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Matt Novak / Forbes:
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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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/...
Britney Nguyen / Insider: Twitter labeled NPR as a ‘state-affiliated media’ and scrubbed its name from a policy page that contradicted the move
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Twitter singles NPR out with misleading state-backed media label
Colin Kirkland / MediaPost: Twitter Labels NPR ‘State-Affiliated Media,’ NPR Fights Back
Fox News: White House defends NPR after ‘state-affiliated media’ designation by Twitter: ‘No doubt of independence’
Alyssa Lukpat / Wall Street Journal: NPR Criticizes Twitter for Labeling Its Account as ‘State-Affiliated Media’
Sherrilyn Ifill / @sifill_: This is an absolute disgrace and slander. Musk grows more authoritarian by the day. https://twitter.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: Labeling @NPR as “state affiliated media” doesn't even follow Twitter's own guidelines. https://twitter.com/...
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: Twitter Called Out For Labeling NPR ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Despite Own Guidelines — So They Changed The Guidelines
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Twitter adds “state media” label to NPR account
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/...
J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter: Twitter, Bucking Its Own Policy, Adds “State-Affiliated Media” Label to NPR Account
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/...
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Musk expands feud with media by labeling NPR Twitter account “state-affiliated”
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/...
Nikki Main / Gizmodo: Twitter Adds ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Label to NPR
Ariel Zilber / New York Post: Twitter gives NPR ‘state-affiliated media’ label
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: Twitter Labeling NPR as “State-Affiliated Media” Goes Against its Own Definition of State Media
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/...
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: NPR Gets ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Tag in Twitter's Latest Swipe at News Outlets
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/...
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/...
Mike Janssen / Current: NPR asks Twitter to remove ‘state-affiliated’ label
@rmac18: makes me wonder what NPR is planning to report on Musk or his companies https://twitter.com/...
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/...
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/...
A.J. Delgado / @ajdelgado13: Disgusting. What a clown. https://twitter.com/...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
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.
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/...
@emptywheel: .@mmasnick busts Twitter for changing their state affiliated media account policy only AFTER labeling NPR as one. https://www.techdirt.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/...
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
Matt Novak / @paleofuture: But those guidelines were changed at some point Tuesday, scrapping NPR as an example. https://twitter.com/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Amber Mac / @ambermac: Is there a word for someone who constantly creates new easy problems instead of fixing ongoing hard problems? https://twitter.com/...
Big East Legitimist / @notbenfish: we did it whataboutismbros 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/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: I bet this is more about cozying up to China than it is about NPR. 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 “state-affiliated media” label is “unacceptable”; on average, <1% of NPR's annual budget comes from federal grants — Elon Musk tweets that the change to the public broadcaster “Seems accurate”
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Twitter Help Center, NPR, @dkthomp, The Guardian, Axios, New York Times, Fox News, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, Newser, @taradublinrocks, @prestonjbyrne, @saramorrison, @saramorrison, @leilafadel, @datnofact, Deadline, CBS News, @gwillowwilson, @stphnfwlr, @digiphile, @davidjoachim and @taylorbuley
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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/...
Johana Bhuiyan / The Guardian: NPR pushes back after Twitter designates it as ‘state-affiliated media’
Sara Fischer / Axios: NPR CEO blasts Twitter for “US state-affiliated media” label
Nardine Saad / Los Angeles Times: NPR objects to ‘state-affiliated media’ label Twitter slapped on account: ‘inaccurate’
@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/...
Preston Byrne / @prestonjbyrne: Media that's substantially funded by the public sector is state-affiliated. Twitter should slap the label on the BBC, too. https://twitter.com/...
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/...
Sara Morrison / @saramorrison: look at NPR snitching on PBS! 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
Kerry Breen / CBS News: Twitter labels NPR as “state-affiliated media”
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/...
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/...
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, Fast Company, The Verge, @ibjiyongi, @xoxogossipgita, @moorehn, @bernardchickey, @hamishmckenzie, @cjgbest, @byjudedoyle, @richardbspencer, @ericnewcomer, @sbienkowski, @badastronomer, @therealhoarse, @odannyboy, @f, @anthony, @malonebarry, @cjgbest, @alex, @juddlegum, @anthony, @rmac18, @emorwee, @chrisgeidner, @profemilyoster, @bettinamak, @hamishmckenzie, @substackinc, @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/...
Christopher Zara / Fast Company: Substack just announced its own Twitter
Jay Peters / The Verge: Substack is getting tweets — err, ‘Notes’
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein / @ibjiyongi: NEW TWITTER JUST DROPPED @SubstackInc! https://on.substack.com/...
