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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Trump's Justice Department secretly obtained phone records for three WaPo reporters over reporting they did in mid-2017 on Russia's role in the 2016 election — The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists' phone records and tried to obtain their email records …
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Jenn Gidman / Newser: WaPo Reporters Get Surprise Letter From DOJ
Ted Bridis / @tbridis: Another good argument why news organizations should own, operate their email infrastructures - feds would have to come to them directly with subpoenas. But almost everyone in news industry now outsources email service to Google or Microsoft, putting confidential sources at risk. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Chris Young / The Reporters Committee …: Reporters Committee statement on report that Trump Justice Department secretly obtained journalists' phone records
Pete Williams / NBC News: Trump Justice Department sought phone records of Washington Post reporters
@emptywheel: Trump seized the phone records of 3 WaPo reporters. The seizure STARTED 3 days after they reported on Carter Page's FISA. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
John W. Dean / @johnwdean: Way beyond Nixon at his worst: Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Post reporters' phone records! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@alextarquinio: An attack on the First Amendment, plain and simple. The Trump administration's Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post reporters' phone records. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@rcfp: It's imperative that the new DOJ leadership explain “exactly when prosecutors seized these records, why it is only now notifying the Post, and on what basis the [DOJ] decided to forgo the presumption of advance notification under its own guidelines.” https://www.rcfp.org/...
Jeremy Scahill / @jeremyscahill: Also, and this is key, the **BIDEN** Justice Department “defended [the Trump Justice Department's] decision to subpoena Post reporters' records” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Michael McFaul / @mcfaul: What? This is very scary. https://twitter.com/...
Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: Justice Department Quietly Seized Washington Post Reporters' Phone Records During Trump Era
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: The revelation about Trump's DOJ seizing WaPo reporter phone records is on the front pages of both WaPo and the NYT today https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Scahill / @jeremyscahill: These are all things journalists should ASSUME the government does. Obama's admin also spied on journalists and used the Espionage Act repeatedly against whistleblowers. Obama's DNI Clapper lied to Congress about surveillance and his CIA spied on the Senate torture investigators. https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Peele / @thomas_peele: Burner phones people. Pay cash. Best Buy never seems to question the name John Smith when activating one. https://twitter.com/...
Kenny Stancil / Common Dreams: ‘Direct Attack on the First Amendment’: Trump DOJ Secretly Obtained Washington Post Journalists' Phone Records
Jennifer Maas / The Wrap: 3 Washington Post Reporters' Phone Records Were Obtained by Trump Justice Department
James LaPorta / @jimlaporta: WTF!!!! This is like what happened in 2013 when DoJ secretly obtained @AP phone records. https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: DOJ must say “when prosecutors seized these records, why it is only now notifying the Post, and on what basis [it] decided to forgo the presumption of advance notification under its own guidelines,” says @rcfp https://www.rcfp.org/...
@rcfp: .@rcfp Executive Director Bruce Brown said, “Whenever the government seeks to obtain records of journalists' communications, it raises serious First Amendment concerns because it interferes with the free flow of information to the public.” Full statement: https://www.rcfp.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Cheri Jacobus / @cherijacobus: Trump had my email hacked in 2016 after I filed a defamation lawsuit against him. He'd had me “catfished” in 2015 to get personal info. Had one of his law firms investigate/spy on me. It's no secret Trump does this. So why are we suddenly shocked to learn he spied on reporters? https://twitter.com/...
Edward Helmore / The Guardian: Trump DoJ seized Washington Post reporters' phone records, paper says
Tim O'Donnell / The Week: 10 things you need to know today: May 8, 2021
Laura Belmonte / The Full Belmonte: The Full Belmonte, 5/8/21 — “WASHINGTON — A stunningly disappointing jobs report Friday demonstrates …
Jason Leopold / @jasonleopold: AND here's Flores in an email describing the Kislyak/Sessions meeting as debunked! So if not true how could it be a leak? https://twitter.com/...
Jason Leopold / @jasonleopold: “there was no private meeting, ” Sarah Flores said Again, if that is the case this can't be considered a leak? https://twitter.com/...
Matt Fuller / @mepfuller: This whole thing is gross and a good question is why the Biden Justice Department is defending it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Gabriel Snyder / @gabrielsnyder: the fragility of democratic norms seems to be the underlying theme of these kinds of reports https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jason Leopold / @jasonleopold: Sarah Flores responded to at least two dozen reporters by saying the Sessions/Kislyak meeting during 2016 campaign never happened and I have every single email. So if this is one of the stories that served as the basis for seizing WaPo phone records does it mean it's true? https://twitter.com/...
Jason Leopold / @jasonleopold: Via my #FOIA: Here's former DOJ spox Sarah Flores providing a reporter a comment on deep background about whether Jeff Sessions met with Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. WaPo said today their 2017 story on this mtg may have lead DOJ to seize reporters' phone records https://twitter.com/...
John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton: This does not make it better. Despite this statement, I'd like to believe that current Justice Department leadership is taking a step back to consider how much our democracy can be damaged by obsessive leak chasing... ...and how they would like to be remembered by history. https://twitter.com/...
Nick Ochsner / @nickochsnerwbtv: Feds seizing reporters' phone records was wrong when the Obama DOJ did it and equally wrong when the Trump DOJ did it. What's most troubling is a judge authorized seizing the WaPo reporters' records. https://twitter.com/...
Ken Klippenstein / @kenklippenstein: The prosecution of media leaks is a bipartisan scandal. Leaks referred to DOJ for criminal investigation (by fiscal year): 2009: 44 2010: 33 2011: 41 2012: 46 2013: 55 2014: 41 2015: 18 2016: 38 2017: 120 2018: 88 2019: 71 2020: 55 https://theintercept.com/...
