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Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules — The Board has upheld Facebook's decision on January 7, 2021, to restrict then-President Donald Trump's access to posting content on his Facebook page and Instagram account.
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Nick Clegg / About Facebook: Oversight Board Upholds Facebook's Decision to Suspend Donald Trump's Accounts
Oversight Board / @oversightboard: The Board has upheld Facebook's decision on January 7 to suspend then-President Trump from Facebook and Instagram. Trump's posts during the Capitol riot severely violated Facebook's rules and encouraged and legitimized violence. https://oversightboard.com/...
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: Trump is Facebook's problem, again
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: JUST IN: Facebook Oversight Board Upholds Ban on Trump Account... For Now
Nick Clegg / @nick_clegg: We thank the @OversightBoard for the care and attention they gave this case. We will now consider the board's guidance and develop a response that is clear and proportionate. In the meantime, Mr. Trump's accounts remain suspended. https://about.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky: It's getting buried but seems to me the board actually is setting precedent here for Facebook about using the risk of real world harm as a justification for at least temporarily silencing a head of state. They've definitively said Facebook was right about that. Seems big to me?
Jessica Guynn / USA Today: Trump Facebook ban upheld by Facebook Oversight Board but opens door to his possible return
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Facebook's Oversight Board throws the company a Trump-shaped curveball
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Fox's Hegseth Says Facebook Upholding Ban on Trump Shows Liberals Are ‘Fascists’
Josh Hawley / @hawleymo: Here's a real life example of the tyranny of #BigTech - a fake @Facebook court decides @Facebook can do whatever @Facebook wants, in this case, suspending Donald Trump w/o process or standards. That's what monopolies do. Break them up https://oversightboard.com/...
@cnbc: .@carolecadwalla: Facebook's Oversight Board experiment has failed. “The whole thing has revealed itself to be a completely pointless charade.” She argues the board is a “PR device to offload difficult decisions Facebook should make.” https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@latimes: “The worst aspect of this decision may be that it leaves the question of Trump's role and that of his posts on social media, open to be masticated endlessly — including on social media.” Columnist @hiltzikm explains: https://www.latimes.com/...
Kaleigh Rogers / FiveThirtyEight: Facebook's ‘Supreme Court’ Upheld Its Trump Ban, But It's Little More Than Judicial Theater
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair: Trump Throws an Impotent Shit Fit, Threatens Retribution Over Extended Facebook Ban
Tom McKay / Gizmodo: Conservatives Demand Supreme Court Overrule Fake Facebook Court, Others Weigh In
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: The Facebook Oversight Board proved it's not Mark Zuckerberg's puppet — now it's his move
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: Trump Facebook ban remains but oversight board rips company policies
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: Plenty of arguments to make about Facebook's decisions but this now-common response of “I don't like what this private company did so our public officials should use their government powers to punish them” is an interesting philosophical development https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: To be clear: Facebook was right to take Trump down and he should stay down permanently. His every uttering present imminent danger to democracy. The Board could have endorsed that responsible decision. It did not. It fumfered.
Rat King / @mikeisaac: facebook grumbles “thank you” while going back to drawing board for six months to make another decision https://about.fb.com/...
Owen Thomas / @owenthomas: Facebook's Oversight Board scolds the company for dodging its responsibilities regarding Trump, then kicks the ban can down the road. Here's @issielapowsky on the decision: https://www.protocol.com/...
@slpng_giants: While many are relieved about this decision, we should all question why this board is allowed to make these decisions in place of real, independent oversight of @facebook. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Americans are, unsurprisingly, split on whether Trump should be barred from social media: “Some 49% of U.S. adults say Trump's accounts should be permanently banned from social media, while half say they should not be,” Pew says https://www.pewresearch.org/ ...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Facebook's response: “We will now consider the board's decision and determine an action that is clear and proportionate. In the meantime, Mr. Trump's accounts remain suspended.” https://about.fb.com/...
Jeff Bercovici / @jeffbercovici: Basically the oversight board did the “If I were Facebook I would simply have clear rules and enforce them consistently” tweet
Yashar Ali / @yashar: So the Facebook Oversight Board is keeping the restriction on Trump's Facebook and Instagram but sending it back to Facebook for further review to make another decision. https://www.oversightboard.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: Facebook has six months to decide if Trump should be allowed back on Facebook. @nick_clegg says Trump will remain suspended until Facebook reaches a decision https://about.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8: Former President Donald Trump will NOT return to Facebook today. The Oversight Board upheld Facebook's suspension, but says FB has 6 months to come up with a new penalty for Trump's account because an “indefinite ban” is not appropriate given the company's rules https://twitter.com/...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: Say what you want about Facebook's Oversight Board, but it does a good job highlighting just how arbitrary the company is with policy and enforcement.
@ceciliakang: It's Decision Day for Trump's fate on Facebook Here's what you need to know about the board deciding if the former president regains his megaphone https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jonathan Swan / @jonathanvswan: The bottom line is Trump and his inner circle were hanging on this decision and view Facebook reinstatement as crucial to Trump's political comeback. Mostly because of its fundraising power. They submitted a lengthy written argument... 1/2 https://twitter.com/...
Nathan L. Walls / @base10: The Onion knows what's up: https://twitter.com/...
Alex Hern / @alexhern: Insta-takeaway: In saying “no, Facebook, you have to make a specific decision on whether or not to ban Trump”, the Oversight Board is rejecting the specific function that Facebook intended it to have - that of being the scapegoat for controversial decisions.
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: The Oversight Board essentially said: You should have taken Trump down. But you shouldn't have taken him down permanently and you should decide what to do about that. In short: The Board actually does nudge Trump back online but didn't have the guts to say so.
Rat King / @mikeisaac: more specifically: on a conference call right now and the OSB basically says Facebook cant just indefinitely ban anyone from the network and made a mistake when they left Trump in limbo.
Alex Howard / @digiphile: “If a head of state or [government] has repeatedly posted messages that pose a risk of harm under international human rights norms, @Facebook should suspend the account for a period sufficient to protect against imminent harm.”-@oversightboard Deletion appropriate in some cases https://twitter.com/...
Adam Schiff / @repadamschiff: There's no Constitutional protection for using social media to incite an insurrection. Trump is willing to do anything for himself no matter the danger to our country. His big lies have cost America dearly. And until he stops, Facebook must ban him. Which is to say, forever. https://twitter.com/...
Robert Moore / @robertmooreitv: Decision on suspending Trump upheld but there's a sting in the tail for @Facebook. The Board appears to blame the company, in part, for Jan 6th - it should “conduct a review into its contribution to the narrative of electoral fraud and political tensions that led to the events.” https://twitter.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: “The Board insists that Facebook review this matter to determine and justify a proportionate response that is consistent with the rules that are applied to other users of its platform. Facebook must complete its review of this matter within 6 months of the date of this decision.” https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: 🚨What's next: — Facebook has 30 days to publicly respond to the Board's decision & policy recommendations — Expect outrage from conservatives & world leaders who slammed the ban — Trump no longer has ability to use Facebook for fundraising in 2024—massive political implications https://twitter.com/...
