump on Twitter
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: And we know what a stickler Trump is when it comes to following federal regulations and ensuring shareholders' rights are upheld https://twitter.com/...
@adamkinzinger: Keep in mind trump wasn't suspended for being a meanie. He was suspended for lighting an insurrection and when it failed tweeting “this is what you get...” Lies lies lies with a price. But hey at least Elon gets approval from the alt right. $44 billion dollar troll. https://twitter.com/...
Hank Green / @hankgreen: If I could ignore Donald Trump's bonkers Truth Social posts for the last two years, I can ignore his bonkers tweets too. The only people who decide whether we pay attention to him is us.
Todd Spangler / Variety: Elon Musk Lets Donald Trump Back on Twitter
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency: As Elon Musk polled users, Donald Trump tells Jewish Republicans he sees ‘no reason’ to go back to Twitter
Shelby Talcott / @shelbytalcott: Musk says Trump's Twitter will be reinstated. But the former president could face legal and financial obstacles to returning to the platform: https://www.semafor.com/...
@bajarin: @karaswisher Musk did the poll to give him cover and say the people wanted him back. He was always going to let Trump back on Twitter but the poll is covering his butt.
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Epic BS from a Musk toady: https://twitter.com/...
Shikhar Mehrotra / ScreenRant: Elon Musk Reinstates Trump After Twitter Poll Leans Slightly For It
@penamerica: Elon Musk has reinstated Donald Trump (@realDonaldTrump) to Twitter after a poll on the site showed narrow support for that option. The former President was banned from the social media service in January 2021 for inciting violence. https://www.reuters.com/...
Steve Clemons / @scclemons: See you all at 3am daily. Musk says Trump's Twitter account to be reinstated after poll shows narrow support | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/...
Mark Cuban / @mcuban: Smart marketing move for @twitter. Now everyone comes to see what trump does. Awful for trump. The pressure is on him to entertain. Tweets hit different as the President vs now being TFG https://twitter.com/...
@reuters: Donald Trump said he had no interest in returning to Twitter even as a slim majority of users in a poll posted by Elon Musk voted in favor of reinstating the former president, who was banned from the social-media service for inciting violence https://www.reuters.com/...
Siladitya Ray / Forbes: Elon Musk Reinstates Donald Trump's Twitter Account After Asking Users To Vote
Brian Klaas / @brianklaas: Have you considered that authoritarianism, incitement to violence, and a racist demagogue who spreads dangerous, insane conspiracy theories that have led to real world attacks...shouldn't be viewed through the prism of “marketing moves”? Not everything is about money. Good grief. https://twitter.com/...
Cindy Harper / Reclaim The Net: Twitter reinstates President Donald Trump
Shannon Bond / NPR: Elon Musk allows Donald Trump back on Twitter
@mediaite: ‘God Help Us All’: NAACP Calls for ‘Immediate Pause’ By All Twitter Advertisers After Musk Restores Trump Account https://mediaite.com/a/zxzbr
Kelly Rissman / Vanity Fair: Donald Trump's Twitter Account Has Been Reactivated But Will He Return?
Rep. Jimmy Gomez / @repjimmygomez: Trump wasn't removed from Twitter because of his point of view. He was removed because he incited an insurrection that almost overthrew our democracy. Elon doesn't think that was enough to keep him off the platform. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nandini Jammi / @nandoodles: The purpose of marketing is to increase sales, not make the last of your clients disappear. https://twitter.com/...
Hussein Ibish / @ibishblog: This is the point. If Trump starts using Twitter again, it's an admission of the total failure and uselessness of Pravda Social-ism or whatever his own platform is called. Is Trump going to blow to Musk? It's a power-play by the foul Elon. https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Since I got this one right, let me make a new prediction: If Trump returns — a big if & the juice has evaporated anyway — he'll violate the rules egregiously & Elon will toss him. Then, as a smart person just said to me, he'll have the best of both worlds https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jesse O'Neill / New York Post: Donald Trump says he has ‘no reason’ to return to Twitter after being reinstated
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: NAACP President Derrick Johnson: “If Elon Musk continues to run Twitter like this, using garbage polls that do not represent the American people and the needs of our democracy, God help us all.” https://www.cnn.com/...
Aman Batheja / @amanbatheja: “According to filings made by Truth Social with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Trump is ‘generally obligated’ to post on Truth Social, and cannot post a message to another site for 6 hours after first posting on Truth Social.” https://time.com/...
Chris Stokel-Walker / Fortune: Ex-Twitter employees are horrified by Elon Musk reinstating Donald Trump's account: ‘Incredibly upsetting’
Nouriel Roubini / @nouriel: “'odd' that Musk, who has spent months complaining about Twitter's problem with bot accounts, would use a Twitter poll in which bots could be voting to decide the issue & then assume that the result “reflects some kind of legitimate ‘voice of the people.’” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Frank Figliuzzi / @frankfigliuzzi1: The Russian bots have spoken: https://twitter.com/...
Leonardo Garnier / @leogarnier: Show the world you don't understand what the responsibility of regulation means without saying you don't understand https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Saavedra / @realsaavedra: Trump's account is back. Trump said last month: “I am staying on Truth. I like it better, I like the way it works, I like Elon, but I'm staying on Truth. If I choose to run, I will only use Truth.” https://twitter.com/...
Althea Legaspi / Rolling Stone: What's a Little Insurrection? Elon Musk Welcomes Trump Back to Twitter
Julia Shapero / The Hill: Elon Musk reinstates Trump's Twitter account
New York Daily News: Elon Musk restores Trump to Twitter after ex-president narrowly tops online poll
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast: Trump Allowed Back on Twitter Right After Trashing It
Matt Swider / The Shortcut: Elon Musk declares Donald Trump's Twitter account will be reinstated after poll
Ryan Saavedra / The Daily Wire: Elon Musk Reinstates Trump On Twitter; Trump Has Repeatedly Stated He Won't Come Back
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Elon Musk Reinstates Donald Trump's Twitter Account
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Elon Musk / @elonmusk:
[Thread] Elon Musk says “new Twitter policy” will deboost and demonetize “negative/hate tweets”, reinstates Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and Babylon Bee — New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach. Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You won't find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.
