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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
CNN contributor and former DHS COS Miles Taylor reveals he is Anonymous, the senior Trump admin official who wrote a NYT column in 2018 and book in 2019 — Mr. Taylor, whose criticisms of President Trump in a New York Times Op-Ed article and subsequent book roiled Washington and infuriated Mr. Trump …
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Miles Taylor / @milestaylorusa: Donald Trump is a man without character. It's why I wrote “A Warning”...and it's why me & my colleagues have spoken out against him (in our own names) for months. It's time for everyone to step out of the shadows. My statement: https://milestaylor.medium.com/ ...
Ben Smith / @benyt: OK, it's Miles Taylor, I'm told.
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: @ChrisCuomo to @MilesTaylorUSA: “You lied to us....Why should CNN keep you on the payroll after lying like that?” https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: A CNN spox just told me that Miles Taylor will remain a contributor despite lying to Anderson Cooper. CNN cannot have it both ways — slamming Trump for his lies, yet condoning a very big and blatant one by its own contributor.
BuzzFeed News: The “Anonymous” Figure Who Claimed To Be Resisting The Trump Administration Actually Defended Its Controversial Immigration Policies
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: CNN's Cuomo asks Miles Taylor why network should ‘keep you on the payroll’ after lying about op-ed
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: CNN's Jim Acosta on Trump Supporters Jeering Him and the Media: 'This Isn't Normal'
Jacob Soboroff / @jacobsoboroff: Miles Taylor was a critical part of the team that decided to separated thousands of migrant kids from their parents, resulting in lifelong psychological trauma. He would like you to believe otherwise.
Rosie Gray / @rosiegray: when Anonymous turns out to be a deputy undersecretary somewhere that no one has ever heard of, I will allow myself a smug smile, then never think of them again https://twitter.com/...
Rosie Gray / @rosiegray: i don't care enough to do this but someone should go back and find all the commentary at the time speculating that it was literally mike pence because of the word lodestar
Tom Jones / Poynter: The anonymous author of The New York Times' op-ed who criticized Trump reveals himself
Mairead McArdle / National Review: Rubio Accuses NYT of Inflating ‘Anonymous’ Op-Ed Author's Stature, Harming National Security
Donald J. Trump / @realdonaldtrump: Who is Miles Taylor? Said he was “anonymous”, but I don't know him - never even heard of him. Just another @nytimes SCAM - he worked in conjunction with them. Also worked for Big Tech's @Google. Now works for Fake News @CNN. They should fire, shame, and punish everybody....
Mark Meadows / @markmeadows: You have got to be kidding me. Miles Taylor? That's who the New York Times granted an anonymous editorial article? I've seen more exciting reveals in Scooby-Doo episodes. What a monumental embarrassment.
Jonathan Swan / @jonathanvswan: Turns out the NYT oped page gave an enormous “Resistance” platform to a staffer whose agency green-lit the Trump administration's most hardline immigration moves, including family separation, during his tenure. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller: Former DHS Staffer Was ‘Nowhere Near The Oval Office’ When He Wrote Anonymous NYT Op-Ed
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: Former DHS chief of staff @MilesTaylorUSA is the author of the NYT oped and book by “Anonymous” — more on CNN coming up
Julin Castro / @juliancastro: Miles Taylor helped spin the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant children from their parents. How many of those parents were offered media contributorships? https://twitter.com/...
Orion Rummler / Axios: “Anonymous” senior Trump official revealed as ex-DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor
Walter Shaub / @waltshaub: Hogwash. If he felt he needed to keep his identity secret until now 2020, he didn't have to take a paying gig on television. He has been everywhere on this career rehabilitation tour and has publicly lied to Americans. How can we believe anything he tells us now? https://twitter.com/...
@daveweigel: How long does that contract last? If Trump doesn't win next week, do people want to hear, like, his take on potential Biden nominees for DHS? I bet they don't! https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Brogan / @jacob_brogan: I mean... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Kotch / @alexkotch: Kind of like if Adolf Eichmann decided to write an anonymous op-ed and cash in on a blockbuster book. Miles Taylor deserves nothing but scorn and revulsion for the rest of his life. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Meadows / @markmeadows: Laughable as the “Miles Taylor Anonymous” episode is, it's every bit as damaging to the media. The New York Times amplified a no-name agency deputy with no access to President Trump and misled Americans into thinking he was an influential senior official. Absolutely ridiculous.
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: What really bothers me about this “Anonymous” situation is that this guy is trying to say *it's not about me* — it's about the arguments! But this whole reveal charade undercuts that noble pretension. Again, @CarlosLozadaWP nailed this point: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate: The Anonymous Trump “Resistance” Guy Has Revealed His Name, Which Will Be Useful for Booking Him Into Jail
Luther Lowe / @lutherlowe: So Google employee Miles Taylor is Anonymous. This guy helped cage kids at DHS so Google hired him as a Hail Mary to beef up their Trump World access. But the rank & file in Mountain View balked. So now he's “on leave” getting a 2nd bite of the apple as a resistance grifter. 🙄 https://twitter.com/...
