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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Twitter plans to wind down its legacy verified program and remove legacy verified checkmarks starting on April 1, 2023 — The social network, which the mega-billionaire bought last year in a debt-heavy $44 billion deal, announced on Thursday that starting April 1, it will remove …
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@verified, Insider, The Verge, @oneunderscore__, TechCrunch, Quartz, @datruthdt, 9to5Google, @davidclinchnews, @aoc, @film_girl@mastodon.social, @drewisgooden, @scottmonty, @eve6, @charles_gaba, @fordfischer, @basicallyidowrk, The Intersect, @allbrightnfl, @goldengateblond, @christaylor_nyc, @dloesch, @georgehahn, @adamweinstein, @richsignorelli, @rotopat, The Wrap, IGN, The Desk, @ordinarygamers, @gaufre, @edzitron, @cricketaakash, @maxwelltani, TechCrunch, Engadget, Telangana Today, @variety, @wolfiesmom, @ashtonpittman, @scalzi, @film_girl@mastodon.social, Forbes, @karnythia, @wajahatali, @petergleick, @mattdpearce, @kevinmkruse, Droid Life, @cowboysnation, @shanselman, @froomkin, @marshall89hd, @xiranjayzhao, @slooterman, @mike_petriello, @lindseyyok, @neeleshmisra, @andyboxall, @katearonoff, @binchcity, @muellershewrote, @jamesfallows, @blackamazon, @ynb, Bloomberg, Boing Boing and Rolling Stone, more at Techmeme »
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@verified: On April 1st, we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks. To keep your blue checkmark on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: https://twitter.com/... Organizations can sign up for https://twitter.com/...... https://twitter.com/...
Huileng Tan / Insider: Twitter is removing a legacy blue tick program — which Elon Musk called ‘deeply corrupted’ — from April 1
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Alternate idea: pay me to put the checkmark back on my profile after April 1. Pay me many American dollars.
Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz: Twitter is about to start purging unpaid blue ticks
@datruthdt: The purpose of verification was completely lost in all this. The point is to protect people from impersonators. Random Joe with 100 followers doesn't need to be verified because he doesn't have people being stupid pretending to be him or role playing as him. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Twitter expands Blue globally, will pull checkmarks from accounts that are actually verified next week
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / @aoc: Last time they tried this someone pretended to be Eli Lilly and tanked their stock price by pretending insulin was free https://twitter.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl@mastodon.social: Like, the brilliant part of verifying people of certain clout (also remember klout, lol) was that they'd be more likely to engage and bring their audiences and fans to Twitter. Making that pay for play and not manual takes that all away.
Drew Gooden / @drewisgooden: the only value of a twitter blue checkmark now is that people might mistake you for someone who is actually notable. if you get rid of every other checkmark, then the twitter blue checkmark literally means nothing. they're actually devaluing their own product by doing this. https://twitter.com/...
@eve6: Humbly requesting that you remove ours immediately so people don't think we're a white nationalist with 30 followers https://twitter.com/...
Charles Gaba / @charles_gaba: Having a blue check is about to go from telling others you are who you say you are to telling others you're an idiot who willingly gives $96/year to a billionaire for no reason. https://twitter.com/...
Ford Fischer / @fordfischer: I pay for Twitter Blue, and I actually did so well before the Elon takeover as well. I agree that legacy checkmarks need to be vastly more accessible, and were inequitably granted. But this website will be unusable if imposter accounts are indistinguishable. https://twitter.com/...
Marcel / @basicallyidowrk: Social media is dying. It's pay to play on every app. https://twitter.com/...
Benjamin Allbright / @allbrightnfl: This will end whatever the blue check mark thing is for me. I never asked for it, I don't understand why people care enough to pay for it. Only thing it evenr meant to me was that you knew I was actually me and not an imitator or parody account. https://twitter.com/...
Shauna / @goldengateblond: all it means now is “I'm dumb enough to pay a billionaire's bills” so ok https://twitter.com/...
Chris Taylor / @christaylor_nyc: lol https://twitter.com/...
Dana Loesch / @dloesch: Maybe you guys could fix the suppression and shadow banning first before asking for money. https://twitter.com/...
George Hahn / @georgehahn: Bye, Twitter. I'm out. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Weinstein / @adamweinstein: Such an auspicious start date! https://twitter.com/...
Richard Signorelli / @richsignorelli: This will actually devalue the check-mark and will end up being another costly failure. Twitter to Revoke Legacy Verification Blue Check-Mark Badges in April - Variety https://variety.com/...
Patrick Daugherty / @rotopat: At New Twitter, no one can question our commitment to making useful, necessary features absolutely worthless https://twitter.com/...
The Wrap: Twitter to Strip Legacy Verified Accounts of Blue Checks on April 1 - or Is Elon Musk Setting Up an Elaborate Joke?
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Twitter to remove legacy verified badges on April 1
Ed Zitron / @edzitron: So if they take away all the blue checks and just leave the paid for blue checks does musk not realise that removes almost the entire reason anyone bought them in the first place
Aakash Chopra / @cricketaakash: What if most of the accounts that were verified by @Twitter (to protect their identity and prevent impersonation) decided not to sign up for Twitter Blue?? Create a legacy and then kill the legacy yourself the Twitter way. 😍 https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Please talk about and impersonate Max Tani. It is important that people pretend to be Max Tani, a very important person who deserves to be talked about and impersonated. https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Twitter will kill ‘legacy’ blue checks on April 1
Mariella Moon / Engadget: Twitter says it's killing legacy verified checkmarks starting on April 1st
@variety: Elon Musk's Twitter also will start charging organizations $1,000/month for verified status https://variety.com/...
Valerie Bertinelli / @wolfiesmom: He must be trying to make twitter obsolete. It's the only explanation. Every single decision he has made has put this app deeper in it's grave. https://twitter.com/...
Ashton Pittman / @ashtonpittman: Nah, y'all can have your silly little meaningless check marks back. They will soon have no meaning except “I paid $8 for Twitter.” https://twitter.com/...
John Scalzi / @scalzi: Oh, well. Twitter Blue isn't worth $8 a month to me, and I've already put alternate verification of my identity in my Twitter bio. https://variety.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl@mastodon.social: Meanwhile, over on Twitter, Elon is getting rid of legacy check marks, thus ruining the whole reason anyone would pay for Twitter Blue. And I'm expecting this to last 35 seconds until all the celebrities …
Mikki Kendall / @karnythia: You're going to make it cool to not be verified. This is going to be hilarious https://twitter.com/...