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Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Kathie Griffin, Jorden Peterson & Babylon Bee have been reinstated. Trump decision has not yet been made.
David Axelrod / @davidaxelrod: You ever get the feeling that a 6-year-old has slipped behind the controls of this Twitter plane and all the passengers are left to wonder if the damned thing's going to crash? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: “It's like putting a car on the road, hitting the accelerator and then the driver jumps out,” said the former Twitter employee. “How far is it going to go before it crashes?” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dr Jordan B Peterson / @jordanbpeterson: Thanks Elen :) @elonmusk Really. Thank you sir. Probably best to reinstate Trump too. Let him do what he needs to do, and let the people decide. Right out in the open. Where such things should be decided. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Taibbi / @mtaibbi: A key principle of speech regulation pre-Internet was punishing the speech, not the speaker. The system focused on specific damage and encouraged speakers who crossed lines to stay in the debate, but learn from mistakes. Permanent bans discourage such growth. This is good news. https://twitter.com/...
Benjamin Allbright / @allbrightnfl: When you re-invent shadowbanning https://twitter.com/...
@thatumbrella: Rekieta Law, Adam Waldman, and Cecil Says. Reinstate regular people suspended for telling the truth. https://twitter.com/...
David Leavitt / @david_leavitt: With Elon Musk allowing all Twitter users to post hate speech, there's zero reason for companies to pay for sponsored advertisements directly to Twitter when they can instead support content creators who will champion your brand for months and years across platforms. https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Friedman / @bfriedmandc: So . . . shadow-banning? That's what this is, right? The exact thing conservatives accused Twitter of for years? https://twitter.com/...
Tracey Follows / @traceyfutures: Gets back on. Immediately suggests banning others. Noted. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Jia / @oliverjia1014: Leftists may be mad at Elon, but as I said there's no reason for conservatives to be celebrating him either. Twitter Blue accounts getting more exposure is a pay-to-win system and there being no clear definition of “negative/hate tweets” isn't a victory for free speech. https://twitter.com/...
Steven Greenhouse / @greenhousenyt: Not only has @elonmusk taken a wrecking ball to Twitter, he's intent on taking a wrecking ball to any notions of work-life balance & a halfway normal workweek 1,200 Twitter employees—1/3 the remaining workforce—resign en masse rather than work for Musk https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jyoti Mann / Insider: Elon Musk takes aim at ‘hate tweets’ as his poll about letting Donald Trump back on Twitter gets ‘~1M votes/hour’
Thomas van Linge / @thomasvlinge: LMAO, this is literally how every authoritarian state works. “Yes we have freedom of speech, but there are limits. Anyone who speaks negatively about our great leader or nation will be send to jail, you won't see them unless you specifically look them up in prison.” https://twitter.com/...
Natalie Weaver / @nataliew1020: So if someone degrades, dehumanizes, or celebrates the death of my 10 yr old child(which has happened) due to her facial differences & disabilities it will remain on this platform? https://twitter.com/...
@vprasadmdmph: What's the line btw journalism and wanting a company to fail bc the new owner doesn't favor the censorship you prefer? For a website about to crumble, NYTimes makes sure to tweet out all it's coverage, and probably 95% of journalists there have Twitter open. https://twitter.com/...
Frank J. Fleming / @imao_: I'd be very interested in what are the considerations in whether or not to let Trump back on here. https://twitter.com/...
Katherine Brodsky / @mysteriouskat: How will that be determined? Especially the ‘negative’ tweets? I'm most interested in the technical aspect...is it AI? User reporting? Algorithms looking for certain words? https://twitter.com/...
Darren Rovell / @darrenrovell: This is the most important thing Elon Musk has said since buying Twitter. People aren't leaving Twitter because of Elon. They are leaving because it's a dumpster fire. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Also... um... Elon might want to talk with a lawyer, because if the Supreme Court reinstates Texas/Florida content moderation laws, this policy will pretty clearly break both laws, as they had rules against shadowbanning. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Dreyfuss / @bendreyfuss: Yeah I mean @tomscocca made this point last week but this is just sort of making real the paranoid policy people thought existed before. https://twitter.com/...
Mollie / @mzhemingway: Given that he has announced his candidacy for president, the decision should be easy and already have taken place. ZERO election interference and corruption from Twitter, please. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Goldman / @goldman: @lizzadwoskin “Hide from public timeline” - the original shadowban - has existed since 2007. There's literally never been a time when tools haven't existed to limit reach of content.
Elizabeth Dwoskin / @lizzadwoskin: “New” Twitter policy??? Twitter has been using this exact phrasing and approach since at least 2018. https://twitter.com/...
Mary Emily O'Horror / @maryemilyohara: Jordan Peterson, an anti-trans activist who has called LGBTQ Pride a “sin,” and compared being transgender to “Satanic ritual abuse,” has been reinstated on Twitter. Peterson was banned for a last-straw tweet misgendering @TheElliotPage & referring to his doctor as a “criminal.” https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Texts from an unknown sender, from discovery in the Elon Musk/Twitter suit. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nikki Mccann Ramírez / @nikkimcr: this is just actual shadowbanning lmfao good work https://twitter.com/...
@ericbolling: Hold on.... Why would you be able to make a decision on Kathie Griffin (a comedienne) and not Trump (a former POTUS)? Waiting for a cogent response. https://twitter.com/...