Ken Klippenstein / @kenklippenstein: Anyway use Signal. When it gets subpoenaed, this is all the data they have to disclose. (Source: https://signal.org/...) https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: The seized records - a process that must be approved by the AG - were from 2017. They were sought last year, when Barr was AG. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@harrisonjaime: .@GOPChairwoman I know you love talking about integrity... thoughts? https://twitter.com/...
Justin Amash / @justinamash: Trump & Co. feigned outrage over FISA while engaging in the same abuses and reauthorizing every aspect of the police state that landed on Donald Trump's desk for a signature. https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: So, what you're saying is that Trump and the ‘Deep State’ worked *together* to undermine the First Amendment? Wonder how rightwingers feel about that... https://twitter.com/...
Seung Min Kim / @seungminkim: “The Department of Justice should immediately make clear its reasons for this intrusion into the activities of reporters doing their jobs, an activity protected under the First Amendment.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Alexandra Chalupa / @alexandrachalup: We were “way beyond Nixon” when the Republican Party conspired with the Kremlin to install a criminal regime with the help of Russian intelligence operatives and threatened to destroy the United States. Mass deaths and devastation were the result. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Well said. This is deeply disturbing from an administration made clear before they were even in charge that they were hostile to a free and plural press. https://twitter.com/...
Ken Klippenstein / @kenklippenstein: Trump admin referred a record number of leaks for criminal investigation, per DOJ documents I obtained under FOIA: https://theintercept.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Edward-Isaac Dovere / @isaacdovere: “It is rare for the Justice Department to use subpoenas to get records of reporters in leak investigations, and such moves must be approved by the attorney general.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Elaine Shannon / @elaineshannondc: Both parties hate leaks and snoop on reporters. Good there's now strong encryption and burner phones. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: * The story addresses “toll records ... from April 15, 2017 to July 31, 2017” * ... “obtained” by the “Trump Justice Department.” * Reporters informed of this in a May 3 letter signed by current DOJ officials (ie, Biden DOJ). When were they sought? When obtained? Unclear: https://twitter.com/...
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: Does “it” mean they were sought in 2020? Obtained in 2020? Both? The story also leaves unclear whether whichever of those it was (were?) happened under Barr, or after, under Rosen?
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: Also, regardless of the answers to those questions, it's very weird how the Post leans in hard to this being a Trump-era happening — both in the headline and the lede — when the story itself quotes Biden DOJ folks defending the move. And not good that Garland's DOJ is doing so. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: WaPo: “We are deeply troubled by this use of government power to seek access to the communications of journalists. The Department of Justice should immediately make clear its reasons for this intrusion into the activities of reporters doing their jobs...” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
WomenForBidenHarris / @women4biden: This sounds very legal and very cool, as the former guy used to say. https://twitter.com/...
Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq: Here we go again https://twitter.com/...
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: So, unless I read this wrong, some timing elements here are left out or left intentionally vague: https://twitter.com/...
Chad Livengood / @chadlivengood: WaPo: “The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists' phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia's role in the 2016 election.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Levi Fishman / @levifishman: The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained reporters' phone records and the Biden Justice Department defended the activities? Cool. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Huh. And I'd been led to understand the Trump team was a bunch of civil libertarians crusading against the Deep State. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dillon Rosenblatt / @dillonreedrose: This is such a gross overreach of a government entity. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Goldman / New York Times: Justice Dept. Seized Washington Post's Phone Records
Nathan Place / The Independent: Trump Justice Department monitored Washington Post reporters' phone calls in 2017
Andrew Beaujon / @abeaujon:
Washingtonian editorial staff won't publish today after their CEO implied in a WaPo op-ed that management should categorize remote staff as contractors — As members of the Washingtonian editorial staff, we want our CEO to understand the risks of not valuing our labor. We are dismayed by Cathy Merrill's public threat to our livelihoods. We will not be publishing today.
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Cathy Merrill / Washington Post: As a CEO, I worry about the erosion of office culture with more remote work
Erik Wemple / Washington Post: Washingtonian staffers orchestrate work stoppage over CEO's ‘public threat to our livelihoods’
Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain: The future of work is not threatening your employees
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: It's not their job to buy you cake
Benjamin Armbruster / @benjaminja: .@washingtonian editorial staff respond in unison to CEO Cathy Merrill's WaPo op-ed (via @MarisaKashino) https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: I have now written an OP-ED: It's Not Their Job To Buy You Cake https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Sopan Deb / @sopandeb: I am *floored* by this op-ed by a media CEO. But the particularly awful part is the second screenshot here. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Dave Jamieson / @jamieson: The CEO of @washingtonian media has taken to the op-ed page of the Washington Post to threaten her own employees. This is a stunning essay from the boss. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Wendi C. Thomas / @wendi_c_thomas: It needed to be said and @laurahazardowen said it: It's not their job to buy you cake https://www.niemanlab.org/... via @NiemanLab @washingtonian
@jhweissmann: Lol, WaPo gave the owner of Washingtonian a platform to just threaten her staff with completely transparent labor law violations gtfo lady https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Noam Blum / @neontaster: Tweeting in unison is creepy even if the reason for it is positive. The lack of individualism in this kind of uniform collective action never sits right with me. Also I can't imagine having a job where you wake up to an op-ed by your boss basically shitting on you in public. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Beaujon / @abeaujon: I really appreciated this @laurahazardowen piece, which notes how women tend to end up with “non-promotable tasks https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Seung Min Kim / @seungminkim: For too long, informal mentoring, “inclusion” responsibilities + requests or requirements to provide diverse job candidate lists or check articles for racism have been foisted off on journalists of color, who are never paid/recognized for their extra work. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Nisha Chittal / @nishachittal: “Much of the “office culture” that eroded during the pandemic was not built intentionally or thoughtfully. It hasn't benefited everyone equally... Once we acknowledge that, we can think about building the kinds of places where people really want to work.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jessica Grose / @jessgrose: Co-sign everything in this piece by @laurahazardowen https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Molly Priddy / @mollypriddy: “20 percent of this job is being my friend at the office and if you don't do it i will take your healthcare” https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: New from me: I spoke to some staffers at the Washingtonian about that threatening sounding op-ed about working from home. Spoiler: many of them *want* to go back to the office in some form. They just want some say in the process. And some respect. https://warzel.substack.com/ ...
