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The Fox-Dominion settlement is the largest publicly disclosed one in a US defamation case yet; sources: Fox doesn't have to make an on-air correction or apology — The agreement brings an abrupt end to one of the most significant media cases in recent decades, one that hinged on false claims about a presidential election
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Bill O'Reilly / No Spin News: Special Message: Fox News Settlement
Trip Gabriel / @tripgabriel: Murdoch's history of settling scandalous claims —$139 million in 2013 over phone hacking by London tabloid —$90 million in 2017 over sexual harassment by Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly. —$787.5 million to avoid being found guilty of “actual malice” today https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Biggest winners and losers in the blockbuster Fox-Dominion settlement
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: “I'm sorry. This is going to be difficult to say with a straight face.” Jake Tapper can't help but laugh at Fox News' statement after reaching a $787 million settlement with Dominion. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime: Don't get it twisted: Fox's $787.5M defamation deal is record-setting, massive and painful, experts say
Aaron Blake / @aaronblake: The Fox News website's story on the Dominion settlement is only 161 words long. It makes no mention of the dollar amount and little mention of the substance, which it summarizes as involving “coverage of the post-2020 presidential election.” https://www.foxnews.com/...
Peter Maass / @maassp: Not really a surprise that Dominion Voting Systems, owned by a private equity firm, let Fox News buy its way out of a defamation trial: “One terrible limb of American capitalism was always unlikely to save us from another terrible limb.” https://theintercept.com/...
Irina Ivanova / CBS News: This private equity firm is the biggest winner in the Dominion-Fox News settlement
Prem Thakker / New Republic: For Some Reason, Dominion Settles With Fox in Defamation Lawsuit Over Election Lies
@jakeadelstein: And that's a wrap. Rupert Murdoch learns that lying out your ass can cost you $787 million but that's chump change for the man. The settlement would only bother him if he had a conscience. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: The Murdochs have paid vast amounts of money before to make their problems go away. It does not seem to have made them any more virtuous. https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@steven_strauss: O'Reilly to his credit was never a birther - he actual did a segment explaining Obama was born in America and went over the evidence https://twitter.com/...
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: One way to look at the Fox settlement: Dominion's owners just got 10x what the company was worth when they bought a majority interest in 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tim O'Brien / @timobrien: Bill O'Reilly invokes the AP Stylebook to rewrite the past. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Van Velzer / @ryanvanvelzer: “From the top down, the Murdochs and Fox created a network defined by a relentless pursuit of ratings that placed profit above politics, and partisan advantage above any sense of journalistic obligation. The public's right to know the truth rarely earned a hearing.” https://twitter.com/...
Tom Fitton / @tomfitton: The Dominion shakedown settlement of Fox News doesn't change reality — the 2020 election was rigged six ways to Sunday. https://twitter.com/...
Paul Farhi / @farhip: One obvious takeaway from the Fox settlement was that it was predictable. Why? Yes, Fox had a weak case. But it's also because this is what Rupert Murdoch routinely does when his companies are faced with allegations of misconduct. More.... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Hal Davis / @haldavis3: .@ErikWemple: the resolution requires a great deal of something that Fox News has in wheelbarrows (money) and very little of something it has in teaspoons (editorial integrity). https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Tom Jones / Poynter: The media trial of the century is over in a day: A breakdown of the Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems settlement
Julian Clover / Broadband TV News: Last minute settlement in Fox-Dominion case
@erikwemple: Don't want to close the books on Dominion v. Fox News without thanking @SeanGOSullivan of the Delaware courts for his assistance with courthouse access/acclimation and answers to endless questions about timelines and schedules and so on. Great work.
Alex Padilla / @alexpadilla4ca: The role of Fox News in propagating the Big Lie, and radicalizing MAGA Republicans to the point that they attempt to violently overturn an election, goes far beyond financial damages to a single company. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@jamilsmith: Dominion may have done a public service, to an extent. But it does not exist to serve the public interest, as @maassp notes here. It is a for-profit company owned by a small private equity firm. Private equity was never going to save American democracy. https://theintercept.com/...
Andrew Wilkow / @wilkowmajority: Now the path is clear for voting machine companies to engage in future fraud because #Conservative news orgs will be fearful of reporting and it's not like left leaning orgs will expose the truth if the future fraud benefits the #democrats. https://apnews.com/...
Paul Farhi / @farhip: Before the Dominion case, Murdoch had paid out about $750 million in lawsuit settlements to various parties. And that's just the lawsuits that became public.
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: “Fox has admitted to telling lies about Dominion that caused enormous damage to my company, our employees and the customers that we serve. Nothing can ever make up for that. Throughout this process, we have sought accountability,” https://www.npr.org/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Bill O'Reilly: “Since I left FNC, the template changed from ‘Fair and Balanced’ to ‘tell the audience what it wants to hear.’ And millions of Trump voters, to this day, want to believe the 2020 election was rigged.” https://www.billoreilly.com/ ...
Ted Lieu / @tedlieu: Based on the historic Fox News settlement we learn, again, that Trump lost Georgia. And Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. If you still believe the election was stolen, you're either dumb as rocks or you're an unAmerican sore loser who rejects the will of the voters. https://twitter.com/...
Ron Fournier / @ron_fournier: It's nothing. It's a pittance. It's a small price to pay for attacking the heart of democracy, a people's faith in elections. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots: No Apologies for Fox's Costly Lies
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Although Fox averted trial by settling Dominion's defamation case, what we've learned will define the network for years. My story: https://www.npr.org/...
Clare Malone / @claremalone: Scenes from a Wilmington courtroom—and from cornering lawyers on elevators—my writeup of today's Dominion/Fox settlement. https://www.newyorker.com/...
Lindy Li / @lindyli: As always, Murdoch got off easy The line items below are nothing more than the cost of doing business, already baked in and negligible for a company with a market cap of $17 billion Investors don't care and continue to be bullish on Fox Corp and Murdoch's “leadership” https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Astonishing anecdote from the NYT's Fox story, one that showcases the groveling obeisance that Murdoch's lieutenants must pay to their boss, even when Rupert himself knows better https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Scott MacFarlane / @macfarlanenews: Superior court here in Wilmington, Delaware has posted the judge's order relieving the special master of his duties in Dominion v Fox News civil suit Trial transcript is posted too. Makes it official: settlement was formally announced at 3:55p Tuesday. Ending a landmark case
David Axelrod / @davidaxelrod: If the Murdocks were willing to part with three-quarters of a billion to keep this suit from going to trial, imagine how devastating they believed the trial would have been! https://apnews.com/...
@waltisfrozen: Under the so-called “Fair and Balanced” template, Bill O'Reilly provoked the assassination of George Tiller. https://twitter.com/...
Renato Mariotti / @renato_mariotti: I recently watched some of the old debates between Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart on YouTube. At the time, in 2011 and 2012, O'Reilly had the #1 show on Fox News. But in those debates he sounded nothing like the Fox News of today, which has lurched even further to the right. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: We are sorry to inform you that private-equity firms do not share the same zeal for disclosure of Murdoch misdeeds that many others do. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Dominion's pretrial strategy — pushing out a lot of damning excerpts from Fox's internal emails/texts, or from depositions — was brilliant https://twitter.com/...
@erikwemple: One thing: Lots of folks who care about honest media in America will curse Dominion for settling. But consider: This litigation, even tho it didn't got all the way to a jury verdict, exposed Fox News to a strong dose of transparency and accountability.