James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki: This is interesting, but how do you do this algorithmically? And who's determining what counts as “negative/hate tweets? You can't crowdsource that process if the point is that you're keeping these tweets from being seen by people who aren't actively seeking them out. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Koppelman / @alexkoppelman: Continuing his incredible run of innovation, Elon appears to have invented shadowbanning and demonetization https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Lol. So the first order of business on content moderation... Shadow banning. One of the things that his fans insisted Elon would get rid of... https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8: This is not new. Twitter has down-ranked or limited the reach of violating tweets for years. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@iansherr: Now Elon Musk appears to endorse shadow banning. It's amazing to watch him go through learning everything we've been writing about for years in real time. https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Eh she texted me that cannot get in. Also it's Kathy. Also she now has lost her followers and those she follows. Also I just had to refollow her. Maybe focus on actual tech over hand-waving. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dani Di Placido / Forbes: Jordan Peterson Returns To Twitter, Immediately Demands The Site Censor Anonymous Trolls
sarah satoshi: A week in fiasco — This week has been a week. Okay, let's just get into it. — Twitter needs to die
Russell Brandom / The Verge: Elon Musk begins reinstating banned Twitter accounts, starting with Jordan Peterson and the Babylon Bee
Tom Parker / Reclaim The Net: Twitter reinstates The Babylon Bee and others
Ben Zeisloft / The Daily Wire: Jordan Peterson Restored To Twitter By Elon Musk
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone: Right Wingers Fume After Musk Announces Shadowbanning Policy
Greg Evans / Deadline: Elon Musk Reinstates Kathy Griffin On Twitter, Misspells Name; Comic Responds In Kind
Jackson Richman / Mediaite: JUST IN: Elon Musk Reinstates Twitter Accounts of Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson and Babylon Bee
Ariel Zilber / New York Post: Elon Musk reinstates Twitter accounts of Babylon Bee, Jordan Peterson — but no ruling on Trump
Rebecca Klar / The Hill: Musk says ‘hate tweets’ will be ‘deboosted & demonetized’
Dessi Gomez / The Wrap: Elon Musk Reinstates Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson and Babylon Bee on Twitter
Todd Spangler / Variety: Musk Says Twitter Has Reinstated Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson and Babylon Bee — but No Decision on Donald Trump Yet
J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter: Twitter Reinstates Accounts From Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson
Eduardo Razo / Barrett Media: Elon Musk Announces News Policy on Speech for Twitter
James B. Stewart / New York Times:
Interviews with more than 24 people involved in the AT&T/Time Warner merger, including Jeff Bewkes and Randall Stephenson, detail how it went disastrously awry — At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules.
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James B. Stewart / @jamesstewartnyt: How does anyone blow through $100 billion? Try marrying a giant telecom company and a legendary Hollywood studio and watch the sparks fly. Inside the disastrous AT&T and Time warner megadeal: https://www.nytimes.com/...
@film_girl: THIS is the article I've been waiting years for: Was This $100 Billion Deal the Worst Merger Ever? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Trump's efforts to abuse the regulatory process to dictate CNN coverage are a badly underrated free speech issue relative to the stuff you mostly hear complaints about from left and right. https://twitter.com/...
@goldietaylor: Mergers and WH discussions prolly ain't something you want talk about on these open airwaves, my dude. https://twitter.com/...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: If you'd like to know why, ultimately, @cnn has crashed and is in the hands of right wing nutjobs and Paste Eaters™️ just read this. It's also a reminder that 9 out of 10 corporate execs are moronic frauds. And the 10th is Jeff Zucker: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Daniel W. Drezner / @dandrezner: This seems pretty bad! https://twitter.com/...
Chris Hayes / @chrislhayes: Another one of those: :"Oh it was exactly what it looked like!" stories of scandal and corruption from Trump's four-year tenure. Like the audits of Comey and McCabe. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Kraushaar / @joshkraushaar: “It was pretty much the strategy that Mr. Bewkes had advocated during his appearance before AT&T's board, except that four years and billions in market capitalization had disappeared in the interim.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@cnschedules: A great read from The New York Times about the many, many, many, many, many problems with the Time Warner / AT&T merger, including contributions from the two CEOs who got the merger done in the first place. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ed Hammond / @edhammondny: I broke the acquisition and the exit. Both times the messaging was incoherent. This @JamesStewartNYT piece goes a really long way to explaining why it was never going to work: Was This $100 Billion Deal the Worst Merger Ever? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Fred / @freddiecampion: I had a 3-month-old baby when I got laid off in the fallout from all this. Fun times. Love too live in an economic system where there is this much money sloshing around at the top and this is what people choose to do with it. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: The former CEOs of Time Warner and AT&T criticize the execution of their own deal (and their successors). Masterful from @JamesStewartNYT https://www.nytimes.com/...
William Turton / @williamturton: guys being dudes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: If you want to protect your cookies don't ask Cookie Monster to guard them. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: Of course everyone at Time Warner knew what would happen to the company in this deal so the shock and outrage among senior leadership rings hollow to me. It was the worker bees who really got jammed up in this. But still good for the shareholders right? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Few corporate mergers “have stirred up the passions, seething resentments and finger-pointing as AT&T's short-lived ownership of Time Warner did.” @JamesStewartNYT has pages and pages of new reporting here https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / @semaforben: An incredible @JamesStewartNYT story confirming that everyone anyone suspected was happening was, in fact, happening in the most literal way possible https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Enrich / @davidenrich: Looking for a really amazing yarn to read on this lovely Saturday? Look no further. @JamesStewartNYT @rachel_dry https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joe Peyronnin / @joepeyronnin: By The Times's calculation, between the Time Warner and DirecTV deals AT&T has squandered close to $100 billion. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Benedict Evans / @benedictevans: ‘Content is king’ if, like Netflix, Disney or HBO, you are in the content business. If you are not in the content business, as Apple or AT&T are not, then buying content has no strategic leverage. Content is only king for content companies. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Amy Hudkins / @hudkips: a long but fascinating read about the biggest mess in Hollywood that's affected so many of us working in animation https://twitter.com/...
