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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell is leaving the company effective immediately, after a Comcast investigation into an employee's complaint of inappropriate conduct — Jeff Shell had been at the Comcast Corp. unit for roughly two decades — NBCUniversal Chief Executive Jeff Shell is leaving …
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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap: The Ouster of Jeff Shell as NBCUniversal CEO - Have Powerful Men Learned Nothing?
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Big news in media land: NBCU CEO Jeff Shell is leaving the company after a complaint of inappropriate conduct. https://twitter.com/...
Abbey White / The Hollywood Reporter: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell Departs Following Misconduct Investigation
Claire Atkinson / Insider: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell exits after an ‘inappropriate relationship,’ shocking insiders, and Comcast may not rush to replace him as corporate exec Mike Cavanagh steps up
Lucia Moses / @lmoses: Guessing game has begun - here are some names of who could replace Jeff Shell: https://twitter.com/...
Catherine Garcia / The Week: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell steps down over an ‘inappropriate relationship’
Gabrielle Russon / Florida Politics: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell leaves company over ‘inappropriate relationship’
Cameron Bonomolo / Comic Book: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell Steps Down After Misconduct Investigation
Associated Press: Jeff Shell, CEO of NBCUniversal, departing company over ‘inappropriate relationship’
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: He said Whizzing lol https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bryan Fischer / @bryandfischer: Well that is a notable exit (due to an inappropriate relationship at the company) ahead of some major rights negotiations and a potential writers strike. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Goggin / @benjamingoggin: Jeff Shell steps down as CEO of NBCUniversal, admitting to an “inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company” https://twitter.com/...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: And can we drop the euphemisms? He didn't “depart.” It wasn't “mutual.” He was FIRED. https://twitter.com/...
@keitholbermann: BREAKING: Wow. My onetime friend Jeff Shell OUT as chairman of NBC https://twitter.com/...
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast: NBCUniversal CEO Steps Down After ‘Inappropriate Relationship’ With Staffer
Lynette Rice / Deadline: Jeff Shell Exits As NBCUniversal CEO After Investigation Into Inappropriate Conduct
@tvmojoe: Variety frames this right: Mr. Shell isn't “leaving” the company. He's been fired. https://variety.com/...
@patiencehaggin: Inbox: Jeff Shell is stepping down as CEO of @NBCUniversal He acknowledges “an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company”
Matthew Belloni / @mattbelloni: The irony of Jeff Shell's exit after an affair is pretty rich. Jeff fired NBCU's Ron Meyer for HIS inappropriate relationship with a woman (though not an employee).
Susanne Barton / Bloomberg: NBCUniversal CEO Shell Leaves After ‘Inappropriate Relationship’
Joe Flint / @jbflint: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell's nearly two decade career at Comcast ended Sunday after an HR investigation regarding inappropriate conduct. Move stunned NBCU and Comcast execs. Comcast president Mike Cavanagh overseeing Shell's duties. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: News: Jeff Shell's senior team is going to report to Comcast president Mike Cavanaugh. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: WSJ: “Comcast launched an investigation soon after receiving a complaint from an employee against Mr. Shell, people familiar with the matter said.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: Absolute shocker. Even my sources at NBCUni genuinely seem to be reeling. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell is leaving Comcast over ‘inappropriate conduct’
Matthew Belloni / @mattbelloni: Another press release I first thought was fake: NBC Universal chief Jeff Shell is leaving the company after a Comcast investigation. “I had an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company, which I deeply regret,” he says.
Mrinmay Dey / Reuters: Comcast says NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell leaving after probe into inappropriate conduct
Meg James / Los Angeles Times: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell exits, citing ‘inappropriate relationship’ at company
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell Ousted After Admitting to ‘Inappropriate Relationship’
Brandon Thurston / @brandonthurston: Less than a year after WWE then-CEO Vince McMahon resigns (and later comes back) after investigation into inappropriate relationship with employees, WWE's top business partner's CEO, Jeff Shell at NBCU resigns after investigation into inappropriate relationship with employee. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: The two-paragraph press release — “Comcast Corporation Announces Jeff Shell Is Leaving the Company” — makes no mention of who will become CEO of NBCUniversal https://www.businesswire.com/ ...
Kristen Shaughnessy / @kshaughnessy2: Someone else got caught. In the statement, Mr. Shell said that today would be his last day and that he had had “an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company.” via @NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brandon Katz / @great_katzby: Need to learn more about the stunning Jeff Shell news. But if this had to happen to any company, NBCU is well positioned to manage the fallout/transition. Executive team is deep and talented. Sports, Media Networks, film, parks already strong and streaming is growing.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Update: Jeff Shell's senior team “will now report directly to Mike Cavanagh, President of Comcast Corporation,” per an internal memo. So no immediate appointment of an NBCU CEO. (These things usually take some time to negotiate.)
Andy Swift / TVLine: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell Steps Down Following Investigation Into ‘Inappropriate Relationship’
Jorge Fitz-Gibbon / New York Post: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell quits over ‘inappropriate relationship’ with woman
Joe Flint / @jbflint: Associates describe Mr. Shell as bright and innovative, but helter-skelter as a manager. An outgoing exec, but higher-ups were concerned that he could be lose with info, disclosing plans or business happenings that he wasn't supposed to. https://www.wsj.com/...
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: More @nytimes -Brian Roberts and Mike Cavanaugh called Jeff Shell's direct reports this weekend to brief them. -Investigation happened over last several weeks after a woman came forward with a complaint. -Jeff Shell was working last week. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: August 2020: NBC U boss Jeff Shell boss says a legendary exec was leaving because of a consensual affair. Today: NBC U boss Jeff Shell says he is leaving because of a consensual affair. https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: + SHELL: “Today is my last day as CEO of NBCUniversal. I had an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company, which I deeply regret. I'm truly sorry I let my Comcast and NBCUniversal colleagues down, they are the most talented people in the business...”
