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Twitter adds a “US state-affiliated media” label to NPR's account, seemingly contradicting Twitter's previous policy that used NPR as an example of an exception — Twitter added a warning to NPR's Twitter account on Tuesday, declaring it as “state-affiliated media,” …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt: NPR Was Twitter's Example Of What Should NOT Be Labeled ‘State-Affiliated Media.’ Then Musk Added The Label And Retconned The Policy
David Gura / @davidgura: Yesterday, @elonmusk's Twitter labeled NPR “state-affiliated media,” even though the company's own policy stated the organization shouldn't be labeled as such because it has editorial independence (left). Hours later, Twitter removed the reference to NPR in the policy (right). https://twitter.com/...
Lulu / @lourdesgnavarro: NPR is not state affiliated media. It is public media. The NYT is not propaganda. It is the most robust news organization in the English speaking world. The bias as to who is being targeted on this site by its leadership is so very clear. And it's not a small thing. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Novak / @paleofuture: Elon Musk's Twitter has added a label to NPR listing it as “state-affiliate media,” putting it on par with Russia's RT and China's Xinhua https://www.forbes.com/...
Ben Pauker / @benpauker: Twitter branding @NPR “state-affiliated media” literally conflicts with its own policy: “State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media...” 🤯 https://help.twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: Labeling @NPR as “state affiliated media” doesn't even follow Twitter's own guidelines. https://twitter.com/...
Sherrilyn Ifill / @sifill_: This is an absolute disgrace and slander. Musk grows more authoritarian by the day. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Griswold / @hashtaggriswold: Twitter appears to have seen this tweet and responded by editing its guidelines to omit NPR https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Britney Nguyen / Insider: Twitter labeled NPR as a ‘state-affiliated media’ and scrubbed its name from a policy page that contradicted the move
Colin Kirkland / MediaPost: Twitter Labels NPR ‘State-Affiliated Media,’ NPR Fights Back
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Twitter singles NPR out with misleading state-backed media label
Alex Howard / @digiphile: As @mmasnick notes, Musk abused his power “to arbitrarily ignore @Twitter's own rules so that he can do one of his stupid jokes, smugly insisting that @NPR is no different than, say, Chinese state-affiliated media” & then retroactively changed the @policy https://www.techdirt.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Caitlin Johnstone / @caitoz: This is true it has been Twitter's policy not to label NPR “state-affiliated media”, but that policy was always stupid for the reasons outlined above. Anyway Twitter has now edited that policy, while hilariously still claiming the BBC is not state media. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alyssa Lukpat / Wall Street Journal: NPR Criticizes Twitter for Labeling Its Account as ‘State-Affiliated Media’
Ben Pauker / @benpauker: Twitter edited and removed @NPR from its policy as an example of an editorially independent “state-affiliated” media organization. By now tagging NPR as such “Twitter will not recommend or amplify accounts or their Tweets with these labels to people.” https://help.twitter.com/...
Martin Austermuhle / @maustermuhle: NPR is no more “state-affiliated media” than Tesla is a state-affiliated car company because it has accepted government subsidies. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Musk expands feud with media by labeling NPR Twitter account “state-affiliated”
Kevin Maguire / @kevin_maguire: Toytown tyrant Musk reminds me of a kid banging a biscuit tin with a rattle. https://twitter.com/...
Pete Strzok / @petestrzok: This not only harms NPR, it helps state-owned propaganda outlets around the world. NPR is demonstrably unlike RT or Xinhua - but like-labeling confers its legitimacy to them. https://twitter.com/...
Pete Strzok / @petestrzok: Btw, here's Twitter's definition of “state affiliated media.” Note the emphasis on editorial independence. If the BBC isn't “state-affiliated media,” I don't see how you can argue NPR is. https://help.twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nicole Perlroth / @nicoleperlroth: Well put. I can also assure @elonmusk that then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did not consider @npr “state affiliated media” when he lost his mind at @NPRKelly https://twitter.com/...
Michaël Jarjour / @derjarjour: Labeling NPR the same as RT is dangerous and misleading. There are a few people at Twitter left who know this and I hope they speak up. https://twitter.com/...
Lance Ulanoff / @lanceulanoff: I don't get this. @NPR is no more “US-state affiliated” than, say, @PBS, which does not have that label. PBS gets some (not much, always falling) gov't funding. NPR doesn't even get direct funding (some small indirect). https://twitter.com/...
Abby D. Phillip / @abbydphillip: This is very problematic and as others have pointed out, goes against even Twitter's guidelines on this. https://twitter.com/...
@unbranded63: Musk will throw the same label on the BBC and the CBC next. Fascism is slow but steady. https://twitter.com/...
@althomelandsec: If @NPR is state-affiliated media, Twitter is also a state-affiliated media company. https://twitter.com/...