@xoxogossipgita: Wow this really is “new twitter.” Anyway I'm at https://xoxogossipgita.substack.com/ 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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
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.
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/...
@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
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/...
@chrisgeidner: This looks like the Sweetgreen app. I kid I kid. Definitely interested in seeing what this looks like. 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/...
@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/...
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/...
Alan Cullison / Wall Street Journal:
Lawyers say WSJ's Evan Gershkovich faces steep odds in Russian court, including a secret trial, government influence, and uncertainty about access to his 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, @washingtonpost, @abcpolitics, Voice of America, CNN, NPR, Poynter, @davecbenoit, Fox News, @nohodge, @antontroian, @katierosman, @natashabertrand, @sgurman, @tggrove, @kenroth, New York Post, @jenniferlevitz, @jakecordell, @louiseradnofsky, Associated Press, 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
@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/ ...
@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/...
Jessica Jerreat / Voice of America: American Journalist Jailed in Russia Allowed Legal Meeting
Kylie Atwood / CNN: Biden administration preparing to declare Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia as wrongfully detained
Nina Kravinsky / NPR: Some Jews keep a place empty at Seder tables for a jailed journalist in Russia
Patrick Maynard / Poynter: What the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich means for foreign reporting
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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
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
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/...
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/...
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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Sources: The White House is preparing to declare Evan Gershkovich as wrongfully detained, triggering US government resources to work towards his release
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Stephanie Pagones / New York Post: WSJ reporter Gershkovich could be in Russian jail for a year before trial: sources
Aina J. Khan / NBC News: Lawyers visit U.S. journalist detained in Russia
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
The judge in the Dominion-Fox suit says he would compel Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch to testify live in court during the defamation trial if Dominion requests it — - 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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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
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian: Judge willing to force Rupert Murdoch to testify in $1.6bn Fox News case
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
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.
@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/...
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
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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 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
Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Over 12 current and former 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 after he arrived …
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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
Fox News: CNN's Don Lemon accused of extensive misogyny, sending threatening texts to female colleague: report
Isaac Schorr / Mediaite: Don Lemon, CNN Deny Report Accusing Host of Menacing and Belittling Female Colleagues (UPDATES)
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: CNN's Don Lemon threatened female coworker in 2008: report
Jacob Silverman / @silvermanjacob: In this article about Don Lemon being a misogynistic jerk and bad coworker, there is not one mention of any distinctive talent or journalistic accomplishment. He apparently is good at making friends with executives. 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/...
Ariel Zilber / New York Post: CNN's Don Lemon has long history of sexist, ‘diva-like behavior’: report
Ameshia Cross / @ameshiacross: The fix is in to take down Don Lemon...we'll see how this plays out https://variety.com/...
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/...
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
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
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/...
@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/...
Wilson Chapman / IndieWire: Don Lemon Accused of More ‘Sexist’ Behavior at CNN, Sending Threatening Texts to Colleague — 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/...
T. Becket Adams / @becketadams: I'm sorry, what? https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Despite Twitter's decline, reporters keep using it due to established audiences, the drama of Elon Musk's erratic leadership, and alternatives lacking features — Today, Donald Trump was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with a series …
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Casey Newton / @caseynewton: I had hoped by now that the media would have begun to divorce Twitter. Instead, some journalists are doubling down. Some thoughts on why: https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@dangoodin001: Today's reminder to my journalism friends that the bird is harmful to their vocation comes from NPR, which Twitter now falsely labels state-affiliated media. It's a shame NPR, other outlets, and individual journos don't simply walk away from the site. https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: “...journalists are put off by Musk's antics, and dunk on him daily. But those same journalists — along with a bunch of people Musk arbitrarily suspended, fired, or laid off — continue to tweet just the same...” https://open.substack.com/...
Brian Ng / Columbia Journalism Review: Q&A: Rémy Buisine on livestreaming the French pension protests
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: A good @CaseyNewton read about why journalists can't quit Twitter despite the fact that Elno makes it worse every day https://open.substack.com/...
Michael Pershan / @mpershan: A striking thing when digging into referals to my sites is that even during periods when I neglect twitter, it still is far better at driving traffic than other social networks. And it's not even close. https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Rohan Venkat / @rohanv: To add to this by @CaseyNewton, despite Musk's crazy actions, I will find it hard to leave Twitter - for me it was rarely a place for sparring/dunking, but instead a remarkable listening post, allowing me to eavesdrop on fascinating conversations. https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Nick Evershed / @nickevershed: Why journalists can't quit Twitter The media should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: Nobody is leaving Twitter because you can't take your audience with you. The same way no one moved to Canada when Trump became president. https://twitter.com/...