Tim Baysinger / @tim_bays: NBCU could do a lot worse than Donna Langley as CEO. Universal is on an absolute hot streak right now
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Some new details here from me and @Lilliannnn: *The employee that had a relationship with Shell filed a complaint with Comcast/NBCU *Comcast CEO Brian Roberts will take a more hands on approach to NBCU for the time being https://www.cnbc.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A timeline of BuzzFeed News, from hiring Ben Smith in December 2011 to announcing IPO plans in March 2017, including funding deals and competitors' critiques — The “BuzzFeed is the most important news organization in the world” era. — A little over a decade after BuzzFeed News came to life …
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Washington Post, @hunterwalk@mastodon.cloud, Digiday, @anachech, @ellisitems, @scrilla100, @neil_irwin, @slate, @newrepublic, @newrepublic, @oliviamesser, @evanhill, Nieman Lab, @jeffjarvis, @asteadwh, @laurawags, @jacob_brogan, @nthjohnwilliams, @kimzetter, @niemanfdn, @niemanfdn, @onthemedia, @abigailwise, Puck and Slate
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@hunterwalk@mastodon.cloud: @Mediagazer what i learned is what i already knew: when jon steinberg says sell, you sell 💰
Digiday: How a reliance on social traffic helped lead to BuzzFeed News' demise; Similarweb says social made up 26% of its traffic in Q1 2023, compared to 13% at HuffPost
@anachech: BuzzFeed News earned Pulitzer Prize in 2021 for exposing China's vast infrastructure for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in its Xinjiang region. It won an award for its reporting how Facebook facilitated, then failed to control, disinformation. https://www.latimes.com/...
@ellisitems: It's amazing it lasted as long as it did. The smart ones left long ago. BuzzFeed News is shutting down as company cuts 15% of staff https://www.latimes.com/...
Scott Messer / @scrilla100: The “pivot to video” was great for Facebook and although fatal for many-created a new ecosystem. The “pivot to news” was a bad idea for FB, but even worse for those who had little choice but to follow them into the hardest of low margin businesses: news. https://www.latimes.com/...
Neil Irwin / @neil_irwin: This review of the new Ben Smith book on 2010s era of Buzzfeed and Gawker makes me all the more confident that a Mad Men-esque highbrow drama set in an early 2010s digital media company released in the 2030s could be A+. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@slate: The new book pinpoints the tragic delusion that fueled the digital gold rush. The author himself was not immune. https://slate.com/...
@newrepublic: Through the stories of BuzzFeed and Gawker, Ben Smith aims to show how the media, high on the early internet's spirit of creative adventure and freedom, got hooked on traffic, unleashing volatile social and cultural forces it no longer could control. https://newrepublic.com/...
@newrepublic: In an aesthetic sense, today's internet seems less the spawn of BuzzFeed than of another media venture that vied with Jonah Peretti's project for online supremacy through the late 2000s and early 2010s: Gawker. https://newrepublic.com/...
Olivia Messer / @oliviamesser: Woof. This long, scathing review of Ben Smith's new book on the rise and fall of BuzzFeed and Gawker. https://newrepublic.com/...
Evan Hill / @evanhill: “Given this state of affairs it's hard not to feel like ‘Traffic’ is making an inadvertent but compelling case that Gawker and BuzzFeed were, in the grand scheme of things, not particularly important.” By @readmaxread https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: A history of BuzzFeed News, Part II: 2017-2023
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: From Max Reed's review of @semaforben's Traffic: Gawker v BuzzFeed: “irony vs. earnestness, criticism vs. civility, snark vs. smarm. “Denton and Peretti themselves are too weird and reptilian” Why BuzzFeed joined Gawker in the internet news graveyard https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@asteadwh: “At best, a brief, wacky interregnum between periods of sustained dominance by big national news publishers, at worst a pointless waste of journalistic creativity and resources spent pursuing a doomed business strategy.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Laura Wagner / @laurawags: “Peretti messaged often with Zuckerberg and made ‘a habit of cultivating the mid-senior-level Facebook employees’... which meant he had some say in the sorting mechanisms that could bestow publishers with life-changing amounts of traffic.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jacob Brogan / @jacob_brogan: Max Read on Ben Smith's book is very good, also very funny: “I can confirm: There is lots of delusion in this book. There is also a little bit of rivalry. But I have to be honest. I do not think there are any geniuses.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@nthjohnwilliams: “Of the many delusions in the book, the grandest is the idea that digital publishers could build sustainable businesses by chasing immense audiences with free content.” Max Read with a lively (and sadly timely) review of Ben Smith's “Traffic.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kim Zetter / @kimzetter: “the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and BuzzFeed and Nick Denton of Gawker Media, whose delirious pursuit of attention at scale helped release the dark forces that would overtake the internet and American society” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/ ...
@niemanfdn: “A little over a decade after BuzzFeed News came to life, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti's willingness to run a prestigious but money-losing news division has run out.” Here is Part I of @NiemanLab's history of @BuzzFeedNews. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@niemanfdn: In a memo to staff on Thursday, CEO Jonah Peretti announced that @buzzfeednews would be shut down entirely. @NiemanLab has chronicled the ups and downs of BuzzFeed News since 2011. Here's part I of its history, stay tuned for Part II. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@onthemedia: “We've chronicled the ups and downs of BuzzFeed News since 2011, when the company hired a blogger named Ben Smith. Here's part I of its history, from 2011 to 2017. Stay tuned for Part II.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Abigail Wise / @abigailwise: The end of @BuzzFeedNews is a huge loss for journalism and the internet as a whole. Thanks for all of the great work y'all produced. You will be missed. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Dylan Byers / Puck: Jonah and the Whale — BuzzFeed News and the world it made, and didn't make, and what happened in between.