Derf Backderf / @derfbackderf: Long piece on the palace intrigue during the disastrous AT&T purchase and mismanagement of Warner Bros. It's all about tv and film, of course, but what's left untold is this will go down as one of the most destructive biz deals in comics history. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dieter Bohn / @backlon: The opening scene here is dramatic and encapsulates a dysfunctional culture clash I will give you that. But also... most of these are very good takes on meetings, slide decks, and work/life balance - so I have some unexpected and mixed emotions https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@the_moviebob: Blistering coverage of entire AT&T/Warner/Discovery disaster over the last decade - read the whole thing. But “fandom media,” take note of what BARELY rates a mention: DCEU? Snydercut? Hamada-conspiracism? Non-issues. Footnotes. Hardly mattered IRL. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: Remarkably, people are on the record: AT&T's Randall Stephenson (former ceo) and Larry Solomon (the exec who went to NY to tell alert them they would fire Zucker), deny this happened. Time Warner ceo Jeff Bewkes and exec Gary Ginsberg say otherwise. https://twitter.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: A phone company bought a media company and $100 billion vanished. @JamesStewartNYT's big heave on what AT&T did to Time Warner. Read every word: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: The speed at which I gobbled up every line of this story on last several years of Time Warner/WarnerMedia/WBD. “But for sheer strategic miscalculation and poor execution, AT&T's management of Warner Media may have no rival in recent corporate history.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: To be clear: I told you so https://twitter.com/...
John Gapper / @johngapper: Tell us what you really think, Jeff Bewkes (from @JamesStewartNYT's great piece on the Time Warner takeover) https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin: media executives love drama! https://www.nytimes.com/...
@hondawang: I don't know what normal person will read this palace intrigue piece about AT&T and Time Warner—but it has niche appeal to me because I did HBO strategy work and left right before the merger. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Eddy Elfenbein / @eddyelfenbein: Was This $100 Billion Deal the Worst Merger Ever? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Blake Hounshell / @nytblake: Jeff Bewkes comes awfully close to suggesting in this story that AT&T agreed to fire Jeff Zucker if Trump relented on the Time Warner merger (AT&T denying, though) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Greenfield / @mattgreenfield: 1. This is some of the best business reporting I have ever read. 2. John Stankey appears to be one of the laziest, most incompetent CEOs ever to run a Fortune 500 company. A real talent repellent. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: The beginning anecdote of this is **chef's kiss**. Well done @JamesStewartNYT https://www.nytimes.com/...
Max Kennerly / @maxkennerly: Ahem. To reiterate: finance people and rich people in general are very bad at allocating capital to anything but themselves. The more our economy gets swallowed up by the top 0.1%, the worse it will perform, as has been going on since around 1980. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Quite the story here. https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Again, a workable antitrust policy in the United States would be banning AT&T from buying anything)
@modestproposal1: Oooh boy there's a lot going on in this story. More than anything though, Stephenson, Stankey and AT&T are who we thought they were. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Robin Wheeler, Twitter's head of ad sales, seems to have left the company, a week after Elon Musk reportedly convinced her to stay; sources say she was fired — Robin Wheeler, Twitter's head of ad sales, seems to have left the company yet again, just over a week after Elon Musk reportedly had to convince her not to resign.
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Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: I spent the last day talking to smart folks who know Elon to try to grok why it feels capricious and what the method is to the seeming madness. Here you are for those who care and for those who don't, good for you for ignoring chaos monkeys https://www.nytimes.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: Multiple ex-Twitter sources telling me that Robin Wheeler, the sales leader who Musk begged to stay at the company days ago when she tried to resign, has now been fired
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Enough benefits of the doubt here to fill a spaceship. https://twitter.com/...
Garett Sloane / Ad Age: Elon Musk restores Trump on Twitter making brands' ad strategies even more complicated
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Or he's retconning very visible, cascading, costly failures as one big secret plan, and people have a lot invested in propping him up. You decide! https://twitter.com/...
Russ Mitchell / @russ1mitchell: Kara, you know I love you, but you've given Musk a pass in your interviews for years. Your ‘tough’ questions were softballs. Musk has been coddled by media for many years, and only now comes ‘the realization.’ ' https://twitter.com/...
Mike Rothschild / @rothschildmd: “You can't fire me, I quit” “Don't quit” “Okay, I won't quit” “You can't quit, you're fired” “THE ARISTOCRATS” https://twitter.com/...
Shauna / @goldengateblond: tell me again how women are too emotional to be good leaders https://twitter.com/...
Walker Bragman / @walkerbragman: For years, we heard about how this guy was a brilliant visionary who was going to save the world. Star Trek canonized him. He has cameos in the MCU, Rick & Morty, Big Bang Theory, and The Simpsons. He even hosted Saturday Night Live. But this is who he always was. Always. https://twitter.com/...
@zoeschiffer: Hard to see how this plays out with advertisers already fleeing the platform... https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: This was the other exec on Elon's please-don't-leave ad calls. Wheeler had reportedly resigned then stayed after Elon lobbied her, and was fired today. Elon fired the tier of ad execs above her immediately after buying the company; Wheeler was the most senior ad exec left. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: But lots of people tell me that Elon has a plan so I'm sure this was part of it all along. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Primack / @danprimack: Notable. She appeared to have stepped down a week ago, then was persuaded to stay. Now it looks like she's legit left (at least that's how I'm reading this).. Interim head of advertising. Means both people with Elon on that Spaces for advertisers are now gone. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A list of things journalism loses if Twitter goes away: real-time feedback on stories, news outlets being publicly called out, DMs as a reporting tool, and more — Goodbye to screenshotted best bits, DMs, “that tweet should be a story”... “If Twitter goes away my job would actually be really different,” I told my husband this week.
