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Emily Baker-White / Forbes:
Documents show TikTok parent ByteDance surveilled Forbes journalists and former BuzzFeed employees Emily Baker-White, Katharine Schwab, and Richard Nieva — ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists' physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.
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@chimeracoder: The infuriating thing about this is that the entire government response is centered around “let's ban TikTok” instead of “let's make it impossible for *any* company to do this”. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Cotton / @sentomcotton: This confirms what we knew all along: TikTok WILL access user data, giving the CCP Americans' personal sensitive information. https://www.forbes.com/...
Sarah Emerson / @sarahnemerson: ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists' physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by @ebakerwhite in October. Specifically, the company tracked my colleagues Emily Baker-White, @richardjnieva, and @SchwabKatharine https://www.forbes.com/...
Mike Bird / @birdyword: Two members of staff in the US and two in China gained access to the IP addresses and other personal data of FT journalist Cristina Criddle, to work out if she was in the proximity of any ByteDance employees, the company said. https://www.ft.com/...
ProfessionallyGenX's Newsletter: Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China - by Emily Baker-White with BuzzFeed published june 202
Luis Pablo Beauregard / El País: TikTok spied on ‘Forbes’ journalists investigating the social network in the US
Rebeccah Heinrichs / @rlheinrichs: “...ByteDance tracked multiple Forbes journalists as part of this covert surveillance campaign, which was designed to unearth the source of leaks inside the company following a drumbeat of stories exposing the company's ongoing links to China.” - Forbes https://www.forbes.com/...
Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo: Reporters get documents showing TikTok's China team can spy on Americans. TikTok says that's not even possible. TikTok's China team then **spies on the reporters.** Reporters get docs showing they were spied on. TikTok says it's shocked, shocked! https://www.forbes.com/...
Brendan Carr / @brendancarrfcc: This is TikTok on its best behavior This is TikTok while in the midst of negotiations with U.S. officials—when it has every incentive to safeguard data This is TikTok spying on journalists This should be the final nail in the coffin for the idea that the U.S. can trust TikTok https://twitter.com/...
Bill Bishop / @niubi: TikTok admits tracking FT journalist in leaks investigation https://www.ft.com/... 2 members of staff in US and 2 in China gained access to IP addresses and other personal data of FT journalist Cristina Criddle, to work out if she was in the proximity of any ByteDance employees
Jake Williams / @malwarejake: I believe this is what we'll refer to as “the thing that finally changed minds about the threat posed by TikTok.” https://twitter.com/...
Kim Zetter / @kimzetter: Pretty explosive. “ByteDance..parent company of..TikTok, found that employees tracked... journalists covering the company, improperly gaining access to their IP addresses and user data in an attempt to identify whether they had been in the same locales as ByteDance employees” https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Collier / @kevincollier: This is downright scandalous. Significantly more damning than anything in the Twitter files. More overt abuse of access to users' data from a tech company than anything I can think of in recent memory. https://www.ft.com/...
Zichen Wang / @zichenwanghere: Any clear-minded observer will have to call it: It's over. ByteDance will (have to) sell at least its U.S. business. It's just unbelievable that the last straw came from self-inflicted harm, which sealed its fate. https://www.ft.com/...
Jonathan Choe Journalist / @choeshow: READ IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING TIKTOK: And I just started getting some serious traction with my videos on @tiktok. 🙃🤷🏽♂️ https://twitter.com/...
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: And now, TikTok confirmed what it weakly tried to deny in October: that ByteDance targeted and tracked me and my colleagues to thwart our reporting. It didn't work. Needless to say we are staying on this beat. Tip me via signal or email (in bio)! https://www.forbes.com/...
@genic0n: so when @zachsdorfman reported in 3 separate @ForeignPolicy articles that ByteDance servers were being used to roll up the CIA's foreign informant network via PII leaks and nobody listened.... must not be a big deal https://twitter.com/...
@badiucao: TikTok is a spying tool for Beijing. legislations around world should ban it asap. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Runa Sandvik / @runasand: ByteDance used TikTok to monitor journalists' physical location in an attempt to identify whether they had been in the same locales as the company's employees. https://www.forbes.com/...
Runa Sandvik / @runasand: Unlike U.S. tech companies that have done similar in the past, ByteDance did admit to using TikTok to monitor journalists' locations. But missing from this Forbes piece is what the company intends to do to prevent it from happening again. https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@forbes: “We will continue to do the work we need to do to keep the public informed...If TikTok had their way, nobody would've known about this,” @RandallLane says, about ByteDance confirming it used TikTok to monitor Forbes journalists' physical location. https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Andy Ihnatko / @ihnatko: Very relevant to this morning's discussion of TikTok on @BosPublicRadio - Forbes' @ebakerwhite goes into great detail on how TikTok surveilled her and other journalists, as confirmed today by TikTok's parent company. https://twitter.com/...
TJ Manotoc / @tjmanotoc: Damn. It's getting real 😳 https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Murphy / @mshannahmurphy: TikTok owner ByteDance has admitted it inappropriately obtained the data of users - including that of my Financial Times colleague @CristinaCriddle - in order to analyse their location as part of an internal leaks investigation https://www.ft.com/...
Andrew Hutchinson / @adhutchinson: Odds of TikTok being banned in the US just rose to ‘likely’ https://twitter.com/...
Patrick Tucker / @deftechpat: They hope you won't care, but you should https://twitter.com/...
Josh Barro / @jbarro: Don't trust communist China! https://twitter.com/...
Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi / @congressmanraja: This news only underscores the need to pass our recently-introduced bipartisan ANTI-SOCIAL CCP Act. For more on why we need to pass this bill, read this: https://www.dailyherald.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Roemmele / @brianroemmele: “TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists”—2022 “TikTok is being unfairly persecuted by conspiracy theorists”—2019 https://www.forbes.com/...