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Ben Smith / Vanity Fair:
An inside look at Disney's offer to acquire BuzzFeed in 2013 for $450M, with the potential to earn $200M more, which BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti nearly accepted — In an excerpt from his new book, Traffic, former BuzzFeed editor in chief Ben Smith reports how Jonah Peretti enraged Bob Iger …
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Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: Speechless. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Passantino / @passantino: “In the cold terms of venture capital, Peretti's—our—decision not to sell to Disney will go down as one of the dumbest in the history of digital media,” @semaforben writes https://www.vanityfair.com/...
@vanityfair: “From the perspective of a media company, an offer from Disney was like getting into Harvard.” In an excerpt from his new book, @semaforben reflects on what he calls the dumbest decision “in the history of digital media.” https://vntyfr.com/GZrxRXr
Martine Paris / Forbes:
Pop star Grimes tells fans to create AI-generated music with her voice, saying she will split 50% royalties, the same as “with any artist I collab with” — In the wake of the AI-generated hit Heart on My Sleeve going viral with deepfakes of Drake and The Weeknd …
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@grimezsz: I'll split 50% royalties on any successful AI generated song that uses my voice. Same deal as I would with any artist i collab with. Feel free to use my voice without penalty. I have no label and no legal bindings. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Cooke / Complete Music Update: Grimes happy to split the royalties if anyone wants to create an AI Grimes track
Althea Legaspi / Rolling Stone: Grimes on AI Songs: ‘Feel Free to Use My Voice Without Penalty’
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
Twitter restores the gold badges of some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay — Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe.
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Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: Twitter belatedly discovers that it makes sense to promote users with large numbers of followers rather than any troll who will pay @ElonMusk $8 a month. But in the meantime, the meaning of the blue check has been degraded by the new pay-to-play approach. https://www.bbc.com/...
Lynne S / @battlebridge_: @StephenKing Can you offer to pay him to have it removed? https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@marvicleonen: Other human beings do not deserve the same treatment? Those who were given the privilege for free cannot afford your 8 dollars a month? While ordinary people do not deserve the same accommodation? So, this is Twitter's new management? https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Robert Young Pelton / @ryp__: Elon Musk's Blue Check program explodes mid launch. https://www.bbc.com/...
@blackamazon: LOL sorry I'm now laughing because all three of those gave me hell for ( admittedly caustically) pointing out their failures of considering how social controlled their cues and half assed work on #yourslipisshowing Everyone have fun https://twitter.com/...
J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter: Twitter Inexplicably Adds Verification Back to Some Accounts, Including Dead Celebrities
@realhaulegluck: 🚩@elonmusk has previously said that the @Twitter finances were in dire straits when he took over and that Twitter was operating at a loss of $4m per day. 👉🏽Elon removing our legacy Checkmark won't help to stop twitter sinking! https://www.bbc.com/...
Ashis Basu / @basuashis: Twitter restores blue tick to high profile accounts. Beyoncé, Harry Kane, Richard Osman and Victoria Beckham are among those to have their blue tick back. The BBC News Twitter account also has its gold badge again, but has not paid for it. @zsk https://www.bbc.com/...
Amee Vanderpool / @girlsreallyrule: Elon Musk pays for Stephen King, LeBron James and Amee Vanderpool to keep Twitter blue checks: https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Laura Kuenssberg / @bbclaurak: The blue tick is back - (Mine just popped back up, haven't paid!) this is what's going on 👇🏼 https://www.bbc.com/...
Mark Shenton / @shentonstage: What a @twitter farce — @ElonMusk has intervened to allow some celebrity twitter accounts to retain their blue ticks by paying for them himself. No doubt some of the goons that have now paid for theirs will claim they didn't! https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Low De Wei / Fortune: Twitter blue checks for dead celebrities adds to confusion over Elon Musk's changes
James Ball / New Statesman: Farewell, blue tick
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Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Twitter emails advertisers to say they must now have “a verified checkmark or subscribe to either Twitter Blue or Verified Organizations” to keep running ads
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Slate, Screen Rant, @mattnavarra, Mashable, @gtconway3dg, @nash076, @gidmk, @skdh, @vladaknowlton, @abusulayman, The Hill, @joeyfortman, Insider, @sumambivertlady, @fridayinhalifax, Boing Boing, MediaPost, @dloehr, @jamieeast, @mattnavarra, @tylermahancoe, @elilikesrice, @jessehawken, The Guardian, @pinche_pi, @edzitron, @jappleby, @petbugs13, @mkobach, @leratomannya, @scottmonty, @petershankman, @padresj, @bradmossesq, @bradmossesq, @helenkennedy, @film_girl, @theseantcollins, @peoplesoracle, @aintscarylarry, @jamespmcleod, @tante, @reportbywilson, @blackamazon, @mediaevan, Bloomberg, IGN, The Daily Beast, Gizmodo, Variety, The Information and The Drum, more at Techmeme »
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Alex Kirshner / Slate: Elon Musk's Weekend-Long Masterclass in Business Failure
Simon Gallagher / Screen Rant: Disney Jr UK Twitter Troll Exposes Gold Checkmark Loophole Without Paying $1000
Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra: WOW... Twitter is now telling advertisers it MUST subscribe to Twitter Blue or Verified Organisations to continue running ads! https://twitter.com/...
Chance Townsend / Mashable: Twitter Blue nets 28 signups so far since legacy checkmark purge
@gtconway3dg: “It's an astonishing business story. Famous people from every walk of life you could think of have, in the span of a few days, grabbed their megaphones to tell the world they did not pay for a specific product.” https://slate.com/...
@nash076: The only way you can not understand this is if you deliberately don't *want* to understand it: He's an asshole. We don't want to be seen supporting assholes. We don't like assholes. They're not good people. They make life difficult for no reason. https://slate.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@gidmk: “Blue could be one dollar a month, and Twitter could figure out spam tomorrow, and tons of people would still have zero interest in the subscription, because they don't like Musk or the people who follow him around” https://slate.com/...