Raices / @raicestexas: .@MilesTaylorUSA, actively took part in family separation and was involved in the development of MPP aka “Remain in Mexico” and somehow thinks that a couple months of a publicity stunt can clear his name & absolve him? @CNN & @nytimes why are you giving this man a platform? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@nytopinion: Two years ago, we ran an Op-Ed by an anonymous senior official in the Trump administration. We invited readers to ask us about our vetting process and our thinking behind publishing the essay. These were our responses to key questions. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Eric Umansky / @ericuman: So five months after @MilesTaylorUSA penned his anonymous heroic stand, he took a bunch of foreign dignitaries to a fancy dinner at, you guessed it, the president's hotel. Cost to you and me: $1,678 https://1100pennsylvania.substack.com/ ... via @Z_Everson https://twitter.com/...
Byron York / @byronyork: Important to note that Miles Taylor was not DHS chief of staff on September 5, 2018, when he published ‘Anonymous’ op-ed in NYT. He was a DHS policy adviser, which NYT characterized as a ‘senior official in the Trump administration.’
Harold Maass / The Week: 10 things you need to know today: October 29, 2020
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Anyway, I have several things I'd like to say anonymously to 3.9 million NYT subscribers.
@joyannreid: Now especially notable that this “anonymous” op-ed made no mention among Trump's abrogations, of the morally depraved policies toward migrant men, women and children, the Muslim ban, or the near-ban on admitting refugees. Family separations began in 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: After NYT published the “Anonymous” op-ed, the edit page explained when they've done this before. The other examples - a Salvadoran asylum seeker, a Syrian refugee, a man fearing ISIS retribution — are of an entirely different caliber than @MilesTaylorUSA https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants: Lots of people have gotten angry with us for pointing this out. Just because this person is voting how you'd like doesn't mean he didn't play a key role in separating children as young as infants from their parents. It's despicable no matter what your politics are. https://twitter.com/...
Erika Andiola / @erikaandiola: I “stepped out of the shadows” 11 year ago. Unfortunately people like you have tried to deport me and my family for doing so. Miles, you can't put all your evil actions behind just like that. You were part of a group who consciously decided to separate kids from their parents. https://twitter.com/...
Richard Grenell / @richardgrenell: lol. I've never heard of this guy. The DC media said he was an insider stopping decisions. They embarrass themselves again. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Mac / @rmac18: We took a deep look at Miles Taylor — his history within Trump's DHS, time at Google, and conflicting past statements. He's a complicated figured who has contradicted himself many times over. Now those contradictions are in the open for all to see. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Josh Kraushaar / @hotlinejosh: He's now rejecting the main thesis of his original WaPo “Anonymous” column https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Every time a TV news program puts a liar back on TV, it is inviting more lies. Exhibit 592,331 in how journalism refuses to learn even from its most catastrophic failures. https://twitter.com/...
Alexios / @mantzarlis: “When reached by a reporter via email, the former DHS official directed them instead to contact his agents with United Talent Agency, a Los Angeles-based firm that recently signed Paris Hilton.” https://www.buzzfeed.com/...
David Corn / @davidcorndc: Instead of Anonymous, should we call him Implicated? https://twitter.com/...
Yamiche Alcindor / @yamiche: .@PressSec slamming @MilesTaylorUSA: “This low-level, disgruntled former staffer is a liar and a coward who chose anonymity over action and leaking over leading.” @MilesTaylorUSA: “Donald Trump is a man without character.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Reminder that whether it's true or not, if someone convinces Trump that another person is “leaking,” that second person is on borrowed time https://twitter.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: James Bennet, the editor who made the decision, is no longer at the NYT after resigning this summer. https://twitter.com/...
Victoria Coates / @victoriacoates: Are you going to publish a retraction of this embarrassment? https://twitter.com/...
@adamserwer: Don't worry, the adults (who support torturing children as policy) are in charge and won't let Trump do anything terrible. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert: Taylor also cashed in “Anonymous” by writing book that netted him at least $500K. this all seems depressing https://twitter.com/...
William Turton / @williamturton: same energy https://twitter.com/...
Mike Brest / @mikebrestdc: In this clip, @MilesTaylorUSA explicitly says he is not “Anonymous,” but now we know that this was a lie. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff: Miles Taylor, who just came out as the anonymous Trump official who wrote an op-ed for the Times in 2018 claiming insiders were trying to thwart his worst impulses, went to Google, then took leave to work for Biden, as @jenn_elias scooped in August: https://www.cnbc.com/...
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: Tech angle: Taylor works for Google. Took a leave earlier this year to campaign for Biden. Google employees were upset with Taylor's hire because he worked on DHS's family separation policy. https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Griffin / @kylegriffin1: Miles Taylor, former Chief of Staff to Kirstjen Nielsen and Chad Wolf at DHS, confirms he is ‘anonymous’. https://milestaylor.medium.com/ ...
Saagar Enjeti / @esaagar: Congratulations to the media for facilitating a giant wealth transfer from MSNBC/Lincoln Project loving Dem Boomers to the never before heard of Miles Taylor's bank account Miles family & mortgage company gives you their sincerest thanks https://twitter.com/...