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: Just ban TikTok already https://twitter.com/...
@binarybits: Ban TikTok. (And follow Emily! Her reporting has been amazing.) https://twitter.com/...
Eriq Gardner / @eriqgardner: Unfortunately I can believe this which is why I've stayed away from TikTok https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Garrahan / @mattgarrahan: Outrageous: TikTok has admitted using its app to track the movements of two journalists reporting on the company, including the FT's Cristina Criddle, who delivered fearless reporting about problems at its commerce unit https://www.ft.com/...
Sarah McLaughlin / @sarahemclaugh: ByteDance employees used TikTok to track multiple journalists to try to uncover their sources. Gotta say this looks pretty bad! https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Hakan / @hatr: “improperly gaining access to their IP addresses and user data in an attempt to identify whether they had been in the same locales as ByteDance employees.” After initial story ran in Oct' 20, ByteDance denied essence of reporting. Apparently they lied. https://www.forbes.com/...
@stevemur: Trust is earned in drops, but lost in buckets. Use TikTok? Just know they have no problem tracking/searching location data and IP addresses for internal use. https://www.forbes.com/...
Bruce Daisley / @brucedaisley: This is a huge story. TikTok is already being eyed suspiciously in Congress. There's going to be increasing pressure for it to be banned in 2023. https://twitter.com/...
Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi / @congressmanraja: Wow - and now this. More alarming news re: ByteDance's handling of user data from TikTok. https://twitter.com/...
John Paczkowski / @johnpaczkowski: “Forbes first reported the surveillance tactics, which were overseen by a China-based team at ByteDance, in October...TikTok did not deny the surveillance, but took to Twitter after the story was published to say that 'TikTok has never been used to “target” people. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Bing / @bing_chris: “The investigation, internally known as ***Project Raven***, began this summer after BuzzFeed News published a story revealing that China-based ByteDance employees had repeatedly accessed U.S. user data, based on more than 80 hours of audio recordings of internal TikTok meetings” https://twitter.com/...
Charles Arthur / @charlesarthur: “EXCLUSIVE: TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists” - and other journalists. This is explosive for TikTok (and parent ByteDance): makes all its assurances about data access completely empty. Regulation/lawsuits sure to follow. https://www.forbes.com/...
Geoffrey Cain / @geoffrey_cain: If TikTok is spying on @Forbes, you can bet they'll spy on you too. https://www.forbes.com/...
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: ByteDance used TikTok to track my location — and the locations of two of my colleagues — to try to find our sources. We reported on this back in October, but kept things vague to protect sources. Today ByteDance admitted it, so we can say much more: https://www.forbes.com/...
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: Tik Tok kept Financial Times reporter under surveillance
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: TikTok cops to running “covert surveillance campaign” on Western journalists
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
ByteDance fired four employees after finding in a probe they accessed data on US TikTok users, including reporters, while trying to learn the sources of a story — The company's internal investigation showed that workers also obtained data on a small number of other U.S. users.
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@ebakerwhite, Vox, The Verge, @richardjnieva, Digital Music News, Tubefilter, Breitbart, New York Daily News, @kantrowitz, Observer, @tanvi_madan, @journalistslike, @ewong, @alexeheath, @katienotopoulos, @alexeheath, @cathymcmorris, @redsteeze, @forbes, @lauferlaw, @johnpaczkowski, @schwabkatharine, @jdiamond1, @kenvogel, @semaforben, @kyliebytes, @byrontau, @katienotopoulos, @mattnavarra, @james_t_quinn, @mikeisaac, @hawleymo, @ceciliakang, @lourdesgnavarro, Al Jazeera, The Desk, Fox News, The Hill, CNN, Insider, MediaPost, Gizmodo, Adweek, The Wrap, Variety, Bloomberg and CBS News, more at Techmeme »
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Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: Remember back in October when we reported that ByteDance sought to surveil specific US citizens, and TikTok assured everyone that they weren't targeting journalists? Well, turns out they were. I know because they targeted me. https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Christian Paz / Vox: Good luck explaining a TikTok ban to young people
Richard Nieva / @richardjnieva: TikTok and ByteDance spied on my colleagues and me. Barn burner from @ebakerwhite https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Smith / Digital Music News: Multiple Universities Begin Banning TikTok After ByteDance Admits Employees Improperly Accessed User Data
Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter: Here are the details on “Project Raven,” ByteDance's effort to surveil TikTok's critics
Alana Mastrangelo / Breitbart: TikTok's Chinese Parent Company Admits It Snooped on U.S. Journalists
Joseph Wilkinson / New York Daily News: TikTok to be banned on government devices under omnibus spending bill
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: This is going to turn into a crisis for TikTok very quickly https://twitter.com/...
Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly / Observer: TikTok's Owner ByteDance Confirms Employees Tracked User Data of Journalists
Tanvi Madan / @tanvi_madan: TikTok reacting to allegations that it's shady by being, well, shady. https://twitter.com/...
@journalistslike: Is there any social media platform that isn't terrible for journalists? https://www.theverge.com/...
Edward Wong / @ewong: This will not help TikTok's case to the Biden administration & Congress: Employees of ByteDance, the Chinese parent co. of TikTok, accessed the data of reporters at Forbes in trying to track down leaks. The employees were in the US and China. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alex Heath / @alexeheath: Our story has been updated with the full internal emails from ByteDance's CEO, TikTok's CEO, and TikTok's GC acknowledging that the TikTok location data of at least two US journalists was improperly accessed https://www.theverge.com/...
@katienotopoulos: “I also want to emphasize that we have an open and candid culture within ByteDance. It's a core part of our ByteStyles.” (I love when goofy company lingo is used during while describing something that is probably a crime) https://www.theverge.com/...