Sabine Hossenfelder / @skdh: The worst part of this is that it was totally foreseeable and unsurprising. Why would anyone pay on twitter for something that all other social media platforms offer for free? https://slate.com/...
Vlada Knowlton / @vladaknowlton: “It took multiple strokes of business failure: First by Musk making Twitter worse, second by charging more for Twitter Blue at the same time he was making the site worse, and third by making himself an unappealing person for people to associate themselves with in public.” https://twitter.com/...
@joeyfortman: I'm not sure I understand the purpose in this. Isn't that biting the hand that feeds you?! https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Hart / Insider: Twitter Blue users paying $8 to stay verified hit by ‘#BlockTheBlue’ campaign
@sumambivertlady: So the business genius is trying to tank Twitter and the US govt is trying to ban TikTok, 2 spaces where frequent sharing of systemic injustice and unfiltered news occurs and where folks connect to other marginalized folks, all while the govt is trying to control the internet. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@fridayinhalifax: To be fair like 6 our of 10 ads now are clearly revived accounts pushing Elon's crap so, not much change https://twitter.com/...
Grant St. Clair / Boing Boing: Elon Musk slaps free Twitter Blue checks on critics, whether they want it or not
Colin Kirkland / MediaPost: Twitter Mandates That Advertisers Pay For Verification
David J. Loehr / @dloehr: So if you use the “Blues Blocker” extension in Chrome, you'll also have an ad-free Twitter experience? Good job, genius. https://techcrunch.com/...
Jamie East / @jamieeast: This is pretty hilarious. An email from twitter saying that you have to pay for verification before you can have the privilege of advertising on Twitter. Absolutely deranged. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra: Dril and other Twitter power users begin campaign to ‘Block the Blue’ paid checkmarks “The campaign to “Block the Blue” - that is, any user still with a blue checkmark which signifies they are paying Musk for it - is in full swing” https://mashable.com/...
Tyler Mahan Coe / @tylermahancoe: Is there some kind of loophole he's trying to exploit? Like, could there possibly be some benefit to Elon in bankrupting Twitter? Maybe he can't legally just walk away but killing the company gives him some kind of out? Help me understand. https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Hawken / @jessehawken: This is a great idea because it will almost completely get rid of ads https://twitter.com/...
Kari Paul / The Guardian: Fake accounts, chaos and few sign-ups: the first day of Twitter Blue was messy
@pinche_pi: Are they also informing advertisers that many users are blocking every account that buys ads on this platform or nah? 🤔 https://twitter.com/...
Ed Zitron / @edzitron: These changes rock because he definitely is like “yes this will get us guaranteed revenue from every advertiser” as opposed to the other way you get revenue from them - selling them advertising https://twitter.com/...
Jack Appleby / @jappleby: This is a colossal Elon error. Does it rationally make sense to ask companies to pay a few bucks to advertise on Twitter? I'd actually say yes. Does implementing this rule now, when advertisers are already abandoning Twitter, make ANY sense? No. https://twitter.com/...
@petbugs13: wait wait wait so what you're saying is if i install the extension that blocks blue checkmarks, i block all ads? lmfao https://techcrunch.com/...
Matthew Kobach / @mkobach: Twitter ALWAYS should have charged businesses to use their platform. https://twitter.com/...
@leratomannya: Lmaoooooo easiest way to piss people off, moving my focus back to Facebook, Instagram and TikTok 🫶🏾 https://twitter.com/...
Scott Monty / @scottmonty: Twitter's new advertising requirement that advertisers must be subscribed to Twitter Blue reminds me of an old National Lampoon cover... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Peter Shankman / @petershankman: “Daddy, why are the only ads on Twitter for either vape pens or penis enlargement pills?” “ Well, Timmy, a billion dollars a year in interest payments alone makes a manchild do some things he's not too proud of.” https://twitter.com/...
Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq: Was anyone getting ads in the past from accounts that were not verified already? https://twitter.com/...
Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq: Pay for a worthless blue checkmark so you can pay us to advertise on this platform. Yeah, Elon is a genius https://twitter.com/...
Helen Kennedy / @helenkennedy: You could make a place alluring to advertisers by getting rid of racist undesirables, not pushing your politics and juvenile humor on users, and verifying identities. Or you could demand advertisers pay for the privilege of paying you. https://twitter.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl: The remaining sales people at Twitter must hate their boss so much. What a disaster. https://twitter.com/...
Sean T. Collins / @theseantcollins: How much money will this possibly make him? Bet your bottom dollar it's less money than simply courting advertisers like a normal businesshuman would! https://twitter.com/...
Dayna Lynn Nuckolls / @peoplesoracle: So he's intentionally bankrupting this platform, yes? Or is he really that bad at product development and revenue creation? Both? https://twitter.com/...
@aintscarylarry: Elon Musk's rapid scheduled disassembly of twitter is really accelerating. #ElonMuskIsaGiantTurd https://twitter.com/...
James McLeod / @jamespmcleod: Elon Musk built his empire basically off massive government subsidies for EVs and rockets, and it's hilarious how he's flailing wildly running a business where he actually needs to navigate market forces and human behaviour. https://twitter.com/...
@tante: Totally not a desperate move by a company without a working strategy. https://twitter.com/...
Teddy Wilson / @reportbywilson: “Twitter's broader verification strategy” “We're making this shit up as we go along” https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: The funny thing is for the most part this just means we're back in Twitter circa 2014. Like it sucks in many ways .. and a lot of the indignation is mostly about taxonomic manipulation https://twitter.com/...
Evan DeSimone / @mediaevan: Not sure I'd go swinging this leverage around if my ad platform was the least critical one in everyone's stack. https://twitter.com/...