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: Wow, imagine Kirstjen Nielsen's chief of staff wanting to heroically distance himself from the things he himself did, you don't say https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Swan / @jonathanvswan: But #Resistance, ya know https://twitter.com/...
Hamed Aleaziz / @haleaziz: Anonymous is the the former DHS chief of staff who was at the agency in key roles during family separation, the remain in Mexico program, the public charge program and so on. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Broderick / @broderick: the Anonymous guy is so low-level that his google search results look like a stock image https://twitter.com/...
Ken Tremendous / @kentremendous: Goddamnit. You can't do a bunch of evil shit, write an anonymous book about how you're a secret hero fighting for justice, then expect applause. You had an option: resign and bring it all to light. You get booed out of society just like the rest of them. https://twitter.com/...
@wajahatali: Kids were in cages and over 535 have been separated from their families, but life worked out well for him. Book deal, CNN gig. It's good to be Anonymous. Miles Taylor, a Former Homeland Security Official, Reveals He Was ‘Anonymous’ https://www.nytimes.com/...
NowThis / @nowthisnews: BREAKING: Former Dept of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor revealed today that he was the anonymous author of the bombshell New York Times op-ed about working in the Trump administration. Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Peter Hamby / @peterhamby: The public will at least get to find out what “a senior administration official” on background looks like! https://twitter.com/...
Steven Perlberg / @perlberg: lmaoooo appears that @benyt accidentally scooped his own paper, which had agreed to an embargo, and just.... tweeted it out. You do love to see it https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Miles Taylor, a Former Homeland Security Official, Reveals He Was ‘Anonymous’ https://www.nytimes.com/... @shearm
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: >> @MilesTaylorUSA became a CNN contributor earlier this fall. But his anonymous authorship was not known to the network, according to @jaketapper: “We did not know this until today”
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story: ‘I have no fear’: Miles Taylor slams Trump's ‘intimidation’ after president demanded he be prosecuted
Breck Dumas / TheBlaze: Miles ‘Anonymous’ Taylor defends lying on CNN, says he owes colleague Anderson Cooper ‘a beer’
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Remember, the person pledged to identify themselves before Election Day https://twitter.com/...
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News: ‘Anonymous’ anti-Trump official revealed as CNN pundit Miles Taylor, who lied about writing NYT op-ed
Rosa Cartagena / Washingtonian: Former Trump Official Miles Taylor Comes Out as “Anonymous”
Ben Yakas / Gothamist: Extra Extra: Falling Through A Sidewalk Sinkhole & Being Swarmed By Rats Is Your New NYC Nightmare
Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News:
Internal email: Spotify defends Joe Rogan interviewing Alex Jones, saying it won't “ban specific individuals from being guests on other people's shows” — In public, Spotify is staying quiet about an appearance by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones yesterday on its flagship podcast …
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Jane Lytvynenko / @janelytv: SCOOP: Internal Spotify email shows the company defending Jones's appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Sara Fischer / Axios: Spotify has a Joe Rogan dilemma
I-Hsien Sherwood / Ad Age: Wieden+Kennedy elevates NY execs, and stocks plunge amid COVID concerns: Thursday Wake-Up Call
Rob Quinn / Newser: Spotify Faces Backlash Over Alex Jones Appearance
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Joe Rogan, Alex Jones and Spotify's illusion of neutrality
Mark Schoofs / @schoofsfeed: Spotify is defending Alex Jones' appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience”. During 3 hours on the show, Jones repeated falsehoods about the Bidens, denied climate science, and spread conspiracies about the pandemic and vaccines. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... @janelytv @BuzzFeedNews
Anousha Sakoui / Los Angeles Times: Spotify faces new scrutiny after Joe Rogan's Alex Jones interview
@slpng_giants: Wow. Guess @Spotify is okay with people who harass parents of murdered children. Noted. https://twitter.com/...
Timothy Johnson / Media Matters for America: Militia leader Stewart Rhodes says that his group will be at polling locations and is ready to kill Democrats
Paulsacca / BroBible: Joe Rogan Fires Back At Critics Who Tried To Get Him Canceled, Spotify Reportedly Defends Alex Jones Episode
Emerson T. Brooking / @etbrooking: I suspect Spotify will quietly walk this back by Friday. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Kristofer Goldsmith / @krisgoldsmith85: In recent leaked Patriot Front chats, some members discuss how they began their evolution towards identifying with fascism because of @joerogan. They laugh at how Rogan condemns white supremacists, while crediting him with “helping” them adopt the ideology. https://twitter.com/...
@thedailybeast: The day after far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones appeared on its top podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Spotify is privately defending the booking despite Jones' podcast being banned by the platform last year for hate speech https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Nathan Bernard / @nathantbernard: Spotify is now defending Alex Jones' appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast. During the show, Jones spread anti-vaxx conspiracies and said masks don't protect people from Covid. Very irresponsible of @Spotify to air this misinformation during a pandemic. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Andrew Wallenstein / @awallenstein: How soon before Daniel Ek finds himself sitting at a congressional hearing? 🤔 https://twitter.com/...