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@emilybell, @daniellevalore, The A.V. Club, Politico, @newley, @mhairihunter, @daniellevalore, @laurahazardowen, @marklittlenews, @marissa_jae, @davidfolkenflik, @arusbridger, @ranaayyub, @emilybell, @tjbierschbach, @dcherring, @risj_oxford, @janebsinger, CNN, Insider, CNN, The A.V. Club and Ad Age
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Emily Bell / @emilybell: Twitter vs not Twitter isn't a simple binary, particularly not for news journalism. The 24 hour global connectivity has changed almost everything about workflows in newsrooms and even for freelance journalists. It changes commissioning, newsgathering, sourcing, verification...
Danielle Evans / @daniellevalore: I think the thing about Twitter that's hardest for other places to reproduce is that it's one of the few places people can learn from in-group conversation from groups they're not a member of.
William Hughes / The A.V. Club: CBS News announces it's suspending tweeting amidst the Elon of it all
Nancy Scola / Politico: ‘I Caught Lightning in a Bottle. I Will Be One of the Last People to Leave Twitter.’
Newley Purnell / @newley: The “ability to recognize and promote good journalism globally, to network and reach audiences at low to no cost, is a very hard facility to replicate” https://twitter.com/...
Mhairi Hunter / @mhairihunter: Twitter has also transformed the way we consume news. In some ways this is one of the biggest reasons I don't want it to go down. It is hugely convenient. https://twitter.com/...
Danielle Evans / @daniellevalore: I mean, that feature is also responsible for some of Twitter's most hilarious conflicts stemming from overstepping/misunderstanding/ lack of context. And one million deleted listicles that label Black culture “Twitter Memes”. But when it works it's good!
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: 10 (and counting) things journalism loses if Elon Musk destroys twitter https://www.niemanlab.org/... this is a little messy/being constantly updated but I wanted to be sure to get it up now, bc, you know
Mark Little / @marklittlenews: “Twitter has at times been both an attack surface against journalism and an enabler of journalism” (great thread) https://twitter.com/...
Marissa J. Lang / @marissa_jae: Twitter's impact on journalism is immense. A thread on that complex relationship and the unanswerable question of what comes after? 👇🏽 https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: brief but important thread on Twitter and journalism from @emilybell https://twitter.com/...
Alan Rusbridger / @arusbridger: What journalism loses if Twitter fails....☹️ https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Oh and to answer the question “Are journalists over-reliant on Twitter?” Yes - 100 per cent. Which is partly a failure of other competitive systems as well as the borderline obsessive compulsive news disorders many of us live with
Trever Bierschbach / @tjbierschbach: Agreed. Social media doesn't sell books. Just winds up being a circle of back-patting and follow trains while people talk about wanting to eventually maybe pick up your book. https://twitter.com/...
@dcherring: “The whole notion of the death of Twitter seems like a minor tantrum that will probably blow over in time, and the people who are making grand declarations about how they'll leave because of Elon Musk are the same sort of people who are deeply addicted to the service.” https://twitter.com/...
@risj_oxford: Screenshots, new contacts, DMs and more... @laurahazardowen is collating the things journalism will miss most if Twitter collapses -via @NiemanLab https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jane Singer / @janebsinger: What will journalists lose if Twitter goes belly up? A lot, @laurahazardowen. For starters: real-time feedback, criticism and perspectives on stories; a regular reminder of the problems with ‘objectivity’; and an outstanding research tool. Plus much more. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Matt Weinberger / Insider: The death of Twitter won't be the dramatic explosion you might expect
Mary Kate Carr / The A.V. Club: Everyone thought Twitter was going to die last night
Garett Sloane / Ad Age: Brands send their ‘final’ tweets with Twitter's future unclear
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
The ordeal of an University of Arizona student journalist highlights the growing threat of online harassment to young journalists, driving some of them out — Young reporters are forced to contend with waves of abuse and harassment, driving some out of the industry before they even get started.