Adele Ankers-Range / IGN: Elon Musk Is Paying for Some Celebrities' Twitter Blue Verification
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast: Daily Wire Host: I'll Pay for Twitter Blue to ‘Show My Support’ for Elon Musk
Todd Spangler / Variety: Twitter Reportedly Is Now Requiring All Advertisers to Pay for Verification Unless They Spend at Least $1,000 per Month
Jahnavi Nidumolu / Reuters:
Twitter drops the “Government-funded” and “state-affiliated” labels from accounts of media outlets and journalists, including NPR, BBC, CBC, RT, and Xinhua
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@mattbinder, @bobbyallyn, @johntaofficial, @benkuchera, @robertmackey, Politico, Boston Business Journal, @ngrossman81, @afp, @mattbinder, Mashable, Deadline, @josephmenn, Variety, @mrrickywhittle, @spenolpalinusa, Agence France-Presse, @kenroth, @chrisgeidner, @politicussarah, @paleofuture, @jkarsh, @mattzeitlin, @andrewfeinberg, @defensebaron, @jesse_brenneman, @alexvtunzelmann, @blackamazon, @donmoyn, @pt, @wilson__valdez, @mattbinder, NPR, @anews, @brindusab1, RADIO ONLINE, @keithboykin, @michaelcaster, @derjarjour, @nathalieloiseau, @tommywalkerco, CNN, @jeffveillette, Inside Radio, Voice of America, The Hill, The Verge, @chadloder@kolektiva.social, @noahshachtman@mstdn.social, Forbes, TechCrunch, The Wrap, Current, Newser, Engadget, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Rehak/Stuebing Mostly Media and Fox News
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Matt Binder / @mattbinder: paid bluechecks with 10 followers running celebrities off the platform for simply choosing not to pay. the business genius strikes again. https://twitter.com/...
Bobby Allyn / @bobbyallyn: NEW: Elon Musk tells me Twitter has now dropped all media labels. Asked why, Musk says: “This was Walter Isaacson's suggestion.”
Ivan Shevtsov / @johntaofficial: “If you can't fight misinformation, you have to lead it.” Apparently this is the new Twitter policy thanks to @elonmusk https://twitter.com/...
Ben Kuchera / @benkuchera: Twitter had the best influencer program in the world. The company created an incentive structure where the most famous people on the planet created content on the site, daily, for free. Destroyed in one day because the new owner thought Stephen King should pay to write for him.
Robert Mackey / @robertmackey: Mission accomplished. While everyone was distracted by his blue-check removals, Musks's Twitter deleted labels that alerted users that they were reading news from state-run propaganda outlets of authoritarian governments. Potemkin news channels now free to inject disinformation. https://twitter.com/...
Jack Shafer / Politico: Elon Musk Figured Out the Media's Biggest Weakness
Nicholas Grossman / @ngrossman81: Editor in chief of RT thanks Elon Musk for freeing her outlet from the state media label and making her appear more in searches. “Cui bono”—look for who benefits, assume they caused it—is often conspiracy theorizing. I doubt RT caused Twitter's changes. But they sure do benefit. https://twitter.com/...
@afp: #UPDATE Twitter has dropped “state-affiliated” and “government-funded” labels from media accounts, according to a review by @AFP on Friday of many high-profile pages on the platform Many major media outlets that had either of those tags no longer display them, according to AFP. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Binder / @mattbinder: actually, looks like when removing legacy verified blue checkmarks...Twitter accidentally removed *all* state-affiliated, government-funded, & public-funded media tags on every account not just RT...NPR, PBS, BBC, CBC...none of them have it anymore lol https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Cecily Mauran / Mashable: After NPR left the platform, Twitter removed all ‘government-funded media’ labels
Patrick Hipes / Deadline: Twitter Removes “Government-Funded Media” Labels From NPR, PBS, Others After Backlash
Todd Spangler / Variety: Elon Musk Drops Twitter's ‘State-Affiliated’ and ‘Government-Funded’ Media Labels After Backlash
Ricky Whittle / @mrrickywhittle: The oblivious who think this is about money or status shows how manipulated & out of touch they are.Couldn't care less personally,but it's about my fans safety.The verification was about trust,credence & followers knowing a person/company/organisation was who they said they were https://twitter.com/...
@spenolpalinusa: So Musk quietly removed the “Russia state-affiliated media” label from all the Russian propaganda accounts. I suspected he would do that at some point, and it became pretty clear when he labeled CBC “69% government-funded.” The whole point was to turn the label into a joke. https://twitter.com/...
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: Is @ElonMusk really so benighted as to be unable to distinguish between a media outlet with state funding that retains editorial independence and a state-funded propaganda outlet? https://www.reuters.com/...
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: Today in, “What are today's organizing principles, decided based on what single interaction?” https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Reese Jones / @politicussarah: Elon doing Putin et al's bidding by erasing state affiliated media label. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Novak / @paleofuture: I know people who are really excited to read Isaacson's upcoming biography of Musk but if he's brainstorming business ideas with the billionaire that's a really bad sign. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Karsh / @jkarsh: This is the other thing Musty doesn't get. Jurnos and celebs showed up here because the place was interesting, immediate, and fun. If you turn it into Gab, white nationalists and nazis aren't fun or interesting. So tentpole users will just leave, as so many are. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin: one funny dynamic right now is that because the paid blue checks are so, uhh, intensely self-selected, if you're a Big Account, the only replies you're going to see are from paid blue checks, which may affect the Twitter Experience https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: Fwiw it's not clear this was intentional. It's more likely that the labels required the old blue check. Remove the check, remove the label with it. https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Brenneman / @jesse_brenneman: Ah I see now. A blue check was much like a classic title or land bestowed by the monarchy, which has now been replaced by democracy (people paying a billionaire $8 for a check). https://twitter.com/...