Alex Heath / @alexeheath: Here is the full internal memo TikTok General Counsel Erich Anderson sent employees confirming that the user data of two US journalists was improperly accessed in a leak investigation https://www.theverge.com/...
CathyMcMorrisRodgers / @cathymcmorris: TikTok has placed the safety and privacy of Americans in jeopardy. They have gone on record numerous times claiming that they do not share Americans' data with China. We know that is a lie, and we now know the list has grown to include U.S. journalists. Accountability is coming. https://twitter.com/...
Stephen L. Miller / @redsteeze: I mean, the Washington Post has an entire team of people who just make TikToks. Bloomberg just signed up for it even after the Forbes report was released. https://twitter.com/...
@forbes: “This is a direct assault on the idea of a free press and its critical role in a functioning democracy,” says @RandallLane, the chief content officer of Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/...
@lauferlaw: TikTok is an apparatus utilized by China's MSS to farm personal data and influence perception. It needs to be banned nationwide. https://twitter.com/...
John Paczkowski / @johnpaczkowski: I have been dreaming about this tweet for almost 3 months now. https://twitter.com/...
Katharine Schwab / @schwabkatharine: TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance spied on Forbes journalists, including me. Read the shocking story from @ebakerwhite. https://www.forbes.com/...
Jeremy Diamond / @jdiamond1: “Employees gained access to the IP addresses and other data of two reporters and a small number of people connected to the reporters via their TikTok accounts. They were trying to determine if those individuals were within proximity of ByteDance employees” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kenneth P. Vogel / @kenvogel: How TikTok handles media scrutiny: ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, found that employees had inappropriately obtained the data of 2 reporters to try to find the sources of suspected leaks of internal conversations & business documents. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / @semaforben: This ham-handed misuse of their own data reminds me of early Uber https://www.nytimes.com/...
Byron Tau / @byrontau: TikTok accessed data on two US journalists. All reporters—not just those covering national security—need to understand the risks of letting *any* company have access to their data in order to best protect sources from retaliation, job loss and lawsuits. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@katienotopoulos: “The targeted reporters wrote for BuzzFeed and The Financial Times, ByteDance said, though it declined to identify them and other affected TikTok users.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra: ByteDance Inquiry Finds Employees Obtained User Data of 2 Journalists The targeted journalists wrote for BuzzFeed and The Financial Times, ByteDance said Good luck convincing the U.S. government to trust you, TikTok. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jimmy Quinn / @james_t_quinn: “The employees gained access the IP addresses and other data of two reporters and a small number of people connected to the reporters via their TikTok accounts...Two of those employees were based in China and two were in the United States.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: thesis antithesis synthesis (@ebakerwhite has been all over this one) https://www.nytimes.com/... https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Josh Hawley / @hawleymo: This is why Congress must BAN TikTok on all federal devices now - “ByteDance, the China-based parent company of TikTok, said on Thursday ...employees had inappropriately obtained the data of U.S. TikTok users, including two reporters.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cecilia Kang / @ceciliakang: The investigation was prompted by an article by @ebakerwhite in Forbes https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Reporters targeted by rogue TikTok employees, now fired
Fox News: TikTok parent company fires staffers who obtained data of U.S. users: ‘Egregious misuse of their authority’
Brad Dress / The Hill: TikTok parent company employees inappropriately gained access to American users' data: report
Clare Duffy / CNN: TikTok confirms that journalists' data was accessed by employees of its parent company
Samantha Delouya / Insider: TikTok owner ByteDance reportedly confirmed employees in US and China accessed the user data of some US citizens, including 2 journalists
Wendy Davis / MediaPost: TikTok Confirms It Spied On American Journalists
David Cohen / Adweek: Report: TikTok Tracked Journalists From FT, BuzzFeed, While Investigating Leaks
Loree Seitz / The Wrap: ByteDance Fires 4 Employees Who Illegally Obtained TikTok User Data on U.S. Journalists
Alex W. Palmer / New York Times:
How ByteDance and TikTok, which owe their existence to intermingled Western and Chinese ideas, capital, and people, became caught in changing US-China relations — A Chinese app conquered the planet — and now the U.S. is threatening to shut it down. Can the world's biggest virality machine survive?
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Emily Baker-White / Forbes: Lawmakers Express Outrage That TikTok Spied On Journalists
Michael Ron Bowling / @mrbcyber: The Chinese government regularly harasses journalists, so this is very disturbing. @forbes @ebakerwhite https://www.forbes.com/...
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: Lawmakers are pretty upset that TikTok spied on my friends and me! https://www.forbes.com/...
Jordan Schneider / @jordanschnyc: Any influential content platform's ability to promote and demote content based on its leadership's whims should unsettle us. (See: Twitter recently...)
Jordan Schneider / @jordanschnyc: Fantastic feature by alex palmer in the times magazine telling the arc of tiktok in America Really well written and captures the story in all its complexity https://www.nytimes.com/...
@willystaley: On the cover of this week's Magazine: Alex Palmer on the story of TikTok, an app born in a very different era of U.S.-China relations that has become ensnared in the beginnings of a new one. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jordan Schneider / @jordanschnyc: loved the bits about how at first Trump's NSC hoped tiktok would just be a passing fad. https://twitter.com/...