Matt Weil / @mattiweil: For some perspective, this settlement from Fox News to a voting system vendor is more the 10x the amount of funding Congress appropriated to the states for elections in the FY23 budget @FoxNews is now a bigger funder of elections than the U.S. government https://twitter.com/...
Brian Klaas / @brianklaas: Yeah, this is the issue. Fox reporters try to hide behind the “we're on the news side!” excuse, but their salaries are paid by revenues generated by hosts who knowingly lie night after night to their audiences in ways that severely damage democracy. Can't get away from that. https://twitter.com/...
Al Franken / @alfranken: $787.5 million payment seems like an admission of guilt, doesn't it? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kurt Andersen / @kbandersen: So in just one week we've had two supposedly unbuyable things priced: knowingly and systematically causing many millions of Americans to believe a profoundly consequential and dangerous lie ($787.5M), and having Harvard rename half of itself after you ($300M). https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Trip Gabriel / @tripgabriel: Journalism reality check: At any mainstream newsroom in the country, TV or print, the revelation that top talent knowingly lied to protect a POTUS, and that top execs condoned it to “respect” the audience while firing actual reporters, would have led to mass resignations. https://twitter.com/...
Lindy Li / @lindyli: Even Fox's statement about the settlement was punctuated with lies, half-truths, and egregious euphemisms https://twitter.com/...
Jim Pickard / @pickardje: “one of the ugliest and most embarrassing moments in the history of journalism” https://twitter.com/...
Peter Maass / @maassp: Actually, if I do something really bad and you penalize me by taking 20 percent of my walking around money, it's not a “sizable hit” on my overall financials (especially if insurance covers some of my loss). https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Blake / @aaronblake: Bill O'Reilly, deciding to weigh in, cites Fox's “foolish coverage of the 2020 election.” “This is what happens when money becomes more important than honest information.” (O'Reilly, of course, cost Fox a pretty penny himself before he was fired.) https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Collinson / CNN: The $787 million check that Fox must cut won't restore damage to US democracy
Alexander Panetta / CBC News: Will a $787M US hit change Fox News? Don't bet a dime on it
Heidi Li Feldman / @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social: If the public reports of Fox's financial health are correct, no plausible amount of compensatory damages sought by #Dominion would likely deter #Fox from broadcasting false, defamatory statements again, so long as doing so favors the company's bottom line. …
Judd Legum / @juddlegum@journa.host: Fox News will likely try to recoup the $787 million settlement by negotiating higher carriage fees with cable providers. — Those providers will then pass the extra costs to you by increasing your monthly bill, even if you never watch Fox News …
Rob Quinn / Newser: Fox Settlement Among Biggest in History
Joshua Holland / @JoshuaHolland@mastodon.social: NYT: “Under the terms of the settlement, Fox News will not have to apologize or admit to spreading false claims on network programming, according to a person familiar with the details of the agreement.” — What absolute bullshit. …
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social: Question to the legal beagles here: Is it a judge's role to push for settlement? Could that not be seen as justice detoured?
Benjamin Johns / @Theoreticalb@mastodon.social: @jeffjarvis Judges much prefer a settlement. Trials are expensive and a huge ask of jurors, especially long ones like this, and most judges are extremely protective of juror time. …
Heidi Li Feldman / @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social: @jeffjarvis A lot depends on what you mean by “push.” There is nothing unjust about a judge encouraging parties to focus on both the strengths and weaknesses of their respective cases and to assess whether …
Deadline: Fox News Agrees To Pay $787M To Settle Dominion False-Election Claims Case; “Fox Has Admitted To Telling Lies,” Voting Systems CEO Says
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone: Bill O'Reilly, No Stranger to Settlements, Bashes Fox for Dominion Debacle
David A. Graham / The Atlantic: Fox News Lost the Lawsuit but Won the War
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News said its court settlement reflects a “commitment to the highest journalistic standards”, showing that not even a ton of evidence of deceit can shame it — When news of a possible settlement between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News surfaced on Sunday night …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post: Fox News claims to be the ‘most trusted.’ Is it?
Aaron Blake / @aaronblake: Polls often show Fox News at the top when it comes to outlets the most Americans cite as most trusted. But when you ask all Americans for an up-or-down vote on Fox, it's among the least trusted. It's about market share. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Julia Shapero / The Hill: ABC, CNN anchors press Dominion over Fox News settlement: 'What you didn't get was an apology'
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Fox News Settlement With Dominion Does Not Require On-Air Retraction Or Apology
@vanityfair: Fox News, the network at the heart of the historic defamation suit, covered the settlement only three times in about four hours, “amounting to about six minutes of coverage,” according to the New York Times. https://vntyfr.com/RinjJXD
Charlotte Clymer / @cmclymer: Dominion took an easy payday instead of standing on principle. Fox will not have to air an apology or admission of their fraudulent claims about the 2020 election. Fox gets to put this behind them. Dominion gets a settlement 10x their worth. How nice to be rich and carefree.
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: Despite the letdown, Tuesday was a very bad day for Rupert Murdoch and Fox News
Amanda Marcotte / @amandamarcotte: I see a lot of folks are angry at Dominion for settling. Which I'm confused by. They're a company, not a non-profit funded to save democracy. What you're craving is a Jan. 6 defendant to sue Fox for misleading them. But I don't see that happening. https://www.salon.com/...
Frank Thorp V / @frankthorp: Schumer discussing the Dominion settlement with Fox News yesterday: “Trial or no trial, the world sees that Fox News knowingly and intentionally lied to the country about the 2020 election.”
Charles Johnson / @Green_Footballs@mastodon.social: Jake Tapper getting applause for laughing while reading Fox News' ridiculous statement about their Dominion lawsuit settlement. — But Fox News might not have been able to do so much damage to the US if people …
Mr Denmore / @mrdenmore: No apology. No retraction. The out-of-court settlement in the Dominion case requires a great deal of something that Fox News has in wheelbarrows (money) and very little of something it has in teaspoons (editorial integrity). https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Mia Farrow / @miafarrow: I do wish there had been a trial. I wish that all the Fox people , including the Murdocks and the on-camera personalities who knowingly misled people, would have had to testify - and admit to every awful, dangerous lie https://twitter.com/...
Arianna Ciccone / @_arianna: “...while Fox doled out an unprecedented sum, they were able to avoid something priceless: the public humiliation of a trial and an apology”. Dominion wins but the public loses': Fox settlement avoids paying the highest price https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Ben Smith / @semaforben: Two incredible quotes: “This settlement reflects Fox's continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards.” “Money is accountability and we got that today.”
Joshua Vinson / The Wrap: Anderson Cooper Scoffs at Fox News' Claim That Dominion Payout Reflects ‘Highest Journalistic Standards’: ‘Come On’ (Video)
CNBC:
Fox Corp and its cable networks agree to pay $787.5M to Dominion Voting Systems to settle the defamation lawsuit over Fox's lies about Dominion's machines — WILMINGTON, Del. - Fox Corp. and its cable networks agreed Tuesday to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle …
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Ben Smith / @semaforben: Smartmatic remains committed to clearing its name, recouping the significant damage done to the company, and holding Fox accountable for undermining democracy." 2/2
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: 1/2 Remarkable statement from Fox to me just now in response to Smartmatic's lawyers saying they are ready to pick up where Dominion left off. “There is nothing more newsworthy than covering the president of the United States and his lawyers making allegations of voter fraud.” https://twitter.com/...
