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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Facebook releases a previously shelved Q1 content transparency report, acknowledging the widespread reach of content casting doubt on COVID vaccines — The social-media platform's Saturday evening acknowledgment comes after a lengthy internal debate over whether to share data.
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / @lizzadwoskin: BREAKING: Facebook acknowledges - after a long transparency struggle - that a factual post that cast doubt on covid vaccines was the MOST POPULAR on its platform from Jan-March. The company just published the report that NYT said was shelved. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: 🚨 🚨 🚨 Facebook says post that cast doubt on covid-19 vaccine was most popular on the platform from January through March https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Benedict Evans / @benedictevans: Shot: https://www.nytimes.com/... Reference: https://www.chicagotribune.com/ ... Chaser: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tom Warren / @tomwarren: nothing quite like a Saturday night Facebook news dump https://twitter.com/...
Chris Vickery / @vickerysec: From January 2021 to March 2021 the highest ranking Facebook post was anti-vaccine madness. Think about that. Nothing was more popular on Facebook than *anti-vaccine* sentiment for at least the first 3 months of 2021. Fk Facebook. https://twitter.com/...
ClearingTheFog / @clearing_fog: The NYT found out that Facebook had been withholding a report about which content was popular in Q1. FB released it. Turns out, one of the most popular pages on Facebook was run by Epoch Times👆, one of the nastiest propaganda outlets in the country. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@gregbensinger: What's important to understand is that they published the report they initially buried in the interest of transparency https://twitter.com/...
Ahmed Baba / @ahmedbaba_: Facebook made this even worse by trying to cover it up. https://twitter.com/...
Kamala Nation / @kamalanation: Well, @POTUS once again is right. #Facebook is killing people. https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Sigh. The new release of the January through March data by Facebook came one day after the New York Times first reported that it had been withheld by senior executives: Facebook says post that cast doubt on covid-19 vaccine was most popular on the platform https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Daniel Ahmad / @zhugeex: 54m people in the US, or nearly 1/5 of the US population saw that one article on vaccines, which was debunked. The fact they didn't release this info earlier, because it would make them look bad, and they know it had a detrimental impact, says a lot. https://twitter.com/...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: Facebook admits a site pushing covid-19 misinformation was among the top 20 pages it sent users to in Q1 of this year. “[O]ne of the most popular pages on the network....promoted the violent QAnon conspiracy theories and misleading claims of voter fraud...” https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Collier / @kevincollier: And we have to wonder how long Facebook would have sat on this travesty were it not for @daveyalba and @RMac18's reporting. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Rather / @danrather: And people almost undoubtedly died as a result... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: In Facebooks defense, disinformation is the brand https://twitter.com/...
David Rothschild / @davmicrot: (1) Note that this insidious anti-vaccine article that was most popular url on @Facebook for Q1:2021 was published by a mainstream media publisher @chicagotribune: as long as mainstream media publishes disinformation, hard for Facebook to address ... https://twitter.com/...
@amy_siskind: Facebook admitted this evening that a post that cast doubt on covid-19 vaccine was most popular on the platform from January through March. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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New York Times:
Internal emails: Facebook shelved content transparency report in Q1 fearing outcry, as most-viewed link was news article implying doctor died from COVID vaccine — The company praised itself this week for being “the most transparent platform on the internet.”