@leftiblog: NYT says it's difficult to imagine another Chinese company having the success of TikTok in the US. Well, it might have been Huawei, but the US government put a stop to that! “Free trade”, unless it doesn't benefit US companies. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj: “Last year, TikTok had more site visits than Google, and more watch minutes in the United States than YouTube. Facebook took almost nine years to reach one billion users; TikTok did it in five.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimestech: TikTok's extraordinary success is made even more remarkable by the fact that it is a product of America's greatest geopolitical rival. In a fraught geopolitical context, TikTok is considered a Trojan horse — for Chinese influence, for spying, or both. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Gillian Tett / Financial Times: America should be wary of singling out TikTok
David Lumb / CNET: TikTok Also Banned by Some US Universities
Reuters:
Sources: aiming to appease the US government, TikTok offers to operate more of its business at arm's length and allow more outside scrutiny by Oracle and others
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Sarah Bull / The Sun: I'm a Chinese chef and people always say the same thing about our takeaway chicken - it's so annoying
Taylor Knight / New York Post: The 12 best and worst TikTok trends that make us glad 2022 is almost over
Nikki Main / Gizmodo: Colleges Move To Ban TikTok on Campus
@nytimesbusiness: “It's become a mainstream tech firm — we're getting people from Google, Facebook, Snapchat,” a current American employee of TikTok told @NYTMag. “It no longer feels in any way like a pariah Chinese company.” Inside the the world's biggest virality machine. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@akinunver: All social media platforms have the inevitable risk of being swallowed by the security and intelligence organizations of the country in which they operate and store data. TikTok has the same risk, but so does/did Meta and Twitter et al. for more than a decade. https://twitter.com/...
@knowledge_vital: $ORCL TikTok is redoubling efforts to strike a deal w/the US gov't that would placate security concerns and allow it to continue operating (TikTok is offering to give Oracle a larger role in storing data and reviewing the firm's underlying code) https://www.reuters.com/...
Sushant Singh / @sushantsin: What often goes unnoticed in these conversations is that TikTok is as much a product of the West as it is of China. ByteDance owes its very existence to the intermingling of ideas, capital and people that defined the last 5 decades of US-China engagement. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@reutersbiz: Popular short-video app TikTok is offering to operate more of its business at arm's length and subject it to outside scrutiny as it tries to convince the U.S. government to allow it to remain under the ownership of Chinese technology company ByteDance https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Schneider / @jordanschnyc: TikTok's problems run far deeper than pissing off Trump by organizing a fake rally. The screams are coming from inside the house. TikTok's foreign employees, again and again, have tipped off Western media on alarming behavior from ByteDance. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: TikTok, blocked? US access may rest on shaky terms of natsec deal
Manuela López Restrepo / NPR: Why the proposed TikTok ban is more about politics than privacy, according to experts
Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter: TikTok has reportedly spent $1.5 billion to set up the team that will shepherd U.S. user data
Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN: Some universities are now restricting TikTok access on campus
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: TikTok spied on Forbes journalists
Axios:
Source: Michael Bloomberg wants to expand his media empire and is interested in acquiring Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones or The Washington Post — Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and media mogul, is interested in acquiring either Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones …
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Mike Allen / @mikeallen: 🚨 NEW in @axios AM w/ @sarafischer: “Succession”-worthy media power play, starring 3 moguls! Michael Bloomberg is interested in acquiring either Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones or The Washington Post, per a source familiar with his thinking https://www.axios.com/...
Rory Johnston / @rory_johnston: we needs competition? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Siva Vaidhyanathan / @sivavaid: There would be no clearer assault on the principles of antitrust. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @semaforben: Long tradition of Mike Bloomberg's aides trying to get him interested in things like this with flotations .... sometimes they happen! https://www.axios.com/...
Seth Fiegerman / @sfiegerman: These deals would make a certain amount of sense for Bloomberg but man I wish he or one of his fellow billionaires would just commit $5 billion-$10 billion in a fund to backstop local news publications instead. It would do much more good. https://www.axios.com/...
Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin: Cue @felixsalmon's somewhat insane but also brilliant explanation of how the New York Times could “buy” Bloomberg LP in order to solve Michael Bloomberg's estate and charitable giving needs https://talkingbiznews.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@ndhapple: Mike Bloomberg's unwavering commitment to try and buy every newspaper except the New York paper that desperately needs a rescue and rebuild, The Daily News, never ceases to surprise — https://www.axios.com/...
Jared Keller / @jaredbkeller: Mike Bloomberg has been talking about buying the WSJ or FT since I worked there a decade ago https://www.axios.com/...
@axios: Exclusive: Michael Bloomberg is interested in acquiring either Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones or The Washington Post, a source familiar with his thinking told Axios. https://www.axios.com/...
Bo Mbindwane / @mbindwane: Will that pass antitrust rules? https://twitter.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: Reality check: Bloomberg hasn't approached Murdoch about his interest in the Wall Street Journal. Nor has he engaged bankers. https://www.axios.com/...
Michael Barbaro / @mikiebarb: Quite a meaningful development for anyone at either company who covers China. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Carmody / @tcarmody: One of my theories for way Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post was that he wanted a family business he could leave to his children. Now those children are older, Jeff and Mackenzie are divorced, the tech side of WaPo is less interesting... He might sell! https://www.axios.com/...
Ron Kampeas / @kampeas: Bezos has not interfered with negative coverage of Amazon. Don't expect the same hands off approche from Bloomberg. https://twitter.com/...
@deitaone: MICHAEL BLOOMBERG HAS NOT REACHED OUT TO RUPERT MURDOCH ON A POSSIBLE DEAL FOR DOW JONES - SOURCES MURDOCH'S CAMP DOES NOT KNOW IF THE AXIOS STORY IS TRUE - SOURCES THERE ARE NO ACTIVE TALKS BETWEEN MICHAEL BLOOMBERG AND THE MURDOCHS AS OF NOW - SOURCE
@brucebartlett: Exclusive: Bloomberg eyes WSJ-parent Dow Jones, WaPo. I hope he buys the WSJ so he can fire everyone on the editorial page and I can go back to subscribing to it. https://www.axios.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: But if Bezos or Murdoch are concerned about handing off one of America's preeminent papers, they'd have to wonder what will happen when Bloomberg, 80, dies. His corporation would have to be transferred to someone else. His foundation couldn't own for profit papers.