@buzzfeednews: New: In public, Spotify is staying quiet about conspiracy theorist Alex Jones appearing on the Joe Rogan Experience. But in an internal email sent from a top executive, the company is defending the booking. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
@internetryan: so could someone set up a shell show and then have him as a “guest” every week, giving him a podcast? https://twitter.com/...
Mark Di Stefano / @markdistef: Internal email from Spotify execs. about Alex Jones appearing on Joe Rogan: “We are not going to ban specific individuals from being guests on other people's shows” — story by @JaneLytv https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Todd Spangler / Variety: Why Joe Rogan's Latest Podcast With Conspiracy-Monger Alex Jones Is OK With Spotify
Barbara Smith / Business Insider: Spotify reportedly emails managers after podcaster Joe Rogan hosts conspiracy theorist Alex Jones: ‘We are not going to ban specific individuals from being guests’
Rachel Sandler / Forbes: Spotify Reportedly Won't Take Action After Podcaster Joe Rogan Interviewed Far-Right Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones
Cameron Jenkins / The Hill: Spotify says it won't ban guests after Joe Rogan hosts Alex Jones
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Roisin O'Connor / The Independent:
Spotify comes under criticism after Joe Rogan interviewed Alex Jones in a three-hour episode of his podcast on Tuesday; Jones was banned from Spotify in 2018 — Jones was banned from Spotify, as well as Facebook, Apple and YouTube, in 2018 — Spotify is under fire after Joe Rogan invited …
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Nathan Bernard / @nathantbernard: Joe Rogan says kids are “getting polio from taking vaccines” after Alex Jones spreads conspiracy that Bill Gates is trafficking vaccines that get 100% of people sick. Great work hosting this, @spotify. https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Bernard / @nathantbernard: Joe Rogan hosted far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his podcast today. They pushed anti-vaxx conspiracies and broadcasted banned Infowars videos. Rogan continuing to platform these far-right sickos is incredibly gross and dangerous. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Passantino / @passantino: Why is Joe Rogan hosting Alex Jones on his show again? This antivax misinfo is dangerous at any time, but especially so during a pandemic https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: Seriously, @spotify deserves a lot of shit for this https://twitter.com/...
@kerrymflynn: Cont: “Because otherwise we are a creative platform for lots of creators, and it's important that they know what to expect from our platform. If we can't do that, then there are other choices for creators to go to so that consistency is super important...” - Ek re Joe Rogan $SPOT
Ian Betteridge / @ianbetteridge: Only really one way you can respond to this. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: It appears that deplatforming is less effective when you simply....give a person who you deplatformed another platform https://twitter.com/...
Mark Folkloretta / @ctowerscbs: See, this is why I can't abide Rogan's whole shtick. he's too credulous to properly push back, and when you've had someone like this on your podcast at least three times, you're just promoting them at that point. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Koebler / @jason_koebler: i feel one week from the election is an irresponsible time to talk to alex jones on your podcast listened to by millions of people https://www.vice.com/...
Carlos Maza / @gaywonk: Holy shit. @Spotify is falling into the same extremism trap that every platform falls into. Start making exceptions for high-performing rule-breakers, and pretty soon your content moderation rules fall apart. https://twitter.com/...
Mohammed / @mohdalmusawa: Joe Rogan bringing Alex Jones on. Spotify employees: https://twitter.com/...
Dani Di Placido / Forbes: Does It Matter That Joe Rogan Hosted Alex Jones On His Podcast, Again?
@slpng_giants: Congrats on paying 100 million dollars for the privilege of platforming a man who terrorized Sandy Hook parents, @Spotify. Parents like @Nelba_MG will never forget what he did to them and you should never be able to forget having done this. This isn't edgy. It's disgusting. https://twitter.com/...
Tarisai Ngangura / Vanity Fair: Joe Rogan Finds a Loophole In Spotify's Alex Jones Ban
Rory Cellan-Jones / @ruskin147: A big backlash overnight against @Spotify for giving a platform to the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on the Joe Rogan podcast which they signed exclusively in a rumoured $100m deal https://twitter.com/...
@marievonboran: How is anyone surprised by this? Joe Rogan is a steaming pile of semi-sentient horse crap who is anti-science, anti-evidence & anti-logic. https://www.independent.co.uk/ ...
Alex Hern / @alexhern: I'm sympathetic to the idea that we can't hold tech platforms responsible for all the content on their networks, I am. But this isn't that: this is holding a broadcaster responsible for the content they spent $100m to acquire.
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Here is Spotify's Joe Rogan giving Alex Jones a platform after Spotify deplatformed Jones back in 2018. https://twitter.com/...
Kimberly Ricci / UPROXX: Joe Rogan Allowed Alex Jones To Spew His Conspiracy Theories On Spotify, And People Are Outraged
Ashley Carman / The Verge: Joe Rogan is already letting Alex Jones spread misinformation on his Spotify show
Shawn Cooke / Mic: Thanks to Joe Rogan's Spotify show, Alex Jones still manages to infect users with misinformation
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Weirdly Spotify didn't respond to my question about why Alex Jones' show is banned from the platform for “hate speech,” but it's cool for him to appear for 3+ hours on someone else's show on the platform. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert: and a Dem candidate celebrated Rogan's endorsement this year will never not be mind boggling https://twitter.com/...
