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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The Walt Disney Company's board announces Bob Chapek will step down as CEO and be replaced by Bob Iger for two years effective immediately; stock jumps 8%+ — Disney's board of directors announced the move Sunday evening.
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times: Disney Brings Back Bob Iger After Ousting Chapek as C.E.O.
Dominic Patten / Deadline: Disney Shocker! Bob Iger Back As CEO, Bob Chapek Out
Cynthia Littleton / Variety: DISNEY SHAKEUP: Bob Iger Back as CEO, Bob Chapek Out; Board Cites ‘Complex Industry Transformation’ for Shocking C-Suite Shuffle
Matthew Belloni / Puck: Disney's Bob vs. Bob Blame Game
The Walt Disney Company: The Walt Disney Company Board Of Directors Appoints Robert A. Iger As Chief Executive Officer
Zahra Tayeb / Insider: Disney shares jump as Bob Iger returns to lead the company after shock dismissal of CEO
Mike Calia / CNBC: Disney shares rise after Iger replaces Chapek as CEO
@theankler: Keep an eye on what happens to Bob Chapek's deputy Kareem Daniel. In May, @NicoleLaPorte1 reported that “Bob Iger was less of a Daniel fan...viewing him as too much of a corporate suit” https://theankler.com/...
Steve Kopack / @stevekopack: News that Bob Iger was coming back as CEO landed in Disney executive's inboxes while they were together at Dodger Stadium where the ousted CEO Chapek was set to introduce Elton John on a live Disney+ stream, per WSJ. (Instead a host for the Dodgers TV network introduced John) https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Rubashkin / @jacobrubashkin: Bob Iger just sent a company wide email telling all employees to print out their ten best pages of scripts and bring them to the 15th floor of Disney HQ by 1am for review
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: Is the assumption that Iger will go out and make a high profile acquisition now that he's back in the seat? What would make the most sense? $DIS https://www.wsj.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Disney shares popped pre-market on the news of Bob Iger's return. Still down about 40% this year. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Matthew Belloni / @mattbelloni: New @PuckNews: Bob Iger wasn't very coy about hiding what he wanted, you just had to look closely. https://puck.news/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: This was June 28! The Disney board now has to pay Chapek many millions in severance when his contract simply would have run out in Feb. 2023. That looks clumsy at best. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Lauren Thomas / @laurenthomas: NEW: Nelson Peltz's activist firm Trian earlier this month bought >$800 million worth of Disney stock after the company's dismal earnings report, sources say. Trian is pushing for a board seat & other operational changes, as Bob Iger returns as CEO. $DIS https://www.wsj.com/...
Jim Roberts / @nycjim: Elton John makes a cameo appearance in bombshell Disney drama. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Disney board chair Susan Arnold “called Mr. Iger on Thursday and asked him to consider returning to the company, according to three people with knowledge of the matter” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Ahaha. God, the gulf of management talent between @RobertIger and Elon is as wide as Valles Marineris on Mars. https://twitter.com/...
Paris Martineau / @parismartineau: bob iger just sent a company wide email telling all disney employees they have till 5pm tomorrow to decide if theyre ready to go ‘mad for the mouse’ or take severance
Frank Pallotta / KRDO: Bob Iger named Disney CEO in shocking development
Matt Braly / @radrappy: I cannot tell you how elated the entire animation industry is to see this man gone lmao
Chris Dziadul / Broadband TV News: Bob Iger returns to head Walt Disney
Mark Miller / TVNewsCheck: Disney Taps Ex-CEO Bob Iger To Return, Set Strategy
Jon Lafayette / Next TV: Bob Iger Replaces Successor Bob Chapek As Disney CEO
Lars Brandle / Billboard: Bob Iger Returning as Disney CEO, Bob Chapek Exits
Jennifer Bisset / CNET: Bob Iger Is Back as Disney CEO After 2 Years
@carnage4life: Bob Iger's whiteboard after a midnight EST code review of the Disney+ app after ensuring everyone left at the company is “hardcore” https://twitter.com/...
Mica Burton / @micaburton: CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY. BYE BYE CHAPEK! HELLO BETTER DISNEY PARKS!!!!!!!!!! https://twitter.com/...
@latimes: The Walt Disney Co.'s board announced that Bob Iger is replacing Bob Chapek as CEO. The move comes months after the board gave Chapek three more years atop the company, citing strong leadership during the pandemic. https://www.latimes.com/...