CNN: Fox News settles with Dominion at the last second, pays more than $787 million to avert defamation trial over its 2020 election lies
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News: FOX News Media, Dominion Voting Systems reach agreement over defamation lawsuit
Jane C. Timm / NBC News: Fox News settles Dominion defamation lawsuit
Ben Smith / @semaforben: Statement from Smartmatic lawyer Erik Connolly: “Dominion's litigation exposed some of the misconduct and damage caused by Fox's disinformation campaign. Smartmatic will expose the rest. 1/2
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: A source has confirmed to @Axios that Fox News will not be required to give any apologies or retractions on its air as a part of the settlement deal.
@therecount: “Lies have consequences. The truth does not know red or blue.” — Dominion Voting Systems lawyer Justin Nelson celebrates Fox News' settlement of $787.5 million over its lies about Dominion in the wake of the 2020 election, sparing Fox News from a potentially damaging trial https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Andersen / @kbandersen: As of this morning, @FoxNews' coverage of the @dominionvoting defamation suit consists in its entirety of this truncated little self-congratulatory item on its web site. https://www.foxnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Isaac Schorr / Mediaite: National Review Issues Scathing Indictment of Fox Settlement: ‘Disgraceful Situation’ Conservatives Are ‘Quietly Mortified By’
Ankush Khardori / Politico: Why Fox News had to settle the Dominion suit
Richard Tofel / @dicktofel: This is by a factor of more than 3x the largest dollar loss in a media libel case in American history. That is the best measure of both the falsity and Fox's fault in broadcasting it.
Clare Malone / New Yorker: The Stunning End of Dominion's Case Against Fox News
Jeffrey Blehar / National Review: Fox News Finally Bows to the Inevitable, Cuts Losses in Dominion Case
Svea Herbst-Bayliss / Reuters: Fox's $787.5 million settlement is big win for buyout firm Staple Street
ABC News: Fox settlement a ‘big step forward in democracy,’ Dominion CEO says in exclusive ABC News interview
@gma: “It's a big step forward in democracy if our system can send a signal that if media companies lie ... and they do so knowingly, they will be prepared to pay a very, very high price.” — Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos on $787.5 million settlement reached with Fox News. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Klawans / The Week: Dominion CEO says ‘we feel we got’ accountability in Fox settlement
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Fox Corp., Dominion Settle Defamation Case
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Fox to Pay $787 Million in Dominion Defamation Trial Settlement
Tori Otten / New Republic: No Amount of Money Erases What We Already Learned About Fox in the Dominion Case
David Folkenflik / NPR: Fox News averts major defamation trial by settling with Dominion Voting Systems
Brian Sullivan / @sullycnbc: The small Wall Street firm that bought Dominion Voting Systems 5 years ago for $39 million just got very, very, very rich on the Fox News settlement. https://www.reuters.com/...
Dave Winer / @davewiner: Fox settled a lawsuit for $787 million that makes it impossible for them to credibly call themselves a “news organization.” So now, as a Spectrum cable subscriber, I'd like to stop subsidizing this fake news org, not my theory but now an established fact. https://www.memeorandum.com/ ...
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: Fox News' online story about the Dominion settlement is truly amazing. It's less than 200 words, mentions Judge Davis praising Fox's lawyers, downplays Fox's airing of election lies, and doesn't include the $787 million settlement amount. https://www.foxnews.com/...
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: George Stephanopoulos Presses Dominion CEO on Fox News Settlement: 'What You Didn't Get Was An Apology'
Matthew Fox / Insider: The investor behind Dominion Voting Systems just bagged a 1,400% return after Fox News settled its defamation suit for $788 million
Scott Galloway / @profgalloway: https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Arkin / @d_arkin: Scoop from me: The lawyer appointed as special master in the defamation trial will no longer investigate Fox News now that Dominion and the media giant have settled the case, according to a source familiar with the situation. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: If you think this settlement is going to change what Fox News does in a real way, you are going to be in for a rude surprise. https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “For us, it was never really about Fox, per se. It was about telling the truth” https://twitter.com/...
David Wessel / @davidmwessel: Stable Street Capital, a private equity firm, bought a 76.2% stake in Dominion Voting for $38.3 million in 2018. Now Dominion is getting a $787.5 million settlement from Fox. https://www.reuters.com/...
Dan Primack / Axios: Fox News settlement turns Dominion into private equity gold
Denver Riggleman / @repriggleman: BREAKING NEWS Smartmatic pops the bubbly. Calls Dominion. Plans a Twister party. Seriously, I know some people are disappointed, but the amount settled is a hell of an admission— Deliberate propaganda delivered to Americans. It's right there in black and white. Data data data.
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Dominion exposed Fox News as a dishonest outlet like never before. It's hard to consider the channel as anything other than a GOP propaganda profit machine void of the most basic ethics. The case shredded the very little that remained of its credibility. https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/ ...
Scott Galloway / @profgalloway: Fox-Dominion settlement — “one of the ugliest & most embarrassing moments in the history of journalism” @jaketapper 💯
@dave_enna: The @WSJ, which has the same parent company as Fox News, is burying the massive settlement way downpage today on its site. It's a decent article, without tons of detail on Fox's months of lies.
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Newsmax, which also faces a major lawsuit from Dominion, issues statement saying it “stands by its coverage and analysis of the 2020 election” https://twitter.com/...
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: The attorneys of former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg, whose secret recordings spurred the appointment of a special master, react to the investigation being closed now that Dominion settled with Fox: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Joe Miller / @joemillerjr: Dominion's fightback began 30 months ago, when it hired a crack comms team that sent more than 3,600 rebuttals to Fox in real time It's “a playbook for what people do in the future.” More in my analysis of how the historic $787.5m settlement was won. https://enterprise-sharing.ft.com/ ...
Andy Kroll / @andykroll: As someone who reported extensively on Fox News's high-profile settlement with Seth Rich's parents, I wanted to share a few observations about today's news. The $787 million sum is massive. This is a huge win for Dominion Voting Systems. A win for truth? Not so much... 🧵
Eric Swalwell / @ericswalwell: Fox just gave us 787 million reasons to assume they're lying about everything and everyone ... https://www.cnn.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Notably, Murdoch acknowledged in his Dominion deposition that several of his top hosts “endorsed” Trump's election lies. That's far different than covering them. https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: Fox News will likely try to recoup the $787 million settlement by negotiating higher carriage fees with cable providers. Those providers will then pass the extra costs to you by increasing your monthly bill, even if you never watch Fox News Fox News lies You pay
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: This is why Fox was never going to publicly admit fault as part of a Dominion settlement — it would have left them unbelievably vulnerable in the Smartmatic lawsuit, which deals with many of the same issues. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Shermer / @michaelshermer: I am often asked “what's the harm in promoting false conspiracy theories?” We now have a number: $787.5 million. Will this harm Fox's viewership numbers? Nope. In fact, I predict ratings will increase along with ad revenue, making this a rational choice: https://www.reuters.com/...
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Fox News and Dominion reach last-minute $787 million settlement
James Fallows / @jamesfallows: 1/3 Fox has really learned its lesson! Look at the contrition on its home page right now. Oh, wait ... https://twitter.com/...