@ceciliakang: The Trump Facebook Decision is out. My read is that the board splits the baby, and bumps final decision for 6 months more: -Board agrees with ban on Jan. 6 -Disagrees with “indefinite” ban and gives Facebook 6-months to come up with clear criteria on indefinite ban https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: So many Facebook critics argued the Oversight Board was just a cover for Facebook and didn't have any real power. What you're seeing now is real power, and that power is denying Facebook its cover. Mark Zuckerberg chose to give OSB this power. Didn't have to. Keep that in mind.
@bplewis: i am not shocked by how not shocked i am with this profile in courage https://twitter.com/...
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Oversight Board Punts Final Trump Ban Decision Back To Facebook, Upholds Initial Access Block
Blake E. Reid / @blakereid: When you remember that the FBOB has no real independence from FB and isn't capable of enforcing binding judgments, this decision makes sense because it is exactly what would have happened if the FBOB didn't exist. Trump out; could be back in later if politically expedient for FB.
John Aravosis / CyberDisobedience: Facebook, ban Trump permanently
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: It turns out that everyone's Trump decision take is just “what I already thought about Facebook” + “what I already thought about the Oversight Board”
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: As an example, I don't understand how the adjective, “independent,” survived edit. This is NYT's characterization up top despite later in the report pointing out its dependencies. Should have been in quotes at best. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@adamserwer: Facebook can do whatever they want, it's their platform, there's no first amendment right to use someone else's platform, especially not because you're big and important. The fact that verdicts from the Supreme Court of Facebook are national news seems real bad.
Elaine Kamarck / Brookings: What will Facebook's ban mean for Donald Trump's future?
Garett Sloane / @garettsloane: Facebook consulted “The Rabat Plan,” an international framework for weighing speech and the potential for inflaming ethnic tensions in war zones, to judge Trump's use of social media.
Rat King / @mikeisaac: Trump statement, over email (not his new blog) via @maggieNYT https://twitter.com/...
Tony Romm / @tonyromm: basically, the board kicked this back to a lower court to rethink damages https://twitter.com/...
Chris Welch / @chriswelch: Aside from the Trump decision, this part is important: Oversight Board wants Facebook to do better explaining penalty system in plain language to everyone. And it wants WAY more transparency. Board calls for account restrictions to be included in Facebook's transparency reports. https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8: Of course, the whole point of the board was so FB wouldn't need to make these kind of tough decisions 🤷♂️
Rep. Frank Pallone / @frankpallone: Every day, Facebook is amplifying and promoting disinformation and misinformation, and the structure and rules governing its oversight board generally seem to ignore this disturbing reality. It's clear that real accountability will only come with legislative action.
Jacob Silverman / @silvermanjacob: “Facebook was justified in suspending Mr. Trump's accounts... However, it was not appropriate for Facebook to impose an ‘indefinite’ suspension... with no criteria for when or whether the account will be restored.” https://oversightboard.com/...
Jim Sciutto / @jimsciutto: Must read thread - it appears the board is trying to set hard standards for such bans going forward. https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Verrilli / @jess: Fascinating to watch the first big case - Trump's suspension - reviewed by Facebook's Oversight Board. https://twitter.com/...
Joanna Stern / @joannastern: TL;DR: Still banned. https://oversightboard.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lawrence Hurley / @lawrencehurley: Unlike the Supreme Court, they announce the decision on Twitter https://twitter.com/...
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: This weird quasi-judicial Facebook tribunal actually denounces FB's punishment of Trump. “It was not appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension,” the tribunal declares. Journalists who cheered the penalty must be furious https://twitter.com/...
John Legere / @johnlegere: I hope he finds a way to get banned from his own social media site.... https://www.theverge.com/...
Jason Pontin / @jason_pontin: “In applying a vague, standardless penalty and then referring this case to the Board to resolve, Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities. The Board declines Facebook's request and insists that Facebook apply and justify a defined penalty.”
Chris Lu / @chrislu44: Interesting thread from Facebook's oversight board including: “The company should assess the risk of the user inciting significant harm before the suspension ends” “The ‘newsworthiness’ of a public figure's remarks should never take priority over urgent action to prevent harm” https://twitter.com/...
@cnbc: “All this is a step in the right direction,” says Evercore ISI's Mark Mahaney on Facebook's decision to uphold its ban on former President Trump. “It's a win for investors.” @CNBCTechCheck https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Keith Edwards / @keithedwards: Trump is going to remain banned from Facebook. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Swan / @jonathanvswan: to the Oversight Board and were cautiously optimistic that Trump would be re-platformed. And yes: his inner circle increasingly believes he will run in 2024. Long long way to go but that's where he's at now. And Facebook is crucial to their strategy as it was in 16 and 20.
Meridith McGraw / @meridithmcgraw: Not what a lot of tech experts and people in Trump's circles expected... https://twitter.com/...
@thelastword: Opinion | @tiffanycli: The reason we are all paying so much attention to Facebook and its Oversight Board is the simple fact that today a single tech company can choose to silence the voice of a sitting president. - @MSNBCDaily https://www.msnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Samuel Stolton / @samuelstolton: Facebook oversight board upholds decision to suspend Trump. Fmr President accused of breaching platform policies due to: 1. praise or support of people engaged in violence (Jan 6 ‘We love you’ video) 2. invoking serious risk of violence (in electoral fraud narrative) ... https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: so now that facebook has 6 months to make a decision about Trump, you should read this proposal on ‘unbundling’ Facebook's features to get away from the on-or-deplatforming binary https://warzel.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: On Oversight Board call, co-chair Michael McConnell says Facebook must either restore Trump's account, restrict him permanently or suspend him for a set amount of time. Key line: “Facebook must make its decision and be held accountable for what it decides.”
Angelo Carusone / @goangelo: Important for media reporting on FB/Trump to not make same mistake they did in Jan when they treated FB's temporary ban as a permanent one. That took a lot of heat off FB and ultimately FB appealed its own action. We're in same place now. Ban isn't permanent, remains temporary.
@usatoday: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the Facebook Oversight Board's decision to uphold the suspension of former president Donald Trump: “We're not going to have any comment on the future of the former president's social media platform.” https://www.usatoday.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8: In a weird twist, Facebook's Oversight Board basically told Facebook: Don't send us your difficult decision — make it yourself! “...Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities.” https://twitter.com/...
@can: if fb actually had an independent oversight board, it'd actually have the power to fire people, not just wave their hands on irrelevant cases
Jason Pontin / @jason_pontin: This is very intelligent, justifying the creation of the Oversight Board in the first place: “In applying this penalty, Facebook did not follow a clear, published procedure. ‘Indefinite’ suspensions are not described in the company's content policies...”
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: Woof. “In applying a vague, standardless penalty and then referring this case to the Board to resolve, Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities.” https://oversightboard.com/...