Peter Gleick / @petergleick: On April 1st, having a blue check mark will simply mean you're a sucker. I won't miss it. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin M. Kruse / @kevinmkruse: As of April 1st, only the fools will have checkmarks. https://twitter.com/...
Kellen / Droid Life: Twitter to Remove Legacy Verified Checks Because It Wants People to Pay for Them
Scott Hanselman / @shanselman: Maybe the real blue checks were the friends we made along the way https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: I wonder if every organization is going to start paying a grand to @elonmusk — or none. https://variety.com/...
@marshall89hd: Part of the whole reason for verification was to stop a name/likeness from being impersonated to scam others for example.. was delighted I got my account to a good enough standing to get verified. But.. that was for nothing and deemed as corrupt. Cheers Elon pal 👍 https://twitter.com/...
Sara Luterman / @slooterman: I'm really looking forward to it being easier for weirdos to impersonate me. This is a great decision with no possible downsides. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Petriello / @mike_petriello: Cool! Surely if I click on this for more information, the app will .. uh .. hmm. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Ok / @lindseyyok: Goodbye blue check mark that I earned after years of hard work and now apparently have to pay for. Not happening https://twitter.com/...
Neelesh Misra / @neeleshmisra: Verification is a way to prevent impersonation. Preventing my impersonation is the responsibility of Twitter. I am not going to pay you to do your job. I will not pay to remain verified. You want to take my blue check mark today, please do. @elonmusk @verified https://twitter.com/...
Andy Boxall / @andyboxall: If this actually happens, the blue check will become the official logo of that man's fan club, or an alert you're about to get scammed. https://twitter.com/...
Kate Aronoff / @katearonoff: While there is an unverified class, I am in it, while there is a shitposting element, I am of it, and while there is a suspended account, I am not free https://twitter.com/...
Julia Hava / @binchcity: this whole situation is so sneetch-coded https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@muellershewrote: So to keep my blue check, I have to pay a sad billionaire $11 a month? Welp, it's been a good run, blue check. It's not me. It's you. Don't let the door hitcha. https://twitter.com/...
James Fallows / @jamesfallows: Back last fall, the prevailing opinion was: Virtually no one with a “verified” account will care if Twitter takes it away. Still think that's true. And as it becomes purely a paying proposition, *why* would it be worth paying to keep?? https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: the next election will be hell. I'm about to go to another meeting announcing the abandonment of supporting DEI and epistemology and there's no actual methodology or support for the vacuum about to come and it will be used to get rid of POC https://variety.com/...
Yvette Nicole Brown / @ynb: Take it. Take it TODAY. You won't get a thin dime from me for this white-supremacist-run piece of bird crap. Quote me. #FreeSpeech https://twitter.com/...
Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing: Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to hide their checkmarks to avoid shaming and mockery
Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone: Twitter Says It Will Begin to Kill Legacy Blue Checkmarks in April
NPR:
NPR stops producing the Invisibilia, Louder Than a Riot, Rough Translation, and Everyone & Their Mom podcasts, and cuts 10% of staff to close a $30M+ budget gap — NPR moved this week to cut 10 percent of its staff and stop production of a trio of acclaimed seasonal podcasts - Invisibilia …
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@radiogrego, Fox News, @hazelcills, @leilafadel, Podnews, @resnikoff, @yowei_shaw, @kathmschmidt, Current, The Wrap, @aubreynpr, @w7voa, @reblavoie, @muldermedia, @brandonetc, @hannarosin, @deggans, @rhainacohen, @mikekatzif, @mollymotoole, @aspiegelnpr, @jackcorrbit, @haleaziz, @themattadams, @dennismhogan, @davidfolkenflik, @athertonkd, @gabrieljr, @chrishaxel, @i_oriion, @petersagal, @blowryontv, @samjmintz, @emmaeunjoo, @brihreed, @davidakaye, @_natalieescobar, @totalvibration, @yowei_shaw and @nwquah
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Gregory Warner / @radiogrego: how to say goodbye to a show that you've made for 6 years? I'll be trying to figure that out. 🙏🙏🙏 to those who have joined me on this ride, so so so many of you. And ❤️to my NPR colleagues who lost their jobs, I'm one of you. I'm sorry. Stay strong. Reach out if you want.
Hazel Cills / @hazelcills: This has been a truly exhausting and frankly sick layoff process. We are losing ridiculously talented people and I genuinely do not know what the fuck NPR is going to do without them. https://www.npr.org/...
Leila Fadel / @leilafadel: We finally know. We lose beautiful work and incredible talents, including the teams that put on the incredible work brought to us from @Roughly @LouderThanARiot @NPRinvisibilia and Everyone & Their Mom. All cancelled. https://www.npr.org/...
Ned Resnikoff / @resnikoff: Extending solidarity to any journalists caught up in the newest round of layoffs https://twitter.com/...
@yowei_shaw: Sending strength & love to everyone at @NPR, especially those laid off. These people are the best of the best, and have been through an excruciating month while still putting out the critical news and programming so many depend on. You are my inspiration. Solidarity forever 💚
Kathleen Schmidt / @kathmschmidt: This is really awful. https://twitter.com/...
Tyler Falk / Current: NPR to end production of four podcasts
Jeremy Bailey / The Wrap: NPR Cancels 4 Podcasts as Network Begins Mass Layoffs
Allison Aubrey / @aubreynpr: Not an easy day here. We're losing some invaluable colleagues. My heart goes out to everyone affected #NPRlayoffs https://www.npr.org/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: Details on the decimation of @NPR. https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Lavoie / @reblavoie: It is a mistake to make commercial advertising the only revenue plan for your longform journalism projects. Stations have figured this out, why couldn't NPR? https://twitter.com/...
Steve Mulder / @muldermedia: My time at NPR is coming to an end. Proud of the last 12(!) years, despite the recent rocky months. Very much looking forward to a break. Layoffs this week are affecting 10% of NPR.
Brandon Carter / @brandonetc: 4 podcasts axed. 100+ people laid off. i am aching for my former colleagues and friends at NPR. a gut punch to an organization full of the best people. hiring managers: please scoop up these talented folks. you will not regret it. https://www.npr.org/...
Hanna Rosin / @hannarosin: Damn. Farewell my beloved and beautiful @NPRinvisibilia @aspiegelnpr @lmillernpr @yowei_shaw @abbywendle https://www.npr.org/...