Helen Kennedy / @helenkennedy: Musk had to change Twitter's own guidelines to slap a state media label on NPR. His petty war on respected outlets that don't lionize him continues after he stripped the NYT of verification. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Janssen / Current: NPR asks Twitter to remove ‘state-affiliated’ label
@niemanlab: “US state-funded rockets” “US state-subsidized automaker” “US state-funded digger” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Erin Hale / @erinhale: State-affiliated media is not the same thing as publicly funded media. NPR, AFP, BBC, PBS all get funding from their governments but maintain editorial independence. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Holt / @mattholt33: The actual state-sponsored US media organization doesn't have the same marking as NPR. It's just so transparent what Elon is doing here and it's garbage https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: NPR Gets ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Tag in Twitter's Latest Swipe at News Outlets
@cszabla: “Twitter responded to a request for comment late Tuesday with a poop emoji, an automated response set up by CEO Elon Musk.” https://www.forbes.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Musk labeling NPR as “state-affiliate media” is another example of how Twitter used to have reasonably sensible and transparent policies which are now being rewritten in obviously nonsensical ways to fit with the whims of its owner. https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Grossman / @ngrossman81: Labeling NPR “state-affiliate media” is dumb, even dumber to change Twitter's rules to do it—too low a percentage of NPR's funding is from govt—and the effect will be weakening the label for actual propaganda outlets. But it's in private-company-makes-its-own- policies territory. https://twitter.com/...
Andy Boreham / @andybxxx: NPR, like other US state-affiliated media, completely ignored Nord Stream after it was blown up in an act of war, all at the behest of their masters in Washington. And people are still arguing they have “editorial independence.” https://twitter.com/...
Doug Saunders / @dougsaunders: The distinction between state and public media is well defined in a document known as... Twitter'a own policy https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: NPR president and CEO John Lansing says in a statement that it is “unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matt Novak / @paleofuture: But those guidelines were changed at some point Tuesday, scrapping NPR as an example. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Haas / @ryanjhaas: People with political brain worms are frequently mad that public media is actually funded overwhelmingly by local communities and not massive corporations. You can join the “state-affiliated media” by becoming a member of your local public station. https://give.opb.org/opb/ https://twitter.com/...
Brian Klaas / @brianklaas: Is Musk doing this because Russia/China complain their state media outlets get this label (because they're editorially controlled by despots)? I don't know, but these are the issues that come up when a Russia apologist billionaire with economic interests in China is in charge. https://twitter.com/...
John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton: Kevin is right, I believe that the false equivalency is the goal. https://twitter.com/...
Ilya Lozovsky / @ichbinilya: A worldview that equates outlets like RT and NPR is essentially saying that there's no such thing as non-propagandistic public media outlet. It's the same worldview you hear from authoritarians the world over. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Novak / @paleofuture: Twitter's own guidelines previously explained NPR didn't get a label because it had editorial independence from the government. https://twitter.com/...
Big East Legitimist / @notbenfish: we did it whataboutismbros https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: New by me —> If Elon Musk wants to label @NPR as “state-affiliated media,” there might be some other labels that need applying https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: I bet this is more about cozying up to China than it is about NPR. https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: nothing musk does is surprising if you view it through this framework https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: good @mmasnick on T&S policies at Twitter pre vs post acquisition https://www.techdirt.com/...
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: Twitter Labeling NPR as “State-Affiliated Media” Goes Against its Own Definition of State Media
Alex Griswold / @hashtaggriswold: They... ARE “connected.” Bit weird to pretend otherwise. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Culpan / @tculpan: Over the past three years, @tesla received over $200 million in government grants That's ~10x what @npr received So, State-affiliation is in the eye of the beholder? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Brady / @jeffbradynews: Uh, no... https://twitter.com/...
Nikki Main / Gizmodo: Twitter Adds ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Label to NPR
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: Twitter Called Out For Labeling NPR ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Despite Own Guidelines — So They Changed The Guidelines
Jim LaPorta / @jimlaporta: True but also @starsandstripes has editorial independence from the Defense Department https://twitter.com/...
@rmac18: makes me wonder what NPR is planning to report on Musk or his companies https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Twitter adds “state media” label to NPR account
Parker / @pt: I'm skeptical people are really going to start assuming RT is on the level of NPR, but I do hope whatever mind virus Elon has contracted is curable, because the chaos he's continually introducing to this website is not enjoyable. https://twitter.com/...
Ariel Zilber / New York Post: Twitter gives NPR ‘state-affiliated media’ label
A.J. Delgado / @ajdelgado13: Disgusting. What a clown. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Collier / @kevincollier: When Facebook and Twitter brought out state-affiliated media tags, they did a great job defining it: when an outlet's editorial control comes from a state. That's RT, Sputnik, China Daily. Not NPR. This equates democratic-funded reporting with literal authoritarian propaganda. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan H. Adler / @jadler1969: Funding numbers aren't quite right, but this decision by Twitter is indefensible. https://twitter.com/...
Ishaan Tharoor / @ishaantharoor: 90 percent of the reason why Elon Musk spent $44 billion to takeover Twitter was to do precisely these sort of things, grinding the ideological axe of his authoritarian-curious tech libertarian friends and their far-right followers https://twitter.com/...
@chenweihua: Elon Musk is now listing NPR as US state affiliated media. Good😂. But the hardcore US govt propaganda VOA is not listed. What is happening???? https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Chan / @melissakchan: Twitter labeling NPR “state-affiliated media” is terrible false equivalence to propaganda outlets like China's Xinhua or Russia Today. NPR gets ~1-2% funding f/ the federal government and has editorial independence. Xinhua denies a war in Ukraine and detention camps in Xinjiang.