Steve Deace / @stevedeaceshow: The truth is the odds he's never president again go up if they put him back on all these platforms. Because without a constant injection of his own social media persona that too often just sets up material for his detractors, his policies are far more popular. https://twitter.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: lol the oversight board kicks the Facebook Trump Ban decision back to Facebook https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alan Rusbridger / @arusbridger: This thread breaks down the @OversightBoard decision in the Trump case. The full judgment is 38 pages long....and worth a read https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: As I said never been happier to be wrong but what seems to have happened here is that the Facebook Oversight board punted back what had been punted to them by Facebook with Donald Trump as the irritating football of bile. This is far from over on my reading. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Bercovici / @jeffbercovici: Created to absolve Facebook of ultimate responsibility for its ad hoc enforcement decisions, the Oversight Board basically said “You've got to take some responsibility here, and it can't be ad hoc.” https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Schulze / @eschulze: Facebook Oversight Board tries to split the difference: - Says Trump suspension should stay in place - But says Facebook was wrong to put in place an indefinite ban and kicks the decision back to the company https://oversightboard.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Oh, this is rich. Thorning-Schmidt accuses Facebook of “shirking its responsibilities.” That is *precisely* what the Oversight Board just did by shoving this back to Facebook.
Ryan Broderick / @broderick: “The Board has given Facebook a maximum of six months in which to either permanently disable Trump's account or impose a new suspension for a specific period of time.” https://oversightboard.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Here's the Facebook Oversight Board announcing its decision on the suspension of the Trump account. My reaction is the same as many others: relieved that the ban was upheld and will continue for now. Unimpressed that the Board punted the ball back to Facebook. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Peterson / AppleInsider: Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump ban but demands six-month review
Angelo Carusone / Media Matters for America: Angelo Carusone on Facebook's “Oversight Board” decision on Trump's ban
David Pierce / Protocol: Trump is still banned from Facebook ... for now
Brian Contreras / Los Angeles Times: Facebook board upholds Trump exile, sends final decision back to company
Tom McKay / Gizmodo: Oversight Board Finds Facebook Took the Coward's Way Out With Trump Ban, Also Takes Coward's Way Out
Will Feuer / New York Post: Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump ban, gives company 6 months to reassess
Insider: Facebook Oversight Board rules to keep Trump's account suspended but says the company must review its decision in 6 months
Aroon Deep / MediaNama: Facebook Oversight Board upholds decision to suspend Donald Trump, with a caveat
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The Oversight Board's decision on Trump's Facebook ban failed to send a clear message that a powerful public official can't use Facebook to endanger the public — In more than 1,400 posts from Jan. 1, 2020 and Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump used Facebook to spread false information with devastating consequences for the country.
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Kara Swisher / New York Times: Good Riddance, Donald Trump?
Alan Rusbridger / The Guardian: The inside story of how we reached the Facebook-Trump verdict
Ian Sherr / CNET: Facebook's Oversight Board made the right call on Trump. Now it's Zuckerberg's turn
@motherjones: Facebook is acting “like a magician,” @Moonalice, an early Facebook investor, tells Mother Jones. “And they know how to draw your attention to the left hand, so you don't see what the right hand is doing. And they've done that here.” https://www.motherjones.com/ ...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Great piece from @Sulliview: Facebook's oversight board whiffed. Trump deserves a permanent exile. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@eff: .@KaraSwisher is right: complaints about the Facebook Oversight Board should focus on the underlying problem: lack of competition. Policymakers should find ways to ensure we don't have to care so much what one company decides—because we have alternatives. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Oliver Darcy / CNN: Republicans and right-wing media use Facebook Oversight Board's Trump decision to claim bias
Genevieve Lakier / @glakier: A thread on why I think the decision the FOB handed down today in the Trump deplatforming case is a good decision, not what Margaret Sullivan described as a “fig leaf meant to avoid real accountability.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Mike Fancher / @mikefancher: “What was called for here was a clear, unambiguous message: That a hugely influential public official—arguably the most powerful person in the world—can't use Facebook to endanger the public welfare. And once he does just that, hundreds of times, he can't come back.” https://twitter.com/...
Pramila Jayapal / @pramilajayapal: This is the right decision. He used Facebook and other social media platforms to incite a deadly insurrection. Why should he ever be allowed back? https://twitter.com/...
Dave Pell / Substack: Overseen But Not Heard — Facebook's quasi oversight board has ruled that the ban …
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: So *neither* Facebook nor the Oversight Board made a strong statement about the unacceptability of not only inciting insurrection but also promulgating the Big Lie against democratic elections. Both failed to keep their eyes on the highest priorities.
Cathy Gellis / Techdirt: Why The Oversight Board's Decision On Facebook's Trump Ban Is Just Not That Important
Freedom House / @freedomhouse: The oversight board has made, in our view, a reasonable decision: to uphold the suspension of Former President Trump's account while Facebook formulates a proportionate response to the inciting content for which he was originally suspended. 2/5
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Legal Twitter is enjoying the nuances of the Oversight Board decision while information, political, and tech Twitter are viewing it through other sides of the prism, looking more at the impact, I think.
Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime: Facebook Oversight Board Rules Trump's ‘Unfounded Narrative of Electoral Fraud’ Justified Initial Suspension, But Rebukes ‘Indefinite’ Ban
Ben Shapiro / @benshapiro: Facebook's Oversight Board says they were right to suspend Trump because he violated their rule “prohibiting praise or support of people engaged in violence.” Last year, nearly the entire media and Democratic Party praised people engaged in the most costly riots in US history.
@sulliview: Facebook's oversight board whiffed. Trump deserves a permanent exile. ... My column https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Richard Blumenthal / @senblumenthal: Donald Trump is no voiceless victim. He earned his suspension from Facebook by spreading dangerous, violence-inciting lies. Our nation is still living with the consequences of the deadly insurrection Trump incited, & there is a clear & present danger that he will do it again. https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Keep mind as we wait that while the Facebook Oversight board is independent, it's paid for by Facebook with members handpicked by Facebook in a system essentially created by Facebook. It is a corporate advisory board with more power & fancier names, but with few if any critics.
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: And while Facebook and the Oversight Board play their dangerous game of nuanced hot (Mister) Potato, @jack made a decisive decision exercising the responsibility of his power—and the world has been better off for it. The issue is less who has too much power but who uses it well.
Scott Walker / @scottwalker: Bail is used for someone who was arrested for breaking the law. Here's what @KamalaHarris tweeted last year during the protests that turned into violent riots. Big Tech elites are hypocrites. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Many are enjoying the bind the Oversight Board put Facebook in. Meanwhile, that bind will be exploited by Trump et al over the next six months, doing more damage to the net as self-appointed net watchdogs from both right and left imagine new torture for #230, etc.
Helen Lewis / The Atlantic: The Problem Is Facebook — Back to you, Zuck. Facebook's oversight board earlier today declined …
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: In which @CathyGellis is happy that the Oversight Board more or less did what we asked them to do, while simultaneously uninspired by the result because the whole thing is sort of a waste of time anyway. https://www.techdirt.com/...