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@daveyalba, The Verge, Reclaim The Net, @donie, @kateconger, @kevinroose, @nytimes, @karlbode, @anthony, @brendannyhan, NPR, Insider, @briansolis, @daveyalba, @daveyalba, @zilevandamme, @rvawonk, @jesselehrich, @rebekahktromble, @brandyzadrozny, @qwongsj, @cademetz, @nicolegoodkind, @martinsfp, @samred, @profcarroll, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @shannonpareil, @joshsternberg, @hshaban, @martyswant, @dmccabe, @can, @kurtwagner8, @chetfaliszek, @ceciliakang, @rmac18, Raw Story, Pixel Envy and The Verge
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Davey Alba / @daveyalba: NEW w/ @rmac18: Facebook released its first-ever quarterly report on Widely Viewed Content this week. But an earlier report from Q1 existed and was shelved, bc execs were scared it would make the company look bad. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kim Lyons / The Verge: Facebook releases shelved content transparency report after criticism it wasn't being transparent
Cindy Harper / Reclaim The Net: Facebook suppressed report showing vaccinated doctor death was most viewed story in Q1
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: Hard to take anything Facebook says in good faith. Facebook didn't release a transparency report in Q1 because it showed top link was an “article with a headline suggesting that the coronavirus vaccine was at fault for the death of a Florida doctor.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: That report Facebook put out about the most-viewed content in Q2? @daveyalba and @RMac18 report that there was a Q1 version that wasn't released. It showed that the most-viewed link was about a doctor dying from the Covid-19 vaccine. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: Executives at Facebook debated whether it would look bad to release a report showing that the most-viewed link on the site contained misleading information about the Covid vaccine. The company decided to shelve it. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Karl Bode / @karlbode: Facebook comms is now using that harpers disinfo story (which downplayed disinfo and facebook's role in spreading it) to justify being terrible https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: Facebook held back an earlier version of a report they released this week regarding “most viewed posts” fearing public outcry regarding some controversial posts. Facebook released the report on Saturday after the publication of this story. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan: This kind of selective pseudo-transparency is bad and will hurt Facebook in the long run https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kelsey Vlamis / Insider: Facebook said an article that suggested the COVID-19 vaccine could be deadly was the most popular link on the site from January to March
Brian Solis / @briansolis: This week, it was reported that @Facebook shelved its content transparency report in Q1 fearing public criticism, as the most-viewed link suggested a doctor died due to a COVID-19 vaccine. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/... 6 of 12
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: We've updated our story. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: I was at the beach earlier today 😌 hence the delay in looking at this carefully. But this is indeed exactly the report that we wrote about on Friday. https://twitter.com/... Our story: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Phumzile Van Damme / @zilevandamme: Mark Zuckerberg is always going Zuckerberg. A read. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D / @rvawonk: Facebook shelved an earlier report on the most-viewed posts on the platform because they feared it would make them look bad. Why? Well... The most viewed link on FB was a news story (falsely) suggesting that the COVID vaccine had killed a Florida doctor. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jesse Lehrich / @jesselehrich: so Facebook was gonna roll out their new ‘widely viewed content’ report last quarter... ...but the top post was a headline implying the vaccine killed a healthy doctor viewed 54 million times so they shelved it. #transparency https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dr. Rebekah Tromble / @rebekahktromble: On Wednesday I talked about how weird it was that the Facebook report excluded so much relevant data when reaching its conclusions. I was suspicious but willing to believe that those exclusions could be justified. I'm MUCH less willing to believe that now. https://twitter.com/...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: Facebook shelved an embarrassing Reach Report that showed Covid misinfo does reach loads of users and waited until the data showed a rosier picture. It does not care about transparency. Killer work from @daveyalba and @RMac18 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Queenie Wong / @qwongsj: Really makes you wonder what other Facebook data doesn't get publicized... https://twitter.com/...
Cade Metz / @cademetz: “You can't trust a report that is curated by a company and designed to combat a press narrative rather than real meaningful transparency.” @daveyalba and @RMac18 on what Facebook did not want you to see: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nicole Goodkind / @nicolegoodkind: Can't see these stories without thinking of @Bernstein's brilliant essay! https://harpers.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp: Facebook always goes for the PR solution (tell a better story) rather than just fixing the problem. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Machkovech / @samred: One reason we keep hearing these stories is that people who work for Facebook hate Facebook and are doing something about it. Related: my contact info is in my bio. https://twitter.com/...
David Carroll / @profcarroll: Facebook shamelessly prefers to act as the arbiter of truth about itself. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: In the words of the Federal Trade Commission yesterday, the company cannot be trusted as its own “representations have proven meaningless on multiple occasions.” https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Another masterpiece from the Department of Integrity at Facebook. They literally delayed being more transparent for a quarter because they didn't like what the public would see. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Shannon Bond / @shannonpareil: You'll be shocked to hear that in Q1, the most-viewed link on Facebook in the US “was a news article with a headline suggesting that the coronavirus vaccine was at fault for the death of a Florida doctor.” Great reporting from @daveyalba & @RMac18 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: How many self-owns can Facebook do? But outside of the otherwise strong reporting, I'm curious about the decision to quote a former vp of product marketing who left last year after working at the company since 2009. Boland knows things... https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: NYT: Facebook chose not to publish a first-quarter report about the most viewed posts in the US because executives thought that it would look bad for the company. The top link was an article suggesting that the covid vaccine led to the death of a doctor https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marty Swant / @martyswant: A reminder that data shared by any given company doesn't always show the full picture. https://twitter.com/...