@emptywheel: .@mmasnick busts Twitter for changing their state affiliated media account policy only AFTER labeling NPR as one. https://www.techdirt.com/...
Evan DeSimone / @mediaevan: Treating NPR like it was RT or Xinhua does nothing but further diminish the value of Twitter's various internal labels and flags. https://www.forbes.com/...
Diego Mendoza / Semafor: NPR slams Twitter over ‘state-affiliated media’ label
Alex Howard / @digiphile: Under Musk, @NPRNews has been falsely labeled as state-affiliated media. (No government entity has control of @NPR, @TwitterSupport.) Tweeting insults, suspending journalists, unverifying @nytimes, & now adding a false label to NPR shows a much deeper animus towards the press. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Muna / @muna_mire: Again, this is a direct result of legacy media giving credence and cover to the right. At this point you're doing a disservice to your readers and your own brand under the auspices of objectivity https://twitter.com/...
Laura Rozen / @lrozen: As a friend notes, Musk takes way more US government money than NPR does. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: Musk's anti-media animus made labeling worse. @NPR is an independent nonprofit news outlet: https://www.npr.org/... @NPRNews is not “state media.” @VOANews IS — but VOA accounts are not labeled. Adding this label to NPR is capricious, biased, & wrong: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Doug Saunders / @dougsaunders: Under this logic, Tesla would have to be labelled a “state-affiliated car company” in its tweets https://twitter.com/...
David W. Eastburn / @davidweastburn: @DefenseBaron ... I'll just put this right here... https://twitter.com/...
@wil_da_beast630: Sounds utterly correct. It's a hyper partisan network literally 70+% funded by the US government. https://twitter.com/...
Amber Mac / @ambermac: Is there a word for someone who constantly creates new easy problems instead of fixing ongoing hard problems? https://twitter.com/...
Philipp Markolin / @philippmarkolin: These are the subtle (and not do subtle) changes you expect to see from an anti-democratic platform. Words have meaning, intentional conflation and decontextualization serves only one group: autocrats who aim to control, manipulate & break the norms that hold together democracies https://twitter.com/...
Ian Miles Cheong / @stillgray: Twitter has now correctly branded NPR as US state-affiliated media. It is an accurate description. https://twitter.com/...
Kaivan Shroff / @kaivanshroff: Truly insane. Elon Musk's Twitter has labeled NPR as “state-affiliated media” a label it places on Chinese/Russian propaganda outlets. NPR gets less than 1% of its funding from the federal government and it's content is in no way controlled by the government. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Baron / @defensebaron: Proof Elon Musk is pushing his agenda? @NPR gets labeled “state-affiliated media” which is bogus. @starsandstripes, which is actually owned by the US government, is ignored. https://twitter.com/...
Debbie Hiott / @dhiott: The government isn't paying for @NPR, you are, through member station fees from stations like @KUT. Feel free to stick it to the Man, @elonmusk, by making your contribution at https://donate.kut.org/ https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: BBC gets about 70% of its funding from the government (via license fees), NPR gets about 1-2%. Former is not listed as state-affiliate media, but NPR is. Along with deverifying NY Times, illustrates how Musk is the one running a propaganda outfit to fit with his political views. https://twitter.com/...
@davidrlurie: @NPR may have a cause of action for defamation here. Twitter is assigning a designation to NPR that it knows, and indeed until yesterday acknowledged to be, false. As Twitter knows, however, media companies are loath to bring such suits. https://twitter.com/...
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
NPR CEO John Lansing says Twitter adding a “US state-affiliated media” label is “unacceptable”; less than 1% of NPR's annual budget on average is from US grants — Elon Musk tweets that the change to the public broadcaster “Seems accurate”
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Derek Thompson / @dkthomp: This is just silly. If NPR receiving less than 1% of its revenue from federal government programs makes it “state-affiliated media,” does Tesla accepting a $465m loan from DOE and benefiting from EV consumer subsidies make it “state-affiliated enterprise”? https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / Axios: NPR CEO blasts Twitter for “US state-affiliated media” label
Fox News: White House defends NPR after ‘state-affiliated media’ designation by Twitter: ‘No doubt of independence’
Bill Hammond / @nyhammond: Tesla's Solar City subsidiary would be specifically “affiliated” with New York State, whose taxpayers ponied up $950M for its Buffalo factory https://buffalonews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nardine Saad / Los Angeles Times: NPR objects to ‘state-affiliated media’ label Twitter slapped on account: ‘inaccurate’
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: NPR has an article complaining that Twitter now characterizes it as “US state-affiliated media.” To prove that they are not, they cite the fact that WH Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre today “defended NPR's journalism.” Strange choice. https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Leila Fadel / @leilafadel: “NPR stands for freedom of speech and holding the powerful accountable. It is unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way. A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy.” https://www.npr.org/...
Ted Johnson / Deadline: NPR Objects To Twitter's “State-Affiliated Media” Label
Sara Morrison / @saramorrison: if I was a media outlet re-assessing my relationship with Twitter and how something that is now subject to the whims of a moody billionaire shouldn't have become so causally woven into the infrastructure of journalism, I would maybe stop using it as a source. https://twitter.com/...