Amanda Carpenter / @amandacarpenter: Hard pass on Rogan. Forever. https://twitter.com/...
Emanuel Maiberg / VICE: Alex Jones Appearance on Joe Rogan Tests Spotify's Content Policies
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify had total Q3 revenue of €1.97B, up 14% YoY, ARPU of €4.19, down 10% YoY, with 320M MAUs, up 29% YoY, and 144M paying subscribers, up 27% YoY — Listening time, revenue increased as use in cars and homes grew — Spotify Technology SA moved past a slump that hit early in the pandemic …
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Kerry Flynn / CNN: ‘The Joe Rogan Experience,’ a podcast that has sparked outrage, is a huge hit for Spotify
Jem Aswad / Variety: Spotify Reaches 144 Million Subscribers
Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: Spotify subscribers pull further ahead of Apple Music, but on loss-making deals
@kerrymflynn: Spotify CEO said in addition to growing subscriber base, the company is focused on increasing engagement and the value per hour by adding more content. Ek (and later Vogel) said Spotify has raised prices in a few markets and is testing where it makes sense in the future $SPOT
@kerrymflynn: Re podcasting, Spotify $SPOT Q3'20 earnings report says, “In September, The Joe Rogan Experience arrived on platform with video capability and became the #1 show in all of our English-speaking markets while outperforming our audience expectations...” https://investors.spotify.com/ ...
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BBC issues social media guidelines prohibiting staff from criticizing colleagues, “virtue signaling”, and expressing personal opinions on public policy, more — The BBC has issued new guidance on social media usage, which will force staff to maintain impartiality.
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Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson: New BBC social media rules explicitly ban their journalists from criticising fellow BBC journalists on Twitter. Which would be an interesting policy to see implemented across the industry.
Naman Ramachandran / Variety: BBC Bans ‘Controversial’ Personal Opinions by Staff on Social Media as Part of Impartiality Guidelines
Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson: Other things explicitly banned: -"Virtue signalling" that indicates a personal view even for “worthy causes” -Bio disclaimers saying “my views not the BBC's” -Revealing how you vote -Putting your “personal brand” on Twitter ahead of the BBC's reputation
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: BBC social media guidelines ban ‘virtue signalling’, criticism of colleagues and breaking stories on your own accounts
Jake Kanter / Deadline: BBC Unveils Detailed Social Media Rules For Staff; Forces Presenters To Disclose Paid Speaking Gigs
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: New rules also explicitly ban disclaimers in your bio saying “my views not the BBC's.” You can't say that any longer. (In other words, your views ARE seen as the BBC's by the Corporation's enemies...) https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: BBC: “Following social media accounts which reflect only one point of view on matters of public policy, politics or ‘controversial subjects’ may create a similar impression.” Following these accounts is part of *reporting* and *listening.* That is or was a journalist's job.
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: From the BBC: “f) Do not offer judgements beyond your specialism.” Do not show yourself to be a well-rounded human being with many interests.
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: The BBC: “j) Do not break news on a personal account; if you have a story to break, the BBC platforms are your priority, even if it takes slightly longer.” Informing the public is a lower priority than filling the air.
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: The BBC: “g) Do not support campaigns, (eg. by using hashtags) no matter how apparently worthy the cause or how much their message appears to be accepted or uncontroversial.” How about hashtag campaigns to free imprisoned journalists, for example? #FreeAustinTice
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: From the BBC: “l) Do use separate posts on public issues rather than join threads started by others.” I read this as: Do not join the public conversation. Call your own. This cuts off the opportunity to add journalism to that conversation.
@markpack: The BBC face a similar challenge to the one political parties face. Having all your internal disagreements played out in public and via the anger-raising medium of social media is a path to failure. But the answer isn't to silence all public disagreement on social media.
@markpack: So the next time @TimHarford and the More or Less team spot a mistake in the use of numbers on another BBC show, they're not allowed to highlight that via social media? https://twitter.com/...
Simon Blackwell / @simonblackwell: Shades of the 1948 Green Book about these new BBC social media guidelines. https://twitter.com/...
Kieran Hurley / @kieran_hurley: I know there's other bigger news today but that the BBC has adopted and legitimised the phrase “virtue signalling” by using it in its new social media guideline rules (banning it no less) is extremely grim imo https://twitter.com/...
Ian Rennie / @theangelremiel: BBC social media guidelines now ban “virtue signalling”, a wholesale adoption of right wing talking points. We're two and a half steps from them yelling about “cultural marxism”. https://twitter.com/...