James Fallows / @jamesfallows: 3/3 And, don't worry, the story says absolutely nothing about the size of the settlement, or any admission of error. That will teach 'em! https://www.foxnews.com/...
Tom Tomorrow / @tomtomorrow: So Dominion got their cash and they're happy about that but the reputation-affirming/redeeming apology, eh whatever https://twitter.com/...
Reed Galen / @reedgalen: Of course they won't. https://twitter.com/...
David Amoyal / @davidamoyal: A massive let down https://twitter.com/...
Julia Cheiffetz / @jcheiffetz: From the jacket copy of @brianstelter's 2020 book HOAX: “We don't really believe all this stuff,” a producer says. “We just tell other people to believe it.” https://twitter.com/...
Tom Tapp / Deadline: CNN's Jake Tapper Has Hard Time Keeping Straight Face When Reading Fox News' Statement About $787M Dominion Settlement
@pourmecoffee: All I know is Sean Hannity better have to be somebody's butler. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “The settlement appears to have less to do with other media outlets than it does with the particularly outrageous facts and circumstances surrounding the conduct of Fox... This was a stunning case of media malpractice, and Fox is now paying for it.” https://www.politico.com/...
Associated Press: Fox, Dominion Voting Systems reach $787 million settlement over false election claims
Andrew Lawrence / @ndrew_lawrence: congrats to tucker carlson and maria bartiromo who cost their company a months worth of revenue and will face zero repercussions for it
@adriennelaw: Less than 2 weeks ago, Fox settled a $250million suit for an undisclosed amount in connection with the election fraud lies. (We'll likely know the amount of the settlement after annual disclosures or at least this impending shareholder suit.) https://www.youtube.com/...
@dave_enna: Two hours after #FoxNews settled a defamation suit with a massive payment — a huge news story — its website has finally posted a story ... downpage. You can't see it here, but that TikTok challenge is up there ... https://twitter.com/...
@dave_enna: The story #FoxNews finally posted is eight paragraphs long. One long paragraph is the Fox statement, which includes this whopper: “This settlement reflects FOX's continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards.”
@dave_enna: One reminder: This $750 million settlement is for MONTHS OF CONTINUED LYING on the air about the 2020 election. Very dangerous lies.
Moe Davis / @colmorrisdavis: After months and months of preparation and hours of fruitless discussions about a possible settlement, hearing the gavel bang in the courtroom has a way of clarifying the mind. https://twitter.com/...
Norm Eisen / @normeisen: Like everybody else, I wanted to see the likes of Carlson & Murdoch testify But this settlement is good for democracy & there are 6 more cases coming behind it! I'll explain at 6pmET @MarquardtA @CNNSitRoom w/ @GloriaBorger @shanlonwu @sarafischer https://www.cnn.com/...
Ron Filipkowski / @ronfilipkowski: We will see. https://twitter.com/...
Kenneth P. Vogel / @kenvogel: 🤔 @FoxNews, which spent months pushing false claims about the 2016 election to appease its viewers, now says it agreed to pay $787.5M to settle a resulting defamation lawsuit because it wants to help “the country to move forward from these issues.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Leah McElrath / @leahmcelrath: Next case against Fox News is a defamation case brought by Smartmatic: “Smartmatic remains committed to clearing its name, recouping the significant damage done to the company, and holding Fox accountable FOR UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY.” [Emphasis added.] https://twitter.com/...
Nazir Afzal / @nazirafzal: 1. Who pays $800m damages to a company valued at $80m? FOX NEWS does 2. Why would they do that? Because they lied about the 2020 election being stolen 3. Will the Trump Cult accept that? What do you think? https://twitter.com/...
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: Imagine buying stock in a voting-tech company that goes nowhere, only to see it make windfall profits from suing a conservative cable news channel
Gabriel Sterling / @gabrielsterling: @FoxNews pays @dominionvoting $787.5 million. Fox admits lying about Dominion & the ‘stolen’ election. The truth is important. The 2020 election wasn't stolen. It is all simply a lie. Hope this helps put that lie to rest. I'm not sure I'm optimistic. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
@adriennelaw: Fox News also is facing a shareholder lawsuit for all of this litigation due to rampant on-air lies. With legal fees and settlements, the company will pay at least $2.5 billion. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Ralston / @ralstonreports: It never made any sense that Fox would let this go to trial. No one should be surprised. https://twitter.com/...
Robert Picardo / @robertpicardo: #Dominion accepted $787.5M for the damage caused by the lies of @FoxNews @TuckerCarlson , @seanhannity , @IngrahamAngle and @JudgeJeanine . Time now for #RupertMurdoch to cough up a few trillion for damage to our democracy. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
David French / @davidafrench: You do not agree to pay $787 million when you're confident you're going to win at trial *or* on appeal. Fox was cooked, even under New York Times v. Sullivan. This is a degree of accountability for one of the worst and most consequential media scandals of my lifetime. https://twitter.com/...
@ijbailey: This is true. But it's also fair to say that if they said this on air, it would change nothing for Fox News viewers. They'll just see it as a business decision. Remember when Fox lawyers said no reasonable person would believe what Tucker Carlson says? https://twitter.com/...
John Harwood / @johnjharwood: if Fox is not required under this settlement to tell viewers that its programs and personalities willfully fed them lies, that will be a huge missed opportunity for our country https://twitter.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: Two sentences in Fox's statement worth lingering on. An admission: “We acknowledge the Court's rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false.” ...and defiance: “This settlement reflects Fox's continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards.”
Piyush Mittal / @piyushmittal: I'm glad Fox “News” had to pay Dominion $787.5 million. I wish one of the conditions of the settlement was for Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and the rest to admit to their audiences they lied and continue to lie. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Ben de Pear / @bendepear: What a shame; it wasn't just @FoxNews on trial it was ultimately journalism and the truth in the dock Murdoch and everyone else should have been forced to take the stand; Fox News Settles Defamation Suit for $787.5 Million https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rachel Dzanashvili / @rachel_dz: Reminder: Fox News is not out of the woods reg. defamation lawsuits: Smartmatic spokesman said in a statement: “Dominion's litigation exposed some of the misconduct and damage caused by Fox's disinformation campaign. Smartmatic will expose the rest.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nycsouthpaw: To put things in a different perspective, the $787.5 million settlement is about 87.5% of Dominion owner Staple Street Capital's $900 million AUM as reported last year.
Mike Rispoli / @rispolimike: It's sadly normalized that Fox News spreads lies and fear daily, and is consistently racist, xenophobic, transphobic...all to make money. Settlement or not, the Dominion case shows that our commercial media system continues fails us at every level without any accountability.
@bestforbritain: Reports of a $787.5 million dollar settlement. With legal fees and reputational hit in the markets, this will have cost Fox not far from a billion dollars. ~AA https://twitter.com/...
Ted Kemp / @tedkempcnbc: Dominion CEO John Poulos told reporters outside court that “Fox admits to telling lies” as part of the settlement. Lawyers for Fox said nothing as they left court when asked for comment. - @_DanMangan @KevinWilliamB @Lilliannnn https://www.cnbc.com/...
Aidan McLaughlin / @aidnmclaughlin: Dominion is hardly the end of trouble for Fox News. They now face a $2.6 billion defamation lawsuit from another election tech company, Smartmatic https://twitter.com/...