@big_business_: Bob Chapek said animation is for kids not for adults and 2 weeks later he got fired and replaced by Bob Iger.
Germain Lussier / Gizmodo: Former Disney CEO Bob Iger to Return and Replace Current CEO Bob Chapek
@panzer: Iger (and some key lieutenants) has plenty of responsibility for the state of Disney here and this isn't some sort of magic pill for a company in mid recession butttt - the last guy absolutely decimated Imagineering over a tax break. Reason enough to bring in the boot.
Allie Griffin / New York Post: Disney ousts Bob Chapek, brings back Bob Iger as CEO
Rick Porter / @rickporter: I will read every single “how this happened” story, but especially the ones that get into how it came to be announced at almost 10 ET on a Sunday night. https://twitter.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: Did Disney's board actually consider anyone else? Here's the irony: Disney is one of the few media companies that isn't controlled by a family owner, but acts as if it is, beholden to one man. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Frank Pallotta / CNN: Bob Iger named Disney CEO in shocking development
@zemthings: Chapek: “How can we cut back on spending?” Looks like they found a way. https://twitter.com/...
Scott Gustin / @scottgustin: Bob Chapek was scheduled to introduce Elton John at tonight's concert currently streaming on Disney+, according to the Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/...
Morgan Tremaine / @morgantremaine: Chapek dragged Disney through the pandemic and now the board wants things back on track with Iger, their most successful CEO since Walt. What this means for certain swashbuckling Disney franchises? Idk, but Iger was CEO in 2018 when they cut ties. https://twitter.com/...
Hot Girl Cinema: Hot Girls Are Staging Emergency Group Chat Sessions With Ex-Coworker Because Bob Iger is Back in as Disney CEO
John Santucci / @santucci: Iger has emailed all Disney employees to announce his return https://twitter.com/...
@gtwscar: I said on stream today that the winds were changing. The brand damage under Bobby paycheck was destroying creative spirit of company. You can't expect to milk your customers and expect them to come back over and over. Welcome back Iger. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: >>Other Disney employees said they were baffled by Mr. Iger's Sunday email and immediately began asking if the message to employees was real or if it came from a hacked email account.<< https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Delgado / @jeff_delgado: Well it's obvious Chapek was used to do all the bad shit Iger didn't want to get blamed for. https://twitter.com/...
@carnage4life: Bob Iger handed off being Disney CEO to a successor just before COVID just to backseat drive so much that Bob Chapek quit and Bob Iger is back to being the CEO. Iger effectively took a COVID break as CEO and is back now it's over. 😮 https://www.cnbc.com/...
Michael Ausiello / TVLine: Disney Shocker: Bob Chapek Out as CEO, Bob Iger (Back) In!
Thomas K. Arnold / Media Play News: Chapek Out as Disney CEO as Bob Iger Steps Back In
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Iger coming back to Disney is the biggest “roll back the org chart changes” story in business history. We're going to have to do like a five hour Decoder
Mollie Cahillane / Adweek: Bob Iger Returns as Disney CEO, Replacing Bob Chapek, in Shocking Shakeup
Jason Clampet / Skift: Disney Brings Back Bob Iger as CEO for Two Years
Natalie Jarvey / Vanity Fair: Disney Bombshell: Robert Iger Returns as CEO, and Bob Chapek “Steps Down”
Richard Lawler / The Verge: Bob Iger steps back in as Disney CEO, replacing Bob Chapek
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: I'll tell you 1 thing: If Bob Iger asked me for $8 for a product, it'd be worth it. And he'd never capriciously & malignantly re-platform stone-cold racists & antisemites & then bear hug them. Or make fun of people he'd fired. Or tweet dumb/dirty/juvenile memes. You get the idea. https://twitter.com/...
Bill McCandless / @bmccandless: Hard to step down when your legs have been cut off. https://twitter.com/...
@thr: Even Bob Iger acknowledged the surprise of his return to Disney in an email to employees, writing that he comes back “with an incredible sense of gratitude and humility — and, I must admit, a bit of amazement” https://thr.cm/HxNmAJa
Ryan Scott / SlashFilm: Bob Iger Is Returning As Disney CEO
@kimmasters: Disney will undoubtedly be re-organized (again). Creative execs rejoice. Kareem Daniels, not so much.