Roslyn Talusan / @roslyntalusan: threatening to reclassify an employee as a contractor because remote workers don't “drive office culture” (🥴🥴🥴) publicly and in writing is a fascinating tactic https://twitter.com/...
Elahe Izadi / @elaheizadi: “I feel really humiliated,” said one Washingtonian staffer about their CEO's op-ed. “People I respect in the media industry and beyond came to me and were really shocked that this is where I'm working.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Adriana Lacy / @adriana_lacy: “Working remotely for the last year has revealed just how much of office culture is accidental, arbitrary, and sexist. yep. I'd also add in racist, too. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Yoshi Yoshitani / @yoshisquared: This is so funny (not) because the argument for hiring someone full time is that then you don't have to pay them x1.5 for overtime. 🙄 Anyway, just another reminder that companies are always looking out for themselves so it's important you look out for yourself too https://twitter.com/...
Benjamin Freed / @brfreed: For a time the magazine prided itself on the fact that it was one of the first in D.C. to pay its interns...local minimum wage with no benefits or time off. Interns in both editorial and sales/marketing were also required to work company events, and there are stories. https://twitter.com/...
Soren Bowie / @soren_ltd: Rad to see the curtain pulled back and finally know that your health insurance is dependent on singing happy birthday to Deb. https://twitter.com/...
Noah Lanard / @nlanard: Washingtonian's CEO harps on workplace culture and threatens employees who don't want to go back to the office. In 2017, she paid me and other interns minimum wage, offered no healthcare for full-time work, and gave zero paid time off. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: journalists of color, particularly, have been expected, over and over & across companies, to mentor/"help" find “diverse candidates"/give feedback on content without being paid extra for it https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jamison Foser / @jamisonfoser: if you can't write a simple op-ed without causing a full staff revolt, perhaps you should not be the CEO of a magazine https://twitter.com/...
@thepacketrat: This is some Condé Nast level plutocratic evil right here. Whoops did I say that out loud. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: I predict that by the time the staff does reappear in the @washingtonian office, they'll be wearing the union label.
Ella Dawson / @brosandprose: Cathy Merrill, CEO of Washingtonian Media, needs to resign. Publicly threatening in an op-ed to downgrade your full-time employees to contractors, cutting their health insurance in the process, if they don't come back to the office displays staggering cruelty and bad judgment. https://twitter.com/...
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy / @profciara: “It's not a coincidence that these nice little office “extras” — the things you'll rarely see listed in a journalism job description because historically nobody has considered them worth paying for — disproportionately fall to women.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: This reminds me of my first week or two as the editor of the NY Observer: Jared Kushner, who visited the office once in a blue moon, & never went downstairs to the bullpen, demanded to know why half the reporters were missing at 10AM on a weekday. Answer: they were out reporting. https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Hogglestock / @tjhogglestock: Seems like Cathy Merrill had nothing to worry about. Her staff have the camaraderie thing nailed down, even while working from home. https://twitter.com/...
Courtney Milan / @courtneymilan: Just saying the quiet part in a loud enough format that can be easily attached to a labor lawsuit about being miss classified as a non-employee. https://twitter.com/...
Scott Bixby / @scottbix: Merrill's op-ed is a barely-veiled threat against healthcare coverage, 401k benefits and PTO for remote workers. Good on @washingtonian staff for taking those threats seriously. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: @cwarzel I also disagree with the conclusions, but I think it's valuable for workers to know these sentiments are out there. A lot of bosses feel this way!
Jess Goodwin / @thejessgoodwin: I mean I would think that if an employer is saving money on things like office space and parking fees they wouldn't need to also take away their employees' benefits 🤨 https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@sorayamcdonald: This is not “office culture;” it's one woman holding benefits hostage under the guise of “who will teach the children how to be good obsequious little workers” FOH. The woman who wrote this sounds like a nightmare https://twitter.com/...
Jess Zimmerman / @j_zimms: Let it never be said that op-eds don't create change https://twitter.com/...
Dave Jamieson / @jamieson: Having representatives and lawyers helps, but this is a good reminder that employees do not need a union to act as one https://twitter.com/...
Michael de la Merced / @m_delamerced: This is probably not the reaction that Merrill wanted to get from this https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: And good for them. That first day back at the office is going to be mighty awk. https://twitter.com/...
@kendrawrites: The office environments that are most militaristic about employees returning to in office employment have IME toxic work cultures that are hard to maintain at a distance https://twitter.com/...
Mary Tyler March / @mtmarch: lol so the inability to curate an office birthday celebration should be grounds for converting full-time employees — who are probably doing work well beyond their compensation — to contractors without benefits? incredible https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: “We have a healthy office culture right now which is why I am publicly threatening the jobs of my employees.”
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: Great take on why the staff of Washingtonian should unionize from **checks notes** the CEO of Washingtonian. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: Boy do I disagree with this op-ed about the risks of not returning to the office (one of which is just...i, the ceo, just might make you a contractor instead of an employee!) https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dave Jamieson / HuffPost: Washingtonian CEO's Ominous Op-Ed Leads To Staff Revolt
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times: Column: Employers, governors push myth that unemployment checks keep lazy workers home
Micah L. Sifry / The Connector: The Hybrid Workplace is Here to Stay: Work Has to Evolve
Gillian Friedman / New York Times: Washingtonian staff protests C.E.O.'s article on remote work by refusing to publish.