Barbara Malmet / @b52malmet: Fox News and Dominion settle election defamation lawsuit, judge says @CNBC. Too bad. The truth will never make it to the audience that is forever being lied to. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Erik Larson / Fortune: The big winner from Fox's $787.5 million settlement is a private equity firm that stands to make a 1,500% return
Jennifer M. Wood / The Daily Beast: Jordan Klepper Roasts Fox News After Massive $787 Million Dominion Settlement
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: Dominion, Fox Settle Massive Defamation Suit For $787.5M
Josh Dickey / The Wrap: Fox News Acknowledges ‘False Claims’ in $787.5 Million Defamation Settlement, but Dominion Calls it By Another Name: ‘Telling Lies’
A.J. Santiago / The Onion: Fox News Settles Dominion Defamation Lawsuit For $787.5 Million
Jack Shafer / Politico:
For Fox News, which has $4.1B in cash and warrants on hand, $787.5M is a bargain price to avoid further embarrassment and continue its sleazy ways — For the media mogul, the massive Dominion settlement fee is just the cost of doing business. — If it seems fairly daft to congratulate Rupert Murdoch …
Discussion:
@erikwemple, CNN, New York Times, Mediaite, The Week, The Guardian, @svdate, @sykescharlie, @jaketapper, @mattgertz, The Atlantic, @alyssafarah, @nycjim, @mollyjongfast, @nycsouthpaw, @ronbrownstein, @hamiltonnolan, @armandondk, @beneltham, @petersagal, Newser, @barbmcquade, @chrisfralic, @jamespmanley and Los Angeles Times
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Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Here's a statement from Fox Corp.'s 2022 annual report pooh-poohing the ongoing lawsuit from Dominion over Fox News's election lies. It foresaw no “ material adverse effect” on the company. It just agreed to a $787.5 mn payout. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Horowitz / CNN: Dominion isn't Rupert Murdoch's costliest legal defeat. Not even close
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: Reactions to Fox News's $787 Million Dominion Settlement
Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite: ‘The View’ Fumes Over Fox News Not Having to Apologize On Air for Its Lies About Dominion
Peter Weber / The Week: Making sense of the Fox News-Dominion settlement
Jane Martinson / The Guardian: Fox News and Rupert Murdoch have been humiliated, but they won't change their ways
Charlie Sykes / @sykescharlie: This won't be a problem, will it? https://twitter.com/...
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson says Fox is paying up $787,500,000 to settle the defamation case against Fox for its airing of numerous lies about Dominion Voting Systems. Fox has admitted telling lies, the company CEO John Poulos says in press conference.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic: The Fox Lawsuit Was Never Going to Save America
Alyssa Farah Griffin / @alyssafarah: Not the climactic trial many were anticipating but still an eye-popping sum. It's a shame that so many Fox News viewers will never hear the truth: that the lies spread about the election were false & people in power were lying to them. https://twitter.com/...
Jim Roberts / @nycjim: Well said. via @jackshafer https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: This is why a lot of us feel like Fox won https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ronald Brownstein / @ronbrownstein: “When Murdoch was shamed over the phone-hacking scandal...observers hoped that maybe he or one of his children would amend the company's manner. But here we are a decade-plus later, and the Murdoch enterprise is just as contaminated as it ever was.” https://www.politico.com/...
Hamilton Nolan / @hamiltonnolan: Fox News didn't do a discrete bad thing, Fox News is, in total, a right wing propaganda operation that uses “journalism” as a flag of convenience, which is also why it's bad for “journalists” to constantly appear on the Tucker Carlson show
Armando / @armandondk: If Dominion had gone to trial won and been awarded 2 billion dollars Fox still wouldn't have had to apologize. That's not what the legal system does. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Eltham / @beneltham: Best analysis on the Fox vs Dominion case I've seen so far: Rupert wins again https://twitter.com/...
Peter Sagal / @petersagal: Seems about right. https://twitter.com/...
John Johnson / Newser: 5 Takes on the Big Fox News Settlement
Barb McQuade / @barbmcquade: Not sure what to make of Dominion settlement. While Fox paid a huge penalty for airing dangerous lies, it seems like they bought their way out of trouble without admitting wrongdoing. Will $787.5M deter more lies or is it simply the cost of doing business? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Chris Fralic / @chrisfralic: “Dominion planned to have Hannity, Carlson, Bartiromo, Ingraham and Baier on the witness stand. Getting out from all of that for $787.5 million is a kind of bargain for a company with a market cap of $17.3 billion. Fox has $4.1 billion in cash on hand” https://www.politico.com/...
CNN:
Sources and the mediator detail how Fox and Dominion settlement came together, as Dominion planned Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson among its first witnesses — Veteran mediator Jerry Roscoe was on a relaxing river cruise from Budapest to Bucharest celebrating his 70th birthday on Sunday when he received an urgent phone call.
Discussion:
The Guardian, Semafor, @kira_lerner, @keitholbermann, @sarah_boxer, @marshallcohen, @oliverdarcy, @brianstelter and @srl
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Diego Mendoza / Semafor: Wartime mediator behind Fox News and Dominion settlement says this was one of his ‘toughest assignments’
Kira Lerner / @kira_lerner: CNN spoke with the world-renowned mediator who has resolved wartime disputes in the Balkans, who said that reaching the Fox/Dominion settlement was among the toughest assignments he has ever faced https://www.cnn.com/...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: FOX DESPERATE TO SETTLE: Murdoch's @WSJ breaks Dominion trial 1-day delay; Fox's planned attack on judge and Dominion last night never happened. Plus: How Nixon forced Fortas to resign. Can it be used against Clarence Thomas? MONDAY COUNTDOWN PODCAST: https://omny.fm/... https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Boxer / @sarah_boxer: Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson were going to be forced onto the witness stand ASAP. Mediator was on a birthday cruise from Budapest to Bucharest when he got the call. @oliverdarcy & @MarshallCohen scoop how the 11th hour Fox settlement went down: https://www.cnn.com/...
Marshall Cohen / @marshallcohen: NEW: Dominion told Fox last week Murdoch + Tucker were lead witnesses. Mediator hired on Sun. night. He was on a river cruise in Europe when he got the call. Feverish talks over Zoom on Mon. Deal clinched after jury was sworn in Tues. w/ @oliverdarcy https://www.cnn.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: HOW IT HAPPENED: Here's a look behind the scenes of that historic settlement between Fox News and Dominion that “went down to the wire.” W/@MarshallCohen https://www.cnn.com/...
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Fox spared its executives and hosts further embarrassment on the witness stand, but the settlement sets a benchmark for lawsuits from Smartmatic and others
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Alex Griffing / Mediaite: Fox News Drops Defiant Statement on Smartmatic's $2.7 Billion Defamation Lawsuit, Defends Election Fraud Claims as ‘Newsworthy’
Erin Mulvaney / Wall Street Journal: Fox Has Settled One Voting Machine Company's Defamation Case. Another Looms.
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast: How Fox's Massive Dominion Payout Could Spell Doom for Newsmax and OAN
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Fox Could Face Other Battles Following Dominion Suit
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: Surprise! Fox News Mostly Avoids Airing How It Paid Out $787 Million For Spreading Election Lies
Katie S. Phang / @katiephang: As I said yesterday, Fox News is still in major legal hot water with shareholders who are looking to hold Fox directors and executives accountable for “allowing the network to air the false claims.” https://www.reuters.com/...