David McCabe / @dmccabe: Facebook released a report this week that it said showed the most-viewed posts on the platform in the U.S. were innocuous links. But there was a similar report for Q1 of this year that Facebook never released. Here's what it found... https://www.nytimes.com/... via @daveyalba @RMac18 https://twitter.com/...
Can Duruk / @can: excited for the metaverse where every piece of what you think of reality is nothing but a lie constructed by Zuck and co but yeah VR https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8: What looks bad: FB admitting a widely viewed story added to vaccine hesitancy What looks REALLY bad: FB getting caught trying to hide that a widely viewed story added to vaccine hesitancy https://twitter.com/...
Chet Faliszek / @chetfaliszek: Imagine that... now time for them to stall, quote some stat that doesn't show the scale, and then promise to improve. They've been doing this for 17 years. https://twitter.com/...
Cecilia Kang / @ceciliakang: This story is what you call a burner 🔥🔥 Facebook hid an earlier report w/ very damning data on how a post with Covid vaccine misinformation was viewed by tens of millions of people via @daveyalba @RMac18 https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Mac / @rmac18: On Weds, Facebook released a transparency report detailing the platform's most popular content in Q2. We found that FB actually had an earlier Q1 report it shelved because it showed a conspiracy theory peddling news page was among its most popular. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bob Brigham / Raw Story: Facebook shelved damning report showing how the platform spread vaccine misinformation: report
Nick Heer / Pixel Envy: Facebook Shelved an Earlier ‘Widely Viewed Content’ Report Because It Looked Bad
Jay Peters / The Verge: Facebook suppressed report that made it look bad
Kate Storey / Esquire:
Interview with CNN's Clarissa Ward on reporting from Kabul as the chaos unfolded: “I appear calm, but that doesn't mean I am calm” — When CNN's Clarissa Ward approached a Taliban fighter on the streets of Kabul on Wednesday, a gunshot rang out behind her.
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Mila Mimica / @milamimica1: Words to live by: “With all the stuff on Twitter, whether it's good or bad, it's all a distraction. I just don't have much time for it.” https://www.esquire.com/...
Joanne Bayly Cbc / @baylyjoanne: Clarissa Ward in Kabul: “I'm missing my 1-year-old and 3-year-old. So, it's probably time for me to get out and take a little bit of a break in the not-so-distant future.” https://www.esquire.com/...
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Alice Speri / The Intercept:
A look at the bureaucratic obstacles facing Afghans who worked with US media outlets, including changing US admissions eligibility requirements — On Wednesday night, the New York Times announced that it had evacuated a group of Afghan colleagues and their immediate families …
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NPR, Love and Borders, @espiegler, @azmatzahra, @themattdimitri, @alicesperi, @alicesperi, @terukuwayama, @alicesperi, @theintercept, @alicesperi and Reuters
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@espiegler: @Acyn Related: “Western journalism and US journalism especially has had a problem in which people too often are very exploitative of locals they hire.” Maybe journalists should be doing amore self-reflection & less finger-pointing about danger Afghans are in. https://theintercept.com/...
Azmat Khan / @azmatzahra: 🚨 @alicesperi dug into one of the most neglected aspects of support for Afghans who worked for U.S. media: Many Afghans worked on a contractual or freelance basis, sometimes with U.S. freelancers. What happens to them? Important story in @theintercept https://theintercept.com/...
Matthew Dimitri / @themattdimitri: “For some American media companies, [it] means all their Afghan staff are excluded from the P-2 program, including photographers and journalists whose bylines have appeared for years in American publications.” https://theintercept.com/...
Alice Speri / @alicesperi: “I constantly deride this idea of access journalism, of this elite of reporters who rub elbows with the elite of government and business around the world. But in this case, it literally saved lives.” https://theintercept.com/...
Alice Speri / @alicesperi: “Nobody really had a contingency plan.” An American journalist helping an Afghan colleague who has been trying to leave Afghanistan for half a decade, fearing for his safety. He received little support from his US employer until this month. https://theintercept.com/...
Teru Kuwayama / @terukuwayama: “The current situation underscores what has long been true, she noted: The industry needs to rethink its relationship to the local journalists it relies on and recognize the imbalance of power at play.” https://twitter.com/...
Alice Speri / @alicesperi: Getting Afghan colleagues to safety has been a frustrating process riddled with red tape and confusion over a rapidly changing set of eligibility criteria, as well as logistical challenges like getting to and through the airport. My latest. https://theintercept.com/...