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@smaclellan, @malbertnews, @sivavaid, @jhengstler, @privacydigest, @ijbailey, @carolafrediani, @jeffjarvis, @tom_mallory and @lutzfernandez
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Stephanie MacLellan / @smaclellan: Three takeaways from this piece. 1) Young journos being abused can't just “go offline”: “Growing a public image is also crucial to getting hired out of school, but maintaining that image online also gives harassers more places to target their attacks.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Mark Albert / @malbertnews: MORE: Mike Hiestand, senior legal counsel at @SPLC: “I've been doing this for close to 30 years, and it's a climate I've never really seen before, the way people are going after students”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... #journalism
Siva Vaidhyanathan / @sivavaid: Online harassment of student journalist Olivia Krupp highlights the problem - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@jhengstler: “What we've seen is that women and people of color are much more likely to get harassed than straight White male counterparts, and that really has a silencing effect for those voices."K Jacobsen, US & Canada program coordinator Cmmtt to Protect Journalists https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@privacydigest: Online mobs are now coming for student journalists The experience of an Arizona student journalist highlights the growing threat that online harassment poses to journalists, especially those just starting out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@ijbailey: Colleges and universities must get better at supporting student journalists when they are being attacked for reporting and writing. That, too, is a free speech and academic freedom issue. The University of Arizona failed in this instance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Carola Frediani / @carolafrediani: “Growing a public image is also crucial to getting hired out of school, but maintaining that image online also gives harassers more places to target their attacks” -> Online mobs are now coming for student journalists https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: And an editor at the Washington Post recently made matters no better by attacking student journalists at UVa.... Online mobs are now coming for student journalists https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Tom Mallory / @tom_mallory: “Targeted online harassment has become a pervasive threat to newsrooms across the country.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Anne Lutz Fernandez / @lutzfernandez: “All experts...were adamant that reputational harm is a primary goal of online harassment campaigns. ‘Harassers and bad actors are trying to muddy the waters and make it very difficult for young, diverse voices to enter the media ecosystem.’” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Associated Press:
The White House issues a non-binding request that Mohammed bin Salman should be immune from a lawsuit over Jamal Khashoggi's killing; a judge must now decide — The Biden administration declared Thursday that Saudi Arabia's crown prince should be considered immune from a lawsuit over his role …
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@washpostpr, The Hill, Vox, Politico, Against the Grain, @ap, @yashar, El País, @imraansiddiqi, @loopemma, @kenroth, The Daily Wire, CNN, @freedomofpress, @freedomofpress, @_ayahijazi_, Wall Street Journal, @jeff_jacoby, Voice of America, @malinowski, @radleybalko, @nedryun, @orgasamic, @mattduss, @marcacaputo, Bloomberg, Mediaite, @karenattiah, @kaitlancollins, @karenattiah, @ragipsoylu, @jabrimd, @billbrowder, @sarahleah1, ABC News, USA Today, The Week, New York Times, Insider, Committee to Protect …, @redsteeze, New York Post, @nickkristof, Financial Times, NewsNation, Newser, Reuters, Axios, Semafor, Washington Post, CNBC, The Guardian and Fox News
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill: Cotton backs Biden on shielding Saudi leader from Khashoggi lawsuit
Jonathan Guyer / Vox: Why America can't seem to quit Saudi Arabia
Kelly D Johnston / Against the Grain: Biden Grants Saudi Crown Prince Immunity
@ap: BREAKING: The Biden administration declared Saudi Arabia's crown prince should be shielded from lawsuits for his role in the killing of a U.S.-based journalist. That's a big contrast with President Joe Biden's campaign trail denunciations of the prince. https://apnews.com/...
@yashar: Excellent statement from the Washington Post on President Biden's terrible decision to grant legal immunity to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. https://twitter.com/...
Imraan Siddiqi / @imraansiddiqi: Strong statement. Now do this for Shireen Abu Akleh. https://twitter.com/...
Emma Loop / @loopemma: Biden “is granting a license to kill to one of the most egregious human-rights abusers,” WaPo publisher says re: MBS. https://twitter.com/...
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: The Washington Post condemns Biden for “granting a license to kill” — immunity from civil liability — to the Saudi crown prince “who is responsible for the cold-blooded murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Saavedra / The Daily Wire: The Washington Post Slams Biden For Granting Immunity To Saudi Prince Over Killing Of Columnist
Alex Marquardt / CNN: US determines Saudi Crown Prince is immune in case brought by Jamal Khashoggi's fiancée
@freedomofpress: “It's impossible to read the Biden [admin's] move today as anything more than a capitulation to Saudi pressure tactics, including slashing oil output to twist our arms to recognize MBS's fake immunity ploy.” - Sarah Leah Whitson, head of @DAWNmenaorg https://apnews.com/...
@freedomofpress: The Biden admin has repeatedly failed to hold Mohammed bin Salman accountable in the brutal killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Supporting MBS's claim of legal immunity in a suit brought by Khashoggi's fiancée is just the latest transgression. https://apnews.com/...
@_ayahijazi_: How's Biden's response any different from Trump? 😒 Same old same old trading Middle Eastern lives for oil. https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Kalin / Wall Street Journal: Biden Administration Says Saudi Crown Prince Has Immunity in Khashoggi Trial
Jeff Jacoby / @jeff_jacoby: Biden then: “I think it was a flat-out murder. And . . . we should treat it that way and there should be consequences.” Biden now: https://apnews.com/...
Tom Malinowski / @malinowski: I know this has been standard operating procedure in multiple administrations. But protecting sociopaths from the consequences of their misbehavior is not a good strategy in foreign policy or life in general. https://twitter.com/...
Ned Ryun / @nedryun: “We need oil.” https://twitter.com/...
Sam / @orgasamic: These are the countries that are trying to take the moral high ground against Qatar. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Duss / @mattduss: The consistent message I hear from colleagues in the Middle East is that Biden has been more of a letdown than Trump because at least Trump didn't bother claiming to support human rights, as Biden does, while doing realpolitik. https://twitter.com/...
Marc Caputo / @marcacaputo: “The Biden administration also had the option of not stating an opinion either way.” https://twitter.com/...
Joe Schneider / Bloomberg: Saudi Crown Prince Immune From Suit Over Killing, US Says
Kipp Jones / Mediaite: ‘A License to Kill’: ‘Washington Post’ Shreds Biden Over Immunity for Saudi Crown Prince in Khashoggi Hit
Kaitlan Collins / @kaitlancollins: The Biden administration has determined that Saudi Crown Prince MBS should be granted immunity in a case brought against him by the fiancée of Jamal Khashoggi — whom the administration has said was murdered at the prince's direction. https://www.cnn.com/...
@karenattiah: The Biden administration has failed all of us who fought for justice for Jamal Khashoggi. To shield the Crown Prince MBS from lawsuits is a disgusting betrayal. If you have enough money and power and are US “ally” you can get away with basically anything.
@ragipsoylu: The Biden Administration declares immunity for Saudi Crown Prince MbS in the Khashoggi murder case in the US https://twitter.com/...