John Biggs / @johnbiggs: Oversight Board Finds Facebook Took the Coward's Way Out With Trump Ban, Also Takes Coward's Way Out https://gizmodo.com/... via @gizmodo
Timothy Morton / @the_eco_thought: “Why build a platform that requires an arbiter of truth if you don't want to be one? Could you not have foreseen the inevitable end point of that position?” Good Riddance, Donald Trump? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kayla Gogarty / Media Matters for America: Facebook's oversight board puts the power back in the platform's hands to decide Trump's fate. History tells us that's dangerous.
Politico:
After teasing a new social media platform, Trump debuts a new section on his website that's effectively a blog
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: WATCH: Twitter CFO Says Trump Won't Be Un-Suspended No Matter What Facebook Says, Takes Shot at Oversight Board
Cecilia Kang / New York Times: What Is the Facebook Oversight Board?
Philip Bump / Washington Post: Trump scrambles to reestablish his direct line of communication with his base
Jason Miller / @jasonmillerindc: 🚨President Trump's website is a great resource to find his latest statements and highlights from his first term in office, but this is not a new social media platform. We'll have additional information coming on that front in the very near future.🚨 https://www.foxnews.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Everyone's dunking on Trump's new “blog,” but I think it's kinda cool in that it shows that everyone can speak on their own websites and don't *need* social media to speak. (Also, the terms of service on his site are fun). https://www.techdirt.com/...
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Trump Shows Why He Doesn't Need Twitter Or Facebook, As He Launches His Own Twitter-Like Microblog
Scott Nover / @scottnover: This is honestly hilarious. Donald Trump has literally built a blog https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: i wrote a little about today for @washingtonpost. still sorting out my feelings on the oversight decision but this is what i'm feeling right now https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: The Trump Decision Turned Content Moderation Into Shark Week
David Pierce / @pierce: Tired: Leaving your media job to start a Substack Wired: Leaving the US presidency to start a blog https://www.protocol.com/...
@mrctv: Former White House Chief of Staff, @MarkMeadows, remarks on the Facebook Oversight Board's decision. “Listen, whether it's six months or six days, what we see in this decision is really about chilling free speech.” https://twitter.com/...
Rusty Foster / Today in Tabs: Please Pardon the Oversight
Tom Warren / @tomwarren: I tried to like something on Trump's LiveJournal blog and it went wrong... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone: Facebook Upholds Trump Ban ... For Now
Makena Kelly / @kellymakena: Although, I am curious if the share buttons (once they work) would violate Facebook and Twitter's current bans on Trump? They've already ruled that he can't post on other peoples' accounts... I've asked! And am waiting! https://www.theverge.com/...
Kim Zetter / @kimzetter: .@mmasnick dug thru the terms of Trump's new site so you don't have to: “Although Save America has no obligation to do so, it reserves the right, and has absolute discretion, to remove, screen or edit any User Content posted or stored on the Sites...for any reason without notice” https://twitter.com/...
Domenico Montanaro / @domeniconpr: Um, this “new platform” is just a blog on a personal web site that doesn't even have a comments section. It has changed the game back to before 2008. https://www.foxnews.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: honestly he created the ultimate twitter and i am jealous just shouting into the formless void, following no one
Steven Nelson / New York Post: Trump says Facebook ‘must pay a political price’ for banning his account
Alistair Coleman / @alistaircoleman: As a former internet celebrity and (yeah) blogger of some repute, I'd like to welcome Mr Trump to the year 2002. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Rumpf / @rumpfshaker: Lmao — my old blog I started in 2010 on blogspot (after googling “how do I make a blog,” not even kidding) had more function/interactivity. Sad! 😂 https://twitter.com/...
Mark Halperin / Wide World of News: The Meaning of Liz Cheney
Katharine Viner / The Guardian:
On the Guardian's 200th anniversary, its EIC lays out her vision for the newspaper in its third century and what role media can play in a post-pandemic world — On the Guardian's 200th anniversary, our editor-in-chief sets out how media can help rebuild a better world beyond Covid
Discussion:
The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, @kathviner, @jimwaterson, @arusbridger, @lukehgomes, @rasmus_kleis, @prospect_clark, @capittard, @jimwaterson, @domphillips, @prashantrao, @arusbridger, @jamesrbuk, @tomphillipsin, @nicdawes, @gdnlongread, @hardingmike, @burke_jason, @andrew_adonis, @stephharmon, @lisaocarroll, @carolecadwalla, @pkelso, @mbjack, @michaelahann, @kathviner, @markriceoxley69, @anniewallace, @brianstelter, @niemanlab, @pierrebri, @beckyfh, bookforum.com and The Guardian
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Alan Rusbridger / The New York Review of Books: Two Centuries of ‘The Guardian’ … Will the revelations lead not only to prosecution …
Katharine Viner / @kathviner: The Guardian is 200 years old tomorrow! Here's a first look at the special souvenir print front page — and the very first edition, from 1821. Read them both tomorrow https://twitter.com/...
Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson: First edition of the Guardian, published 200 years ago today, had... a front page advert for a vegetarian cookbook. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Alan Rusbridger / @arusbridger: Happy birthday, Guardian! Almost no companies make it to 200. In this piece for @nybooks I explore the paradox of how a newspaper's ownership, driven by purpose, not profit, created something so lasting. (register to read it) https://www.nybooks.com/...
Luke Henriques-Gomes / @lukehgomes: Very proud to work for @guardian, @GuardianAus https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: “The Guardian has never been much of a business. Its owners never got rich; in fact, they gave the newspaper away.” Read @arusbridger on the first 200 years of its history, and more broadly about journalism driven by purpose, not search for profit or power https://www.nybooks.com/...
Christopher Pittard / @capittard: The brilliant thing about that cover is how literally it depicts a northern newspaper gradually shrinking to the south east. https://twitter.com/...
Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson: Typeface battle royale, the 1960s version looks hard. https://twitter.com/...
Dom Phillips / @domphillips: Fascinating, clear-eyed piece by former editor on the Guardian's 200th birthday. I'm proud to be one of its zillions of freelance contributors. The Guardian has long written much more and in more depth about countries like Brazil than many other media outlets. https://twitter.com/...
Prashant Rao / @prashantrao: Congratulations to the Guardian — an essential news outlet. All our lives are better for its tremendous journalism https://twitter.com/...
Alan Rusbridger / @arusbridger: In an age when many news organisations increasingly struggle to turn a profit, the shift to a focus on “purpose” will intensify... https://twitter.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: “Since 1936, that is the only instruction given to incoming editors (of which there have, since that date, been just six): ‘As heretofore.’” https://www.nybooks.com/...
Tom Phillips / @tomphillipsin: “Times change. Technologies change. Principles don't. Two hundred years, and we've only just begun,” writes our editor-in-chief @KathViner as @guardian turns 200 🎉 https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: If you care about the future of purpose-driven journalism, you'll find more inspiration in journeying with @arusbridger to the 19th century roots of a paper born from labor unrest and political turmoil than in a thousand panegyrics to post-war print: https://www.nybooks.com/...