G. Willow Wilson / @gwillowwilson: We have to get off this platform. https://www.npr.org/...
Stephen Fowler / @stphnfwlr: NPR gets ~2% of its money from federal grants, a few million dollars, and it's editorially independent. Also, an outlet like Voice of America is literally US-funded media and has no label. It's not about facts, it's just capitalizing on poor media literacy to prove a point. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Morrison / @saramorrison: look at NPR snitching on PBS! https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Teresa Berkowitz / @teresaberkowitz: Downloaded the NPR app this afternoon. Here's their story on twitter's state affiliated designation. I have to work on breaking my Twitter habit and routines — at least when it comes to news. https://www.npr.org/...
Tay Buley / @taylorbuley: I would give up that 1% if it caused me so much grief https://twitter.com/...
Nina Jankowicz / @wiczipedia: I remember when Twitter introduced its state affiliated media policy; I thought it was extremely thoughtful. (It's rare for me to agree with these sorts of policies). Twitter giving NPR the same label as Russian propaganda is factually incorrect. https://www.npr.org/...
Kerry Breen / CBS News: Twitter labels NPR as “state-affiliated media”
@taradublinrocks: Hey @elonmusk what's this"State-Affiliated Media" propaganda on @NPR's profile supposed to mean? It's not up to you to tell your users how to feel about the truth https://help.twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: @TwitterSupport ... In a statement on @Twitter's inaccurate label of @NPRNews, @NPR CEO @JohnLansing pointed out that Twitter's own guidelines for “State-affiliated media” “make it clear” the label does not apply to NPR: “It is unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David S. Joachim / @davidjoachim: John Lansing, CEO of @NPR: “We were disturbed to see last night that Twitter has labeled NPR as ‘state-affiliated media,’ a description that, per Twitter's own guidelines, does not apply to NPR.” https://variety.com/... @johnlansing @xpangler https://twitter.com/...
Johana Bhuiyan / The Guardian: NPR pushes back after Twitter designates it as ‘state-affiliated media’
Semafor:
Tests show that Twitter's “stay informed” labels, implemented in February 2022 to flag tweets with links to Russia or China-controlled media, no longer appear — Twitter is no longer taking steps to limit the reach of Chinese and Russian state-controlled media outlets …
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Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Turns out that twitter under Musk is *more* friendly to actual state controlled media https://www.semafor.com/...
Sawyer Hackett / @sawyerhackett: Wow. The day after Twitter labeled NPR “US state-affiliated media,” we find out they've stopped limiting the reach of actual Russian and Chinese state media. The new policy violates Twitter's own stated policy. https://www.semafor.com/...
Chuck Ross / @chuckrossdc: Semafor, which is working with CCP front groups on a new journalism initiative, dings Twitter for not doing enough to curb Chinese state media https://twitter.com/...
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
The Dominion-Fox lawsuit judge says he would compel Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch to appear in court for the defamation trial if Dominion requests a trial subpoena — - A Delaware judge said Wednesday he would compel Fox Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch to testify live in court during …
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Katie Robertson / New York Times: Rupert Murdoch Can Be Forced to Testify in Defamation Trial, Judge Says
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite: Judge Rules Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Other Top Fox Execs Must Testify Live at Dominion Defamation Trial
Jane C. Timm / NBC News: Judge willing to force Rupert Murdoch to testify in the Fox News-Dominion trial
Jennifer Maas / Variety: Judge ‘Would Not Quash’ Request for Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch to Testify in Fox News-Dominion Trial
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story: The Murdochs and Paul Ryan can be forced to testify in Dominion case: judge
Fortune: Rupert Murdoch can be compelled to testify in Dominion defamation trial that could cost Fox $1.6 billion
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Dominion can call Murdoch to testify in Fox News lawsuit, judge rules
Marshall Cohen / CNN: Dominion can force Murdochs to testify at Fox News defamation trial, judge says
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch And Others Can Be Compelled To Testify Live In Dominion's Defamation Trial Against Fox News, Judge Says
Pradheep J. Shanker / @neoavatara: Good. Judge says he can compel Fox's Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch to testify live in Dominion trial https://www.cnbc.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Fox: “Dominion wants to continue generating misleading stories from their friends in the media to distract from their weak case.” It says Dominion is pursuing a “political crusade in search of a financial windfall,” saying the witnesses had nothing to do w the broadcasts at issue
@mmfa: We have compiled how much operational and editorial control the Murdochs have exerted over Fox News, including during its 2020 election coverage, including direct links to filings in the Dominion case. https://www.mediamatters.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “A Delaware judge said Wednesday that he would compel Fox Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch, and his son, CEO Lachlan Murdoch, to appear live in court for the upcoming trial in Dominion Voting System's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox...” https://www.cnbc.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: In a pre-trial hearing, Judge Eric M. Davis rules that Fox Corp chiefs Rupert & Lachlan Murdoch, Fox Corp chief legal officer Viet Dinh and Fox Corp director Paul Ryan can be compelled to testify in person for Dominion Voting Systems' defamation suit against the network.