Helen Coster / Reuters:
Comcast Q3: NBCU earnings down 38.7% YoY to $1.3B; revenue of $6.7B, down 19% YoY; ~22M Peacock signups; film revenue down 25% YoY to $1.3B, offset by licensing — (Reuters) - Comcast Corp CMCSA.O on Thursday reported better-than-expected third-quarter revenue, as strong sign-ups …
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety: NBCUniversal Chief: Peacock is ‘Opposite of Quibi’ as Streamer Reaches 22 Million Sign Ups
Stephanie Sengwe / The Streamable: Peacock Reaches Nearly 22 Million Sign-ups Since Launch
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Though media coverage of Biden's chances is cautious, recent Trump scandals are getting little coverage likely because outlets think he won't win — You can teach old journalists the occasional new trick, but two? Forget it. — The 2016 election persuaded the press to avoid publicly presuming …
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Crooked Media, Nieman Reports, Al Jazeera, UPROXX, The Daily Caller, @ericboehlert, @ericschultz, @parabasis, @benyt, NBC 6 South Florida, The Week, @yappelbaum and WHDH-TV
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media: The 2020 Election and the Future of Gatekeepers
Issac J. Bailey / Nieman Reports: What the “Today” Show Clip of Biden's “George” Remark Really Shows
Steve Chaggaris / Al Jazeera: Five days until the US elections: What you need to know
Derrick Rossignol / UPROXX: Chelsea Handler Confirms 50 Cent Is ‘Supporting Joe Biden’ After His Donald Trump Controversy
Andrew Trunsky / The Daily Caller: Five Days Out — Here's Where The Election Stands
Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert: tbh his scandals have been getting a pass for 4 yrs. pick one at random (2018 presser Trump sides w/ Putin over American intelligence) and imagine if a Dem president had done it https://twitter.com/...
Eric Schultz / @ericschultz: challenge to press corps: reporters not treating the late-breaking Trump scandals with the single-mindedness and velocity they showed towards Hillary and her emails. It was the only thing reporters covered in last week. Trump's offenses far worse, yet coverage is fleeting. https://twitter.com/...
Isaacabod Crane Butler / @parabasis: This is one of those areas where talking about “the media” monolithically is unhelpful. Every story mentioned in this Atlantic piece is something the author knows about *because of the media* https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Some really interesting thoughts (and an argument with me) from @BrianBeutler on gatekeeping, and the flattening of relative importance on social media https://crooked.com/...
Noah Millman / The Week: The craziest ways the 2020 election might end
Nancy Scola / Politico:
Profile of Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's head of legal, policy, trust & safety, who sources say led it to a tougher line on speech, including a ban on political ads — On a late fall day last year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sat down on a couch on the company's San Francisco roof deck and dug into a problem.
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TechCrunch, @johnhendel, @nancyscola, @twittercomms, @amydiehl, @nancyscola, @nancyscola, @nancyscola, @politico and Wall Street Journal, more at Techmeme »
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Trump hints at stopping “powerful” big tech in latest ‘get out the vote’ tweet
John Hendel / @johnhendel: “Inside Twitter's headquarters, Gadde and Dorsey work from spaces next door to each other. Said one Twitter official: 'I can't imagine a world where Jack looks at her and says, 'No."" New today via @nancyscola https://www.politico.com/...
Nancy Scola / @nancyscola: Inside Facebook headquarters, some aren't impressed by Twitter's recent crackdown on high-profile political tweets. https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@twittercomms: “Gadde herself doesn't shrink from the notion that she wants to help make a more comfortable and empowering world for marginalized people.” —@POLITICOMag on @vijaya, Twitter's Legal, Policy, Trust & Safety lead https://www.politico.com/...
Amy Diehl, Ph.D. / @amydiehl: Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's head of legal, policy & trust, pitched the idea to stop selling political ads altogether. Within days, @jack signed off on the global ban. This is why women are critical in leadership—disrupting white-male-group-think. @vijaya https://www.politico.com/...
Nancy Scola / @nancyscola: “Speech is one of the most anthropologically complex things imaginable.” I profile Vijaya Gadde, the Twitter exec who's architecting Twitter's new — and controversial — approach to how people tweet. https://www.politico.com/...
Nancy Scola / @nancyscola: One nugget way down at the bottom here: Twitter source says that if Trump isn't re-elected, he'll no longer be covered by its “world leaders” policy — meaning that if he violates Twitter's rules, he faces enforcement actions like everyone else. https://www.politico.com/...
Nancy Scola / @nancyscola: Here's Republican FCC Commissioner @BrendanCarrFCC on what Twitter did for Facebook with its handling of the New York Post-Hunter Biden situation. https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Burl Gilyard / Twin Cities Business:
Star Tribune abruptly shuts City Pages, a 40-year-old alt weekly in Minneapolis, citing the pandemic and without seeking a buyer — The alt weekly's key advertisers have been hit hard by pandemic. — Minneapolis-based Star Tribune Media Co. announced Wednesday morning that it was abruptly shutting …
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Star Tribune, @davidastinwalsh, @mcastimovies, @stepharmour1, @passionweiss, @jenn_swann, @mrietmulder, @wearethewillows, @zatchkerouac, @angiecraigmn, @optoutapp, @mplsgilyard, @tcbmag, @jackshafer, @monikabauerlein, @mplsgilyard, @monikabauerlein, @geetadayal, @superanne, @deanbphillips, @webster and @davidfolkenflik
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Evan Ramstad / Star Tribune: City Pages is closing, ending the era of alternative weeklies in Twin Cities
Monica Castillo / @mcastimovies: There should be more local news. Not less. https://twitter.com/...