Karol Cummins / @karolcummins: Investors are using provisions in Delaware corporate law to demand internal Fox records to investigate how Fox's leaders acted as its Fox News network aired segments on Trump's false claims that he lost the 2020 presidential election due to voter fraud. https://www.reuters.com/...
Marshall Cohen / CNN: What's next for Fox and Dominion? More lawsuits seeking accountability for corrosive 2020 election lies
Chris Stein / The Guardian: Supreme court delays decision on abortion pill restrictions until Friday - live
Jonathan Landay / @jonathanlanday: EXCLUSIVE: Fox Corp shareholders demanding company records that may show whether directors and executives properly oversaw Fox News' coverage of former President Trump's election-rigging claims, sources told Reuters, in possible prelude to lawsuits. https://www.reuters.com/...
Abbey White / The Hollywood Reporter: The Fox-Dominion Settlement Was a Disappointing Conclusion for Late Night: “That Does Nothing for Our Democracy”
Rafi Schwartz / The Week: Fox News settles defamation case with Dominion Voting Systems in last minute decision
Emily St. Martin / Los Angeles Times: How Fox News covered its own huge Dominion defamation settlement
Jacob Shamsian / Insider: 16 takeaways from Fox News' historic $787.5 million settlement with Dominion
Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone: Kimmel Criticizes Dominion for Sparing Fox News From Public Reckoning
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix upgrades its ad-supported plan, increasing the video quality from 720p to 1080p and the number of streams from one to two, starting in Canada and Spain — Netflix is making its $6.99 per month ad-supported plan a much better value. … Subscribers in Canada and Spain …
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Kourtnee Jackson / CNET: Netflix Is Making Its Ad Plan More Tempting
Spencer Perry / Comic Book: Netflix Rolling Out Free Upgrades for Ad-Supported Tier
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Nicholas Gordon / Fortune:
Netflix added 1.46M subscribers in Asia-Pacific in Q1 2023, out of a total of 1.75M, 100K in the US and Canada, 640K in EMEA, and lost 450K in Latin America
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix plans to ship its last red DVD envelopes in September 2023, after 25 years of mailing shows and movies to subscribers and paving the way for streaming
Discussion:
New York Times, About Netflix, Netflix Inc., The Hollywood Reporter, Narcity, Mashable, Quartz, The Verge, Media Play News, @cinemaxwell, @afinalboy, Ars Technica, Broadband TV News, @alexweprin, The Week, @benthepcguy, @netflix, @emzanotti, @hankschulman, @xpangler, @sonnybunch, @eringriffith, Washington Post, Gizmodo and Variety
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Nicole Sperling / New York Times: Netflix Will End Its DVD Service, 5.2 Billion Discs Later
Ted Sarandos / About Netflix: Netflix DVD - The Final Season
Netflix Inc.: Fellow shareholders, — Summary: ● Q1'23 revenue and operating profit were in-line with our forecast.
Janice Rodrigues / Narcity: Netflix Says There Was A ‘Cancel Reaction’ In Canada After Its Password-Sharing Crackdown
Christianna Silva / Mashable: It's official: No more password sharing on Netflix
Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz: Netflix is hitting the stop button on the DVD rental business that started it all
David Pierce / The Verge: 25 years later, Netflix finally won
Thomas K. Arnold / Media Play News: By Killing DVD Rentals, Netflix Is Sending an Elitist Message to Middle America
@cinemaxwell: This is sad, because they still had some of the more interesting or rare films available that way. Netflix's selection of streaming films is mediocre at best, without a strong library of classics. Streaming is great... until it isn't. I will always advocate for what is tangible. https://twitter.com/...
@afinalboy: No! I re-subscribe every so often, but Netflix's DVD business is (was) great for finding all those little movies that still haven't found their way to digital and Blu-ray (and likely will stay on DVD). Especially indie horror. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: The DVDs-in-the-mail version of Netflix is finally going away after 26 years
Chris Dziadul / Broadband TV News: Netflix says goodbye to DVDs
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: In 2020, Netflix's DVD biz had $239M in revenue. Last year It fell to $146M. “Our goal has always been to provide the best service for our members but as the business continues to shrink that's going to become increasingly difficult,” Ted Sarandos said. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Brendan Morrow / The Week: Netflix to stop sending out DVDs after 25 years
Ben Rudolph / @benthepcguy: Netflix shutting down its DVD-by-mail service actually makes me a little sad. I used the heck out of it back in the day. https://about.netflix.com/...
@netflix: After an incredible 25 year run, we've decided to wind down https://dvd.com/ later this year. To everyone who ever added a DVD to their queue or waited by the mailbox for a red envelope to arrive: Thank you! https://about.netflix.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Emily Zanotti / @emzanotti: I think we still have a DVD from Game of Thrones season 2 sorry https://twitter.com/...
@hankschulman: I never returned my CD of “Porky's Revenge.” I now consider my late fees off the books. https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: In 2022, the DVD business generated $145.7 million (down 20% from the year prior), which represented just 0.5% of its total revenue. https://variety.com/... via @variety
Sonny Bunch / @sonnybunch: They never got that Rashomon DVD back from me and they never will. https://twitter.com/...
Erin Griffith / @eringriffith: netflix news today https://www.wsj.com/... aol dial-up count (from 2021 to be clear!) https://www.cnbc.com/...
Heather Kelly / Washington Post: Netflix will finally stop mailing DVDs. These people will miss them.
Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix Is Shutting Down Its DVD Business
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix plans a “broad rollout” of its paid sharing plan in Q2 2023, including to the US, after its Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain launch in February
Discussion:
Music Business Worldwide, The Verge, The Streamable, The A.V. Club, CNBC, @tvgrimreaper, IndieWire, Screen Rant, Collider, Adweek and Cablefax
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Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: NETFLIX IS LAUNCHING A PASSWORD-SHARING CRACKDOWN IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS IN THE US. COULD SPOTIFY FOLLOW?
David Satin / The Streamable: Netflix Executives Pleased With Results of Password Sharing Rules in Canada, More Details Revealed
Mary Kate Carr / The A.V. Club: Netflix is proud to present password crackdown and backlog of strike-avoiding content
@tvgrimreaper: Interested to see if any real data on Netflix's “password sharing” program ever escapes into the public. https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Graham-Lowery / Screen Rant: Netflix To Roll Out Password-Sharing Crackdown Measures To The US Soon
Shane Romanchick / Collider: Netflix to Launch Paid Password Sharing in the US Soon
Reuters:
Netflix Q1: revenue up 4% YoY to $8.16B, 1.8M paid net additions, vs. 2.06M est. and -0.2M in Q1 2022, and global streaming paid memberships up 5% YoY to 232.5M
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Matthew Fox / Insider: Wall Street has high hopes for Netflix as it sees ‘big opportunities’ in the coming crackdown on password sharing
Jeremy Goldman / Insider Intelligence: Netflix Q1 growth outshines Q4 despite struggles and increased dependence on global audiences
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Netflix shares dropped about 11% right after the company reported results yesterday. They then erased all the declines and went to flat in after-hours trading. They are now down about 5% this morning with the markets open.