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: .@MikeBloomberg and @rupertmurdoch go way back, not always friendly, I know this first hand. Bloomberg and @JeffBezos would be strictly business. Mike might finally get his newspaper https://www.axios.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Wow, this would be quite a development. Seems like Bezos would be more willing to part with the WashPost than Murdoch would be willing to part with WSJ. via @sarafischer @mikeallen https://www.axios.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: These both seem like pretty good ideas for Bloomberg, but selfishly I'd like to see the Post owned by someone who cares about DC local news https://twitter.com/...
Michael Gold / @migold: i would like to see the Succession version of whatever conversation at Davos leads to this. https://twitter.com/...
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: Michael Bloomberg reportedly eyes buying Dow Jones, Washington Post
BBC:
The Sun apologizes for a Jeremy Clarkson column about Meghan Markle that prompted 20K+ complaints to the UK's IPSO, but didn't say if the outlet disciplined him — The Sun newspaper says it regrets publishing a Jeremy Clarkson column about the Duchess of Sussex and is “sincerely sorry”.
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Nadeem Badshah / The Guardian: The Sun apologises for Jeremy Clarkson's column on Meghan
John Nicolson M.P. / @mrjohnnicolson: The ‘Sun’ apologises over Jeremy Clarkson's grotesque Meghan Markle column. I've asked @ITV to agree he'll not appear on screen again. I will publish the ITV response shortly. https://www.bbc.com/...
Mehera Bonner / Cosmopolitan: Columnist Jeremy Clarkson Met with Queen Camilla Just Days Before His Hateful Meghan Markle Article Went Viral
Hardeep Matharu / @hardeep_matharu: “We realise that with free expression comes responsibility” Hollow words from the Sun given its long record. Editors don't *suddenly* realise this following a backlash. They carry it with them every day. It's the privilege and duty of the job. https://www.thesun.co.uk/...
Shannon Watts / @shannonrwatts: We at The Sun regret the publication of last week's Jeremy Clarkson column *BECAUSE WE MAY BE SUED* and we are sincerely sorry *THAT WE MAY BE SUED*. https://twitter.com/...
David Challen / @david_challen: The Sun ‘regrets’ publishing Clarkson column. No apology to Meghan Markle, of course. Their only regret here is that they got called out for publishing violent misogyny. Choosing to cite their previous work with survivors of abuse only compounds their failure in the first place. https://twitter.com/...
Daniela Nadj / @danielanadj: The Sun has apologised for Jeremy Clarkson's column, in which he said he “hated” the Duchess of Sussex, but has not stated whether any action has been taken against him. This is not enough. Clarkson needs to be sacked. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Felicity Morse / @felicitymorse: I'm not commenting on the article hoohah itself but this is a great non apology. Definitely apologise like this if you want to get divorced and lose all your friends https://www.thesun.co.uk/...
Patrick Hipes / Deadline: The Sun Apologizes For Jeremy Clarkson Column That Slammed Meghan Markle With ‘Game Of Thrones’ Reference
Tim Walker / @thattimwalker: Too little, too late. This is not journalism. This is hate speech, pure and simple. There is no right to freedom of expression when it comes to that. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Neil Drysdale / @neildrysdale: It's taken them nearly a week to “regret” publishing something which was horribly misogynistic and linked a politician to a serial killer. I wouldn't use the paper as a liner for cat litter and these are non-apologies as Clarkson keeps his job(s)! https://twitter.com/...
Ali Milani / @armilani_: This is not good enough. It has become the playbook of these right-wing tabloids to publish the most damaging of content front and centre, then print minor retractions and apologies when the damage is already done. They are rotten. To. The. Core. https://twitter.com/...
@luciaguimaraes: The fake contrition of racist thugs. 10 days to cynically apologize for something so eschatological it should never have been made it's way to print. https://twitter.com/...
@royal_suitor: After a week of condemnation, a record-setting number of IPSO complaints, & public shaming, The Sun editors have issued an apology. Notably, the apology is not to #MeghanMarkle, the subject of #JeremyClarkson's heinous screed, but to the public at large. https://archive.ph/...
Dr Charlotte Proudman / @drproudman: .@thesun hasn't apologised to Meghan Markle for publishing an article that violently attacked her. Jeremy Clarkson hasn't apologised for his deeply misogynistic comments; he's kept his column. The Sun made money from misogynistic hate speech. It's wrong. https://www.thesun.co.uk/...
Sophia Smith Galer / @sophiasgaler: Friday evening is usually a quiet time for news interest and even quieter just before Christmas. They are probably hoping no one notices...*quote tweets* https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Sorry to who? To Meghan surely? So why not say so? https://twitter.com/...
Virginia Chamlee / People.com: Jeremy Clarkson's ‘Deeply Misogynist’ Article About Meghan Markle Is Taken Down with Apology
K.J. Yossman / Variety: British Tabloid The Sun Apologizes for Jeremy Clarkson's ‘Misogynistic’ Meghan Markle Column
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YouTube buys NFL Sunday Ticket's residential rights for seven years, sources say for ~$2B/year; DirecTV paid $1.5B/year for residential and commercial rights — Video streamer to pay annual fee of roughly $2 billion under seven-year deal — Created with sketchtool.