Mollie Damon / @molliedamon: I'm going to pretend this is because he's just loving Andor THAT much. https://twitter.com/...
Drew Taylor / @drewtailored: The amount of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, last minute meetings and complicated payouts that had to be facilitated for this to happen makes my head spin. The stories that will be coming out soon and the major shakeups yet to happen ... buckle up. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: Disney CEO Bob Chapek was supposed to introduce Elton John at Dodger Stadium concert streamed on Disney+. Instead it's Bob Iger singing I'm Still Standing. https://www.wsj.com/...
@carnage4life: Bob Chapek being kicked out and Iger returning is a reminder that great companies treat fans as customers you strive to please not addicts you try to squeeze every dollar from. A good reminder for the powers that be at Twitter. https://www.sfgate.com/...
Rebecca Keegan / @thatrebecca: The One True Bob, First of His Name, King of the Nine Old Men, Lord of Burbank, Protector of the Mouse
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite: BREAKING: Bob Iger Returning as Disney CEO, Replacing Bob Chapek, Who Infamously Tangled With DeSantis
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: While Bob Iger privately criticized Bob Chapek all year, there was 0 reporting in recent months suggesting he was coming back as CEO. Remarkable that Disney kept it under wraps.
Christian Zilko / IndieWire: Disney Announces Shocking CEO Shakeup: Bob Iger Returns, Bob Chapek Out
Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: Disney replaces CEO Chapek with predecessor Bob Iger effective immediately
Brad Dress / The Hill: Bob Iger back, Bob Chapek out as Disney CEO
Matt Bok / Sportico: Bob Iger Replaces Bob Chapek as Disney CEO
Reuters:
Twitter reinstates Trump's account, after Elon Musk ran a Twitter poll where 51.8% of 15M+ users voted yes on 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: The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei. https://twitter.com/...
Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Reinstate former President Trump
Colby Hall / Mediaite: Don Lemon Ridicules ‘Thirsty’ Elon Musk for Sharing Sexualized Photo of Jesus and Twitter to Lure Trump
Fox News: Elon Musk reinstating Trump on Twitter a ‘terrible mistake,’ ‘gift to Democrats,’ media, lawmakers predict
Sawdah Bhaimiya / Insider: Elon Musk referenced the Bible and said he won't allow Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist Alex Jones back on Twitter on the same day he reinstated Trump's account
Shelby Talcott / Semafor: Elon Musk invited Donald Trump back to Twitter. But Truth Social may get in the way.
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/...
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/...
Gabriel Hernandez / Comical Opinions: Elon and Trump will fix Comics
Paul Wallis / Digital Journal: Op-Ed: Trump Reinstated On Twitter - Now What?
Micah Meadowcroft / @micaheadowcroft: This was about original sin 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.
Daniel Van Boom / CNET: Kanye West Returns to Twitter After Elon Musk Brings Trump Back
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/...
Shikhar Mehrotra / ScreenRant: Elon Musk Reinstates Trump After Twitter Poll Leans Slightly For It
Siladitya Ray / Forbes: Elon Musk Reinstates Donald Trump's Twitter Account After Asking Users To Vote
Cindy Harper / Reclaim The Net: Twitter reinstates President Donald Trump
@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/...
@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.
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/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Epic BS from a Musk toady: https://twitter.com/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Mary L Trump / @maryltrump: Stay.
@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/...
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/...
Susan Campbell / Super-Probably Relevant Content: Will he? Won't he? Do we care? — The announcements came fast over the weekend …
@reuterstech: Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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/...
Nandini Jammi / @nandoodles: The purpose of marketing is to increase sales, not make the last of your clients disappear. https://twitter.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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
Frank Figliuzzi / @frankfigliuzzi1: The Russian bots have spoken: https://twitter.com/...
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency: As Elon Musk polled users, Donald Trump tells Jewish Republicans he sees ‘no reason’ to go back to Twitter
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Elon Musk ends Trump's Twitter ban
Truth Paradigm Relays: 11.19.22: DISTRACT from HOUSE investigation! Is it a TRAP? Twitter + TRUMP? The BEE is back! PRAY!