Alex von Tunzelmann / @alexvtunzelmann: Just looked up the tweets and all the blue tick replies appear first under any tweet, meaning that a reader must now wade through a swamp of dullness before anyone says anything funny or interesting. So I guess that's conversation killed on here as well https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: So the very specific kind of flight that folks always warned of is beginning https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Musk has dropped all labels of news organizations, meaning that the new status quo is that propaganda outlets are no longer labeled as such https://twitter.com/...
Parker / @pt: This is where you wonder whether China called him and asked if he wanted Tesla to make its APAC sales targets. I mean, he's probably just dealing with a real bad case of the anti-woke mind virus, but the point is we don't know! https://twitter.com/...
@wilson__valdez: This was always his goal. Seems pretty obvious that one of the reasons he added the labels on reputable outlets like NPR & BBC, was so he could say, “See? I just removed them all. Now everyone is equal.” He is truly a one-man disinformation machine. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Binder / @mattbinder: before today Joe Biden's Twitter account was labeled “US government official” after the legacy verified blue checkmarks were removed...the labels gone too https://twitter.com/...
@anews: #Twitter on Friday dropped the “state-affiliated media” #tag on some accounts like National Public Radio (NPR) and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a label by the social media platform that implies #government involvement in editorial content. https://anws.link/j4b9ck
@brindusab1: #Twitter #StateAffiliatedMedia Ongoing experiments ... good or bad, only time will tell ... Some might compare yesterday's #SpaceX 2nd stage blast to Twitter's management ... https://www.reuters.com/...
Keith Boykin / @keithboykin: In a victory for NPR over Elon Musk, Twitter has dropped the “Government-funded Media” label from the National Public Radio account. @NPR recently stopped posting on Twitter, but it's unclear if the media outlet will return after Musk's new reversal. https://www.reuters.com/...
Michael Caster / @michaelcaster: #Twitter removed “state-affiliated media” label from some accounts. The label is important to identify government influence on editorial content but labels have also been removed from #China state-affiliated media responsible for information manipulation. https://www.reuters.com/...
@derjarjour: It would be funny if it weren't truly terrifying that this platform is now run with so little care https://twitter.com/...
Nathalie Loiseau / @nathalieloiseau: Twitter's rapid unscheduled disassembly. #Twitter #BlueCheckMarks https://twitter.com/...
Tommy Walker / @tommywalkerco: Legacy blue tickets removed. Also “China state affiliated media” tags also gone for angry propaganda hawks. Twitter becoming a circus, anyone can say anything with no accountability nor checks. Maybe great for content but ground zero for bullshit.
Jeff Veillette / @jeffveillette: Just an absolute genius at work https://twitter.com/...
Liam Scott / Voice of America: Twitter Drops ‘State-Affiliated,’ ‘Government-Funded’ Labels from Major News Outlets
Nick Robertson / The Hill: Musk removes ‘government-funded’ labels after scrutiny leads some outlets to exit Twitter
Emma Roth / The Verge: Elon Musk removes Twitter's ‘government-funded media’ labels after outlets flee the platform
Chad Loder / @chadloder@kolektiva.social: I've been disgusted by the lack of professional solidarity among journalists ever since Musk bought Twitter. As Musk bans journalists one-by-one, their colleagues stay on Twitter, tweeting out their work, hoping that they'll survive the next round.
Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman@mstdn.social: I don't usually go for conspiracy theories. But sometimes my mind drifts, especially when I think about who funded Musk's Twitter takeover. — I wonder: Would these people have paid billions for a third-tier social network? …
Matt Novak / Forbes: Russia's RT Editor-In-Chief Thanks Elon Musk For Scrapping ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Label On Twitter
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Twitter removes ‘government-funded’ news labels after NPR and other flubs
Eileen AJ Connelly / The Wrap: Twitter Drops ‘Government-Funded’ Label From NPR, PBS After News Orgs Quit Platform in Protest
Tyler Falk / Current: Twitter drops “government-funded” label from NPR, PBS
Dara Kerr / NPR:
Sources: Twitter removed its “visibility filtering rules”, or “shadow bans”, for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government accounts and state-affiliated media
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K.J. Yossman / Variety: Twitter Gave a Fake Disney Junior Account That Uses Racial Slurs a Gold Checkmark Verification
Alyssa Kann / @alyssakann: After months of declining follower counts, some state-affiliated media outlets on Twitter started to gain more followers, all around the same date. Here's the sudden shift of an account from Russia's RT, beginning a period of follower growth March 28 and onwards: https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Whittock / Deadline: Fake Disney Junior Twitter Account With Gold Tick Suspended — But Not Before Using Profanities And Racial Slur
Alex Howard / @digiphile: As @washingtonpost: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... & @npr report, @twitter removed labels from state media. Twitter also removed labels from *all government* accounts — including US government — & unverified official @whitehouse accounts: https://twitter.com/... We're back to 2009 here https://twitter.com/...
@ben_mutxasteg1: “Twitter changes its algorithm to boost Russian, Chinese and Iranian state media, because that is what “free speech” is all about” https://twitter.com/...
Brian Mann / @brianmannadk: As interesting factual challenging voices back away from Twitter, the site is seeing a surge in the impact of state-sponsored propaganda from China, Iran and Russia. Reporting from NPR in the thread below 👇 https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: This week, @Twitter removed ALL labels designating accounts as government-controlled or funded, after intentionally ending its @policy of not recommending state-backed tweets in March. Now, China, Russia & Iran's state propaganda are getting more eyeballs. https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Pam Fessler / @pamelafessler: Check (no pun intended) out these graphs showing spikes in follower numbers for actual state-affiliated media outlets. https://twitter.com/...
Jaro Giesbrecht / @jarogiesbrecht: Lets not forget @PierrePoilievre's contribution to this when he attacked @CBC. Russia is very grateful. Twitter once muzzled Russian and Chinese state propaganda. That's over now. #Cdnpoli https://www.npr.org/...