Stephanie Armour / @stepharmour1: This is distressing City Pages is closing, ending era of Twin Cities alt-weeklies - https://startribune.com/ https://www.startribune.com/ ...
Otto Von Biz Markie / @passionweiss: City Pages was one of the last and best alt-weekly survivors. Over the last half-decade, a crucial component of the cultural and journalistic food chain has been swallowed whole by greed, mismanagement, and tech oligarchy. The loss to major American cities is incalculable https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Swann / @jenn_swann: Another one bites the dust. It somehow doesn't get any easier to keep grieving the loss of alt weeklies and the enormous amount of talent, knowledge, and ideas that get displaced along with them every time https://twitter.com/...
Michael Rietmulder / @mrietmulder: I am in many ways a product of Twin Cities alt weeklies, as a reader and journalist. Cuzzy's can't stock enough whiskey to numb this one. https://www.startribune.com/ ...
@wearethewillows: This is such a bummer. Early in my career, @citypages gave me confidence that I was onto something with my music. Since then it's been a huge help to build awareness of our band. Thank you to the music staff for listening to and writing about our music. You will be missed. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Zachary Zalman Green / @zatchkerouac: Should have known not to talk about @citypages off Twitter. Fucking devastated for my buds, some of my favorite people who let me into their lives and their magic. Y'all did great work @biketrouble @jaymboller @jgfagerberg @useful_noise @littlebrumble @ShelbyLano (so many more)
Angie Craig / @angiecraigmn: This is another tough day for the news media here in Minnesota. @CityPages will be sorely missed. I'll be thinking of all of their hard-working employees today. https://twitter.com/...
OptOut / @optoutapp: Another instance of a big corporate news chain closing an essential publication. We have to take back our media from large, for-profit interests. https://twitter.com/...
Burl Gilyard / @mplsgilyard: The first three publications where I worked — Twin Cities Reader, Corporate Report magazine, and City Pages — are now all defunct. https://tcbmag.com/...
Twin Cities / @tcbmag: The pandemic has hit bars, restaurants, concert venues, theaters and museums — @citypages' core advertisers — particularly hard. The closure means that all 30 City Pages employees are losing their jobs. https://tcbmag.com/...
Jack Shafer / @jackshafer: Alt-weekly vet @mplsgilyard, who punched a time card at both Minneapolis alt-weeklies, on the demise of City Pages. https://tcbmag.com/...
Monika Bauerlein / @monikabauerlein: Now, Taylor has been a better owner for the Star Tribune than the hedge funds running local papers into the ground around the country. And I'm not of the school of thought that billionaire owners should have to keep unviable businesses alive. BUT that's not the full story.
Burl Gilyard / @mplsgilyard: Worth noting: Star Tribune did not seek a buyer for City Pages before shutting it down. https://tcbmag.com/...
Monika Bauerlein / @monikabauerlein: Also worth noting (as @patwcaldwell pointed out to me), Star Tribune (and therefore City Pages) owner Glen Taylor is worth $1.8 billion and is about to sell the Timberwolves and Lynx for a big chunk of change. https://twitter.com/...
Geeta Dayal / @geetadayal: This is crushing news for anyone who cares about great music writing and the future of local papers in the US. Alternative weeklies are disappearing fast. RIP City Pages in Minneapolis, one of the best to ever do it. https://www.startribune.com/ ...
Anne Elizabeth Moore / @superanne: This is really a bummer. I came of age reading it and wanting one day to write for it. I can't think of an alt weekly that stayed as vital as @citypages: https://www.startribune.com/ ...
Dean Phillips / @deanbphillips: Losing @citypages is heartbreaking for the Twin Cities, and a painful reminder of how COVID has devastated lives, livelihoods, and our cultural & economic ecosystem. I intend to put it all on the line to push a bipartisan relief bill through Congress next month. It cannot wait. https://twitter.com/...
Tony Webster / @webster: I hope there was at least an attempt to sell it to keep it open, including in an employee-owned situation 😢 https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: City Pages in Twin Cities shut down immediately, citing plunge in revenues linked to Covid-19. Privately held parent company has created seemingly viable financial model for daily Star-Tribune. Pandemic is wiping out alt-weeklies. https://www.startribune.com/ ...
New York Times:
In a Senate hearing on Section 230, Republican senators said tech companies were censoring conservative views; Democrats called the hearing a political sham — Republican senators accused the leaders of Twitter, Facebook and Google of censorship. Democrats denounced that as posturing.