Steven Monacelli / @stevanzetti:
[Thread] Wired writer Dell Cameron gets permanently suspended from Twitter after reporting on a person who claims he hacked Matt Walsh's Twitter account — WOW: @dellcam has been suspended by Twitter after reporting about the hack of Matt Walsh's Twitter account https://twitter.com/...
Discussion:
Wired, The Right Scoop, @fishontherun2, @stevanzetti, @stevanzetti, @andyharless and @dell@journa.host
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Dell Cameron / Wired: The Hacker Who Hijacked Matt Walsh's Twitter Was Just ‘Bored’
Steven Monacelli / @stevanzetti: .@dellcam received this explanation for the suspension after he reported on the hack of Matt Walsh's Twitter account for @WIRED https://twitter.com/...
Steven Monacelli / @stevanzetti: Here's the article that @dellcam wrote for @WIRED that he shared right before he was suspended https://www.wired.com/...
Rosa Flores / CNN:
County official Mark Jennings resigns after an Oklahoma newspaper released audio allegedly of him and others talking about killing journalists and Black people — An Oklahoma county commissioner allegedly heard on a recording of local officials that included remarks about lynching Black people and killing journalists has resigned.
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Kirk / @sankalots: “I was completely appalled and frightened, quite frankly,” said Willingham upon discovering the recording. He says he left his recording device inside a McCurtain County commissioners' meeting, where he intended to prove the officials were holding secret https://www.news9.com/...
Fox News: Oklahoma county commissioner resigns after leak of audio discussing killing journalists, lynchings
Joe Hernandez / NPR: Oklahoma governor wants officials who made violent, racist remarks on tape to resign
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian: Oklahoma officials recorded making racist and threatening remarks
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Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Oklahoma's governor calls on four officials to resign after a newspaper released audio of the group talking about killing journalists and lynching Black people
Discussion:
HuffPost, Insider, Poynter, @phil_lewis_, New York Times, The Oklahoman, Vibe, Associated Press, Texarkana Gazette, The Hill, @naacp_ldf, @fpwellman, TMZ.com, @ebakerwhite, @nytimes, @jzbleiberg, @johnvoelcker, @profblacktruth, @joshmankiewicz, @linadeflorias, @freedomofpress, @yuhline, @sifill_, @michaelscherer, @RobertMaguire@journa.host, @helenkennedy and @DrJackBrown@mstdn.social
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Ken Miller / HuffPost: Oklahoma Sheriff Says Recording Of Officials Discussing Killing Reporters Was Illegal
Insider: Oklahoma official caught on tape talking about lynching Black people and killing reporters resigns
Kristen Hare / Poynter: This newspaper brought a vile conversation into the light in McCurtain County, Oklahoma
Philip Lewis / @phil_lewis_: An Oklahoma sheriff's office says the recording in which the sheriff & others are reportedly heard discussing killing journalists and hanging Black people was illegal They predict felony charges will be filed against the man who recorded https://www.huffpost.com/...
Michael Levenson / New York Times: An Oklahoma Newspaper's Secret Recording Prompts Calls for Officials to Resign
Nate Chute / The Oklahoman: Transcript of McCurtain County Sheriff, Commissioners discussing lynching, hiring hit men
Lori Dunn / Texarkana Gazette: McCurtain County, Oklahoma residents protest recorded comments about murdering journalists, racist remarks from elected officials
The Hill: Oklahoma officials heard talking about hanging Black people in audio recording, governor calls for resignation
@naacp_ldf: Law enforcement will discuss killing journalists and lament not being able to hang Black people, but then complain that recording what they say is illegal. https://apnews.com/...
Fred Wellman / @fpwellman: Of course, the real victims here are the poor racists who were recorded and now are being threatened. Slime. — Oklahoma sheriff says recording of killing talk was illegal (from @AP) https://apnews.com/...
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: “We're going to file felony charges against the newspaper reporters who exposed our conversation about killing newspaper reporters” is ...certainly a choice! Also, the sheriffs are now alleging the audio was altered? Wild, wild stuff: https://apnews.com/...
@nytimes: A small newspaper in rural Oklahoma secretly recorded what it said was an illegal public meeting where a county official talked about hanging Black people and several officials spoke of hiring hit men and digging holes for two of the newspaper's reporters. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jake Bleiberg / @jzbleiberg: The statement from Oklahoma Sheriff Kevin Clardy does not address the recorded comments about killing journalists and hanging Black people, but calls the situation ‘complex’ and one ‘we regret having to address.’ https://apnews.com/...
@johnvoelcker: Sheriff Kevin Clardy of McCurtain County, OK, was among several officials recorded saying aggressively racist things—like complaining they can't lynch Black people anymore. Now the sheriff threatens to prosecute the newspaper that exposed his racism. Oh. https://nymag.com/...
@profblacktruth: Officials in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, including the sheriff, were recorded complaining that they wished it was like “back in the day” when they could brutalize black men and how awful it is that they can't lynch black people anymore. #BackTheBlue https://www.cnn.com/...
Josh Mankiewicz / @joshmankiewicz: A local OK sheriff and others “were recorded talking about “beating, killing and burying” a father/son team of local reporters — and lamenting that they could no longer hang Black people with a “damned rope.” https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Lina de Florias / @linadeflorias: Think of the damage they've already caused with this mindset and a badge https://twitter.com/...
@freedomofpress: We told @VOANews that McCurtain County officials' abhorrent comments “raise questions about how many other public officials across the United States hold similar contempt for the press and how those sentiments influence their actions and policies.” https://www.voanews.com/...
Yuh-Line Niou / @yuhline: “Don't spy on my racist murder plans. That's illegal!” https://twitter.com/...
Sherrilyn Ifill / @sifill_: Of course. Again, the only laws that should be enforced are the ones against my political enemies. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Scherer / @michaelscherer: Quite the AP Lede here: “A southeastern Oklahoma sheriff's office says the recording in which the sheriff and others are reportedly heard discussing killing two journalists was illegal and predicted felony charges will be filed.” https://www.huffpost.com/...
Robert Maguire / @RobertMaguire@journa.host: The sheriff who was caught having a conversation about wanting to lynch black people and kill reporters says the past 72 hours were “amongst the most difficult and disruptive in recent memory” and says the recording was altered and involves many victims. https://apnews.com/...
Washington Post:
An analysis of Google's C4 dataset, a snapshot of 15M websites used to train LLMs, shows that half of the Top 10 sites were news outlets like The New York Times — AI chatbots have exploded in popularity over the past four months, stunning the public with their awesome abilities …
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@nitashatiku: Here's our analysis of the 15 million websites in just one highly-filtered CommonCrawl web scrape-used to train models like Google's T5 & Facebook's LLaMA -copyright symbol appears >200M times -pirated sites, 1 for e-books -half the top 10 = news sites https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@postgraphics: 5. We used the token count for each website — how many words or phrases — to measure it's importance in the overall training data. Here are the top websites by tokens. See more top sites in our story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Ryan North / @ryanqnorth: when you spake with Google Bard, my child, you spake also with a sliver of me https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@postgraphics: 2. Allen Inst. researchers kindly provided us with the top 1,000 domains in Google's C4 dataset. But that was just 8% of tokens, hardly representative. So they then pulled all 15.7M domains. (You can see the whole list here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...)