@jabrimd: What Biden's promises of “accountability” and “consequences” look like. Even Trump didn't go this far in shielding MBS. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Browder / @billbrowder: Very ugly and dangerous decision. Biden grants sovereign immunity to MBS, Saudi Arabia's crown prince over the murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi. Putin must be licking his chops knowing he can rely on this for his mass murder in Ukraine https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sarah Leah Whitson / @sarahleah1: BREAKING: Biden administration suggests immunity for MBS in DAWN & Cengiz lawsuit for murder of #JamalKhashoggi: breaking promise for accountability, Biden guarantees MBS impunity. https://twitter.com/...
Shannon Crawford / ABC News: Biden admin backs Saudi crown prince immunity claims in Khashoggi killing lawsuit
USA Today: US-Saudi relations: White House backs immunity for Saudi crown prince in Khashoggi lawsuit
Peter Weber / The Week: Biden administration tells court Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman is immune from Khashoggi lawsuit
Insider: Khashoggi's fiancée says the slain journalist ‘died again’ after Biden argued for MBS to have immunity in lawsuit over the murder
Committee to Protect Journalists: CPJ condemns Biden administration decision that Saudi crown prince has immunity in U.S. Khashoggi lawsuit
Stephen L. Miller / @redsteeze: Biden said during his campaign he'd make MBS a pariah. Lot of Journalists are currently consoling each other in twitter spaces and tweeting their goodbyes instead of this. Good riddance. You deserve this. https://twitter.com/...
Steven Nelson / New York Post: Son of Saad Almadi, American jailed by Saudis, rips Biden ‘hypocrisy’ over MBS immunity
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: The Biden administration is moving to shield the Saudi crown prince from a lawsuit for the murder of WashPost columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Coddling of murderous dictators never ends well, as we're now seeing with Vladimir Putin. Sad to see Biden doing this. https://apnews.com/...
Jenn Gidman / Newser: Khashoggi Fiancee Slams White House: ‘Jamal Died Again’
Rebecca Falconer / Axios: Biden administration says MBS has immunity in Khashoggi killing lawsuit
David Ignatius / Washington Post: Biden rewards Saudi leader's impunity with legal immunity
Paul Tassi / Forbes:
Twitter's automated copyright strike system appears to be broken, as users upload full movies; some accounts with viral tweets were later suspended — While Twitter, the website, remains online and has not simply collapsed after the vast majority of workers were fired or resigned under Elon Musk …
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@briannawu, @lanceulanoff, @tomwarren, The Verge, @bdsams and TheGamer, more at Techmeme »
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Brianna Wu / @briannawu: This is amazing. Elno broke the copyright strike system, so you can just post entire films on Twitter now. 😂 https://twitter.com/...
Lance Ulanoff / @lanceulanoff: Yeah, @elonmusk, you might want to find the engineer who managed this stuff... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Warren / @tomwarren: An entire movie fits in 49 tweets. Twitter's copyright strike system appears to be broken so someone has uploaded the whole of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 😂 https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brad Sams / @bdsams: NFL games are going to get streamed without the expressed written consent of the NFL https://twitter.com/...
Freddie deBoer:
Twitter is probably not going anywhere, and writers bemoaning its demise are overestimating the importance it has to their work and careers — and Twitter is probably not going anywhere — So: I don't think Twitter is going anywhere, and I don't think the vast majority of Twitter users are going anywhere.
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Dwight Silverman / @dsilverman: He said, on Substack. “I Assure You, Writers Would Be Fine Without Twitter,” by @freddiesubstack https://open.substack.com/...
Erin Somers / The Atlantic: What Will Writers Do Without Twitter?
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
A look at state-owned Qatar Airways' role as a major sponsor of the World Cup on Fox Sports, and how that sponsorship likely influences coverage — In recent weeks, the American TV rights holders for the upcoming World Cup held news conferences ahead of this most unusual tournament in Qatar.
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MSNBC, The Atlantic, @benjstrauss, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Awful Announcing, @byerussell, @bubbaprog, Associated Press, @frank_schaeffer, @washingtonpost, @jasonschwartz, @soccermexicana, @mc_of_a, @regina_ham, @femme_thoughts, @grantwahl, Insider, Open Court, New York Magazine, Adweek, Next TV, SportBusiness, CNN, CBS News and The Athletic
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Ayman Mohyeldin / MSNBC: Qatar hosting the World Cup highlights Western double standards
Tom McTague / The Atlantic: The Qatar World Cup Exposes Soccer's Shame
Ben Strauss / @benjstrauss: New from me @postsports: Fox's coverage of the Qatar World Cup will be sponsored by...Qatar. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Lutz / The Guardian: US viewers accuse Fox Sports of ‘shilling for Qatar’ amid glowing World Cup coverage
Andrew Bucholtz / Awful Announcing: WaPo report sparks debate on Qatar Airways' Fox sponsorship, Fox's initial World Cup staffing plans
@byerussell: Fox, with the English TV rights to the World Cup in the U.S., does not intend to discuss human rights or other issues on air. Telemundo, with the U.S. Spanish TV rights, does intend to. The difference? Fox is sponsored by Qatar Airways. @benjstrauss https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Timothy Burke / @bubbaprog: For those saying it's not Fox's place to lay out the concerns surrounding Qatar hosting the World Cup, here is how Telemundo introduced the coverage just before kickoff this morning. If NBC can do it, Fox can. Fox is just choosing not to. (I translated best I could.) https://twitter.com/...
Graham Dunbar / Associated Press: Infantino says double standard behind World Cup critics
@frank_schaeffer: FOX Sports' World Cup coverage ‘is essentially being underwritten by the Qatari government’ as it emerges the broadcast is sponsored by Qatar Airways with the network not to discuss the host nation's controversies or the fact gay men are beaten to death.
@washingtonpost: For Fox, the strategy is identical to the way it handled the World Cup in Russia four years ago. But there is another dynamic at play in Qatar: Qatar Airways, the state-owned airline, will serve as a major sponsor of the network's coverage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jason Schwartz / @jasonschwartz: I, for one, am shocked that Fox would compromise its journalistic integrity https://twitter.com/...