@gdnlongread: Today the Guardian turns 200! Here's an annotated edition of our very first issue, from 1821 https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Jason Burke / @burke_jason: The brilliant news organization i work for is celebrating its 200th birthday. Here's to the next 200 years of reporting, writing, thinking and making a difference. And here's an essay by @KathViner the ed in chief on what we stand for and why... https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Adonis / @andrew_adonis: The big mistake the Manchester Guardian made was to cease to be the Manchester Guardian https://twitter.com/...
Steph Harmon / @stephharmon: “How do we report a [climate] disaster that is happening everywhere all at once, and inspire our audience to understand its gravity without thinking it's too big and too scary to comprehend? The Covid crisis has given us some fresh ideas.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Lisa O'Carroll / @lisaocarroll: The Guardian is celebrating 200 years in existence. So many things about our history in this sweeping piece but also about the challenges journalists face in the future - to separate the meaningful from the noise. And “Comment is free. Facts are sacred” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Carole Cadwalladr / @carolecadwalla: Britain is in a pretty dark place right now. A govt that operates in a culture of impunity. 10s of 1000s unnecessary deaths. Our means of holding power to account eroding daily. Without @guardian - 200 years old today - it would be a whole lot darker. 🙏 https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Paul Kelso / @pkelso: Happy birthday @guardian - will never forget the thrill of walking in for the first time & being allowed to stay. (That was shortly before the demisemiseptcentennial celebration. You can only imagine the lols) https://twitter.com/...
Malcolm Jack / @mbjack: I've been writing for The Guardian 10 years now, a mere 5% of its lifetime, and it still never fails to give me a buzz seeing my byline in the paper. It's not perfect but it's by far the best we have, and I'm proud and grateful to have been a tiny part of its 200 years to date. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Hann / @michaelahann: My earliest memory, as a toddler in Manchester, involved The Guardian. My ambition later was to edit its Friday arts supplement. I achieved that. So proud to have been part of the history of an institution. https://twitter.com/...
Katharine Viner / @kathviner: Times change. Technologies change. Principles don't. My essay to celebrate the Guardian's 200th birthday today https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Mark Rice-Oxley / @markriceoxley69: Had so much fun doing this: 200 years to the day since the Manchester Guardian published its first edition, we pore over it and find some real gems. All annotated here: https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Annie Wallace / @anniewallace: Over 5,500 words on “values”. Despite consistently “questioning” trans people, to the level that in 2018, their US colleagues wrote an article criticising their trans-hostile stance... 1/2 https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: The @Guardian newspaper was born on this day in 1821 https://twitter.com/...
@niemanlab: “Born on the day Napoleon Bonaparte died — May 5, 1821 — The Guardian now has around $1.4 billion in the bank [and] more than a million paying supporters or subscribers.” https://www.nybooks.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Pierre Brianon / @pierrebri: The Guardian published its first edition the day Napoleon died. Discuss. https://twitter.com/...
Rebekah Higgitt / @beckyfh: This feature is nicely presented - quite a good introduction to how to start exploring 19thC newspapers (though not 100% accurate or historical in its reading) https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Larry McShane / New York Daily News:
A New York Daily News reporter asks for a committed New York City owner to rescue the newspaper from “visiting vulture” Alden Global Capital — Like any good tabloid headline, it's simple, snappy and succinct: DAILY NEWS NEEDS NEW OWNER. — And not just any owner: a New York owner …
Discussion:
Chicago Tribune, @brianstelter, @joshtpm, @jamesqueallylat, CNN, @helenkennedy, @saragregory, @bobhardt, @bfriedmandc, @alfredwkng, @johnannese, @missryley, @toddmaisel, @maryldixon, @royalpratt, @espnbob, @mcallguild, @maragay, @mrbenwexler, @karenlsweeney, @_richardhall, @jenwsheehan, @mollyjongfast, @jimrutenberg, @heathat, @secupp, @rexhuppke, @jmartineznyc, American Press Institute, @vicbekiempis, @mikelupica, @_richardhall, @eorden, @ethanjsacks and Mediaite
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Rex Huppke / Chicago Tribune: Column: Dear rich person: Please save the Chicago Tribune. You will be a hero. And I will mow your lawn.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Wow. In the pages of today's NY Daily News, reporter @lmcshanenydn asks for a local owner to “please buy this newspaper” and rescue it from “visiting vulture” Alden https://www.nydailynews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: The Times does great things. But it's essentially a national paper. The Post is a sham. A New York struggling to be reborn could use a great paper with the resources to chronicle the city. And yet the NYDN seems close to being sold off for parts. https://twitter.com/...
James Queally / @jamesqueallylat: Someone, anyone (preferably someone rich and not evil), please listen to @lmcshanenydn and save the Daily News! https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
Brian Stelter / CNN: New York Daily News makes a plea for local ownership as hedge fund takeover looms
Helen Kennedy / @helenkennedy: The Daily News' legendary Larry McShane has a desperate plea. I hope someone listens. https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
Sara Gregory / @saragregory: “The stakes are clear. An Alden takeover is sure to mean a trail of laid-off journalists, contracted newsrooms, and shadow newspapers unable to cover local news and inform their communities.” https://twitter.com/...
Bob Hardt / @bobhardt: Larry McShane — a Hall-of-Famer in NY journalism and a dear mentor and friend — pleads for the survival of the Daily News. https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
Brandon Friedman / @bfriedmandc: The @NYDailyNews bills itself as New York's hometown newspaper, but the whole country would be worse off without it https://twitter.com/...
Alfred / @alfredwkng: It pains me that the New York paper that constantly fights for the city's people is the one struggling. Tronc cut the staff in half in 2018 and the Daily News still kicks ass. The city needs this paper. https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
John Annese / @johnannese: The 2018 layoffs were traumatic — reporters summoned in the early a.m., then made to wait for hours as we were separated into rooms to learn if we were fired or spared. And yet, things will get worse if Alden buys us. And NYC will lose a crusading voice for its people. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Ryley / @missryley: This brought tears to my eyes. I was at @NYDailyNews for 5 years. Some dismiss it as a tabloid, but we constantly had impact. My work resulted in dozens of laws and helped dismantle broken windows. There's no more powerful voice for poor and working class NYers. It can't be lost. https://twitter.com/...
Todd Maisel / @toddmaisel: been a while since I tweeted. Here goes. 1st - hats off to @lmcshanenydn for his Op-Ed today @NYDailyNews Wishing my colleagues well - yes, I was one of those laid off in 2018. https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
Mary Dixon / @maryldixon: When Chicago & NYC reporters plead with someone — anyone — to buy them instead of Alden: https://twitter.com/...
Gregory Pratt / @royalpratt: So many journalists across the country are bravely calling for help saving their newspapers from Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund that destroys local news. Who will step up and save the @chicagotribune? https://twitter.com/...
Bob Wischusen / @espnbob: Amazing.. If a new owner turned the News back into its former self, I'd be the first in line to buy a subscription again! Hope it happens... https://twitter.com/...