@deggans: For those who have been asking me about NPR's staff reductions, I remain employed. I have been told everyone affected by the changes in our news division has been notified. Our media correspondent, David Folkenflik, has a story on the changes: https://www.npr.org/...
Rhaina Cohen / @rhainacohen: 3 of the 5 shows I've worked on in my current role at NPR have been cancelled. So many exceptionally talented colleagues were laid off. I'm mourning their departure & the divestment from the kind of narrative journalism that made me fall in love with audio https://www.npr.org/...
Mike Katzif / @mikekatzif: Today has been hard. Still processing the talent and artistry and crucial voices we just lost. Just so sad for my pals and colleagues. https://twitter.com/...
Molly O'Toole / @mollymotoole: Sad for the state of our industry and those who have dedicated themselves to journalism, often thanklessly. I'm sorry @NPR colleagues. | NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs https://www.npr.org/...
Alix Spiegel / @aspiegelnpr: Raising a glass to all the hands that made Invisibilia. All the creative thoughtful souls who tried for her and cried for her and hopefully - helped some people along the way. https://www.npr.org/...
Jack Corbett / @jackcorrbit: quick, media companies hire the incredible people npr just fumbled https://twitter.com/...
Hamed Aleaziz / @haleaziz: Awful, awful news. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Adams / @themattadams: louder than a riot invisibilia rough translation everyone & their mom i've worked with every team, each were inspiring and creative and some of the most hardworking. they deserved better. same with those who are no longer at npr after today. https://www.npr.org/...
Dennis Hogan / @dennismhogan: Some context: federal money from grants make up a low single digit percentage of NPR revenue. We have so defunded our culture sector over decades that NPR is public in name only. How can we expect public journalism to fulfill its mission if we don't fund it? https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Tough day at NPR: Four podcasts canceled, 10 percent of workforce laid off. We'll learn more about who is leaving the network in hours and days to come. My story: https://www.npr.org/...
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: “a yawning budget gap that stands in excess of $30 million” that's 38% the purchase price of a single F-35A https://jscalc.io/... https://www.npr.org/...
Gabe Rosenberg / @gabrieljr: Ugh my heart. The podcasts are the names you might recognize, but I know there's so many brilliant producers, digital folks, and more behind the scenes who deserve better than this. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Haxel / @chrishaxel: It's so frustrating to see some of NPR's best, most deeply-reported shows get the ax. Good journalism takes time, which means it's expensive. But it's a worthy investment. https://twitter.com/...
Orion Rummler / @i_oriion: “The layoffs also affect people who work behind the scenes to produce the shows and podcasts, design visual elements for the web, conduct audience research, and do the myriad other functions required of a major news network.” https://www.npr.org/...
Peter Sagal / @petersagal: NPR is making no announcements about who lost their jobs today, instead letting people break the news themselves. It's better that way, but still tough to hear about them, one by one. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Lowry / @blowryontv: Covering bad news at your own shop is one of the toughest jobs in journalism. And unfortunately, a lot more journalists have had to experience that in the last few years. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Mintz / @samjmintz: Honestly a striking comment from director of union representing NPR workers, and not the usual kind of union rhetoric that accompanies layoffs. “They had to do something. It's real.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Emma Choi / @emmaeunjoo: I can't believe that I got laid off and had a midterm on the same day https://twitter.com/...
David Kaye / @davidakaye: NPR does some of the best public interest journalism in the country (& world) and has easily the best public music program in @nprmusic's tiny desk, and it's struggling economically. show @NPR some love with $$$, people! https://twitter.com/...
Natalie Escobar / @_natalieescobar: I have been so angry and so devastated all day. We are losing so many people whose talents and insights NPR desperately needed. And we are losing podcasts that were successfully bringing in the “young, diverse audiences” NPR says it wants to reach. https://www.npr.org/...
Lars Gotrich / @totalvibration: I'm numb. I'm angry. I still have a job, but many of my brilliant colleagues and friends do not. They will tell their stories when ready. But to top it all off, NPR canceled podcasts prominently featuring brown, Black and queer voices and producers. https://www.npr.org/...
@yowei_shaw: Well, looks like my time with NPR is up. Gutted that @NPRinvisibilia the show I love & have given 7+ yrs of my life to has “stopped production”. Gutted to not get to work with my brilliant teammates. Gutted that me & some 100 colleagues I admire have lost our jobs. This sucks.
Nick Quah / @nwquah: fuckin horrible https://www.npr.org/...
Erin Doherty / Axios:
As lawmakers ripped TikTok CEO Shou Chew in a congressional hearing on March 23, creators on the app defended the platform with the tag #tiktokhearing — It was a near-perfect split screen: As lawmakers ripped TikTok in a congressional hearing with the company's CEO on Thursday, the app's users took to the platform to defend it.
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Politico, New York Times, Platformer, The Verge, Variety, @tiktokcomms, Wired, Music Ally, Gizmodo, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, @thedextriarchy@mastodon …, @ebakerwhite, @dealbook, @ebakerwhite, @ebakerwhite, The Guardian, @mtracey, Arkansas Advocate, @sapna, @kateconger, @eugene_scott, @jdcapelouto, Reuters, @ebakerwhite, @luciengreaves, @kellymakena, Semafor, Forbes, Billboard, Politico and WFLA-TV, more at Techmeme »
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico: TikTok's plan to stave off government intervention: Flood D.C. with influencers
Casey Newton / Platformer: How TikTok failed to make the case for itself
Makena Kelly / The Verge: Congress seems more determined to ban TikTok than ever
Todd Spangler / Variety: TikTok U.S. Ban Would Be ‘Crushing Blow’ to Creators While Benefiting Snapchat, YouTube, Instagram: Experts
@tiktokcomms: Our CEO, @shouchew, shares a special message on behalf of the @tiktok_us team to thank our community of 150 million Americans on TikTok ahead of his congressional hearing later this week. Learn more on our Newsroom 👇 https://newsroom.tiktok.com/ ...
Dell Cameron / Wired: The TikTok Hearing Revealed That Congress Is the Problem
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: Will TikTok CEO's congressional testimony stave off a US ban?
Adi Robertson / @thedextriarchy@mastodon.social: It's worrying how many of these hearing questions boil down to lawmakers furiously asking TikTok why it isn't removing things that are almost certainly legal speech, and in some cases specifically asking why they don't take them down *the way they do in China*.
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: 6/ Lawmakers talked over Chew a lot, and sometimes asked questions they then didn't allow him to answer. Seems counterproductive! That said: not to get my hopes up, but there was a heartening amount of talk about legislation that would affect all tech companies, not just TT.