@theintercept: As they continue to report through the crisis, many Afghan journalists are stuck, fearing reprisals against them and their families from the Taliban, who have long viewed the media as a legitimate target and who have threatened and killed journalists. https://theintercept.com/...
New York Times:
Behind the work to get journalists, relatives, and others tied to NYT, WSJ, and WaPo out of Afghanistan, with aid from diplomatic contacts, military, and Qatar — The evacuation of those who worked for outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post came after a global rescue effort stretching from the Pentagon to Qatar.
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Washington Post, @brianstelter, @dnvolz, @brettmmurphy, @amykinla, @cnnnewsroom, @farnazfassihi, Columbia Journalism Review, @dabeard, @nppa, @jamesestrin, @cengizyar, @leahmcelrath, @shivaroor, @tomperriello, @jkbjournalist, @davidenrich, @nicdawes, @laraseligman, @kyleworton, @saeedshah, @dzalcman, @suilee, @lisafleisher, @flossobama, @rasmus_kleis, Insider, @sonofhas, @jessesingal, @meghann_mt, @alexplitsas, @rmslim, @seanspicer, @dionnesearcey, @ericaeve, @chriscasquejo, @kevinmdraper, @danlamothe, @sarahkaplan48, @craigmwhitlock, @giacomonyt, @tomgara, @paulszoldra, @alanblinder, @carolynryan, @grynbaum, @anniekarni, @benyt, Variety, @bartongellman and National Geographic
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post: Journalists face danger on Kabul streets and a new question: How to cover Afghanistan now?
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “With fewer people left to report directly from Afghanistan, American news orgs are relying, in part, on contacts with local residents and on social media posts from inside the country,” @farhip reports https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dustin Volz / @dnvolz: “I appear calm, but that doesn't mean I am calm,” Ward, 41, said. “I don't panic because you can't panic in those situations. If you are someone who panics, then you probably should be doing a different job, because it will get you into more trouble.” https://www.esquire.com/...
Brett Murphy / @brettmmurphy: Most of what we know happening on the ground in Kabul right now is because of @yamphoto and a small handful of other journalists. This is what the job is right now https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Amy Kaufman / @amykinla: Our incredible photographer @yamphoto is in Kabul, literally risking his life to document the news. We're all thinking of you, Marcus. https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@cnnnewsroom: “It's a desperate situation, and it's a mess.” No US flights have evacuated people who have been on the airfield for at least 8 hours, CNN's Clarissa Ward reports from Kabul's airport. https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Farnaz Fassihi / @farnazfassihi: The fall of Kabul through a photographer's eyes: Kiana Hayeri chronicles the Afghan city's tension, her evacuation, and the guilt she feels for leaving people behind. @kianahayeri https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ ... via @NatGeo
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: The journalists leaving Afghanistan, and those who haven't made it out
David Beard / @dabeard: “When I got home, a phone call came from the @nytimes — ‘You have 15 minutes to pack. Get to the airport now.’ I got my hard drives and a few pieces of clothing. I forgot to take socks, that's how quickly I packed.” - @kianahayeri https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ ... @NatGeo
@nppa: “What has been the hardest part? The guilt, the enormous amount of guilt that I feel.” https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ ...
@jamesestrin: .@kianahayeri speaks about leaving Kabul, those she had to leave behind and the future of her local colleagues who left with her. With breathtaking photos, as always. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ ... via @NatGeo
Cengiz / @cengizyar: “The guilt, the enormous amount of guilt that I feel. I have a passport that means I can get out and these people cannot.” @kianahayeri https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ ...
@leahmcelrath: There are a number of journalists working in Afghanistan whose accounts I currently check every morning to see if they're still alive. Marcus Yam aka @yamphoto is one of them. This anecdote shows why. If you don't follow him, you should consider doing so. https://twitter.com/...
Shiv Aroor / @shivaroor: The taker of the above photo, LA Times journalist @YamPhoto was punched on the side of the head by a Taliban man when he was taking the picture. The man continued to beat Yam & another photographer and demand they erase the photos https://www.latimes.com/...
Tom Perriello / @tomperriello: While pundits focus on blame, real heroes haven't slept in a week, fighting to save as many Afghans as possible. Soldiers, diplomats, WH staffers, & aid workers showing what #Solidarity looks like. https://twitter.com/...