@mcallguild: We are in FULL support of new union family members at the @NYDNUnion. The message is loud and clear: Alden Global Capital should NOT own @tribpub. And the unions are doing everything we can to stop it. #savelocalnews https://twitter.com/...
Mara Gay / @maragay: Here's a very good cause for a civic-minded New Yorker https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
Ben Wexler / @mrbenwexler: Please read this by my friend @RexHuppke https://www.chicagotribune.com/ ...
Karen Sweeney / @karenlsweeney: This has one byline, but I suspect it has the backing of every single NY Daily News staffer. Bold move! https://twitter.com/...
Richard Hall / @_richardhall: “This is the paper that covered the September 11th attacks so closely that photographer @FlyingManatee barely survived being buried in the rubble of the South Tower. Then this is the paper that won a Pulitzer for editorials spotlighting health problems of Ground Zero workers” https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer W. Sheehan / @jenwsheehan: All of us have been working for months to get new owners that can help us escape ownership by the worst hedge fund in America. It may be down to the wire but we will not stop. https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Wouldn't it be cool if someone bought the daily news https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
@jimrutenberg: The Daily News is in new danger. As @lmcshanenydn writes, its owner Tribune “now plans to peddle the paper to Alden Global Capital, the notorious hedge fund known for decimating newspapers like the Denver Post before picking the bones for profit."(Thread) https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
Heather Timmons / @heathat: “New York City, a place brimming with millionaires and billionaires and civic-minded nonprofits, is teeming with potential new owners to steer our tabloid into the future — and we're looking to team up with one” a Daily New reporter writes https://twitter.com/...
S.E. Cupp / @secupp: “The News...needs investment, not further cuts. It needs a new, committed New York City owner, not a visiting vulture standing alongside the newsroom bust of our founder, Joseph Medill Patterson.” @lmcshanenydn https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
Rex Huppke / @rexhuppke: My plea to any civic-minded person with the means to buy the Chicago Tribune and save us from a hedge fund that has done to newspapers what lawn mowers do to azaleas: This is a chance to save something important. This is a chance to be a hero. Please RT. https://www.chicagotribune.com/ ...
Jose Martinez / @jmartineznyc: Just one more Daily News alum (I was there 12 years) adding to the chorus of “Save the News.” The old slogans say it all: New York's Hometown Paper; The Most New York You Can Get AND “Too Tough to Die.” https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
American Press Institute: Need to Know: May 5, 2021 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: Condé Nast …
Victoria Bekiempis / @vicbekiempis: Somebody in NYC, who cares about NYC, who has means, please save the Daily News. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Lupica / @mikelupica: Please buy this newspaper: A Daily News reporter begs a local owner to rescue the tabloid from Alden Global Capital https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
Richard Hall / @_richardhall: This is the second op-ed in as many days by a journalist at a century-old newspaper asking a rich person to save it. Both owned by Tribune. https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
Erica Orden / @eorden: “The newspaper belongs in the hands of someone who cares deeply about our city, not some nebulous group of far-flung managers with no real skin in the New York game.” https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
Ethan Sacks / @ethanjsacks: Having been blessed to work in the @NYDailyNews newsroom for 20 of the 102 years that the paper has been a New York institution, it hurts to read @lmcshanenydn's devastatingly poignant editorial begging for a savior to keep the presses running ... 1/ https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
SEC filing: The NewsGuild argues against a Tribune sale to Alden, saying the price is too low, Alden's finances raise concerns, and Alden acted in bad faith
Discussion:
Rick Edmonds / @rickedmonds: The NewsGuild is out with an SEC filing Wednesday formally urging Tribune Publishing shareholders to reject Alden Global Capital's takeover bid. Main argument: the company is worth more. https://www.poynter.org/...
Edmund Lee / New York Times:
NYT added 301K digital subscribers in Q1, the slowest gain in over a year, for a total of 6.9M digital subs and 7.8M total subs, with profit up 54% YoY to $68M — The publisher added 301,000 digital subscribers for the first quarter, the slowest gain in over a year. Profits jumped, beating Wall Street expectations.
Discussion:
@kerrymflynn, CNN, @kerrymflynn, Wall Street Journal, @carlquintanilla, @m_delamerced, @kerrymflynn, @katie_robertson, @kerrymflynn, @rmantri, @mccanner, @kerrymflynn, @kerrymflynn, @mattgrossmann, @kbandersen, @kerrymflynn, @moorehn, @rasmus_kleis, @anthony, @nytmedia, @caitlinkellynyc and Axios
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@kerrymflynn: $NYT Q1'21 earnings: - 7.8 million total subscriptions - Added 301,000 digital subscriptions in Q1 - Total revenue +6.6% to $473 million - Subscription revenue +15.3% to $329.1 million - Advertising revenue -8.5% to $97.1 million https://investors.nytco.com/ ...
Kerry Flynn / CNN: As subscriber growth slows, The New York Times reveals 100 million registered users
@kerrymflynn: $NYT “added 301,000 digital customers for the first three months of the year, the lowest increase since the third quarter of 2019.” Q3'19: +273,000 Q4'19: +342,000 Q1'20: +587,000 Q2'20: +669,000 Q3'20: +393,000 Q4'20: +627,000 Q1'21: +301,000 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: New York Times Subscriber Gains Slow in First Post-Trump Quarter
Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla: MORGAN STANLEY: “We continue to forecast digital-only subscriptions reaching 12-13mm by YE25.” $NYT https://twitter.com/...
Michael de la Merced / @m_delamerced: There's good and bad in the latest NYT earnings, per @edmundlee: + There's now 7.8mn subs, nearly 90% of which are digital + There are 100mn registered users + Ad sales slowed less than expected - User growth slowed https://www.nytimes.com/...
@kerrymflynn: $NYT lede on earnings: “No doubt, President Biden has significantly lowered the temperature of the nation after four years under Donald J. Trump, a tumultuous period capped by the worst pandemic in a century. He may have also lowered interest in the news” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson: The NYT now has 7.8 million paid subscribers and 100 million “registered users” — though subscriber growth is slowing https://www.nytimes.com/... from @edmundlee
@kerrymflynn: More $NYT Q1'21: - Digital-only product revenue +38.1% to $179.6M - Print subscription revenue -3.8% to $149.5 million - Digital ad revenue +16.3% to $59.5 million - Print ad revenue -31.6% to $37.6 million https://investors.nytco.com/ ...
Rajeev Mantri / @rmantri: Igniting rage and selling outrage is profitable - with a record 7.8 million+ digital subscribers, that is the business NYT is in now. https://www.nytimes.com/... Best to treat it as a glorified BuzzFeed. https://twitter.com/...
Erin Mccann / @mccanner: ‘No doubt, President Biden has significantly lowered the temperature of the nation after four years under Donald J. Trump, a tumultuous period capped by the worst pandemic in a century. He may have also lowered interest in the news.’ https://www.nytimes.com/...