@dealbook: In December, ByteDance said that its employees based in China had retrieved data of U.S. TikTok users, including journalists. The revelations were perhaps the strongest public evidence of privacy violations by TikTok and ByteDance. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: Some thoughts on the TikTok hearing today: 1/ When members mentioned spying on American journalists, they were talking about me and my team (and @CristinaCriddle at FT in London). You can read more about that here: https://twitter.com/...
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: 5c/ There is (much) more that platforms can do to ensure that harmful content doesn't reach users, and we should have those conversations. But this problem is not unique to TT, and the assertion that people who work at these companies don't care about harmful content is wrong.
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: If “censorship” is defined as coercive state action to block, impede, or punish the expression of speech, nothing fits the bill like the government banning an entire social media platform in one fell swoop — instantly curtailing the speech of 100 million Americans who use TikTok
Jacob Fischler / Arkansas Advocate: Members of Congress blast TikTok CEO as bipartisan support for U.S. ban looks possible
Sapna Maheshwari / @sapna: “The future of TikTok in the US is definitely dimmer and more uncertain today than it was yesterday,” said @LindsayPGorman, head of technology & geopolitics at the German Marshall Fund & a former tech adviser for the Biden admin. https://www.nytimes.com/... w @ceciliakang @dmccabe
Eugene Scott / @eugene_scott: “If they went ahead with banning TikTok, it would feel like a slap in the face to a lot of young Americans,” Aidan Kohn-Murphy, a creator who used the app to support President Biden in 2020 https://www.axios.com/...
J.D. Capelouto / @jdcapelouto: TikTok is taking over the livestream video space, and that was on full display during the congressional hearing today. The bulk of the users on the streams were (predictably) on CEO Shou Zi Chew's side and mad that members of Congress want to ban the app: https://www.semafor.com/...
Sheila Dang / Reuters: Potential TikTok ban sends advertisers scrambling
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: 8/ It's wild to have written my first TikTok story just over a year ago, breaking the existence of Project Texas, and sitting in a hearing today basically devoted to it. All this because @SchoofsFeed said to @JohnPaczkowski last year, ‘hey, we should cover TikTok more!’
Lucien Greaves / @luciengreaves: That's right. If China wants all of our personal data they're just going to have to buy it from Facebook like everybody else! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Makena Kelly / @kellymakena: Watching today's hearing, it seemed as if most lawmakers had already made up their minds about TikTok. Wrote about it here! Photo cred @BeccaFarsace. https://www.theverge.com/...
Brian Bushard / Forbes: TikTok CEO Spars With Congress Amid Growing Calls For Ban—As Lawmaker Calls Privacy Claims ‘Preposterous’
Marc Schneider / Billboard: TikTok CEO Faces Grilling By Congress Over Security Fears
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to spend $1B per year to produce movies for release in thousands of theaters, a big increase from years past, seeking to grow TV+ awareness — Apple Inc. plans to spend $1 billion a year to produce movies that will be released in theaters, according to people familiar …
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The Verge, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Variety, @franklinleonard, @idownloadblog, MediaPost, @frankpallotta, The Information, @sonnybunch, Screen Rant, @colin_gladman, The Hollywood Reporter, @masked_investor, @shiraovide, @susanlitv, IndieWire, CNET, The Streamable, Media Play News, TechCrunch and AppleInsider
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Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge: Apple's plan to spend $1 billion per year on movies means more theatrical releases
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple to spend $1 billion annually on movies, aiming for major theatrical releases
Kevin Hurler / Gizmodo: Apple Is Betting a Billion Dollars on Theatrical Releases
Rebecca Rubin / Variety: Apple and Amazon Plan to Spend Billions on Movies for the Big Screen. Will the Pricey Gamble Pay Off?
Franklin Leonard / @franklinleonard: First question is $1B on production or $1B in total spend, but regardless, since they'll own the catalog, continue to make revenue on the streaming service, and already spend ~$3.5B on marketing (which part of this $1B film spend undeniably is) globally, this makes a lot of sense https://twitter.com/...
@idownloadblog: Bloomberg reports that Apple TV+ will spend $1 billion/year on global theatrical releases for titles like Martin Scorsese's “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Matthew Vaughn's “Argylle,” Ridley Scott's “Napoleon” and others. Cinema stocks jumped on the news. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Frank Pallotta / @frankpallotta: I'm old enough to remember when experts said theaters were extinct and films would find their home on streaming. With the US box office at -26% vs. pre-pandemic levels, theaters have a ways to go, but are rebounding. Apple sees the writing on the wall. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Jessica E. Lessin / The Information: Let's Talk About Jack Dorsey
Adam Bentz / Screen Rant: Apple Film Budget Is $1 Billion Dollars With Goal Of Breaking Into Theaters
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter: Cinema Stocks Jump Amid Report Apple Plans $1 Billion Theatrical Movie Push
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: Other big tech companies are setting adrift projects that don't make money AND cutting even deeper. And Apple is like, let's spend billions of dollars more on streaming, a business in which almost no one turns a profit. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Susan Li / @susanlitv: #Apple TV+ is estimated to have between 20 million and 40 million subscribers, fewer than rivals such as #Netflix and Disney+ #AppleTV $aapl #streaming https://www.bloomberg.com/...
David Satin / The Streamable: Apple Plans to Spend $1 Billion Annually on Theatrically-Released Movies to Enhance Profile of Apple TV+
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: Apple TV+ Takes Steps to Lift Profile, Including Big Spend on Original Movies
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Apple reportedly plans to spend $1B a year to release Apple TV+ movies in theaters
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Apple TV+ to spend $1 billion annually on movie theatrical releases
RELATED:
Giles Turner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple considers bidding for the streaming rights to a range of English soccer games, including to show Premier League games in the UK, following Amazon
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Julian Clover / Broadband TV News: Apple makes play for English football rights
Kevin O'Brien / Front Office Sports: Tom Brady Coming Up Aces
Nick Turner / @newsynick: Apple has been pretty successful streaming fake Premier League games (Ted Lasso), so why not try for the real thing? https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @turnergs @hellierd @markgurman @danielelepido
Luke Bailey / @imbadatlife: good to add a 4th paid service that still doesn't show all the games https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@irishtimesbiz: Such a move would pit it against the likes of Sky and Amazon https://www.irishtimes.com/... via @IrishTimesBiz
@bloomberguk: The rights under consideration would allow Apple to show Premier League games in the UK, as well as lower league matches run by the English Football League, sources say https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Grace Robertson / @graceonfootball: “The rights under consideration would allow Apple to show Premier League games in the UK, as well as lower league matches run by the English Football League” Bloomberg reporting it is a totally different thing to the gutter press. This seems real. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@bloomberguk: Such a move would build on Apple's recent expansion into live sports in the US, where it forged a $2.5 billion 10-year deal with Major League Soccer to show games on its TV+ platform Read in full ⬇️ https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Tony Maglio / IndieWire: Every MLS Game — and ‘Ted Lasso’ — Is Not Enough: Apple ‘Considering’ Bid for Premier League
David Satin / The Streamable: Report: Apple Eyeing Bid for English Premier League Streaming Rights in United Kingdom
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple again rumored to bid for English Premier League football streaming rights
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Apple TV+ considering bid to stream UK soccer
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Fox lawyers argue the company shouldn't be found liable in the Dominion case as the Murdochs and other executives were not directly involved in Fox News content — Lawyers for the company, which faces a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit, are pushing for a judge to rule in their favor before a trial.