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
In an email, Washingtonian CEO apologized to magazine staff for her WaPo op-ed, assuring them there would be no changes to benefits or employee status — The D.C. magazine's staff revolted on Friday after their owner wrote an op-ed suggesting remote workers could be penalized—a “public threat to our livelihoods,” employees said.
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Marisa M. Kashino / @marisakashino: As members of the Washingtonian editorial staff, we want our CEO to understand the risks of not valuing our labor. We are dismayed by Cathy Merrill's public threat to our livelihoods. We will not be publishing today.
Benjamin Freed / @brfreed: I'm so proud of my former Washingtonian colleagues today for taking a stand against Cathy Merrill's brazen threats against them. https://twitter.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: Her piece wouldn't have been saved by an editor unless they deleted it. https://twitter.com/...
Sunrise Movement DC / @sunrisemvmtdc: Solidarity with the @washingtonian editorial staff! No one deserves to have their pay or benefits threatened because they work from home. Cathy Merrill's statement was an attack on families, caregivers, people with disabilities, and workers everywhere. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Ladau / @emily_ladau: The disingenuous backpedaling in the @washingtonian's CEO is just as appalling as her op-ed. So much wrong with this, not the least of which is the blatant ableism and lack of caring about putting in effort to foster an inclusive, accommodating workplace. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Maria Konnikova / @mkonnikova: The phrase “workplace culture” is one of the main reasons I've chosen to be self-employed for the last 10+ years. The other is “face time” (of the non-iPhone variety). So much toxicity in outdated ways of looking at what it means to be productive and valuable. https://twitter.com/...
Jill Geisler / @jillgeisler: “I am sorry IF” is an apology eraser. The op-ed lacked evidence that she solicited input her from own staff about their remote work & culture. These are important conversations everywhere today and the best leaders are listening to learn, rather than lecturing to alarm. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Scott / @textfiles: And no doubt there's a bloodbath that's going to come As she takes remote workers and says “yeah you're done” And she wants to be known as a smart CEO https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Peter Clines / @peterclines: ...claiming her column's intent was simply to convey how worried she and other CEOs were about “preserving the cultures we built up in our offices.” As someone who used to regularly pull 70+ hour weeks, I have many thoughts on “workplace culture”... https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Jessica Taylor / @jessicataylor: If anything, this past year has proven so many jobs absolutely can be done remotely https://twitter.com/...
@thetomzone: great argument for why this is the perfect time for Washingtonian staff to begin a union drive https://twitter.com/...
Hillary Kelly / @hillarykelly: Weird, because when I went to the CFO, seven months pregnant and asking for a more appropriate maternity leave policy on par with the industry, I was called “silly” right in front of HR and nobody did anything about it. (I quit.) https://twitter.com/...
Adam Smith / @asmith83: just absolutely baffled by the strategy of publishing a weird oped about your HR theories in place of holding a staff meeting https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Pam Chvotkin / @reddusfoximus: I can't stand PR statements like these. The wording in the op-Ed was pretty clear. The fact that her words needed a follow up with a, “I didn't mean to offend you, but...sorry that you were” statement is forced and inauthentic. Only responding because of the backlash. https://twitter.com/...
Morgan Jerkins / @morganjerkins: There are going to be many upheavals and reconsiderations towards what we consider “workplace culture” to be and that's a good thing. It's a brand new day out here. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: Remember that executives should always have to live under the threat of overthrow. There is no other way to make them remember the humanity of workers. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@phbehnken: What a fool she is! As a retired long-time freelancer, I can tell you I devoted much more time to my work from home than I ever did in any office setting. No birthday parties, long lunches, watercooler chats, gossip, backstabbing, etc. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... via @thedailybeast
Kaila Philo / @kailaphilo: Fun fact: Since Cathy Merrill only offered minimum wage to editorial fellows in 2018, I had to commute for 3 hours a day to and from Baltimore, including on days we had to work events, because I couldn't afford DC rent.
@phbehnken: @mediagazer @beyerstein @maxwelltani What a fool! She could lose her best writers over this, for good reason. Writers don't need daily, 8-hour face time. As retired long-time freelance, I can tell you I did my best work from home, w/o office distractions/politics or a commute. Plus, I cld work at night, if I wanted.
Jared Holt / @jaredlholt: I am also sorry if the words I write in major national newspapers give the impression I mean those words https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: I love an 'I'm sorry if you were offended' non-apology apology. Whew. I feel badly for those who work there. https://twitter.com/...
David Lim / @davidalim: “I am sorry if the op-ed made it appear like anything else.” 🤔🤔🤔 https://twitter.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: “I'm sorry if the op-Ed made it appear like anything else.” Good god. https://twitter.com/...
Anuradha SenGupta / @anuradhasays: That's after they told her they won't publish: https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: Finally.... a weapon to surpass Groverhaus
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post: Washingtonian staff goes on publishing strike after CEO's op-ed about remote work
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: It's not their job to buy your cake
Jennifer Maas / The Wrap:
Saturday's SNL episode with host Elon Musk was livestreamed internationally on YouTube for the first time ever — “Saturday Night Live” will be available to live-stream internationally for the first time ever Saturday, when Elon Musk hosts. — Musk shared the link for the livestream hours …
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Danielle Turchiano / Variety: Elon Musk Reveals Asperger Syndrome Diagnosis on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Eleanore Park / Wall Street Journal: What Time Elon Musk Is Hosting ‘SNL’ and How to Watch
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Elon Musk's ‘SNL’ Debut Will Get Global YouTube Live Stream
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: NBC statement: “'SNL' is a global phenomenon and this livestream marks the first time audiences around the world will experience the show simultaneously along with the US,” —Frances Berwick, Chairman, Entertainment Networks, NBCU TV and Streaming. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Belmonte / The Full Belmonte: The Full Belmonte, 5/9/21 — The Republican Party's efforts to limit voting rights are making inroads.