Julie K. Brown / @jkbjournalist: What a story. Amazing and dangerous work by a group of courageous journalists. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Enrich / @davidenrich: Wow. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: Two very interesting details in this story: Qatar played a key role in getting Times staffers out of Kabul, and Al Jazeera is increasing its presence on the ground in Afghanistan to ensure ongoing coverage. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lara Seligman / @laraseligman: “One Times correspondent, a former U.S. Marine, who had been evacuated earlier but returned on a military plane to assist his Afghan colleagues, stayed inside the airport to help coordinate the escape.” I would have expected no less from @Tmgneff https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kyle Orton / @kyleworton: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post banded together to help Afghans—cooks, gardeners, translators, drivers, journalists—who had been working with them, mobilising the emir of Qatar and the Pentagon, among others. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Saeed Shah / @saeedshah: News organizations are continuing to remove staff from Afghanistan, including the New York Times, which said 65 colleagues and their families have left https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Daniella Zalcman / @dzalcman: I'm very glad that this happened + that everyone I know is up to their eyeballs in fundraising and AFG logistics and charter flights, but do we have to report on media outlets doing the BARE MORAL MINIMUM in this situation? https://www.nytimes.com/...
@suilee: In awe of all my colleagues, especially @Tmgneff and @MujMash for making sure none of our Afghan staff — cooks, gardeners, translators, drivers, journalists — were left behind. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lisa Fleisher / @lisafleisher: ~"More than 200 Afghans from all walks of life — cooks, gardeners, translators, drivers, journalists, children and suitcases and strollers in tow — gathered on the runway of the Kabul airport, seeking escape from a country whose government had collapsed. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Floss Obama / @flossobama: An interesting piece of information in here: Hillary Clinton is evacuating people from Afghanistan on private planes. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: “Reporting remotely may be better than no reporting at all, but press freedom groups are concerned [about] a Taliban crackdown ... “The local knowledge of Afghan journalists cannot be replaced"" @Joelcpj says https://www.nytimes.com/...
Oma Seddiq / Insider: A New York Times reporter and former Marine who evacuated Kabul flew back to help his Afghan colleagues escape the Taliban
John Hasson / @sonofhas: Pretty selfless and heroic stuff from Neff here. Good on him https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: genuinely heroic https://twitter.com/...
Meghann Myers / @meghann_mt: TM is the real deal. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Plitsas / @alexplitsas: Once a Marine, always a Marine You still have it, @Tmgneff https://twitter.com/...
Sean Spicer / @seanspicer: Interesting to see how corporate beltway media used their connections in Biden admin to get their people out ahead of the line in Afghanistan How News Organizations Got Afghan Colleagues Out of Kabul @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dionne Searcey / @dionnesearcey: Put on your list of Good People in this world reporter @Tmgneff who evacuated Kabul and flew back to help our Afghan colleagues get out safely. Lots of other good people in this story, too https://www.nytimes.com/...
@ericaeve: There are still so many Afghan journalists looking for help...wish this article was not headlined like it's over. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Chris Casquejo / @chriscasquejo: Anyone who shouts fake news doesn't have a fraction of the courage of the journalists on the ground in Afghanistan. How News Organizations Got Afghan Colleagues Out of Kabul https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kevin Draper / @kevinmdraper: I do not know Mujib or Thomas at all but they both sound like wonderful people, and I am very proud to write dumb sports blogs alongside them. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dan Lamothe / @danlamothe: “One Times correspondent, a former U.S. Marine, who had been evacuated earlier but returned on a military plane to assist his Afghan colleagues, stayed inside the airport to help coordinate the escape.” Zero surprises on this front. But I'm a fan. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sarah Kaplan / @sarahkaplan48: We are so lucky to have @Tmgneff as a journalist, a colleague and a human on this planet. My heart is with the journalists still in Afghanistan, and with the Afghan citizens whose stories the world won't know because journalists have had to flee. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Craig Whitlock / @craigmwhitlock: Mad respect for @Tmgneff and @MujMash for refusing to leave NYT staffers and their families behind. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Carol Giacomo / @giacomonyt: You know what you know about Afghanistan because committed journalists from Afghanistan and many other countries take the risk to tell those stories — How News Organizations Got Afghan Colleagues Out of Kabul https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: During one of the various Arab spring crises someone asked a US official why Qatar was having such an outsized role, and he said “they always answer the phone” https://twitter.com/...