Discussion:
William P. Barr / Wall Street Journal: Dominion's Weak Case Against Fox
Jack Shafer / @jackshafer: Nice try, Rupert. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Here's Bill Barr in the WSJ: Victory for Dominion against Fox News “would severely weaken the First Amendment protection all news media enjoy.” https://www.wsj.com/...
John Knefel / Media Matters for America: Fox News' lawyer throws Mike Lindell under the bus in recent Dominion defamation lawsuit
Lee Travis / @leetravis_: yet emails and the deposition proved they did have direct involvement... https://twitter.com/...
@tonywalker1: Outside paywall. If you believe this argument against Fox ownerships' responsibility for what appears on its News Channel you'll be inclined to believe anything. Somehow don't think this expensive legal argument will fly 😑 https://www.nytimes.com/...
@rolandsmartin: Sheer stupidity. They knew the truth and ALLOWED lies to be told. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Levine / The Guardian: Why Dominion is already the winner of the $1.6bn lawsuit against Fox News
Josh Dickey / The Wrap: Judge in Fox vs. Dominion Case Challenges Network Argument That Top Execs 'Didn't Have the Power' to Stop Election Lies
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Fox News, Dominion await key ruling from judge in defamation lawsuit
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: Fox, Dominion await judge's ruling in $1.6 billion defamation suit
Michael E. Kanell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution EIC Kevin Riley is retiring, to be succeeded by Leroy Chapman Jr., the first Black editor-in-chief in the outlet's 155-year history — Managing Editor Leroy Chapman to succeed Kevin Riley as editor-in-chief. Riley announced retirement Thursday.
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@erniesuggs, @theamirvera, @tamarhallerman, @nicolefcarr, @tiareports, @carolynryan, @jennifer__brett, @bizwriterkristi, @morsea, @mayatprabhu, @errinhaines, @bluestein, @bluestein, @shannonajc1, @niketa, @jeremylredmon, @raju, @marlonawalker, @nattheproducer, @michaelbjordan, @byjoelanderson, @educationalan, The Daily Beast and WAGA-TV
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Ernie Suggs / @erniesuggs: HISTORY MADE The @ajc has named @AJCLeroyChapman editor-in-chief, replacing Kevin Riley, who announced his retirement Thursday. Chapman will be the first Black top editor in the newspaper's 155-year history. RT this landmark moment in journalistic history https://www.ajc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Amir Vera / @theamirvera: LET'S GOOOO!!! Big congrats to @AJCLeroyChapman!!! Leroy Chapman will be the first Black top editor in the 155-year history of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. https://www.ajc.com/...
Tamar Hallerman / @tamarhallerman: Big, big news this morning at the @ajc. Kudos to @ajceditor after a dozen years as the paper's top editor. So excited to see @AJCLeroyChapman succeed him — and become the AJC's first Black editor-in-chief in its 150+ year history https://www.ajc.com/...
Nicole Carr / @nicolefcarr: 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Congratulations @AJCLeroyChapman !!! And job well-done @ajceditor ! https://twitter.com/...
@tiareports: Words can't express how proud I am of you @AJCLeroyChapman. Let's go! @nabj #nabj https://twitter.com/...
@carolynryan: “My family traces its history back to Colonial times,” the new editor said. “There is an arc from seeing my family on census reports listed as property all the way to this.” https://www.ajc.com/...
Jennifer Brett / @jennifer__brett: Such terrific news 📰 https://twitter.com/...
Kristi E. Swartz / @bizwriterkristi: tearing up just looking at this photo. @ajceditor had to steer that paper through so much muck, it was crazy, but he did it. And @AJCLeroyChapman is amazing. This is really really fantastic news. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Morse / @morsea: Today was a great day for us at the AJC. Kevin Riley, who has led this newsroom for the last 12 years, announced his retirement. Kevin is the longest-tenured major newspaper editor in the country. He has spearheaded award-winning w...https://www.linkedin.com/ ... https://www.ajc.com/...
Maya T. Prabhu / @mayatprabhu: And. He's the one who recruited me to the AJC. So on top of being so very happy for @AJCLeroyChapman, I am also very grateful. So #gapol folks, you can thank him (or cuss him?) for getting me five years ago. 🥰 So happy and proud for my friend Leroy. https://www.ajc.com/...
Jawn Staley / @errinhaines: Huge news for my industry and out of my hometown. Wishing @ajceditor the best in his well-earned retirement and cheering for @AJCLeroyChapman on his well-deserved ascent. https://twitter.com/...
Greg Bluestein / @bluestein: It was a truly emotional moment in the newsroom. Kevin is beloved by the staff, folks are thrilled with Leroy's promotion. 📸 @ryonhorne https://twitter.com/...
Greg Bluestein / @bluestein: HUGE news at the @ajc. The great @ajceditor Kevin Riley announces he's retiring. @AJCLeroyChapman will become the next editor in chief — the first Black top editor in the newspaper's 155-year history. https://ajc.com/...
Shannon McCaffrey / @shannonajc1: Emotional hand off today. Thrilled for @AJCLeroyChapman who becomes @ajc's first Black editor. And so sad to see the great Kevin Riley retire. #gapol AJC names new top editor https://www.ajc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Niketa Patel / @niketa: Fantastic news & so well-deserved! Congratulations @AJCLeroyChapman! 👏🏽💯 https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Redmon / @jeremylredmon: Amazing historic moment today for @ajc as Leroy Chapman @AJCLeroyChapman becomes the newspaper's first Black editor-in-chief. He succeeds the great Kevin Riley @ajceditor https://twitter.com/...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: Congratulations to my former @daytondailynews news colleague Kevin Riley @ajceditor, nearing the end of a terrific stint as the top editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and for having a worthy successor in place from within, in @AJCLeroyChapman. https://ajc.com/...