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
In a letter to the Delaware judge in the Dominion lawsuit, Fox News names Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity among its witnesses to be made available at the trial — Attorneys named other hosts and executives as witnesses in the case brought by Dominion Voting Systems
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: Fox News says Carlson, Hannity, Bartiromo set to testify at defamation trial
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Substack unveils Notes, letting users share posts, quotes, images, links, and more, shown in a short form feed that “may look like familiar social media feeds” — Substack announced today that it's introducing a new Notes feature that is designed to let users share posts, quotes, comments, images, links and ideas.
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On Substack, @hamishmckenzie, The Verge, @sbienkowski, @badastronomer, @bernardchickey, @ibjiyongi, @odannyboy, @anthony, @byjudedoyle, @alex, @cjgbest, @rmac18, @chrisgeidner, @moorehn, @bettinamak, @substackinc, @richardbspencer, @ericnewcomer, @therealhoarse, @hamishmckenzie, @f, @malonebarry, @cjgbest, Fast Company, @xoxogossipgita, @juddlegum, @anthony, @emorwee, @profemilyoster, @hamishmckenzie, @parkermolloy, @hamishmckenzie and @siddharth3, more at Techmeme »
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Hamish McKenzie / On Substack: Introducing Substack Notes
Hamish McKenzie / @hamishmckenzie: Today we're announcing Substack Notes. Notes lets writers publish short-form posts and recommend almost anything: quotes, links, images, and comments. It's coming soon and will look like this https://twitter.com/...
Jay Peters / The Verge: Substack is getting tweets — err, ‘Notes’
Stefan Bienkowski / @sbienkowski: Substack unashamedly trying to replace twitter with a more sophisticated model. And I'm all for it. https://twitter.com/...
@badastronomer: I'm part of the beta testing for this, and I like it! Think of it as an in-house Twitter for Substack. You autofollow writers you're subscribed to, and can opt-in to follow a bigger group of Substackers, too. Nice way to generate community! Should be rolled out soon. https://twitter.com/...
Bernard Hickey / @bernardchickey: This is big news. I've been on the beta version of this for a couple of weeks and it is the bees knees. https://on.substack.com/...
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein / @ibjiyongi: NEW TWITTER JUST DROPPED @SubstackInc! https://on.substack.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: Substack is also smart enough to realize that Twitter is actively trying to drive the people who have provided the most value to Twitter over the past 15+ years and actively trying to court them and provide a way to monetize that value they're adding.
@byjudedoyle: This is great, because there's no way I'd stay on a Twitter being run by misinformation-spreading transpho — OH NO https://twitter.com/...
@alex: substack started as an email service that doubled as a blog, added podcasts and some community features, and is now building social-media-ish things https://techcrunch.com/... in product terms a very interesting company
Chris Best / @cjgbest: Today, we're announcing Substack Notes: a way to post shortform content and recommend anything on Substack. This matters because... https://twitter.com/...
@chrisgeidner: This looks like the Sweetgreen app. I kid I kid. Definitely interested in seeing what this looks like. https://twitter.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: “We hated the culture wars, so then we gave Glemm, T ai bbi, and a bunch of other culture warriors multimillion-dollar advances.” https://on.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@substackinc: We started Substack because we wanted the internet to be better for writers and readers. Today, we're taking a big step towards a better internet. Introducing Notes, a new way for writing, ideas, and discussion to travel through the Substack network. https://on.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Richard Spencer / @richardbspencer: I'm seriously considering focusing on Substack almost entirely. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer: Very curious to see this in action! Seems like it could be an off-ramp from Twitter https://twitter.com/...
@therealhoarse: This may well result in moving even more of what I would have posted here over to my feed on Sub—. https://twitter.com/...
Hamish McKenzie / @hamishmckenzie: This is a sneaky good thread about the Great Bifurcation (catchy term, please use it all the time) that is about to hit online media. On one end: TikTok + AI. On the other: Substack + humans. Subscription networks are going to matter. https://twitter.com/...
Fred Oliveira / @f: I am not Substack's biggest fan (a silo for people's writing, and clinging to the newsletter model makes for a confusing UX). But I'll promptly admit — this is interesting. There's a bunch of people I follow on Substack and a feed of their thoughts would probably be high quality. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Best / @cjgbest: We've been building the value of this network in order to create a real alternative for people who are hungry for something different, and Notes is the next step on that path. Read more about it here. https://on.substack.com/...
Christopher Zara / Fast Company: Substack just announced its own Twitter
@xoxogossipgita: Wow this really is “new twitter.” Anyway I'm at https://xoxogossipgita.substack.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: I've been using Notes for a few weeks. Two thumbs up. https://twitter.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: Seems like it could potentially be a Twitter replacement? https://twitter.com/...
Emily Atkin / @emorwee: Not mad at this new Substack feature at all. Fact is, Twitter's been a real hellsite since richboy mcwhineypants took over, but it's still the best way to communicate in short-form with readers. If this allows me to do that w/o having to rebuild my audience from scratch, I'm in https://twitter.com/...
Emily Oster / @profemilyoster: Substack Notes!! This looks cool and I'm excited to try it. Have been so grateful for all the @SubstackInc support for ParentData — love them. https://on.substack.com/...
Hamish McKenzie / @hamishmckenzie: Just to be clear. No one will have to pay for Substack Notes. The monetization happens a layer down. The goal is to get people to pay to subscribe to writers' publications... not to pay for Substack. Give writers the money! https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: I've been testing Notes, and I think it's got a lot of promise. And with Twitter inventing new rules every day and changing things without notice/reason, I'm glad to see Substack expanding into more social-y spaces. https://twitter.com/...