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Nilay Patel / The Verge: Why YouTube spent the money on NFL Sunday Ticket
Joe Flint / @jbflint: YouTube's roughly $2 billion per-season deal for NFL's Sunday Ticket is residential only. NFL will look for deal for bars and restaurants that could be worth at least another additional $200 million. More details on the deal here! W/@MilesKruppa https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
David Bloom / Next TV: The NFL Gets a Shiny New Streaming Partner With Google for ‘Sunday Ticket,’ But Have We Hit Peak Sports Rights? (Bloom)
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: YouTube's NFL ‘Sunday Ticket’ deal is a win for traditional TV networks, too - here's why
David Satin / The Streamable: YouTube Executive Gives More Details on NFL Sunday Ticket Deal; Single-Team Plans, 4K Unlikely
Andrew Bucholtz / Awful Announcing: With Google/YouTube Sunday Ticket deal, the NFL has further strengthened their media empire
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: That's if Google wants it. But we do know that Google, Apple, Amazon, and Roku do want to control the future homepage. They want to be a middle player, with subscription business, ad business, and taking a cut of signups to other streamers that customers access through their hub.
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Google TV devices make up a fraction of domestic market share (7%, -1% y/y), dropping as Amazon/Roku rise. If I'm Google, and I've got a killer package in YT TV, YT Premium, YT Channels, and Sunday Ticket, I'd use software pushes to drive stronger adoption and larger market share
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Software is the bigger upsell. Continue making that software far more appealing than what competitors have, use that momentum to create cheaper, more accessible hardware price points/give it away for free in trade for a timed software lock in. Own the hardware and software side.
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: And of course: congrats to @JBFlint on an incredible scoop and fantastic reporting. Long one of the best in the business, so great to see him bring this story in.
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Good summary of the head-scratching economics of YouTube's NFL Sunday Ticket dealfrom @TheAnkler's Sean McNulty: https://twitter.com/...
Brigid Kennedy / The Week: YouTube snags NFL ‘Sunday Ticket’ in 7-year deal
Kazeem Famuyide / @kazeem: Whichever streaming platform gets League Pass is gonna get all my coins https://twitter.com/...
Jack Settleman / @jacksettleman: Incredible opportunity for youtubers & creators 🚀 https://twitter.com/...
Peter Bukowski / @peter_bukowski: You all should have switched to YouTubeTV years ago #NoFreeAdsThough https://twitter.com/...
Tim Baysinger / Axios: YouTube beats out Amazon and Apple for NFL Sunday Ticket
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: Major missed opportunity for Netflix https://www.wsj.com/...
Brent Scher / @brentscher: This is going to be a disaster, no way the @NFL thought this through. Sunday Ticket is used by every bar in the country through cable, now the Buffalo Wild Wings of the world have to figure out how to stream to all their TVs. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Damon Bruce / @damonbruce: Yuck. There is so much lag time on YouTube TV. You'll be behind every beat writer tweeting in the press box. I had YouTube TV but went right back to Direct TV years ago the lag on real time was so severe. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Belloni / The Ringer: Why YouTube Landed NFL ‘Sunday Ticket’
Bruce Murray / @brucemurraynfl: Something said by no one “I'll miss Directv's customer service”. I will pay extra to have them waiting for the games to end on January 8th to get their boxes out. #mynightmarewillbeoverinthreeweeks. https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Benkert / @kurtbenkert: Sheeeesh. Twitch got Thursday Night Football, YouTube gets Sunday Ticket. 👀 https://twitter.com/...
Peter Schrager / @pschrags: Great news for fans of the game. Watching games anywhere at anytime just got a whole lot easier. https://twitter.com/...
@dabearsblog: I read that as you won't need a YouTubeTV subscription to get Sunday Ticket. So it's likely the same for those of us who get Ticket on Roku (or similar). Now we will see what the speeds are like. https://twitter.com/...
Phil Mackey / @philmackey: This may seem like a lot, except... (Checks notes) YouTube brings in over **$30 billion** per year in revenue 😮 https://twitter.com/...
@joebucsfan: A quick glance at NFL's accounting department. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Btw this is also a likely model for the next NBA deal, which both Disney and WBD would like to re-up, but not at the $7 billion floated price tag. Solution: Sell premium games to current partners, and carve out other games (Wolves-Mavs in December?) to the likes of Amazon.
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Obviously Google can afford to blow billions without near-term return. But not forever. Best possible argument is that this helps set them up to buy actual NFL broadcast rights one day. But NFL will hang on to broadcast, while slicing off slivers to digital, as long as it can. https://twitter.com/...
NFL.com: NFL, Google announce agreement to distribute NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV, Primetime Channels
Feliz Navi J.J. / @j_dot_j: Setting a reminder to cancel DIRECTV as soon as this season is over https://twitter.com/...
Ryan O'Rourke / Collider: NFL's ‘Sunday Ticket’ Finds New Home With YouTube in Massive Streaming Deal
Eli Blumenthal / CNET: NFL Sunday Ticket and YouTube: 8 Things Football Fans Should Know
Christopher Brito / CBS News: NFL Sunday Ticket heads to YouTube starting in 2023
Mollie Cahillane / Adweek: YouTube Nabs NFL Sunday Ticket Package, Ending DirecTV's Three-Decade Run
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: Google to Bring NFL ‘Sunday Ticket’ on YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels in $2 Billion Deal
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost: YouTube To Pay $2B Annually To Secure Rights To NFL Sunday Ticket
Sami Fathi / MacRumors: YouTube Secures Deal for NFL Sunday Ticket After Apple Drops Out of Negotiations
Dade Hayes / Deadline: NFL And YouTube Punch Sunday Ticket, Finalizing Deal For Package After Drawn-Out Negotiations With Multiple Bidders
Justin Tasch / New York Post: Google's YouTube TV taking over NFL Sunday Ticket for $2 billion a year
Eileen AJ Connelly / The Wrap: YouTube Secures Rights to NFL Sunday Package for $2 Billion Yearly Price Tag
Todd Spangler / Variety: Google's YouTube Grabs NFL Sunday Ticket in Seven-Year Deal
Dan Seifert / @dcseifert@mastodon.social: google won the bidding war for NFL Sunday Ticket. interestingly, you'll be able to get it as a YouTube Premium channel in addition to a YouTube TV add on. so you won't necessarily need YouTube TV to get it. cost on either option TBD though https://www.theverge.com/...