Rat King / @mikeisaac: this is a very cool WP piece unraveling some of the millions of (now secret) data sources that companies like FB and Goog use to train their large language models https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Karly Domb Sadof / @kdombsadof: Search here to find out if your website is helping train AI: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@postgraphics: The top websites in a popular AI training dataset: 1. https://patents.google.com/ 2. https://wikipedia.org/ 3. https://scribd.com/ 4. https://nytimes.com/ 5. https://journals.plos.org/ Search the full list: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: Shout out to my colleagues who did a masterful job showing and explaining how an AI “learned.” by @kevinschaul, @dataviz_szuyu & @nitashatiku https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Abeba Birhane / @abebab: Well damn! this is excellent work! https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: This visual deep dive into one of the largest AI language datasets is nonstop fascinating and troubling and anyone who is remotely interested in how LLMs really work, their biases, or intellectual property should read it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kate Crawford / @katecrawford: This Post investigation underscores why studying training data is so important. Even post-filtering, Google's widely used C4 dataset is riddled with white supremacist, anti-trans, pro-Jan 6 riots and QAnon pizzagate content. That's just for starters. .https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@blackamazon: The way these Ai pioneers talked and treated user advocates, critics of racism, DEI, and artists Etc should have been a huge clue But we pay lip service to diversity, more ourselves in credentialism and then punish those who notice ? We here now https://twitter.com/...
@mmitchell_ai: Isn't it crazy that AI documentation has to be provided by investigative journalists?! Great work @washingtonpost @nitashatiku digging into a common AI dataset, C4! More advanced version of paper by me @JesseDodge @MaartenSap @anmarasovic @willie_agnew @gabriel_ilharco @nlpmattg https://twitter.com/...
Eric Ravenscraft / @lordravenscraft: it's by no means the biggest issue, but personally, it's jarring to confirm that every site i've ever written for is included in this (and likely most other) data sets just the life's work of me and most of my colleagues, scraped to train tools being pitched as our replacements https://twitter.com/...
Max Kennerly / @maxkennerly: I don't recall giving Google, Facebook, or anybody else permission to scrape 180k tokens—roughly the length of Orwell's 1984—from my blog for commercial purposes. And putting my copyrighted work in a blender with bigots doesn't make it better. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@xriskology: Damn. This is amazing. Incredible work by Nitasha Tiku and colleagues at WaPo — very much worth taking a close look at this article. https://twitter.com/...
Pew Research Center:
December 2022 survey: 49% of US adults listened to a podcast in the past year; 87% of those who hear news discussed on podcasts expect it to be mostly accurate — About half of Americans have listened to a podcast in the past year, and most of those listeners come across news content
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The Verge, New York Post, @pewresearch, @pewresearch, @douglesmerises, @kenvogel, @katmatsa, Hot Pod News, American Press Institute, @pewresearch, Axios and Podnews
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Ariel Zilber / New York Post: Megyn Kelly slams Chris Cuomo's ‘self-help’ podcast: ‘Vagina candles next?’
@pewresearch: Large shares of podcast listeners say they turn to podcasts for entertainment, learning, and diversion (having something to listen to while doing something else). Half of podcast listeners or more say these are major reasons they listen to podcasts. https://www.pewresearch.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@pewresearch: Share of U.S. adults who have listened to a podcast in the last 12 months (by age): 18-29: 67% 30-49: 58% 50-64: 42% 65+: 28% https://www.pewresearch.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Doug Lesmerises / @douglesmerises: Love podcast people: “One-in-five podcast listeners - which is about 10% of all U.S. adults - are avid listeners, listening to podcasts nearly every day.” https://twitter.com/...
Kenneth P. Vogel / @kenvogel: Podcasts move content: About half of Americans have listened to a podcast in the past year, & 60% of them say they watched a movie, read a book or listened to music because of a podcast. https://www.axios.com/... https://www.pewresearch.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Katerina Eva Matsa / @katmatsa: Major reasons why listeners turn to #podcasts 🎤Entertainment 60% 📖Learning 55% 💭Diversion 52% 👂Hear opinions 30% 📰Follow current events 29% 🦋Encouragement & inspiration 27% 👉https://www.pewresearch.org/ ... @pewjournalism @pewresearch #research #data https://twitter.com/...
Ariel Shapiro / Hot Pod News: ~Personal News~ (also Spotify news)
American Press Institute: Need to Know: April 19, 2023 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: How podcasts …
@pewresearch: Among U.S. podcast listeners - those who have listened to a podcast in the past 12 months - 29% say that staying up to date about current events is a major reason they listen to podcasts. https://www.pewresearch.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / Axios: Americans mostly believe news they hear on podcasts
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Fremantle UK names Amelia Brown as its new CEO, replacing Simon Andreae, who stepped down earlier this week after misconduct complaints and two investigations — Fremantle UK has named departing Thames boss Amelia Brown as its new CEO just days after Simon Andreae stepped down following misconduct complaints.
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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: Amelia Brown Elevated to Fremantle UK CEO
Nick Vivarelli / Variety: Fremantle U.K. Appoints Amelia Brown as CEO Following Simon Andreae's Departure
Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter: Amelia Brown Named New CEO of Fremantle UK
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
How Bellingcat researcher Aric Toler helped The New York Times identify Jack Teixeira, the Air National guardsman charged with leaking classified Pentagon docs — The Times publicly identified the man believed to have leaked intelligence documents before law enforcement did.
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@arictoler, @vanityfair, @arictoler, @vanityfair, @trbrtc, @runasand, @matthewkeyslive, @arictoler and @arictoler
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Aric Toler / @arictoler: This should have been obvious, but no, our story naming the Pentagon/Discord leaker didn't help the feds find him. They already knew at least a day before we identified him. https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@vanityfair: Aric Toler, a 34-year-old Kansas City-based “digital digger,” was the first person to report that the leaked documents came from a very small channel on Discord. https://vntyfr.com/hxAr7zG
Aric Toler / @arictoler: When folks from the NYT got to Jack's parents' house, it was already under surveillance, including a plane circling overhead. Check the next tweet in Christiaan's thread for a video of it. https://twitter.com/...
@vanityfair: The New York Times investigations team discovered the identity of Jack Teixeira by matching photographs of kitchen counters—and with the heavy lift from a journalist who'd never been published by the Times before. https://vntyfr.com/5zbPt6t
Christiaan Triebert / @trbrtc: About 30 minutes later, a twin-prop surveillance plane not visible on flight tracking services began orbiting around the mother's property. Several vehicles were seen loitering outside, driving slowly back and forth. Clearly, arrest was imminent when we broke the story.
Runa Sandvik / @runasand: Authorities had already identified the Discord leaker before the @nytimes story, but this @VanityFair piece once again highlights the value researchers like @AricToler bring to newsrooms. https://www.vanityfair.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: The FBI called the journalist who helped uncover the identity of the gamer who leaked a trove of classified documents. The journalist told the FBI to fuck off. https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Rebecca Pettingill / Columbia Basin Herald:
Washington's legislature passes a bill giving a tax break to newspapers and websites that grew from newspapers; the bill awaits Governor Jay Inslee's signature — OLYMPIA - Senate Bill 5199, a measure that gives a tax break for newspaper publishers, passed the Washington House of Representatives 89-7 Monday.
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Michael Andersen / @andersem: Far be it from me to criticize tax subsidies for publishers of local information, but tax breaks don't save dying products; they only prolong them. Local journalism institutions not creating *new products* with plausible paths to profit are just milking journalists & readers. https://twitter.com/...
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