Jason Marquitz / @soccermexicana: In an absolute shocker to no one ... FOX = the worst. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Caley / @mc_of_a: in case anyone was wondering what the vibe of English-language coverage of the World Cup is going to be: bought-and-paid-for https://twitter.com/...
@femme_thoughts: Uhhh this is beyond a conflict of interest and kind of alarming a massive rights holder would have to resort to this to cover costs? Also remember FIFA gave fox the chance to bid for the US HOSTED WC RIGHTS without an open tender b/c of issues surrounding Qatar. Not a good look! https://twitter.com/...
@grantwahl: From @benjstrauss: Fox Sports was going to send a skeleton crew to Qatar and do mostly remote coverage of the World Cup (like their MLS broadcasts) until the Qatari government ponied up the cash. Would love to know how many millions of dollars Qatar is paying Fox. My DMs are open https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Webb / Insider: The 2022 FIFA World Cup begins November 20 in Qatar — here's how to livestream every match
Joanne C. Gerstner / Open Court: When karma comes at you like a penalty kick...
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine: The Wrenching Moral Calculus of Watching the World Cup
Mollie Cahillane / Adweek: How Fox Sports Pulled Off a Massive World Cup Marketing Campaign
R. Thomas Umstead / Next TV: Fox Sports's World Cup Coverage Playing on Broadcast and Cable Field
Victoria Monk / SportBusiness: Qatar Airways to sponsor Fox Sports' US World Cup coverage
Laura Pellicer / WUNC:
Over 70% of Charlotte's WFAE content staffers sign a petition to unionize via SAG-AFTRA; it could be the first public radio station in the Carolinas to unionize — WFAE may become the first public radio station in the Carolinas to form a union. On Tuesday, a group of content staff members …
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@lauraplive, @lauraplive, @matthewkeyslive, @lauraplive, @matt_rasnic, @wunc, The Charlotte Observer, Radio Ink, WFAE 90.7, Inside Radio and Current
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@lauraplive: WFAE is among a recent wave of public radio stations that have pushed for union representation. Over the past few years, stations including @WHYY, @WNYC and @WBUR formed unions. These stations, and possibly soon WFAE, are members of @sagaftra. https://www.wunc.org/...
@lauraplive: Content staff at @WFAE in Charlotte want to form a union. It's a significant move for journalists in an anti-union state. If they succeed, they'll become the first unionized public radio station in the Carolinas. https://www.wunc.org/...
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: A public radio station in Charlotte will become the first NPR member station in the Carolinas to unionize https://radioink.com/...
@lauraplive: “It's designed so that unions look and say, 'Well, gee, do we really want to organize in this state?” says David Zonderman, a professor at @NCState specializing in American labor history. “North Carolina has always been a hard state to organize in.” https://www.wunc.org/...
Matt Rasnic / @matt_rasnic: A WFAE web article quotes @joewfae as saying that “he will be happy to work with SAG-AFTRA if employees decide on union representation.” ?? Then voluntarily recognize the hardworking employees of @wemakeWFAE! https://www.wfae.org/...
@wunc: The organizing committee @WFAE cited wanting a seat at the table in making big decisions and negotiating wages, salaries and working conditions as the main drivers for forming a union. More than 70% of the station's content staff signed the petition. https://ow.ly/...
Kallie Cox / The Charlotte Observer: WFAE journalists, content creators announce intent to unionize in Charlotte
Matthew Keys / Radio Ink: Staffers at WFAE Charlotte to Unionize
Charlotte Area / WFAE 90.7: WFAE newsroom employees seek to form union
Inside Radio: Charlotte's WFAE Aims To Become First Unionized Public Radio Station In The Carolinas.
Tyler Falk / Current: WFAE content staff announce intent to unionize
Gabby Miller / Columbia Journalism Review:
Parliamentary hearings for Canada's Online News Act restarted on Friday, where the committee was expected to begin clause-by-clause consideration — Parliamentary hearings for Canada's Online News Act-or the Liberal government's attempt to rectify the imbalance between platforms and publishers …
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@__gabbymiller, NewsLab, @chris_bittle, @paulvieira, @mgeist, @mediamorphis and @emilybell
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Gabby Miller / @__gabbymiller: Hearings for the Online News Act will pick up today as the Canadian Heritage committee goes through #BilllC18 clause-by-clause. Here's some important context on what's happened up until now irt witness testimonies: https://www.cjr.org/...
Chris Bittle / @chris_bittle: Looking like the start of another Conservative filibuster at Heritage Committee over Bill C-18. They're still repeating all of the talking points brought forward by foreign tech giants. I think Canadians expect better from the CPC than acting as Facebook's PR team.
Paul Vieira / @paulvieira: @globeandmail publisher: The provisions of Bill C-18 - to enable publishers and broadcasters to negotiate with the big tech platforms under regulatory watch - may be full of good intentions, but they are alarmingly imprecise. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/ ...
Michael Geist / @mgeist: Clause-by-clause review of Bill C-18 starts today. Issues at play include creating mandated payment for links, violating Canada's international copyright obligations, and a system without journalism standards. https://twitter.com/...
Dwayne Winseck / @mediamorphis: Day X in the reviews of the #Rogers/Shaw deal, the Online Streaming Act, the Online News Act, etc. Interested? Check out our reports covering the broad terrain & details of the coms, Internet & media industries in Canada & the policy options on the table. #C11 #C18 #CTRS #Cdnpoli https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: As part of our @TowCenter Platforms and Publishers work we've been following policy developments very closely. With hearings restarting in Canada this week, here is @__gabbymiller with everything the rest of the world needs to know about the Canadian Online News Act https://twitter.com/...