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter: YouTube Bags NFL ‘Sunday Ticket’ Package
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: NFL announces multi-year YouTube deal for Sunday Ticket
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Michael McCarthy / Front Office Sports:
The NFL plans to only offer NFL Network's RedZone as part of its deal with YouTube starting in the 2023 season, ending DirecTV's version, which debuted in 2005 — - DirecTV's Red Zone channel debuted in 2005. — That would leave NFL RedZone as the sole whip-around show on Sundays.
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Michael McCarthy / Front Office Sports: Sources: DirecTV's Red Zone Channel Could Be Cancelled
Jermal Chandler / @jermalchandler: @MMcCarthyREV @DIRECTV All this time I thought the Scott Hanson version was the original and only one. Had no idea.
Ken Fang / @fangsbites: The original @RedZoneChannel is going away after the 2022-23 season. It was the only way I could watch the NFL. Andrew Siciliano did a great job as host. The Scott Hanson-hosted NFL RedZone will continue after this season. https://twitter.com/...
@someguyoffthest: @awfulannouncing @AndrewSiciliano should absolutely 100% replace Scott Hanson on the other side #NFLRedZone @nflnetwork or at least they should have an option to mute only Hanson's voice during the broadcast. Hanson will not stop talking over game commentators & continously gives inaccurate info.
Steven Zee / @stevenzee14: @FOS @MMcCarthyREV This is tough news. Really hope there is a role for @AndrewSiciliano He is the Red Zone and Sunday's won't be the same without him.
Michael McCarthy / @mmccarthyrev: Bad news for fans of @DirecTV's Red Zone. NFL will only offer the “NFL RedZone” produced by NFL Network next season. “We're going to focus on the Red Zone produced by NFL Media. And that's what will be available on YouTube,” said NFL exec Dhruv Prasad. https://frontofficesports.com/ ...
Brentley Weissman / @brentley12: My NFL Redzone experience has been with @AndrewSiciliano and I hope that continues.
@fos: DirecTV's Red Zone channel, which debuted in 2005, will halt content after this season. After Google/YouTube's $14B Sunday Ticket deal, the NFL will only offer the “NFL RedZone” channel produced by the NFL Network next season. @MMcCarthyREV has more ⤵️
Michael McCarthy / @mmccarthyrev: Helluva an 18-year run by DirecTV + @AndrewSiciliano. Their Red Zone channel was original whip-around show for scoring highlights. But this happens unfortunately when rights change hands. ESPN lost “NFL Primetime” when NBC took over Sunday Night highlights/Sunday Night Football. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: YouTube TV Will Continue to Carry NFL RedZone After Landing NFL Sunday Ticket Package
Matthew Keys / The Desk: DirecTV looks to cancel Sunday Ticket RedZone
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The NFL will make $120B in the next decade from NBC, CBS, Disney, Fox, Google, Apple, and Amazon deals, cementing its position as a premier content provider
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Ted Gioia / @tedgioia: Almost every day I see another sign of power shifting from old media to new media. The speed at which this is happening is unprecedented. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Lucia / Awful Announcing: Five questions still unanswered after the NFL's Sunday Ticket deal with Google
Chris Welch / The Verge: YouTube's NFL Sunday Ticket deal is a brilliant move for its subscription future
Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Whistleblower protection org Government Accountability Project files a complaint to Congress over Twitter suspending VoA's Steve Herman and other journalists — Nearly a week after Twitter's new owner Elon Musk said that the accounts of suspended journalists would be reinstated, at least six remain blocked.
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Mary Allain / Government Accountability Project: Twitter Continues to Ban Supposedly-Reinstated Journalists
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: Multiple journalists remain blocked on here, including my colleague Drew Harwell. https://www.voanews.com/...
Kai Ryssdal / @kairyssdal: “Twitter has privately demanded that the suspended journalists delete the tweets that drew Musk's ire in the first place — a condition the reporters have refused to accept.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Brent Allpress / @brentallpress: The suppression of journalists and the free press by Musk breaches the new EU Digital Services Act about to come into effect in January. He faces sanctions with fines of up to 6% of Twitter's total worldwide annual turnover. If he repeat offends the EU will ban Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
Charles Ornstein / @charlesornstein: Much support for @drewharwell! “Hell, no. I'm not deleting a tweet that contained factual information and didn't violate anyone's rules.” Journalists who won't delete Musk tweets remain locked out of Twitter https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ginger Adams Otis / Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk's Jet Has a Twitter Account Tracking It Again—With a 24-Hour Delay
@thatianelliott: Deleting offending tweets has always been part of getting an account unlocked. It is imperative to point out that the difference here is that Musk lied about why they were locked in the first place and the “offending tweets” in most cases don't actually break any rule. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: Censorship: Journalists on Twitter who won't delete Musk tweets remain locked out https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Zachary Leeman / Mediaite: ‘Hell No’: Journos Refuse to Give in to Musk's Demands For Twitter Accounts to Be Unlocked
Julia Shapero / The Hill: Journalists locked out of Twitter accounts after refusing to delete Musk tweets
@govacctproj: Today we wrote to the Senate and House Commerce Committees to detail the continuing suspensions of the Twitter accounts belonging to Voice of America's Chief National Correspondent, Steve Herman, and five other journalists. THREAD🧵 https://whistleblower.org/...
Bret Weinstein / @bretweinstein: This “catch” is not new with @elonmusk. See the second tweet in this thread where I discussed the matter two years ago in reference to @drrollergator's suspension. https://twitter.com/...