Frank Pallotta / @frankpallotta: JUST IN: Tonight's SNL, which is hosted by Elon Musk, will be the first time the show has ever been live-streamed internationally. It will be streamed via YouTube in over 100 countries, per NBC.
Joe Flint / @jbflint: This is what we've been waiting all afternoon for? I thought maybe Elizabeth Holmes had been added as co-host. https://twitter.com/...
Gavin Purcell / @gavinpurcell: this is pretty great. the sooner we get to global events like this, the better the tv biz is gonna be https://twitter.com/...
Rafael Motamayor / Collider: SNL Will Stream Elon Musk Episode Internationally on YouTube
Jessica Bennett / Page Six: Elon Musk announces ‘SNL’ international livestream
Aatif Sulleyman / TechRadar: How to watch SNL with Elon Musk: stream Saturday Night Live online from anywhere today
Stephen Hall / Electrek: Elon Musk is hosting SNL tonight — here's how to stream it
Bruce Haring / Deadline: ‘SNL’ Will Livestream Tonight's Elon Musk Show Internationally On YouTube, A First
Kim Lyons / The Verge: Saturday Night Live with Elon Musk will be live-streamed internationally for the first time
Alex Smith / Android Central: How to watch Elon Musk on Saturday Night Live
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Vice, Bustle are no longer exploring IPO via SPAC and BuzzFeed may be the only big digital media company to go public this year, as SPAC market cools — - Buzzfeed may be the only significant digital media company to go public via SPAC this year, sources said.
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Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: The SPAC slowdown has pushed back the timeline of digital media companies entering the publicly traded company arena https://www.cnbc.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: This was supposed to be the Summer of Digital Media. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@julianklymochko: Vice was in advanced talks to do a deal with 7GC & Co Holdings, but those talks stalled Vice is no longer exploring a SPAC on its own https://www.cnbc.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Some news in here: *Vice's efforts to go public SPAC have stalled *Many in the digital media world expect Buzzfeed to be the only digital media company to pursue a SPAC alone this year. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Evan DeSimone / @mediaevan: Most of these digital media companies have been around for ten years and have only been intermittently profitable for one or two. Taking them public doesn't make that much sense. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google adds YouTube TV to the main YouTube app on Roku devices and says it is securing “free streaming devices” for customers in case talks with Roku fail — It's also securing ‘free streaming devices’ for customers in case talks with Roku completely fall apart
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Chris Welch / @chriswelch: NEW: Roku calls Google “an unchecked monopolist” after Google said it would integrate YouTube TV into the main YouTube app on Roku's platform. I'm in the process of updating our story. https://www.theverge.com/... Roku's full statement: https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: After Roku Pulls YouTube TV, YouTube Will Add Ability to Access Live-TV Service From Main App
Jason Wilson / @jason_a_w: I am done with YouTube TV! I may even just get cable again at this point https://twitter.com/...
@thestreamable: In a statement on Google adding YouTube TV to the YouTube App, Roku calls Google an “unchecked monopolist bent on crushing fair competition and harming consumer choice.” They have not yet removed the app however. https://thestreamable.com/... $GOOG $ROKU
Neal Mohan / @nealmohan: We're introducing a new feature that lets you access @YouTubeTV from the @YouTube app. This feature will be available to all @YouTubeTV members on Roku over the next few days, making it easier to enjoy the content you love... https://blog.youtube/... https://twitter.com/...
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: Streaming TV distribution is all very, very broken. It's like we decided to take the worst of the gatekeeper-controlled smartphone app system AND the worst of the cable TV system. https://twitter.com/...
Dave Zatz / @davezatz: Roku's ‘juggernaut as victim’ airing of the grievances is as tired as it is amusing. “UNECHECKED MONOPOLIST [HELL] BENT ON CRUSHING [OUR POOR LITTLE PURPLE STREAMER]” (Also, is it Attorneys General or Attorney Generals? Hm.) https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Short version: we are not dumb enough to disable the entire YouTube app https://twitter.com/...
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: Ugh: They wrote “Attorney Generals” not “Attorneys General” https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: Roku spox regarding the latest move by Google: “Google has continued its practice of blatantly leveraging its YouTube monopoly to force an independent company into an agreement that is both bad for consumers and bad for fair competition” https://variety.com/...
Tom Warren / @tomwarren: I'm old enough to remember Google getting rather upset with Microsoft when it went rogue and made its own YouTube app for Windows Phone 🥴 https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: A hotfix to circumvent a platform restriction you say https://www.theverge.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: This is absolutely hilarious. https://variety.com/...
@pcmag: In a blog post about the YouTube TV fight, Google mentions that a Roku deal to carry the free YouTube app expires in December. Current tensions between the two parties may make renegotiations tough. https://www.pcmag.com/...
Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: YouTube Found the Pettiest Loophole in Its Battle Against Roku
Jeff Baumgartner / Light Reading: YouTube TV creates new workaround as Roku standoff continues
Katie Canales / Insider: Roku called Google an ‘unchecked monopolist’ after the company added YouTube TV into its main YouTube app on the streaming platform's channel store
Jason Gurwin / The Streamable: Roku Calls Google an ‘Unchecked Monopolist’ in Move to Circumvent Roku Channel Store with YouTube TV
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Flurry analysis: just 4% of iPhone users in the US and 12% worldwide have so far actively chosen to opt into app tracking after the rollout of iOS 14.5 — An early look at an ongoing analysis of Apple's App Tracking Transparency suggests that the vast majority of iPhone users …
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Edanilo / Flurry Blog: Daily iOS 14.5 Opt-in Rate
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: It turns out no one wants to be tracked all across their iPhones by Facebook (or anyone else)
Insider: Apple's privacy changes are already causing chaos in mobile advertising, with developers reporting tiny user opt-in rates and falling ad prices
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Loren Stephens / My Hangout: 96% of US users Opt-Out of iOS 14.5 App Tracking
Wolfie Christl / @wolfiechristl: Verizon's Flurry, who claims to harvest data from thousands of apps across 2 billion mobile devices, also found a 4% opt-in rate, at least in the US #apple #att Put differently, 96% don't want to be tracked. The ‘worldwide’ opt-in rate is 11%, though (?) https://www.flurry.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Barry Schwartz / @rustybrick: How can this not impact Facebook and Google ads? https://twitter.com/...
Robin Berjon / @robinberjon: One thing that's particularly interesting here is that it provides a statistical baseline: if you are getting opt-ins significantly higher than this, you're probably using a dark pattern. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel P. Shannon / @phyllisstein: “The challenge for the personalized ads market will be significant if the first two weeks [of iOS 14 app tracking opt-outs] end up reflecting a long-term trend.” https://www.macrumors.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Rundle / @flyosity: lol facebook https://twitter.com/...
Yang / @yangcliu: Opt out ratio high. Game companies with large loyal following and community (non reliant on UA) will have a huge advantage, such as supercell, in this new era https://www.macrumors.com/...
Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: Too Bad, Zuck: Just 4% of U.S. iPhone Users Let Apps Track Them After iOS Update
Bloomberg:
LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong says journalism needs government help, Big Tech should pay for content, and he's undecided on which Tribune bid to support — - Patrick Soon-Shiong says tech giants should pay for articles — He's also No. 2 investor in Tribune, which is weighing bids
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Diane Haithman / The Wrap: ‘Government Needs to Step in’ to Save Newspapers, Los Angeles Times Owner Says
Nick Turner / @newsynick: .@latimes owner Patrick Soon-Shiong says newspapers may need government aid: “I'm not asking the government to do anything drastic, but they have to step in and find a way to support the viability of this whole industry.” https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @Yueqi_Yang @gerryfsmith
Ross Gerber / @gerberkawasaki: Billionaire doesn't want to keep losing money on his crappy paper. Maybe take a look at the quality of the @latimes - that may be the problem. The sports page isn't even a section anymore. Government aid. What a joke. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Scott Brodbeck / @scottbrodbeck: Sure sounds like the LA Times is losing gobs of money https://twitter.com/...
Matt Welch / @mattwelch: Hard pass: “I'm not asking the government to do anything drastic, but they have to step in and find a way to support the viability of this whole industry,” says LAT owner. Or else we risk “destroying, frankly, democracy, in the long run.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Gerry Smith / @gerryfsmith: Soon-Shiong also said he's still undecided on which Tribune bidder he'll support. As the No. 2 shareholder, he holds a lot of sway over whether Alden takes over. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Jones / Poynter: The cozy relationship between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Fox News is on full display
Josh Noel / @hopnotes: “The board of directors should have known to investigate and confirm the financial resources of a prospective buyer that would be paying all equity cash. The fact that they didn't is frankly stunning.” Alden Global Capital has no business buying the Chicago Tribune or @tribpub. https://twitter.com/...
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
eMarketer: US advertisers will spend $11.36B on streaming TV commercials on services like Hulu, Pluto TV, and Peacock in 2021, up from $8.11B in 2020 — Ben Chappell was binge-watching The X-Files on Hulu recently when he kept seeing the same ads for sports betting apps again and again.
David Zurawik / Baltimore Sun:
The Baltimore State's Attorney's Office has asked the FCC to investigate the Sinclair-owned local TV station WBFF, claiming a pattern of misleading coverage — The Baltimore State's Attorney's Office says it filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday requesting …
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Marilyn J. Mosby / @marilynmosbyesq: @FOXBaltimore's blatantly slanted,dishonest,misleading, racist, and extremely dangerous coverage must come to end. Last year, they ran 248 stories about me and and my office, while WJZ ran 46, WBAL ran 26 and WMAR ran 10 during that year. https://www.baltimoresun.com/ ...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: Roku paid $97.8M in cash for This Old House Ventures, the media company behind the home-improvement TV show that Roku acquired in March — Roku paid $97.8 million in cash for This Old House Ventures, the home-improvement media company whose shows include “This Old House” and “Ask This Old House.”
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Todd Spangler / @xpangler: In its 10-Q filing, Roku did not disclose what it paid for Quibi. In Q1, Roku added $97.5M in content assets to its balance sheet as non-current assets “primarily driven by content acquired from Quibi and This Old House,” it said in the filing. https://variety.com/...
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: Correction, Roku added a net $96.7M in content assets in Q1 primarily from Quibi & This Old House
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku beats estimates, with a Q1 net income of $76.3M on revenue of $574.2M, up 79% YoY; new active accounts grew 2.4M, reaching 53.6M, up 35% YoY; stock up ~7%
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Julia Alexander / IGN India: YouTube Tries to One Up Roku Amidst Public Battle
Sergei Klebnikov / Forbes: Roku's Billionaire Founder Gains $645 Million After Stock Surge
Sean Burch / The Wrap: YouTube TV Workaround Added as Roku Dispute Drags On
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
In a letter, Ted Sarandos says Netflix is “stopping any activities” with HFPA until more meaningful reforms are made, after HFPA members approved an overhaul — EXCLUSIVE: As the beleaguered Hollywood Foreign Press Association pledges to reform itself, Netflix has declared …
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Marc Malkin / Variety: HFPA Members Approve Sweeping Overhaul for Embattled Golden Globes Group (EXCLUSIVE)
Reese Witherspoon / @reesew: Glad to see @netflix dedication to creating a more equitable and inclusive entertainment industry . https://deadline.com/...