@kerrymflynn: On $NYT Q1'21 earnings call, CEO: “Strong financial results in the first quarter and demonstrate the success of our strategy, and the promise of our large and growing digital subscription business... First quarter results also reflect a real improvement in digital advertising...”
@kerrymflynn: “In February and March, our audiences declined from their historic highs last year, and we saw fewer net subscription additions in the latter part of the quarter. We expect moderated growth to continue through the second quarter...” - $NYT CEO Meredith Kopit Levien
Matt Grossmann / @mattgrossmann: Although news nationalization continues, early signs that Biden is lowering news audience beyond just lower TV ratings https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kurt Andersen / @kbandersen: Debbie Downer is writing the Times' headlines about the Times. “Growth Slows.” But subscriptions are up 4% in one quarter, earnings up 54%, profit margin at 14%. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@kerrymflynn: “... While we don't know which storylines will drive the next big news cycle, we do know that the size of our newsroom, its range of expertise, and our continued investment in meeting more needs position us to capture that demand...” - $NYT CEO Meredith Kopit Levien
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: Guess they're saying the quiet part about Trump out loud https://twitter.com/...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: New York Times added basically a whole Times of London worth of digital subscribers in Q1 (301,000 vs last reported number I think 337,000) Global English-language winner-takes-most is brutal market and difference btw those at the very top and even other success stories growing https://twitter.com/...
@anthony: New York Times digital-subscriber additions slowed sharply in the months since former President Donald Trump left office https://www.wsj.com/...
@nytmedia: The Times is still on a path toward its goal of reaching 10 million subscribers by 2025, and it has improved its profit margins as its digital business — which costs less than print — continues to rise. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo:
Signal says Facebook shut down its ad account over an Instagram ad campaign that showed the user data Facebook used in targeting the ads — A series of Instagram ads run by the privacy-positive platform Signal got the messaging app booted from the former's ad platform, according to a blog post Signal published on Tuesday.
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@signalapp: We wanted to use Instagram ads to highlight how ad tech invades your privacy. Instead, Facebook shut our account down: https://signal.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: The Technology 202: The Facebook Oversight Board punts the Trump decision back to Mark Zuckerberg
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: These Signal ads are amazing. Facebook banned them for being a little bit too relevant. https://signal.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Moxie Marlinspike / @moxie: Signal tried to use Instagram ads to display the data Facebook collects about you and sells access to. Facebook wasn't into the idea, and shut down our account instead: https://signal.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Crowsa Luxemburg / @quendergeer: these remind me of those algorithm generated tshirts https://twitter.com/...
Eva / @evacide: Signal crafted Instagram ads that showed users what Facebook knew about them. Facebook banned these ads because apparently they would like me to send them a copy of these screenshots every time they tell me how committed they are to transparency. https://signal.org/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Do me a favor, every time you see coverage of Trump and Facebook today, just retweet this and give free promotion to Signal. They exposed the real issue at Facebook in a brilliant ad campaign yesterday and it could use some love. https://twitter.com/...
Shoshana Wodinsky / @swodinsky: [touches earpiece] i'm hearing they were likely banned for uhhhhhh having too much text. oops https://twitter.com/...
Mike / @doranimated: Too honest | A series of incredibly honest Instagram ads run by Signal got the messaging app booted from Instagram's ad platform. | https://gizmodo.com/...
Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: From Crab Raver To Crab Champion
Seamus Blackley / @seamusblackley: Facebook Bans Signal after it uses clever ads to demonstrate Facebook's privacy intrusion system. https://gizmodo.com/...
@signalapp: @alexeheath We absolutely did try to run these. The ads were rejected, and Facebook disabled our ad account. These are real screenshots, as Facebook should know. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: Facebook's response: https://twitter.com/...
Dave Lauer / @dlauer: Signal made it clear to Facebook's users just how much information is being collected about them - so Facebook shut them down. Stay classy Facebook. https://twitter.com/...
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: Signal posts the ads that Facebook banned it for trying to run on Instagram
Jared Holt / @jaredlholt: Signal continues to make itself a company to watch in the broader tech landscape https://twitter.com/...
Sebastiaan de With / @sdw: Signal made Instagram ads that shows users how much Facebook knew about them. Facebook banned them. “Being transparent about how ads use data is enough to get banned; in Facebook's world, the only acceptable usage is to hide what you're doing.” https://signal.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Goodwin / @tomfgoodwin: What this would really show is how much Facebook thinks it knows but doesn't https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Fox Corporation beats analyst estimates with Q3 revenue of $3.22B, down about 6.5% YoY; ad sales for the unit including Fox News fell almost 7% to $283M — - Company hosted the Super Bowl last year, hurting comparisons — Ad sales fell at cable unit, with fewer Fox News viewers
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Variety, @bristei, @bristei, Radio & Television …, @bristei, @newsynick, @bristei, @bristei, Fox Corporation, @bristei, @bristei and @maynereport
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Brian Steinberg / Variety: Fox Corp. Sees Q3 Profit Rise Despite Revenue Dips After Super Bowl, 2020 News Cycle
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Fox CEO Murdoch: Opportunities to grow Fox News are less with cable network and more with new ventures like podcasting, weather, etc
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Murdoch says Fox Nation subs increased 40%, but does not reveal how many subscribers the company has
Adam Jacobson / Radio & Television Business Report: FOX's Fiscal Q3 Results Strong Despite Super Absence
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Fox CEO Murdoch: Tubi has secured deals with Cox and Scripps to show live local news feeds. In total Tubi will offer dozens of live local news feeds in 2021
Nick Turner / @newsynick: Are boycotts of Fox News advertisers having an effect? Well, the division's ad revenue was down about 7% last quarter, but the company blamed a slower news cycle. https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @chrispalmeri
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Fox CEO Murdoch: ‘You should anticipate us to invest’ in new programming for Fox Nation in quarters ahead
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Fox Corp. earnings call is starting... Lachlan Murdoch, John Nallen and Steve Tomsic are on the call
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Fox CEO Murdoch: No comment on legal wrangling between Flutter and Fox
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Fox CEO Murdoch: Co. ‘had been transparent’ that ‘post-election, demand for news would moderate’
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Fox says it will acquire right-leaning sports outlet Outkick Media, founded by Clay Travis, who has extensive Fox ties through radio and cable appearances
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Andrew Bucholtz / Awful Announcing: Fox has bought Clay Travis' OutKick
Clay Travis / @claytravis: Big news: Fox is buying @outkick and we are expanding massively. After ten years of ownership, I'm ecstatic about where we are headed together. https://www.outkick.com/...
Clay Travis / @claytravis: Most important news is everyone is staying. We are also going to be expanding a tremendous amount. https://www.outkick.com/...
Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: Fox to Buy Clay Travis' Sports Media Company Outkick
Brad Stone / Bloomberg:
How Jeff Bezos beat the National Enquirer by casting himself as a sympathetic defender of the press fighting a political conspiracy by AMI and Trump's allies — When a gossip rag went after the CEO, he retaliated with the brutal, brilliant efficiency he used to build his business empire.