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review: Another tech hearing in Congress becomes a circus sideshow
Todd Spangler / Variety: At Hearing, Senate Republicans Accuse Twitter, Facebook, Google CEOs of Censorship
Garett Sloane / Ad Age: What went down in today's unusual Senate hearings with Twitter, Facebook and Google
Brooke Auxier / Pew Research Center: How Americans see U.S. tech companies as government scrutiny increases
Gilad Edelman / Wired: Surprise! The Section 230 Hearing Wasn't About Section 230
Evan Greer / @evan_greer: the only person quoted in this @nytimes piece about the #Section230 hearing who is not a tech CEO or a Senator is ... a professor from the US Naval Academy? Why not include human rights and free expression experts in your reporting @nytimes? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Eric Vanderburg / @evanderburg: Analysis: Two words describe the Senate's latest Big Tech hearing: Worthless and petty https://i.securitythinkingcap.com/ RkXpXF https://twitter.com/...
@ceciliakang: Jack, Mark and Sundar Zoomed into the Senate, but then a hearing on the internet became very much not about them w/ @dmccabe https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Fung / @b_fung: About 95% of the hearing was theater. Lawmakers are dug in, the companies have their talking points, and the public enjoys seeing CEOs squirm under the spotlight. That's pretty much it. Congress has always been theater, so we're in pretty much the same place we were a year ago.
@ceciliakang: and save for a very few earnest lawmakers, i cannot count the number of times on my hand that Section 230, the purpose of the hearing, was discussed in any detail https://twitter.com/...
David Pierce / @pierce: The deep irony of this whole hearing is that it's a bunch of members of Congress publicly yelling at tech CEOs ... so they can share that yelling as content on the platforms run by those CEOs. It's basically a TikTok house for politicians
Pew Research Center:
Pew: 79% of US adults say news coverage favors one side and 83% blame the unfair coverage on media outlets, not on individual journalists — The November general election is rapidly approaching, with debates raging over how fairly news outlets are covering the candidates and important issues.
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Many of UK's leading news outlets ran articles saying that department store Woolworths was reopening based on a typo-strewn Twitter account run by a 17-year-old — Dozens of news sites ran articles saying chain was back based on a typo-strewn Twitter page — The person who duped …
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Jon Slattery: Media Quotes of the Week: From the crisis facing jobs in journalism to how Prince Andrew tried to influence the Financial Times' coverage of Dubai
Lindsay Pantry / @lindsay_pantry: An interesting tale for @sheffjournalism students on accuracy, the fight to be first, and why you can't believe everything you see on the internet... Interesting snippets in the replies too https://twitter.com/...
mARGHcus / @marcusjdl: Hilarious exposure of the lack of fact checking in the rush for clicks https://twitter.com/...
John Byrne / @dearjohnbyrne: Rightly or wrongly this was a real lesson in how easily even the most media-savvy can be taken in by fake news. https://twitter.com/...
Susie Beever / @susiemayjourno: the whole Woolworths-comeback-saga sure has been an interesting indictment of the “quick turnaround” form of journalism we're seeing more and more of today https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Matt Wells / @matthewwells: The Woolworths story is so depressing and maddening at the same time. Like, who *are* the news editors at the Mirror and Mail online who published those stories? What planet are they on? The whole “pressure to get traffic” doesn't wash. It was blindingly obvious it was fake. https://twitter.com/...
Dr Robbie Love / @lovermob: Yesterday's fake Woolworths story “led to questions about the standard of factchecking at many online outlets and the pressures on journalists to publish stories quickly in order to to attract readers.” Indeed! Something to discuss with my ‘Language in the News Media’ students... https://twitter.com/...
Marianna Spring / @mariannaspring: And the Yorkshire teenager behind the fake Woolworths account has been revealed👇 A marketing experiment that revealed how easy it is to start viral disinformation, which is then amplified by the media. (Plus a mention of this Newsnight report!) https://twitter.com/...
Tim Gatt / @timgatt: “The sixth former told the Guardian they had been practising skills learned while taking a course in digital marketing as part of their business A-level” 👏👏 https://twitter.com/...
Ronke Lawal / @ronkelawal: “The sixth former had been practising skills learned while taking a course in digital marketing as part of their business A-level. They said that rather than being a textbook case of disinformation spread via social media, it was largely amplified by mainstream news outlets.” https://twitter.com/...
Alistair Coleman / @alistaircoleman: The person behind yesterday's Woolworths hoax is a student from York. The “Woolsworths” spelling mistakes were deliberate, they say. And I still can't believe that so many media orgs were reeled in. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@christineburns: I seldom share Guardian stories but I'm going for this one on two counts: first because it really underlines the lack of fact-checking our media and second because this is the Guardian unselfconsciously making full use of the singular THEY without a care in the world. https://twitter.com/...
Luke Bailey / @imbadatlife: National newsrooms that didn't fall for it - Guardian, FT, Times, Telegraph, inews. Take from that what you will. https://twitter.com/...
Alan White / @aljwhite: This ecosystem has been a problem since the 2010s and it is particularly frustrating for people like me who worked in newspapers the decade before, saw how extraordinarily badly they were approaching the business of online news, but were too young and insignificant to stop it https://twitter.com/...
Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson: When your industry has dozens of reporters writing unverified stories based on an A-level experiment, you have a problem. (aka a short chat with the York teenager who did the Woolworths thing, which doesn't really matter but exposed all the media's flaws) https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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