Hamish McKenzie / @hamishmckenzie: Notes will be launching soon to everyone. It'll be an early version, so we'll be looking for your feedback. Let's build a new economic engine for culture together. https://on.substack.com/...
Washington Post:
Study: ChatGPT cited nonexistent Washington Post, Miami Herald, and Los Angeles Times articles and fabricated a sexual harassment story about a law professor — The AI chatbot can misrepresent key facts with great flourish, even citing a fake Washington Post article as evidence
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Reuters, @willoremus, @bfriedmandc, Reason, @parismarx, @profdaveandress, Ars Technica, @garymarcus, @2020science, @gregpak, @willoremus, @lyalindotcom, @dancow, @pranshuverma_ and @fordm, more at Techmeme »
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Byron Kaye / Reuters: Australian mayor readies world's first defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT content
Will Oremus / @willoremus: Asked for examples of sexual harassment at law schools, ChatGPT named a GW prof accused of touching a student on a class trip to Alaska, citing a WashPost story. The prof is real. The rest was made up. We wrote about what happens when AIs lie about you: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Brandon Friedman / @bfriedmandc: Citing a Washington Post article that doesn't exist seems to be a minor problem compared to what will happen when it simply creates the Washington Post article it's citing https://twitter.com/...
Eugene Volokh / Reason: Washington Post on ChatGPT Making Up Defamatory Accusations
Paris Marx / @parismarx: even more reason to challenge the tech companies' claims that generative AI is the future, that chatbots will replace search, and that we can trust this tech. it's always move fast and break things to have a quick boom and cash in before people realize what they're doing. https://twitter.com/...
David Andress / @profdaveandress: Well, we got to the inevitable endpoint there quickly, didn't we? And it's all downhill from here. https://twitter.com/...
Gary Marcus / @garymarcus: this whole thread is worth reading. and it's chilling. the complete pollution of the information of the ecosphere that I have been warning about has begun. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Maynard / @2020science: ChatGPT fabricated a sexual harassment scandal involving a law professor—and cited a fake Washington Post article as evidence https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: @JonathanTurley ... Turley is not the only one who's found AI chatbots making things up about him. An Australian mayor is threatening to sue after ChatGPT claimed he'd been imprisoned for bribery. USC prof @katecrawford dubs these falsely sourced stories “hallucitations.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Dmitry Lyalin / @lyalindotcom: Always double check the bots. We're in really early days. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Nguyen / @dancow: I've been slow on the uptake for AI, but I've felt like I'm going crazy by how quickly the mainstream has deemed ChatGPT & Bing as authoritative or “better than” google/libraries. It took years for Wikipedia to be kind of trusted (and chatgpt heavily cites from it!) https://twitter.com/...
Pranshu Verma / @pranshuverma_: new: ChatGPT said a law prof. sexually touched a student on a class Alaska trip, citing a 2018 WaPo article as proof. There was no WaPo article. No trip. He said he'd never been accused of sexual assault. What happens when chatbots lie. w/@WillOremus https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Over 12 former and current CNN colleagues detail Don Lemon's troubling treatment of women, “diva-like behavior”, and more, dating back nearly two decades — Back in 2008, Don Lemon was co-anchoring CNN's “Live From” weekday show with Kyra Phillips, a gig that he landed …
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Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, Advocate, New York Magazine, Insider, @ameshiacross, @robsmithonline, @iamsophianelson, @rkylesmith, Mediaite, The Wrap, @ichotiner, @sonnybunch, IndieWire, Fox News, @becketadams, Jezebel, @meghanmccain, @fmanjoo, @tatianasiegel27, @fugitivemama, @edasante77, @andrewkerrnc, New York Post, The Hill, TVLine, @willsommer, @hashtaggriswold, @ewerickson, @silvermanjacob and The Daily Beast
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Nardine Saad / Los Angeles Times: Don Lemon fires back on ‘15-year-old gossip’ after report alleging misogyny, rule-flouting
Kelby Vera / HuffPost: Don Lemon's CNN Colleagues Claim Long History Of Misogyny In Bombshell Report
Rebecca Cohen / Insider: CNN anchor Don Lemon sent anonymous, threatening texts to a co-star after she beat him to a reporting gig, sources tell Variety
Ameshia Cross / @ameshiacross: The fix is in to take down Don Lemon...we'll see how this plays out https://variety.com/...
Rob Smith / @robsmithonline: This entire article is NUTS. I've met Lemon more than once and know for a personal fact that he's...unpleasant. But this behavior is next-level cray. Someone wants that man gone from CNN. https://variety.com/...
Sophia A. Nelson / @iamsophianelson: They want him gone. It's been a long time coming. This is just window dressing! Smh. #DonLemon https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Smith / @rkylesmith: I think this'll end Don Lemon's CNN career. https://variety.com/... via @variety
Isaac Schorr / Mediaite: Don Lemon, CNN Deny Report Accusing Host of Menacing and Belittling Female Colleagues (UPDATES)
Isaac Chotiner / @ichotiner: Is Don Lemon a worse person or a worse journalist? There are no easy answers here. https://variety.com/...