Alison Sider / Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk Reinstates Donald Trump's Twitter Account After Online Poll
Todd Spangler / Variety: Elon Musk Lets Donald Trump Back on Twitter
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’
Kathianne Boniello / New York Post: Trump officially back on Twitter after nearly 2-year ban thanks to Elon Musk user poll
Matt Swider / The Shortcut: Elon Musk declares Donald Trump's Twitter account will be reinstated after poll
New York Daily News: Elon Musk restores Trump to Twitter after ex-president narrowly tops online poll
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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/...
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/...
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.
Discussion:
@jamesstewartnyt, @edhammondny, @joshkraushaar, @cnschedules, @keitholbermann, @film_girl, @dandrezner, @mattyglesias, @goldietaylor, @chrislhayes, @freddiecampion, @lucas_shaw, @williamturton, @jbflint, @jbflint, @brianstelter, @semaforben, @davidenrich, @joepeyronnin, @benedictevans, @hudkips, @derfbackderf, @backlon, @the_moviebob, @edmundlee, @edmundlee, @loudmouthjulia, @reckless, @johngapper, @mattzeitlin, @hondawang, @eddyelfenbein, @nytblake, @mattgreenfield, @sherman4949, @maxkennerly, @oliverdarcy, @reckless, @modestproposal1 and @benmullin, more at Techmeme »
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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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
Daniel W. Drezner / @dandrezner: This seems pretty bad! https://twitter.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/...
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/...
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/...
Reuters:
Sources: Simon & Schuster owner Paramount Global declines to join Penguin Random House in appealing the ruling blocking their merger; deal will likely collapse — Book-publishing powerhouse Simon & Schuster's owner will let its $2.2 billion sale to Penguin Random House collapse on Monday …
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New York Times, @liz_a_harris, @billineastala, @benmullin, @adribbleofink and The Bookseller
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Elizabeth A. Harris / @liz_a_harris: NEWS: Penguin Random House's deal to buy Simon & Schuster is on track to collapse on Tuesday. Paramount, which owns S&S, has decided to walk away. w/ @xanalter and @BenMullin https://www.nytimes.com/...
WilliamThornton / @billineastala: The collapse of the $2.175 billion sale is a major blow to Penguin Random House's ambitions to expand its enormous market share. Penguin Random House will have to pay Paramount a termination fee of about $200 million once the deal falls through. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: NEWS w/@Liz_A_Harris and @xanalter: Publishing megamerger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster is on the verge of collapse after Paramount decided not to fight the DOJ: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The BBC's Qatar World Cup coverage ignored the opening ceremony, instead criticizing the treatment of migrant workers, corruption, and homosexuality bans — Coverage kicks off with focus on treatment of migrant workers and gay people, and corruption at Fifa
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@binweevillie, @jimwaterson, BBC, @garylineker, Different Strokes, @rickoshea, @sportingintel, @ainiladra, @bbcrosatkins, @piersmorgan, @bob_cart124, @graceonfootball, @mattschiavenza, @dpjhodges, The Guardian, @scottygb, @graceonfootball, @fatimabarkatula, @tomgara, Al Jazeera, @tiatia2000 and Fortune
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@binweevillie: Gary Lineker starting the world cup showing with that speech damn https://twitter.com/...
Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson: Qatar spent all that money on getting Morgan Freeman to do whatever he was doing for the opening ceremony and the BBC just... didn't bother showing it on their main channel.
@garylineker: In case you missed it, here's the opening ceremony. It's not customary for us to show any World Cup or Euros opening ceremonies in their entirety on @bbcone, but do make it available to view on @BBCiPlayer, red button and website. Very different, of course, for the Olympics. https://twitter.com/...
Ashok Karanth / Different Strokes: Shut up and let the show go on — This is a strange World Cup, happening in the middle …
Rick O'Shea / @rickoshea: This. Fair play @GaryLineker, @AlexScott, @alanshearer, @BBCSport. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Nick Harris / @sportingintel: BBC ignores World Cup opening ceremony in favour of Qatar criticism https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Good piece by @jimwaterson and well played by the BBC, @GaryLineker, @BBCRosAtkins, @alanshearer, @AlexScott, @BowenBBC et al.
Leila / @ainiladra: qatar hosts the largest us military base in the region (al udeid) where the uk's raf is headquartered ... but it seems empire can't transcend its anti-arab & anti-muslim footing, no matter how accomodating its compradors are https://twitter.com/...