Marlon A. Walker / @marlonawalker: Atlanta has an editor named Leroy! Congrats to new @ajc editor @AJCLeroyChapman! https://ajc.com/...
Natalie Mendenhall / @nattheproducer: Congrats to Kevin Riley on a long and successful career. I also thank him for the kindness he shows us every Thursday on @PoliticsGPB. And congratulations to Leroy Chapman for making history! The sky is the limit. https://twitter.com/...
Joel D. Anderson / @byjoelanderson: Leroy has always been the best leader in the building and this promotion is ultimately a recognition of that fact. So happy for you, the newsroom, and the readers, @AJCLeroyChapman! https://twitter.com/...
Alan Richard / @educationalan: Wonderful news. As a former newspaper colleague of Leroy Chapman's in our native South Carolina, I look forward to continued good days ahead and growth at one of the South's most important newspapers. (And congrats, Mr. Chapman!) https://twitter.com/...
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
The FTC proposes banning difficult-to-cancel subscriptions via “click to cancel” rules requiring companies to make ending a subscription as simple as signing up — The US Federal Trade Commission is proposing a formal ban on subscriptions that are simple to start but difficult to stop.
Discussion:
Federal Trade Commission, NPR, @chargezenjerry, CNN, Boing Boing, @greg_doucette, @whstancil, @neolithicsheep, @r_thaler, @linakhanftc, @klausmiller, @donmoyn, @akivamcohen, @linakhanftc, @revelatrix, @blackamazon, The Hill, @mh4oh, @work_matters, @politicussarah, @mondeboeuf, Wall Street Journal, Insider, Ars Technica, MediaPost, Nieman Lab, Engadget, PCMag UK, CNET, Fortune, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, CBS News and Vox, more at Techmeme »
Discussion:
Federal Trade Commission: Federal Trade Commission Proposes Rule Provision Making it Easier for Consumers to “Click to Cancel” Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships
Rachel Treisman / NPR: Still trying to quit that gym membership? The FTC is proposing a rule that could help
Jerry Abrahamson / @chargezenjerry: I hope this covers gym memberships too. 👀 planet fitness If you sell subscriptions or memberships; please for d love of everything good, don't make cancellation a maze. It should be just as easy as signup; churn rate may go up, but you'll be alright. https://www.ftc.gov/...
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: FTC wants to ban subscriptions that you can't easily cancel
T. Greg Doucette / @greg_doucette: ::chuckles in DoNotPay:: https://twitter.com/...
Will Stancil / @whstancil: I proposed a version of this regulation in one of my first law review articles in 2015! Absolutely wild to see it really happening https://illinoisjltp.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Richard H Thaler / @r_thaler: Hurray! The @FTC takes on #sludge. There is no reason why you can subscribe with one click but have to jump through hoops to unsubscribe. This is just pro-transparency, not overreach. @CassSunstein https://twitter.com/...
Lina Khan / @linakhanftc: 9. We are inviting public comments on the proposed rule and look forward to the input and feedback. https://www.ftc.gov/...
Klaus Miller / @klausmiller: Interesting to see that @FTC is moving against #darkpatterns in #subscription #contracts. Our research contrasting auto-renewal and auto-cancellation in subscriptions shows that it's not always beneficial for the firm to exploit consumers! @N_sahni @AvnerShlain https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: This is a good example of the Biden administration siding with consumers by reducing administrative burdens that private actors impose on the public. More of this please! https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Akiva Cohen / @akivamcohen: “Make cancelling as easy as subscribing” is one of those obviously good consumer protection rules that I can't even imagine a reason to oppose. https://twitter.com/...
Lina Khan / @linakhanftc: 1. @FTC is proposing a rule to ban deceptive business tactics designed to trick or trap consumers into paying for unwanted subscriptions. The proposal would mandate “click to cancel,” requiring firms to make it as easy to cancel as they make it to sign up. https://www.ftc.gov/...
@revelatrix: i've worked for more than one consumer-facing tech startup that absolutely banked on the their ability to obfuscate the cancellation process and/or make it hard to return product. these companies do this on purpose and they absolutely will not stop on their own initiative https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: This would no lie be one of the greatest boons to journalism ever https://twitter.com/...
Morgan Harper / @mh4oh: Ever been caught unexpectedly renewing a subscription that you didn't want? FTC wants to hear from you. Let's stop companies from stealing our money! https://twitter.com/...
Bob Sutton / @work_matters: Looks like the vile “roach motel” strategy may be banned in the U.S. That's good government! #frictionproject I like @ft but won't subscribe again because of the massive hassle when I cancelled. My @ft experience was like @nireyal's ordeal @nyt https://www.nirandfar.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Reese Jones / @politicussarah: YES PLEASE https://twitter.com/...
Major Duh / @mondeboeuf: @mediagazer @thedextriarchy As the @nytimes forced me to go thru a “retention specialist” before accepting my demand for cancellation (yeah, they had to “accept"), I did enjoy the opportunity (on a recorded line) to elaborate why I refused to renew. It was cathartic.
Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: FTC Proposes Penalizing Firms for Onerous ‘Call-to-Cancel’ Subscriptions
Jordan Hart / Insider: The FTC proposes ‘Click to Cancel’ rule that would make it easier — and cheaper — to cancel subscriptions and memberships
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: “Click-to-cancel” rule would penalize companies that make you cancel by phone
Andrew Blok / CNET: FTC Wants to Make It Easier to Cancel Subscriptions
Chris Morris / Fortune: Can't get out of that gym membership? The FTC has proposed rules to make it a lot easier
Kevin Hurler / Gizmodo: FTC Wants to End the Hell That Is Trying to Cancel a Free Trial or Subscription
Aimee Picchi / CBS News: EMBARGO 3/23 at 6 am: Subscriptions can be hell to cancel. Now, the FTC wants a new “click to cancel” rule.
Sara Morrison / Vox: The era of impossible subscription cancellations is nearing an end
Mark Jacob / Nieman Lab:
Journalism schools aren't interested in banning Fox News, despite the Dominion case appearing to reveal that the network committed a breach of journalism ethics — Fox News appears to have committed a gross breach of journalism ethics: intentionally lying to its audience about the 2020 election.