@alex: Ha ha ha I'm a corn cob and I know it or whatever that Dril tweet said Really tho I still love it here 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 …
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Court doc: in a 2015 meeting, David Pecker, then-CEO of the National Enquirer's owner, agreed to help Trump's 2016 bid; Pecker later suppressed negative stories — - Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled new details Tuesday about the role the National Enquirer's then-publisher played …
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Greg Sargent / @theplumlinegs: Oh man Trump tried to renege on the payoff after making the deal: https://twitter.com/...
Asha Rangappa / @asharangappa_: If Bragg can prove this, it totally takes Trump's “I just wanted to save Melania the embarrassment” defense. What a cheapskate! https://twitter.com/...
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: ‘That Was News To Me!’ Maggie Haberman Shocked Indictment Revealed Trump Hosted Pecker At White House
Alvin Bragg / @manhattanda: We allege Donald Trump and his associates repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters. Learn more from the Statement of Facts: https://www.manhattanda.org/ ...
Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post: Bragg's case against Trump is utterly incoherent
Joe Cirincione / @cirincione: This destroys the claim presented on Fox News and other MAGA outlets that Trump was forced to “pay off an extortionist to protect his family.” Clearly, his family would still be around after the election. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Rogge / @skiingrogge: Not gonna lie. I read this and I'm shocked how often David Pecker is in here. AMI is American Media Inc. Who is David Pecker? He was the CEO of the company that previously owned Powder Magazine. I've emailed with him on a few occasions after they shut Powder down. Just my... https://twitter.com/...
John Ziegler / @zigmanfreud: The #TrumpIndicment is clearly politically motivated (possibly to give liberals ecstasy, possibly to make him the GOP nominee, maybe both), & mostly full of crap, but this is the one element of today's indictment that is at least interesting, and, in a rational world, scandalous. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: G'bless @maddow: She can't stop laughing at the name “Pecker.” She is us.
David Corn / @davidcorndc: Of course. If you're not going to pay your contractors, why pay your adult film stars? https://twitter.com/...
Brian Tyler Cohen / @briantylercohen: While Trump's team tried to claim that the hush money payout wasn't intended to help him in the election, this demolishes that defense. Trump was perfectly willing to allow the story to become public AFTER THE ELECTION, proving that it was NEVER about “embarrassing his family.” https://twitter.com/...
Brian Schwartz / @schwartzbcnbc: NEW: Former AMI CEO David Pecker's role in helping @realDonaldTrump's campaign is a line of inquiry from the @ManhattanDA's probe. Pecker & AMI pushed negative stories through National Inquirer vs. Trump opponents. Trump invited Pecker to White House. https://www.cnbc.com/...
EJ Dionne / @ejdionne: This is also interesting because it underscores that the payment was directly related to the election. https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Sort of the most trumpy thing ever https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Getahun / Insider: Prosecutors allege that Trump met with Michael Cohen in the Oval Office to discuss Cohen's repayment following Stormy Daniels payout
Washington Post:
A study of ChatGPT found it cited fake articles in The Washington Post, Miami Herald, and LA Times and made up a sexual harassment story about a law professor — The AI chatbot fabricated a sexual harassment scandal involving a law professor—and cited a fake Washington Post article as evidence.
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Byron Kaye / Reuters: Australian mayor readies world's first defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT content
Eugene Volokh / Reason: Washington Post on ChatGPT Making Up Defamatory Accusations
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Matt Ford / @fordm: Can ChatGPT publish something with “actual malice” or a “reckless disregard for the truth”? Maybe we'll find out soon. https://www.washingtonpost.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: 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/ ...
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/ ...
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
A look at BloombergGPT, an LLM announced on March 30 and trained on general purpose datasets and Bloomberg's archives of news, filings, financial docs, and more — The news and data giant has — with a relatively small team — built a generative AI that it says outperforms the competition on its own specific information needs.
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Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: A purpose-built AI machine just for business and finance. See: https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
John Furrier / @furrier: theCUBE is one big Large Language Model LLM so is Bloomberg ..the CUBEGPT is coming soon https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: New by me —> What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data? That's what @Bloomberg has done with BloombergGPT — the sort of domain-specific AI I can imagine lots of publishers building. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: BloombergGPT aims to be AI for business news
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