@thesizzlereport: Twitter removes state-media tags from Russian, Chinese accounts This could reek havoc during the 2024 election - we have got to get organized! #Dems4USA #BlueWave https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dave Troy / @davetroy: Vitally important thread here. Again, this machine is for information warfare. It is being used to empower authoritarian regimes. https://twitter.com/...
@sadgirlcassi: Twitter accounts run by Russia's RT, China's CGTN and Iran's PressTV suddenly began to gain followers; Twitter acknowledged a change in policy regarding state media accounts three weeks later. #propaganda https://dfrlab.org/...
Hendrik Lesser / @vane303: dear european politicians - we have to hold @elonmusk and @Twitter accountable for this. this has not much of to do with free speech if we allow and even help people spreading misinformation and with intent to destroy our democratic systems https://twitter.com/...
@throught_hills: We're looking at how twitter is transforming into propaganda outlet 🫤 https://twitter.com/...
Francis Harris / @fharris2011: Oh look, Elon Musk fixing Twitter to help the Kremlin's blood-spattered propagandists (Also deliberately downplaying tweets from Ukraine's war of survival) https://twitter.com/...
@rail_splitter1: Quietly, behind the blue-check diversionary active measure, this was the real event all along. Where we are: someone who should have much more urgent things to do spends inordinate amounts of times directing Twitter how to amplify the worst disinformation on the planet. https://twitter.com/...
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D / @rvawonk: I wrote about this trend last week — and it appears to be continuing, and with even more state media accounts. https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Joseph Menn / Washington Post: Twitter removes labels from state-controlled media, helping propaganda
Jesse Lehrich / @jesselehrich: Elon has fully unshackled CCP & Kremlin propaganda. now Dmitry Medvedev is getting 7,000 RTs calling for genocide. https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Dice / @jdice03: Twitter has been hard at work driving away reputable news agencies like NPR & PBS while opening its doors to propaganda, hate and disinformation from the likes of Russia and China. Elon Musk is making Donald Trump's wildest dreams come true. https://www.npr.org/...
Drew Dixon / @deardrewdixon: Twitter became a powerful platform where independent thinkers, writers, and movements spoke-out, scaled, and established authenticity. By dismantling this ecosystem, Elon is muting the impact of independent voices who challenge gate-keepers and the status quo. Is that the point? https://twitter.com/...
@kim: Big Picture By verifying extremists and purging the blue checkmarks of legitimate accounts, Clyde is essentially stealing the influence earned by long-time verified users and transferring that social media equity to some of the most unsavory guys on the interwebs. Not cool!
Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant: Still amazed that someone has not just made a Twitter clone that is not a) affiliated with weird subcultures of rightwing politics or a former president b) trying to “disrupt” news or c) a somewhat confusingly designed series of decentralized federations
David Gura / @davidgura: Dmitry Medvedev “took to Twitter earlier this month to denigrate Ukraine in a post using language reminiscent of genocidal regimes. And Twitter didn't stop him.” “Previous guardrails on government accounts in Russia, China and Iran have now been removed.” https://www.npr.org/...
Dara Kerr / @darakerr: Last night “state-affiliated media” labels disappeared across Twitter. Turns out those labels were in name only the last few weeks. Two former employees say Twitter made a deliberate decision to end the de-amplification those labels were intended to do. https://www.npr.org/...
Scott Sigler / @scottsigler: This won't impact elections at all, I'm sure. Pretty comprehensive write up — the bots are back in town. “Twitter once muzzled Russian and Chinese state propaganda. That's over now” https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@cendemtech: “Taking the restraints off state-affiliated media accounts could also lead to more general #disinformation on Twitter, said @Sarah_G_Cook, senior advisor at @FreedomHouse who researches China, Hong Kong & Taiwan:” https://www.npr.org/...
@akinunver: The correct angle here is for Twitter to muzzle propaganda from *all* governments. It is a bit unrealistic and long-term unsustainable to think that it is only China, Russia and Iran that do propaganda and not others. https://twitter.com/...
@dfrlab: @Twitter ... Following @DFRLab's investigation, @NPR confirmed @Twitter made the deliberate decision to stop filtering government accounts in Russia, China, and Iran. @Reuters reported Twitter had removed its state media labels from said countries' accounts as well. https://www.npr.org/...
Brian Mann / @brianmannadk: Twitter in the Musk era looking more and more like the public square — if you mean Tiananmen Square and Red Square. 🤔 https://www.npr.org/...
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Twitter stops labeling Russia's RT and China's Xinhua as “state-affiliated media”
Acarvin / DFRLab: State-controlled media experience sudden Twitter gains after unannounced platform policy change
Chloe Simon / Media Matters for America: Elon Musk ended legacy verification and now Twitter users can't determine reputable sources
Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable: LGBTQ centers leave Twitter following removal of hateful conduct protections
Alan Baldwin / Reuters:
Funke Media Group sacks the editor of German magazine Die Aktuelle, which ran an AI-generated interview with Michael Schumacher, and apologizes to his family — The publishers of a German magazine that ran an ‘interview’ with Michael Schumacher generated by artificial intelligence have sacked …
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BBC: Michael Schumacher: Magazine editor sacked over AI-generated ‘interview’ with seven-time F1 champion
Ray Schultz / MediaPost: Sorry AI: German Cover Story Misfires, Editor Is Fired
Damian Francis / Mumbrella: The formula to ruin one career - just use artificial intelligence rather than your own
Aparna Nair / @disabilitystor1: This story is grotesque; and its stories like these that make me hesitate so much about the uncritical use of AI among journalists and academics. What other unethical horrors will we come up with, simply because the tech can? Whose lives will we violate? https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Sophie Elsworth / @sophieelsworth: German magazine Die Aktuelle has apologised to Michael Schumacher's family and sacked its editor-in-chief after it published a fake interview with the seven-time Formula One champion, @australian @aus_media https://www.theaustralian.com.au/ ...