Discussion:
@taraemcg, @froomkin, @jayrosen_nyu, @niemanlab, @markjacob16, @melanie_asu and @markjacob16
Discussion:
Tara McGowan / @taraemcg: “The whole journalism profession in the U.S. has been involved in this make-believe game of Fox as a normal colleague. And now it's slowly beginning to question that.”- @jayrosen_nyu to @MarkJacob16, who poses an excellent question to journalism schools 👇 https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@froomkin: Every journalist and journalism institution should renounce and sever ties with Fox “News” — except for journalism schools. I'm quoted here: https://www.niemanlab.org/... via @MarkJacob16
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “It's not just journalism schools — the whole journalism profession in the U.S. has been involved in this make-believe game of Fox as a normal colleague. And now it's slowly beginning to question that.” https://www.niemanlab.org/... My quote from “Why j-schools won't quit Fox News.”
@niemanlab: “In interviews for this story, the harshest position against Fox News among journalism deans seemed to be a sort of double-secret probation.” https://www.niemanlab.org/... by @MarkJacob16
Mark Jacob / @markjacob16: Journalism's support system legitimizes Fox News. A Fox reporter sits on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association. Knight Foundation, a major charitable funder of journalism, sponsored an event with Tucker Carlson. And Fox's Maria Bartiromo is on NYU's board. 5/6
Melanie Asp Alvarez / @melanie_asu: This is an interesting discussion, and dovetails nicely for any @Cronkite_ASU student who's ever heard my lecture on Cable News and the 24/7 News Cycle in #JMC110. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Mark Jacob / @markjacob16: I wrote this story for Harvard's Nieman Lab about why journalism schools won't stop dealing with Fox News on campus appearances, internships and jobs despite revelations in the Dominion lawsuit that Fox higher-ups knew the channel was spreading lies. 1/6 https://www.niemanlab.org/...
New York Times:
The ALA says 2022 saw 1,269 attempts to ban books and other resources in libraries and schools, the most since the group began tracking censorship 20 years ago — A new report from the American Library Association showed a spike in censorship efforts, with 1,269 attempts.
Discussion:
Publishers Weekly, Truthout, The Hill, Boing Boing, New York Daily News, CBS News and Al Jazeera
Discussion:
Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly: ALA Reports Shocking Increase in Attempted Book Bans in 2022
Julia Mueller / The Hill: Record book ban attempts reported last year
Jason Weisberger / Boing Boing: American Library Association reports book banning at an all-time high
Nathan Grayson / Washington Post:
Current and former Twitch staff describe how the service lost its way: out-of-touch leaders, losing big creators, cost cutting, many irrelevant ads, and more — The platform's recent moves have confused and upset creators, fans and staff alike — For Twitch, the live-streaming platform watched …
Discussion:
@vahn16, @vahn16, @pucknorris, @vahn16, @vahn16, @adribbleofink, @vahn16, The Information, @vahn16 and Kotaku, more at Techmeme »
Discussion:
Nathan Grayson / @vahn16: recent years have seen twitch bring in leaders from other companies, to the detriment of its culture. employees pointed to former vp of creators constance knight, saying she pushed for cost cuts (including 70/30 split removal) and pushed out longtime staff https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Grayson / @vahn16: “we just see brands uninterested in spending on twitch ads when there's so many good options out there,” said @DevinNash. this week, while announcing layoffs, twitch partially cited “user and revenue growth” that has “not kept pace with our expectations” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Vivek Sharma / @pucknorris: 🤯 that Twitch had 2500 employees. At max FB Gaming had maybe 90-100 people including product, partnerships and marketing. Snide comments aside we did some heavy lifting to help creators back in the day. Good times. https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Grayson / @vahn16: twitch, under the impression streamers had nowhere else to go, came to view departures of big names as an opportunity. “[with] ninja leaving, I think we saw five or six new stars come out of that,” said one former employee https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Nathan Grayson / @vahn16: “amazon was like, ‘cool, [twitch] is going to be the future of content and games,’” said @ZacharyDiaz. “then it decided twitch could be the future of white-label tech solutions for streaming ... what unlocks the real potential of twitch's value to amazon?” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Aidan Moher / @adribbleofink: It's money. It's always money. Every company loses its way when it chases profit over product and people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Nathan Grayson / @vahn16: at the highest level, it's an amazon problem. amazon wants a profitable company, and until twitch can achieve that, other gets take a backseat. but how it will do that remains in question https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kaya Yurieff / The Information: TikTok CEO Keeps His Cool, But Scores Few Points
Nathan Grayson / @vahn16: twitch has put pressure on streamers to run ads, but its ad business lags behind competitors like YT. at this point, it employs rudimentary targeting, but for years, it essentially had none. YT, by comparison, can target users with frightening specificity https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic:
Cory Doctorow plans to sell a third audiobook via Kickstarter after refusing to consent to Amazon's DRM for Audible, which gets 90%+ of genre audiobook sales — Red Team Blues is my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller; it's a major title for my publishers Tor Books and Head of Zeus …
Discussion:
@doctorow, @xor, @kayinthemargins, @yanisvaroufakis, @mbanzi, @bengoldacre, @lukewsavage, @cfiesler, @rosieethor, @mc_frontalot, @davidagoodman, @lessig, @rushkoff, @kkomaitis, @doctorow, @amandapalmer, @stevesilberman, @benoonbenoon, @sivavaid, @isislovecruft, @anatosaurus, @matthewstoller, @marietjeschaake, @swodinsky, @pomeranian99, @internetarchive, @mlsif, @ryanqnorth, @wrong_shon, @ip_policy, @rcalo, @rondeibert and @kdnyhan@social.esmarconf.org
Discussion:
Cory Doctorow / @doctorow: *Red Team Blues* is my next novel, a #PostCyberpunk anti-finance finance #thriller; it's a major title for my publishers @TorBooks and @HoZ_Books, and it's swept the trade press with starred reviews all 'round. Despite all that, #Audible will not sell the #audiobook. 1/ https://twitter.com/...
Parker Higgins / @xor: I've always admired that the themes of Cory's books run right through their real-world distribution. Unreal that Audible won't budge on audiobook DRM, and good for him standing strong and kickstarting another one! https://twitter.com/...
@kayinthemargins: Really important thread that writers and readers should, well, read. This issue is why I switched to https://libro.fm/ a while ago. Actually owning a product I buy is kind of important to me. 🙃 If you didn't know, it also helps you support your local indie bookstore. https://twitter.com/...