Brittney Bailey / ScreenRant: Netflix and Amazon Boycott Golden Globes Due to Lack of Diversity
Nicholas Rice / People.com: Netflix ‘Stopping Any Activities’ with HFPA Over Diversity Reform Issues as Amazon, GLAAD Join Callout
Jen Yamato / Los Angeles Times: Scarlett Johansson, citing ‘sexist’ treatment, calls for Hollywood to ‘step back’ from Golden Globes
Kerry Washington / @kerrywashington: This is so important. Thank you @netflix for taking a stand 🙌🏾 https://deadline.com/...
William Hughes / The A.V. Club: Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo join voices blasting the Golden Globes over diversity issues
Rosemary Rossi / The Wrap: Golden Globes: Amazon Studios Joins HFPA Boycott Until ‘Sincere and Significant’ Reform
Scott Menzel / @scottdmenzel: Why doesn't Hollywood just cut ties with the HFPA already? Anything they do now is only being done to salvage their reputation and keep money in their pockets. If they actually cared about having black members they would have had them in their organization long before now. https://twitter.com/...
Anne Thompson / IndieWire: As the Golden Globes Promise to Do Better, Hollywood Responds with Side Eye: 'We Don't Believe'
Robert Daniels / @812filmreviews: Woah!! Absolutely seismic. https://twitter.com/...
Carina Adly Mackenzie / @cadlymack: I just love Netflix a whole lot. (Except still mad about ODAAT but other than that) https://twitter.com/...
Dominic Patten / @deadlinedominic: UPDATE: #HFPA responds to @netflix halting relationship with Golden Globes group unless real reform is enacted “We hear your concerns about the changes our association needs to make & want to assure you that we are working diligently on all of them” https://deadline.com/...
Bad Robot / @bad_robot: “Netflix and many of the talent and creators we work with cannot ignore the HFPA's collective failure to address these crucial issues with urgency and rigor.” - Ted Sarandos Huge kudos to @Netflix for leading the way! https://deadline.com/...
Dominic Patten / @deadlinedominic: EXCLU: #GoldenGlobes organizers see @netflix cut ties unless real reform of #HFPA occurs. There are currently ZERO Black members of influential Hollywood group https://deadline.com/...
Piya Sinha-Roy / @piyasroy: We've always known that the HFPA would never change unless studios and networks stop giving them money and access. This is a huge move from Netflix to force the organization to do better... question remains, is it enough? 🤷🏽♀ ️ https://twitter.com/...
@erickweber: HFPA is legit on the ropes, not certain of their contract situation with NBC but there's a very real opportunity for another organization to take their primetime spot away https://twitter.com/...
Ava DuVernay / @ava: “Netflix and many of the talent and creators we work with cannot ignore the HFPA's collective failure to address these crucial issues with urgency and rigor.” - Ted Sarandos Damn. This is a big deal. Props to @Netflix for being first to take a stand. https://deadline.com/...
Shonda Rhimes / @shondarhimes: Once again, Netflix shows how it can and should be done. This is how to be the change. https://deadline.com/...
Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter: Golden Globes: Time's Up, PR Firms Say HFPA Has Not Gone Far Enough With Proposed Reforms
Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter: Golden Globes: Netflix “Stopping Any Activities” with HFPA Unless and Until Further Reforms Are Made
Esther Crawford / Twitter:
Twitter introduces Tip Jar, allowing everyone using Twitter in English to send tips, and a limited group, including journalists and experts, to accept tips — We $ee you - sharing your PayPal link after your Tweet goes viral, adding your $Cashtag to your profile so people can support your work …
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@twitter: show your love, leave a tip now testing Tip Jar, a new way to give and receive money on Twitter 💸 more coming soon... https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Tobac / @racheltobac: Huge heads up on PayPal Twitter Tip Jar. If you send a person a tip using PayPal, when the receiver opens up the receipt from the tip you sent, they get your *address*. Just tested to confirm by tipping @yashar on Twitter w/ PayPal and he did in fact get my address I tipped him. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@twittersupport: Now you can do more to support the many amazing voices who add to the conversation on Twitter — send them tips. You can send someone a tip through several payment services by tapping the new Tip Jar icon on their profile, testing on Android and iOS. https://twitter.com/...
Kayvon Beykpour / @kayvz: @RachelTobac @yashar this is a good catch, thank you. we can't control the revealing of the address on Paypal's side but we will add a warning for people giving tips via Paypal so that they are aware of this.
@iambrandontv: Yeah this is for content creators who use PayPal for tips. This has always been a thing. PayPal will show your real information if you have a normal account. Start a PayPal business account today. Like right now. It's free and protect your information. https://www.paypal.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ashkan Soltani / @ashk4n: NOTE: the #privacy issue I flag below is *different* from the one @RachelTobac discovered whereby #tipjar reveals the sender's physical address https://twitter.com/... Both are problematic as they're not adequately disclosed and create digital + physical risks for @Twitter users https://twitter.com/...
Anita Sarkeesian / @anitasarkeesian: Heads up, safety issues on Twitter's new tip jar feature. https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Tobac / @racheltobac: Good find @ashk4n — he found that he could see some (but not all) PayPal Twitter Tip Jar recipient's email addresses without even sending them money. His best guess is that some PayPal users haven't setup a ‘nickname’, which then reveals their email address quickly in the flow. https://twitter.com/...