Andreas Harsono / @andreasharsono: The publishers of German magazine Die Aktuelle that ran an ‘interview’ with Michael Schumacher generated by artificial intelligence have sacked the editor and apologised to the Formula One great's family. He has not been seen in public since 2013 https://www.reuters.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: This was the only way this was ever going to end. Calamitously bad decision. https://twitter.com/...
Kate Bevan / @katebevan: Good. This was the most abject failure of ethics, taste and compassion. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Nelson Fernandes Serrao / @tldrnelson: Whilst sacking the editor-in-chief may seem disproportionate, the position of editor-in-chief is ultimately one of accountability. They must, whether directly or indirectly, take responsibility for each and every word published under them. https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters Institute:
News media distrust among marginalized groups often stems from unease about how they are represented, based on focus groups in Brazil, India, the UK, and the US — There is no single trust problem, and therefore there is no single trust solution. This point has been a common refrain …
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@onourradar: ‘Many spoke of the importance of niche and local news sources they felt more fairly and fully represented people like themselves and their interests’ - this @risj_oxford report shows how bringing communities into the storytelling process is one part of rebuilding #trust💡 https://twitter.com/...
@trustingnews: We're so grateful when researchers dive deep into helping us understand how to build trust. Thanks, @risj_oxford team. @mayerjoy pulled out a few points she wants newsrooms to take away from this work, with related resources from our team. https://medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Maddy Crowell / Columbia Journalism Review:
A profile of Runa Sandvik, who started Granitt in June 2022 to help journalists, lawyers, activists, and other at-risk people keep their data safe from hackers — Runa Sandvik has made it her life's work to protect journalists against cyberattacks. Authoritarian regimes are keeping her in business.
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Jamie Dubs / @jamiew: awesome profile of @runasand and her work protecting journalists https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: Runa Sandvik is a hacker who protects journalists against cyberattacks. Authoritarian regimes are keeping her in business. Maddy Crowell reports. https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: Cyberthreats, journalism, Edward Snowden, pole dancing, and the surveillance dystopia in which we live—it's all in a day for Runa Sandvik. Read the profile by Maddy Crowell. https://www.cjr.org/...
Jim Chilton / HBR.org: The New Risks ChatGPT Poses to Cybersecurity
Bloomberg:
Nielsen: Netflix accounts for between 7% and 8% of TV viewing in the US every month and between 70% to 80% of the top 10 shows in the US every week — Good afternoon from Ojai, California, where I am celebrating my girlfriend's birthday. Lunch was interrupted by huge news …
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Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: This Bloomberg chart illustrates Netflix's continued dominance: Netflix accounts “for between 70% and 80% of the 10 most-watched shows in the US every week.” https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: A reminder from @Lucas_Shaw: “Netflix accounts for between 7% and 8% of TV viewing every month, according to Nielsen. No other service, besides YouTube, tops 4%. People spend more time watching Netflix every month than Hulu, Disney+ and HBO Max combined.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@markets: Netflix still dominates other streaming services in viewing and new hits, but it is showing weakness in two key areas. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Despite intense competition, Netflix still accounts for 2-5X more viewing than any of its direct competitors. It also accounts for about 70% of the most-viewed streaming titles every week. https://twitter.com/...
@tvgrimreaper: Pick your headline: Nobody watches any Hulu original show except #HandmaidsTale. Almost all original streaming shows are lightly watched compared to successful broadcast TV shows. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Benedict Evans / @benedictevans: The fact that Netflix spends as much as any traditional TV company on commissioning content seems to me as much a sign of weakness as strength - it has to spend what any other media company spends, and tech doesn't give it a different path. https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: In other news, we crunched some numbers to reveal the most popular streaming shows in the US/world — and how streaming services stack up against one another. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Jon / @jontypesthings: Imagine spending *billions* to kill your legacy TV business only to get effortlessly bodied by Netflix month after month https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: The most popular rerun on streaming is NCIS. It has spent more than 100 weeks in the Nielsen top 10. https://twitter.com/...
Adrian Weckler / @adrianweckler: Netflix's lead over other streamers is gigantic. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Benedict Evans / @benedictevans: Putting that another way - Netflix changes cable but doesn't change TV. Youtube (and Tiktok) changes TV
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Big media companies surrendered billions of dollars by refusing to license old hits to Netflix, and keeping them for their one services instead. That worked...to a point. The one area where Netflix has lost a lot of ground to competitors is in acquired shows. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Disney begins its second round of layoffs today, cutting around 4,000 jobs by the end of the week, as part of plans to lay off 7,000 employees — Restructuring will continue “for the next couple of months,” Disney Entertainment chiefs Dana Walden and Alan Bergman wrote to staff Monday …
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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: Disney begins second, larger round of layoffs, bringing total to 4,000 jobs cut
Jennifer Maas / Variety: Disney to Reach 4,000 Layoffs This Week With Second Round of Cuts, Third Wave to Hit Ahead of Summer
Dade Hayes / Deadline: Disney Begins Largest Wave Of Layoffs, Will Get More Than Halfway To Target Of 7,000 Staff Cuts This Week
Christian Blauvelt / IndieWire: 4,000 Disney Employees Expected to Be Laid Off This Week, with More to Come
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Several thousand Disney employees will be laid off today in round 2 of what will be a total of 7,000 job cuts. About 3,000 more will happen in the final round of cuts coming before the beginning of summer. Cuts at ESPN begin today as I reported last week. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
President Biden averaged 10 news conferences per year during his first two years in office, the fewest since Reagan, and has granted only 54 press interviews — As President Biden prepares to announce his bid for a second term as soon as Tuesday, his decision to keep the news media at arm's length is part of a deliberate strategy.
Mae Anderson / Associated Press:
Analysts say how much Fox Corp pays of the $787.5M Dominion settlement remains unclear and could be much lower due to insurance and income tax deductions — Fox Corp.'s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over defamation charges is eye-popping, but the ultimate cost to the media company is likely to be much lower.
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