Yanis Varoufakis / @yanisvaroufakis: Cory's work deserves all the support we can give it! https://twitter.com/...
Massimo Banzi / @mbanzi: Cory's next book is on Kickstarter :) go support it! https://twitter.com/...
Ben Goldacre / @bengoldacre: My friend @doctorow keeps it real on copyright while the rest of us laze out the big fights. He won't allow DRM on his work. So Audible won't carry any of his audiobooks. So he self-produces them, and then pre-sells copies on Kickstarter. Here's the next. Moral duty to buy! https://twitter.com/...
Luke Savage / @lukewsavage: This will no doubt be great — check out Cory's new book if you can, read this thread on why he's crowdfunding the audiobook version, and chip in a few bucks on Kickstarter if you can! https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Casey Fiesler / @cfiesler: ✨FIGHT THE DRM CHOKEHOLD✨ P.S. DRM is a usability problem: https://medium.com/... P.P.S. Cory's books are really good. https://twitter.com/...
Rosiee Thor / @rosieethor: This is a huge reason why I am a @librofm user, myself. Also their app is superior to any other listening experience I've encountered with the possible exception of my library's app. Listening anywhere else just feels super clunky. Plus, they support indie bookstores! https://twitter.com/...
MC Frontalot / @mc_frontalot: One day Cory is gonna let me read the audiobook version of one of these things. Till then, I think we can all agree that Wheaton is doing a mighty fine job on them. https://twitter.com/...
David A. Goodman / @davidagoodman: I'm a giant fan of @doctorow fiction, his work is outstanding and this book is no exception. Help him release the audiobook of this great read by going to this kickstarter link and order a pre-sale! https://www.kickstarter.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@lessig: Because Cory won't accept DRM, he must Kickstart his audiobook. Support him here... https://twitter.com/...
Douglas Rushkoff / @rushkoff: Will Wheaton, the best audiobook reader ever, performs my friend Cory Doctorow's acclaimed, entertaining yet horrifying new novel about a crypto money-laundering conspiracy. (No DRM, however, so Amazon won't sell it.) https://twitter.com/...
@kkomaitis: Everyone who has been following @doctorow knows about his work on DRM. But this comes with a price, meaning that Audible won't carry any of his audiobooks. He has a new book out and he has started a Kickstarter to self-produce. Check below for the details....👇👇👇👇👇👇 https://twitter.com/...
Cory Doctorow / @doctorow: Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). Inside: Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won't sell; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/... #Pluralistic 1/ https://twitter.com/...
@amandapalmer: Monopolies and art not mixing. Please, read the whole thread. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Silberman / @stevesilberman: For many years, @doctorow has been one of the wisest, most deeply informed voices in my social network. Please read this thread on #Amazon's DRM “death-grip” on audiobooks, and please support Cory's @kickstarter for Red Team Blues: https://www.kickstarter.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Paul Bennun / @benoonbenoon: I'm lucky enough to have read this. It's an honest-to-goodness thriller from @doctorow, it's f'ing great, and you should support this project. https://twitter.com/...
Siva Vaidhyanathan / @sivavaid: This new audio book is a must-listen if you care about the errors and excesses of Silicon Valley. https://twitter.com/...
Isis Agora Lovecruft / @isislovecruft: not surprised but it's still horrendous that Audible refuses to release an upcoming book with rave reviews due to the author's (very justified) moral opposition to digital “rights” management https://twitter.com/...
Anat Shenker-Osorio / @anatosaurus: Audible doesn't want you to hear this book. So you know what that means... It's very worth a listen. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: Every @doctorow book is a must-read. And his refusal to knuckle under to Amazon's bs makes it a double must-read, which is not really a thing but for the purposes of this tweet it is. https://twitter.com/...
@marietjeschaake: Cory is challenging the stranglehold Amazon has over authors and their rights. He is one of the only people I know, who goes through the lengthy and costly work of practicing what he preaches. Help him raise funds for a great audiobook production without needing Amazon! ↘️ https://twitter.com/...
@swodinsky: an “anti-finance financial thriller” is the best descriptor for any book ever written tbh https://twitter.com/...
Clive Thompson / @pomeranian99: READERLY PEOPLE: @doctorow's doing a Kickstarter for the audiobook of “Red Team Blues”, his upcoming anti-finance cryptocurrency thriller Audible won't carry Cory's non-DRM-wrapped audiobooks, so: Kickstarter I just backed it (audio, ebook, hardcover!) https://www.kickstarter.com/ ...
@internetarchive: Did you know that @doctorow produces & sells his own #audiobooks via @Kickstarter so that readers won't have to encounter DRM, surveillance & ads? Read *Red Team Blues* in essay format now & support the cause 👇 https://twitter.com/...
@mlsif: Amazing to me how Cory Doctorow keeps churning out great fiction while also doing so much good work in the real world. Adding this to my reading pile! https://twitter.com/...
Ryan North / @ryanqnorth: Cory's books are always a thought-provoking treat, and you can read about his latest one below: https://twitter.com/...
@wrong_shon: its very cool how Cory is demonstrating how to break with Amazon's monopolization of audiobooks. (also writing good books) https://twitter.com/...
E. Richard Gold / @ip_policy: As #Audible not willing to provide access to works without a DRM, consider going directly to the author — @doctorow — for his next book! https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Calo / @rcalo: Read about how Audible won't sell the inestimable @doctorow's new post cyberpunk thriller (read by @wilw!) because DRM. You can support Cory's no-DRM book via @Kickstarter. https://twitter.com/...
Sky News:
The BBC shelves its next Top Gear season after presenter Andrew Flintoff was injured in a December 2022 crash at the show's test track — The BBC is scrapping its latest Top Gear series after an investigation into an accident that injured presenter Andrew Flintoff.
Discussion:
Harry Taylor / The Guardian: BBC will not resume filming Top Gear series after Flintoff crash investigation
Max Goldbart / Deadline: BBC Confirms ‘Top Gear’ On Hold After Andrew Flintoff Crash
Richard S / @stokesy1966: How much do you think the “antics” of Top Gear presenters over the years has influenced the appalling driving behaviour of many drivers? https://twitter.com/...
Charlotte McLaughlin / London Evening Standard: BBC will not resume filming Top Gear series after Andrew Flintoff crash
Matthew Lodge / Daily Mail: BBC will NOT resume filming the latest Top Gear series after investigation into horror accident that left presenter Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff seriously injured
Charley Adams / BBC: Top Gear filming halted after Freddie Flintoff accident
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