Sonny Bunch / @sonnybunch: If this story is true, it is absolutely nuts that CNN didn't fire Lemon. https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Wilson Chapman / IndieWire: Don Lemon Accused of More ‘Sexist’ Behavior at CNN, Sending Threatening Texts to Colleague — Report
Fox News: CNN's Don Lemon accused of extensive misogyny, sending threatening texts to female colleague: report
T. Becket Adams / @becketadams: I'm sorry, what? https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kylie Cheung / Jezebel: Don Lemon's Co-Workers Spill the Tea on His Deep Misogyny, Bullying Texts, & Dating a 22-Year-Old
Meghan McCain / @meghanmccain: .@KyraPhillips is a mentor, a friend, a sister to me... One of the greatest, most supportive women in all of media. She has been a rock and to me and so many other countless women. If any of these insane allegations are true about Don Lemon - I can't express how repulsed I am. https://twitter.com/...
Tatiana Siegel / @tatianasiegel27: Don Lemon's recent take that Nikki Haley “isn't in her prime” wasn't an isolated event. Troubling behavior w/ female colleagues goes back nearly 2 decades. My latest. https://variety.com/... via @variety
@fugitivemama: “..she received the first of two threatening text messages from an unknown number on her flip phone that warned, 'Now you've crossed the line, and you're going to pay for it.' Remarkably, the texts were traced back to Lemon.” Don Lemon is a psychopath not just a misogynist. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Kerr / @andrewkerrnc: Don Lemon reportedly threatened his colleague with an anonymous phone number in 2008 because he was jealous CNN sent her on assignment in Iraq. https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ariel Zilber / New York Post: CNN's Don Lemon has long history of sexist, ‘diva-like behavior’: report
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: CNN's Don Lemon threatened female coworker in 2008: report
Rebecca Iannucci / TVLine: Ex-CNN Anchor Soledad O'Brien Rips ‘Idiotic’ Don Lemon in Blistering Exposé
Will Sommer / @willsommer: Wild story about Don Lemon here, including Lemon allegedly texting a colleague: “Now you've crossed the line, and you're going to pay for it.” https://variety.com/...
Alex Griswold / @hashtaggriswold: idk what Don Lemon did, but this punishment seems excessive https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Erick Erickson / @ewerickson: The knives are out for Don Lemon at CNN. This reads like a precipitating event for his departure. https://variety.com/...
Alan Cullison / Wall Street Journal:
Lawyers say The Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich faces steep odds in Russian court, including a secret trial, government influence, and possibly no lawyer — WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich will face steep odds in Russian court that gives few means for defense
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fox News, @natashabertrand, Poynter, @jakecordell, @davecbenoit, NPR, Voice of America, @antontroian, Newser, @katierosman, @kenroth, New York Post, @washingtonpost, @jenniferlevitz, @abcpolitics, @louiseradnofsky, Bloomberg, @tggrove, @nohodge, @sgurman, Associated Press, CNN, The Desk, CBS News, Reuters Institute and Talking Biz News
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Anton Troianovski / New York Times: He Told Their Stories of Repression. Now They Are Telling His.
Wall Street Journal: White House Says Release of Evan Gershkovich From Russian Prison Is Priority for Biden
Natasha Bertrand / @natashabertrand: The Biden administration is preparing to officially declare Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as wrongfully detained, which will trigger US government resources to work towards his release, according to two US officials. via @kylieatwood https://www.cnn.com/...
Patrick Maynard / Poynter: What the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich means for foreign reporting
Jake Cordell / @jakecordell: There isn't a manual for when one of your reporters gets locked up on spurious espionage charges & sent to an ex-KGB detention centre, facing 20 years. The WSJ is doing stellar work in covering the case, telling the world about Evan as a person & advocating for his release https://twitter.com/...
Dave Benoit / @davecbenoit: We start another day here at WSJ reporting on the news while our colleague Evan Gershkovich is locked in a Russian prison for doing the same. He remains our top story and focus. #IStandWithEvan https://www.wsj.com/...
Nina Kravinsky / NPR: Some Jews keep a place empty at Seder tables for a jailed journalist in Russia
Jessica Jerreat / Voice of America: American Journalist Jailed in Russia Allowed Legal Meeting
Anton Troianovski / @antontroian: “What makes Western journalists so dangerous to the Russian authorities?” Mr. Kurnikov asked on YouTube. “These are world-renowned media that you can't ignore.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Katie Rosman / @katierosman: I can't imagine the pain and panic experienced by WSJ editors and reporters and yet their coverage of Evan is OUTSTANDING. #IStandWithEvan https://twitter.com/...
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: “Evan Gershkovich's work for The Wall Street Journal included reporting on Russians' efforts to help others who were being repressed. Russian journalists are now scrutinizing his arrest as a brazen attack on press freedom.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Isabel Keane / New York Post: US prepared to say reporter held in Russia was ‘wrongfully detained’: report
@washingtonpost: Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that the State Department was working “very deliberately but expeditiously” to decide whether reporter Evan Gershkovich meets agency criteria to begin a broad government effort to secure his release. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jennifer Levitz / @jenniferlevitz: The White House said the release of Evan Gershkovich is a priority for President Biden. “These charges are ridiculous. Evan is not a spy,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Tuesday. #IStandWithEvan https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
@abcpolitics: Former Gov. Bill Richardson, an expert on political prisoner negotiations, says the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia is “unacceptable.” https://abcnews.go.com/...