Ros Atkins / @bbcrosatkins: The World Cup starts today. @BBCSport asked us to look at why choosing Qatar as host continues to cause controversy. This is the 5 minute video we've made. Produced by Michael Cox, Mary Fuller and Nicholas Barrett. https://www.bbc.co.uk/... https://twitter.com/...
Piers Morgan / @piersmorgan: Outrageously disrespectful to Qatar that the BBC didn't broadcast the World Cup opening ceremony, and instead put out more virtue-signalling guff about how awful it is. If they're that appalled, they should bring home their vast army of employees & spare us this absurd hypocrisy.
Robert Carter / @bob_cart124: The BBC has never boycotted a World Cup opening event until now, when it was hosted by the first Muslim Arab nation. Shameful display by the British state mouthpiece. Qatar should consider giving BBC the boot. 🥾💥 #FIFAWorldCup #BBC #Qatar2022 https://twitter.com/...
@graceonfootball: Yeah, BBC just decided to ignore the opening ceremony entirely. Partly just because they were showing the WSL until 5 minutes ago, but they've been straight into a basic overview of the Qatar talking points. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Schiavenza / @mattschiavenza: Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, it's been clear that authoritarian countries use prestigious athletic events like the Olympics or World Cup to gain global prestige without having to make any compromises whatsoever. https://twitter.com/...
@dpjhodges: Can anyone at the BBC say what objective criteria the Corporation will use going forward for deciding whether or not the opening ceremony for a sporting event is broadcast. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Lutz / The Guardian: US viewers accuse Fox Sports of ‘shilling for Qatar’ amid glowing World Cup coverage
Scott Bryan / @scottygb: Great point by @jimwaterson: “BBC viewers had just seen something unusual: a television broadcaster with the rights to show the world's biggest sporting event choosing to comprehensively trash the product it was about to serve up.” https://twitter.com/...
@graceonfootball: BBC are making a serious issue to discuss all the issues but, it has to be noted, it's BBC, they're not going to discuss any role British imperialism played in the modern state of Qatar.
@fatimabarkatula: Is this the sort of thing from the opening ceremony that the BBC didn't want people to see? Beautiful quotes from the Qur'an? #Qatar2022 https://twitter.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: It's really bad to reserve this level of treatment for Qatar after we just had an Olympics in China and a World cup in Russia https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Max Tani / Semafor:
Meduza has millions of readers in Russia despite being blocked there, after boosting its Telegram following and using censorship-resistant tech in its app — The biggest stories in media usually follow the money. Today, Max looks at one of the biggest shifts in the business of media …
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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@queenkv, @smaclellan, @malbertnews, @carolafrediani, @smaclellan, @privacydigest, @sivavaid, @jhengstler, @ijbailey, @jeffjarvis, @tom_mallory and @lutzfernandez
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Kris Vera-Phillips / @queenkv: Young reporters forced to deal with waves of abuse and harassment, driving some out of the industry. Example: TikTok fans target @uarizona @dailywildcat reporter, some claiming: “her mouth should be tied shut the rest of her life.” 📝@taylorlorenz https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Stephanie MacLellan / @smaclellan: 3) It is 2022, social media has existed for 15+ years, and police still have no clue how to handle targeted online harassment. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.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
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/ ...
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/ ...
@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/ ...
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/ ...
@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/ ...
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/ ...
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A look at things journalism could lose if Twitter dies: 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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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.
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/...
William Hughes / The A.V. Club: CBS News announces it's suspending tweeting amidst the Elon of it all
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/...
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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
Kelly AuCoin / @kellyaucoin77: “One worker who wanted to resign said she spent 2 days looking for her manager, whose identity she no longer knew because so many people had quit in the days beforehand. After finally finding her supervisor, she tendered her resignation. The next day, her supervisor also quit.” https://twitter.com/...
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/...
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, @bdsams, TheGamer and The Verge, 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/...
Press Gazette:
Associated Newspapers will pay “substantial damages” to Koo Stark, an ex-girlfriend of Prince Andrew, for calling her a “porn star” in a 2019 Daily Mail article — A former girlfriend of the Duke of York will receive “substantial damages” from the publisher …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: some WaPo opinion writers were taken aback when their new editor David Shipley recently suggested publishing editorials as Instagram comments or haikus — Washington Post opinion writers have mixed opinions of their new boss, David Shipley, after he delivered a mandate to write less …