Caleb Howe / @calebhowe: It's like one of those stories where royalty go undercover as commoners and are shocked to find out how things work for everyone else. https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: “Journalists who won't delete Musk tweets remain locked out of Twitter” “Elon Musk suspended reporters from Twitter and later reinstated them, but with a catch: They must nix their tweets related to the account @ElonJet” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@jessicajerreat: ‘If they can force journalists to censor themselves on innocuous issues, they plainly do that on other issues, too’ says @davidseide https://www.voanews.com/...
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: ElonJet is back on Twitter, but with a 24-hour delay
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Group wants Twitter owner probed over reporter suspensions
Public Notice:
Q&A with Insider's Linette Lopez on covering Elon Musk since 2018, Twitter suspending her for a tweet showing a court document with his email address, and more — “Once Elon took over, I was not optimistic. As usual, he is exceeding expectations for me."
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Nicholas Reimann / Forbes: Musk's Twitter Takeover: Almost Half Of Top 100 Tweets Since Buying The Site Are His
Linette Lopez / @lopezlinette: I have returned. I hope that while I was gone some of you read my latest @businessinsider story about @elonmusk's rough and rude business tactics — and why they're about to run Twitter into the ground. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Aaron Rupar / @atrupar: “He went to China & saw the govt moved very fast there bc it doesn't have to reach a consensus ... sometimes businessmen who wish they could snap their fingers & get something done the way they want it admire these autocrats who seemingly can pull it off” https://aaronrupar.substack.com/ ...
@davidrlurie: Just during his World Cup trip, Musk publicly schmoozed Gulf state royals, a notorious Putinist and Jared Kushner: “He's a desperate billionaire who needs money for his social media company, and who are these investors? What needs do they have? That's worrisome.” @lopezlinette https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Webb / @cwebbonline: Interesting read. Lopez makes an excellent point about Musk's China experience with Tesla. Goes to his state of mind when it comes to his expectations. https://twitter.com/...
Ella Dawson / @brosandprose: “At a certain point I think when very rich people aren't getting their way all of the time, they think, ‘Well, I should just run everything.’ That's kind of the attitude that you see from him.” @lopezlinette on Elon and her Twitter suspension: https://aaronrupar.substack.com/ ...
Aaron Rupar / @atrupar: “He's a desperate billionaire who needs money for his social media company, and who are these investors? What needs do they have? ... this guy seems to be rolling around with Jared Kushner. All of those pictures from the World Cup were a little disturbing” https://aaronrupar.substack.com/ ...
Maureen Breslin / The Hill: Musk says Twitter to add ‘view count’ for posts
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
A profile of Jenna Bush Hager, a publishing kingmaker due to her Today book club show, who in 2022 started a production company to develop books for the screen — The daughter and granddaughter of presidents is now famous in her own right. Her TV book club is one of the few reliable paths …
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Kelly Jensen / BOOK RIOT:
Huntsville, Texas votes to privatize its local library after removing its Pride display and Banned Books Week display and placing the city librarian on leave — The Huntsville Public Library (HPL) has been under fire since this summer, when a book display riled up city officials.
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@metadatashannon: “Fascism is the power of finance capital itself. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class and the revolutionary section of the peasantry and intelligentsia” -Georgi Dimitrov https://twitter.com/...
@penamerica: Huntsville, Texas has privatized its public library following the city manager's disapproval of its 2022 #PrideMonth and #BannedBooksWeek displays. https://bookriot.com/...
@veronikellymars: Huntsville Public Library has been privatized by the city management, following two book displays-one for Pride and one on Banned Books. This is a devastating loss for the city and for public services more broadly. https://bookriot.com/...
@bookriot: “The library will no longer be a resource for the community, but a tool for the city government to push their own agendas and beliefs.” https://ow.ly/...
@mishiebhat: fascism & capitalism at its finest — destroying any public spaces that welcome the poor, queer, and non-white/non-christian and turning libraries into private corporations https://twitter.com/...
@changinghands: ❝A city police officer was behind the circulation desk reviewing books, reportedly taking one with him and approving the rest of the titles as ones that were okay to return to the collection. The library board has had no say in any of these decisions.❞ https://twitter.com/...
Mike Siegel / @siegelfortexas: Who knows someone in Huntsville? This is a campaign we need to win. Under their city charter, we can reverse the City's decision if we collect 1,000 signatures on a referendum. https://bookriot.com/...
@everylibrary: They privatized the library and installed a police officer behind the desk to regulate the books. https://bookriot.com/...
Matthew Noe / @noethematt: You know how we talk about public libraries being one of, if not the, only places left that you can be for free and not subject to the whims of private profit seeking? If regressive minded people have their way, that won't last much longer. https://twitter.com/...
Kalynn Bayron / @kalynnbayron: How ridiculous. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Rainbow / SpaceNews:
European satellite operator Eutelsat has stopped broadcasting three Russian channels, after French media regulator Arcom urged the company to stop carrying them — TAMPA, Fla. — French satellite operator Eutelsat said Dec. 22 it stands to lose up to 15 million euros ($16 million) …
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Tassilo Hummel / Reuters: Eutelsat: suspending programmes in Russia and Iran will hit financial results
@histvnet: Statement of the Denis Diderot Committee on the implementation of Arcom decision and EU sanctions on Russian and Iranian channels by #Eutelsat. (corrected version) https://twitter.com/...
@histvnet: Here is the explanation of the continuation of the sanctioned services : “Eutelsat has amended the legal framework of its operations in Russia in order to make sure that no Eutelsat-leased capacity is used by the sanctioned channels anymore,” Eutelsat spokesperson Anita Baltagi https://twitter.com/...
@histvnet: told SpaceNews. “Russia is still able to broadcast channels sanctioned by the European Union via the capacity it controls on these and other satellites.” Interesting statement. It is not precised if this includes already the 65 or so channels from the 3 sanctioned media groups.
Julian Clover / Broadband TV News: Eutelsat confirms Russian suspensions
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