Louise Radnofsky / @louiseradnofsky: The State Department is working expeditiously to decide whether to designate as “wrongfully detained” Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said via @vmsalama @AndrewRestuccia https://www.wsj.com/...
Thomas Grove / @tggrove: Like in the U.S., Mr. Gershkovich is guaranteed a defense lawyer in Russia. But in practice, there is no promise of when his lawyer will be allowed to talk to him. When they do talk, their conversations will be closely monitored. #istandwithevan https://www.wsj.com/...
Nathan Hodge / @nohodge: “Lawyers with experience in the Russian judicial process predict a journey through a justice system with the familiar features of Western courts but little of their substance.” @AlanCullison on the fig leaf of Russian legal procedure #FreeEvan https://www.wsj.com/...
Sadie Gurman / @sgurman: “On paper, it's a court system w/ all sorts of pretense to modernity, but the reality is less encouraging,” said Tom Firestone, former resident legal adviser to U.S. Embassy in Moscow. “It's basically an instrument of state control.” @AlanCullison https://www.wsj.com/...
Kylie Atwood / CNN: Biden administration preparing to declare Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia as wrongfully detained
CBS News: Wall Street Journal reporter held in Russia on espionage charges meets with lawyers, editor says
Katherine Dunn / Reuters Institute: Evan Gershkovich felt it was his “duty” to document a country shaped by war and repression. Then he was arrested
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: Lawyers seeking to meet with WSJ's Gershkovich
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CNN:
Sources: The White House plans to declare Evan Gershkovich as wrongfully detained in Russia, triggering US government resources to work toward his release
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Aina J. Khan / NBC News: Lawyers visit U.S. journalist detained in Russia
Matthew Lee / Associated Press: Blinken has ‘no doubt’ that WSJ reporter accused of being a spy is wrongfully detained—but there's no formal declaration yet
Matt Walljasper / Atlanta Magazine:
A look at independent local outlets in the Atlanta area, including Decaturish and Capital B, often using nontraditional revenue models and reporting methods — Dan Whisenhunt started Decaturish “purely out of spite”—he'd been applying unsuccessfully for jobs at a certain major local news outlet …
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@niemanlab: In the last five years, Atlanta Civic Circle, Capital B, Canopy Atlanta, the Atlanta Community Press Collective, and local bureaus of Axios and the national investigative news site ProPublica have all set up shop in the city. https://www.atlantamagazine.com/ ...
American Press Institute: Need to Know: April 5, 2023 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: Trump—and the press …
@atlantamagazine: Independent outlets are not only challenging revenue models—they're changing the way local outlets approach journalism itself https://www.atlantamagazine.com/ ...
@writegavinwrite: “Just over a year old, the Atlanta bureau is the first in a growing network of Capital B outlets around the country—next stop: Gary, Indiana—foregrounding Black voices and tackling education, health, criminal justice, and more.” https://www.atlantamagazine.com/ ...
Christina Lee / @minaannlee: .@neonflag: “The media entities that are big names with money and influence, they lack flexibility and nimbleness.” @AtlantaMagazine reports on new indie news outlets like the Atlanta Objective, @canopyatl, @austinlouisray's How I'd Fix Atlanta, and more: https://www.atlantamagazine.com/ ...
@longreads: “Are so many start-ups a sign of a healthy ecosystem, or of an industry still trying to find its footing?” Heather Buckner covers a local-news boom in @AtlantaMagazine. https://www.atlantamagazine.com/ ...
Austin L. Ray / @austinlouisray: “This newsletter proposes outside-the-box solutions to Atlanta's problems, from rewilding golf courses to creating a ‘Mega-Atlanta’ by redrawing the city's boundaries.” It's an honor and a thrill to see How I'd Fix Atlanta included here: https://www.atlantamagazine.com/ ...
@decaturish: Thank you, Atlanta Magazine, for writing an article about our 10th year in business and exploring the state of independent journalism in Atlanta. https://www.atlantamagazine.com/ ...
Buddy Ruski / @buddyruski: I've never felt more seen in an article before in my life! @NiemanLab Congratulations @Decaturish on your success. You are an inspiration! https://twitter.com/...
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Amazon plans to relaunch its MGM streaming service as MGM+ International in Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands, with Lionsgate and Starz titles — MGM+ has also concluded a content deal with Lionsgate for a package of premium films and television series and under this arrangement …
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
A German court orders host Uberspace to take down youtube-dl's website due to Sony, Warner, and Universal's copyright lawsuit in 2022; Uberspace plans to appeal — A German court has ordered hosting provider Uberspace to take the website of the open-source youtube-dl software offline.
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@Viss@mastodon.social: well this is bad. — a german court has ruled that uberspace, the hosting provider that hosts the youtube-dl tool, has to take the site down “because copyright infringement” …
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: Here we go again. Just a reminder, this is an important journalistic tool, and many media sites include it in articles about what tools to use. Although, most today use yt-dlp instead (more up to date, and wider support) https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Bailey / Plagiarism Today: 3 Count: Digital Basel Redux
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