Filter Coffee / Filter Coffee ☕: Get paid to tweet — Hi 👋, Tanvi here. — Filter Coffee hits your inbox every morning …
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Twitter introduces a “tip jar” on user profiles which allows the following services" Bandcamp, Cash App, Patreon, PayPal, Venmo. Twitter takes no cut. On Android, tips can also be sent within Spaces. https://blog.twitter.com/...
Brian Barrett / Wired: Twitter's Tip Jar Privacy Fiasco Was Entirely Avoidable
Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo: If You Use Twitter's New Tip Jar Feature, Make Sure You Don't Accidentally Send People Your Address
Tod Maffin / Today in Digital Marketing: They Grow Up So Fast These Days 👶🏻
Rachel Tobac / @racheltobac: Current Twitter Tip Jar warnings focus on tip receiver set up flow and the risk of “revealing real name” (should also include email address risk). Would love to also see a warning at time of giving for tipper that indicates risk of revealing address when using PayPal in Tip Jar. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Casey Johnston / @caseyjohnston: i take my lack of tip jar to mean i'm not adding to the conversation https://twitter.com/...
David M. Perry / @lollardfish: I see a lot of skepticism, but as a freelancer putting together an income through a lot of small revenue streams, I am wildly in favor of this and want to be added to the program ASAP. https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: This habit of only answering product questions from certain folks especially around safety is part of the damn problem https://twitter.com/...
Sacramento Kings / @sacramentokings: Remember when all you said we should get raises? Well.... https://twitter.com/...
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: Twitter Tip Jar's PayPal integration exposes addresses, emails
Liberty / Liberty's Highlights: 126: Constellation Software Annual Meeting, Signal's Banned Facebook Ads, Twitter Tip Jar, Daniel Ek, Youtube's Custom Silicon, Value Wins, and Nature is Metal
Rachel Tobac / @racheltobac: Thank you @Twitter @kayvz for paying attention, welcoming security researcher's feedback, and taking responsibility to take steps to warn and protect your users within an hour of me releasing these findings (even though you don't control PayPal's address leaking flow). https://twitter.com/...
Darren Rovell / @darrenrovell: We want an edit button... We want premium tools... We want an easier way to upload longer video... Twitter ⬇️ https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Tobac / @racheltobac: This is EXACTLY what I was concerned to test when Twitter announced Tip Jar. PayPal needs to make it crystal clear which data is given to money receivers and stop sharing that data, & Twitter needs to educate users who don't realize what info tip receivers get when using PayPal. https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Tobac / @racheltobac: Above you can see the receipt @yashar sent me when I did this test with him. Be careful using PayPal Twitter Tip Jar — this is a hallmark of PayPal rather than Twitter of course but it impacts Twitter users who may not know that their address is leaked by PayPal to tip receivers.
Whitney Merrill / @wbm312: On Tip Jar privacy and PayPal: Chatted with the lovely head of privacy at Twitter, and they're working on making this more clear in the UI, since it's just the way PayPal works and not something Twitter can control. https://twitter.com/...
@its_willyu: For those that want to use the Twitter Tip Jar, be careful what service you sign up with! It seems like Venmo (which PayPal owns) doesn't share this info in a transaction, but if there are any issues like this for it, please call it out and I will RT ASAP. https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Chanel / @michellehux: tip jar through paypal takes 33%? and... gives your home address to the person you tip? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mark Gray / @mark_t_gray: Worth noting that Apple says that devs “may” use in-app purchases for tipping, so Twitter may not be violating Apple's rules But with App Store, you never really know. https://developer.apple.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@chrisdancy: It took a decade but I was right. #tipjar https://blog.twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mama Jay / @jaylabrenae: I love this because when I donate to GoFundMes I always add extra cash since I know they take a percentage! https://twitter.com/...
Jason / @nonlinearnotes: twitter is gonna look a lot more like onlyfans very soon https://twitter.com/...
Eliza / @elizableu: Can you please remove 💯% of the child porn from Twitter? https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants: This right here is what incentivizes the very worst behavior on social platforms. Sure, some good people with good content will earn some cash, but mostly what it will do is inspire users to get more extreme and pump out more disinformation to get more engagement and more tips. https://twitter.com/...
Kurtis Conner / @kurtisconner: gonna end every tweet of mine with “will delete for $100” 🤑 https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Sparks / New York Post: What is Twitter's new ‘Tip Jar’ and how does it work?
@kozza: Jack, Imma send you a dollar. After you get it, go on and hit me back with something. Then I do the same. Tip Jar Tennis https://twitter.com/...
Roopa / @lfc_rv: I really don't understand why anyone would want to tip someone for their tweets 😂 https://twitter.com/...
May Murden / @jayjurden: People are about to get even more insufferable on here https://blog.twitter.com/...
Tom Warren / @tomwarren: time to start paying for all my terrible tweets guys 💰 https://twitter.com/...
90 Second News: ⏱All chips, no dip — Good morning everyone, and congrats on making it to Friday! You did it!
Sarvesh Mathi / MediaNama: Twitter launches new tipping feature, but privacy concerns loom
Robert / Transistori: Googlen tiedonkeräysilmoitus, Twitter tippaaminen ja Tencentin pelisijoitukset
Sorab Ghaswalla / Whats New On The Net Podcast: Twitter introduces the “Tip Jar”. And,Google will verify those who have 2-step verification on
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Twitter is testing a new Tip Jar feature for sending money to your favorite accounts
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Twitter begins rolling out new ‘Tip Jar’ feature for paying other users directly
Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Twitter Tip Jar lets you pay people for good tweetin'
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Twitter introduces Tip Jar, allowing users to send money to their favorite tweeters
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