Discussion:
@tomgara, @bradstone, @lachlan, @hkanji, @brianstelter, @jbarro, @williamturton, @tomgara, @chafkin, Insider, @benyt and @dabeard, more at Techmeme »
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Tom Gara / @tomgara: Jeff Bezos is so rich that his yacht owns a yacht https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brad Stone / @bradstone: Before billionaires started routinely announcing their divorces on Twitter, Jeff Bezos had to beat the tabloids. This is how he did it. The first excerpt from my new book #AmazonUnbound, out May 11, is on the cover of this week's @BW: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Lachlan Markay / @lachlan: I broke the Bezos story for the Daily Beast. This is absolutely 100% unequivocally false https://twitter.com/...
Hussein Kanji / @hkanji: When a gossip rag went after Bezos, he retaliated with the brutal, brilliant efficiency he used to build his business empire https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: The brand new cover of Bloomberg Businessweek: a big excerpt from @BradStone's book “Amazon Unbound” 👀 📚 https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Josh Barro / @jbarro: The best part is there was never a Bezos dick pic, it was a photo of some random escort's dick. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
William Turton / @williamturton: this is completely nuts https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: The entire story of how Jeff Bezos absolutely killed the National Enquirer in a knife fight is incredible. Wild detail: they never had a below-the-belt selfie of him (and Bezos probably knew that, but pretended they did anyhow, to more fully murder them) https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Max Chafkin / @chafkin: come at the Jeff, best not miss https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Avery Hartmans / Insider: Jeff Bezos is building a gigantic luxury yacht that's expected to be one of the best in the world - and he's adding a ‘support yacht’ with its own helipad
Ben Smith / @benyt: Incredible story of how Jeff Bezos used his ownership of The Post and Jamal Khashoggi's totally unrelated murder to beat back tabloid coverage of his personal life. Really one of the most cynical (and brilliant) bits of PR I've ever seen. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
David Beard / @dabeard: “Bezos wrote a 1,000-word essay titled ‘No Thank You, Mr. Pecker’ and handed it off to Amazon's SVP of corporate affairs, Jay Carney, whose brow furrowed in surprise as he read it for the first time while on a videoconference with colleagues.” https://www.bloomberg.com/... @BradStone
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Billboard says it will publish a ranking of the most popular songs in the US based on Twitter conversations; the chart will be updated daily — The ranking will be one of Billboard's first that doesn't measure how much people listen to music — Billboard, the king of music charts …
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Brianna Provenzano / Gizmodo: Billboard Is Partnering With Twitter to Rank Music in a New, Fun Way
Alexandre Giess / @alexgiess: I'll be curious to know how different the chart would like to compare to using @tiktok_us Also does that include Twitter conversations that link to a tiktok video? https://twitter.com/...
Jen Prince / @jenp: What's Happening? A new @billboard chart on @Twitter! Music is the most popular topic of conversation on Twitter, & this new Billboard chart will be measuring ALL of the 🎼talked about on @Twitter💙 https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Mark Bergen / @mhbergen: So if I tweet about the new modest mouse song but tweet that it makes me deeply depressed and nostalgic for 1997, does that make the list? https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:
Former Dow Jones CEO Will Lewis launches The News Movement, an outlet focused on delivering objective news to mass audiences on social media — - Will Lewis venture aims to tackle misinformation crisis — A former chief executive officer of the Dow Jones financial news service, Will Lewis …
Mark Stenberg / Medialyte:
Q&A with The Daily Beast's Maxwell Tani about independent and regional media, newsroom drama, and Insider's memo labeling his retweets as insignificant — The Daily Beast media reporter talks impact points and newsroom drama. — A song to read by: “Cheers,” by Faye Webster
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
NewsWhip: daily social media interactions on stories about Trump fell from ~49M in early Jan. to ~2M by March, largely due to no Trump tweets for media to cover — Social media interactions about former President Trump have fallen 91% since January, according to exclusive data from NewsWhip.
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Michael Foley / What's the Big Idea?: Can We Quit Him? — Hi there. — The Internet has been a slightly calmer place …
Richard Stengel / @stengel: “Trump's social media superpower was never his ability to tweet — it was his ability to get the media to cover what he tweeted.”—SocialFlow CEO Jim Anderson https://www.axios.com/...
Laurie Garrett / @laurie_garrett: If a tree falls in a forest and there's nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound? Apparently, if that “tree” is #DonaldJTrump the answer is no. https://www.axios.com/...
@slpng_giants: If you want to know why @facebook and @youtube allowed Trump to continually break their rules and why they will make up a reason to let him back on their platforms, look no further than this. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Baker / @sam_baker: Social media interactions about Trump have fallen 91% since January. Obviously, his not being the president any more is a big part of that, but so is the fact that he can't post. https://www.axios.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Yes. He also stopped being president. And he said things that made him, in any civilized quarters, a pariah. Multiple factors. https://twitter.com/...
Bruno Maes / @macaesbruno: What surprises me is no one thinks having the presumptive opposition leader banned from social media reflects poorly on American democracy. Imagine it happened in India or Turkey https://twitter.com/...
Olafimihan Oshin / The Hill: Social media interactions about Trump fall 90 percent since January
Jessica M. Goldstein / Washingtonian:
Profile of White House Press Sec Jen Psaki, whose measured, warm approach is winning over a press corps used to Trump-era anarchy and Obama-era fratty cruelty — Half of America is smitten with Jen Psaki, while a swath of the White House press corps sounds quite taken with how polite she is.
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@jessicagolds, @richardgrenell, @jessicagolds, @kevinmdraper, @joelpollak, Mediaite, @rachelolding, @stevekrak and @erikwemple
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Jessica Goldstein / @jessicagolds: big thanks to @jonkarl, @mmccurry, @peterbakernyt, @pdoocy, @maxwelltani, & the unnamed White House reporter who gave me this excellent quote: https://twitter.com/...
Richard Grenell / @richardgrenell: The State Department usually calls capital newspapers that are in the tank for one political party “propagandists”. And then we are instructed to not include them when briefing the Western media. https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Goldstein / @jessicagolds: Why yes I did reach out to the White House for comment 🙃 https://www.washingtonian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Draper / @kevinmdraper: “Those Obama guys—just listen to Pod Save America. Imagine that smugness and smirking, on steroids, with people who are empowered to manage stories and are called upon to yell at you when they don't like a story.” https://www.washingtonian.com/ ...
Joel Pollak / @joelpollak: It's easy to be civil when you're playing for the same team. It's easy to mistake absurdity for competence when you're in the same bubble @ErikWemple https://twitter.com/...
Rudy Takala / Mediaite: White House Reporters ‘Rooting’ for Jen Psaki Gush About Her in Magazine Feature: ‘Professional, Pleasant, Lovely’
Rachel Olding / @rachelolding: “Biden's people complain about every single little thing. They kind of play mean-girls games,” one female reporter said. “Whereas the Trump people, half the time, would just be complaining about working for Trump.” https://www.washingtonian.com/ ...
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