Paul Szoldra / @paulszoldra: .@Tmgneff is an amazing reporter and... also a badass. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alan Blinder / @alanblinder: .@Tmgneff “flew back to Kabul on a military plane and stayed in the American-occupied wing of the airport, where he advised his Afghan colleagues on how and when to make their approach.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@carolynryan: “On Thursday, a Los Angeles Times photojournalist, Marcus Yam, and a photographer for another American news outlet were beaten by a Taliban fighter who insisted they erase from their cameras any images they had taken. ” @latimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: NEW: How @nytimes & other news outlets got Afghan colleagues out of Kabul, a global rescue effort that stretched from the Pentagon to Qatar. via @katie_robertson @tiffkhsu & me: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Annie Karni / @anniekarni: “One option emerged when Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, offered a few seats for Afghan employees on a charter flight her team was trying to arrange to help Afghan women at risk.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: The Qatari government seems more able than the US government or almost anyone else to help in Afghanistan https://twitter.com/...
Nick Vivarelli / Variety: Taliban Fighters Kill Relative of Journalist for German Broadcaster Deutsche Welle
TOLOnews:
Two female journalists at Radio Television Afghanistan say they've been barred from working and that there are no more female presenters or reporters at RTA
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Voice of America, @hannahbloch, @sheasorensonwx, Defense One, Washington Post, Insider and Press Gazette
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Hannah Bloch / @hannahbloch: “Shabnam Khan Dawran, an anchor at RTA (Radio Television Afghanistan) said that the Taliban has not allowed her to enter her office to continue her work. ‘I wanted to return to work, but unfortunately they did not allow me to work.’” https://twitter.com/...
Shea Sorenson / @sheasorensonwx: Can't imagine being told I can't come to work because I am a woman... https://twitter.com/...
Defense One: Today's D Brief: HKIA latest; Resistance in Panjshir; Brutality watch; Marines to Haiti; And a bit more.
Washington Post: European forces cross Taliban lines for Kabul rescue, pressuring Biden to expand evacuation
DW.COM:
Taliban have killed a family member of a DW journalist they were seeking and raided the homes of three other DW journalists
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CNN, Insider, @emilykschrader, @bpsmithuk, @spanishdan1, @javichudr, @niccijsmith, @ragipsoylu, @gabbbarsingh, @alfonslopeztena, @hamidmirpak, @mattdizwhitlock, @sabaeitizaz, @roh_yakobi, @nighatdad, @c4ciaran, @alanfryermedia, @ggatehouse, @dwnews, @marigathoithi, @hillelneuer, @alesbon, @frudbezhan, @samfr, @annettedittert and Proximities
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Nadine Schmidt / CNN: German broadcaster says the Taliban are carrying out ‘organized searches’ for journalists
John L. Dorman / Insider: Taliban cofounder arrives in Kabul as the group seeks to form a new government
Emily Schrader / @emilykschrader: But the Taliban has changed! 🙄 https://twitter.com/...
@bpsmithuk: We can safely assume the Taliban weren't searching for the journalist to escort him to the airport along with his family & luggage then... These are trrrorists, not good people. They are controlling who is & isn't allowed to go to the airport. US & UK soldiers have no say in it https://twitter.com/...
@spanishdan1: Boris Johnson “it's all settling down nicely at Kabul airport ” https://twitter.com/...
Delgado Rivera / @javichudr: + Nematullah Hemat of Ghargasht TV is believed to have been kidnapped by the #Taliban. Toofan Omar, the head of the private radio station Paktia Ghag Radio, was also shot dead https://m.dw.com/...
Nicola Smith / @niccijsmith: With Kabul airport almost impossible to access, the Taliban's pledges are already ringing hollow - their militants hunting down journalists and killing their families. Horrific. https://twitter.com/...
@alfonslopeztena: Taliban conducted a house-to-house search to try and find a @dwnews journalist, shot dead one member of his family and seriously injured another. Other relatives were able to escape at the last moment and are now on the run https://www.dw.com/...
Hamid Mir / @hamidmirpak: Attention @suhailshaheen1 and @Zabehulah_M33 you announced general amnesty after the fall of Kabul, why your fighters are hunting journalists in Afghanistan now? https://www.dw.com/...
Matt Whitlock / @mattdizwhitlock: Reminder that Biden told ABC this morning “No One's Being Killed Right Now.” Journalists are being hunted and their families killed, but Biden is telling the world he thinks everything is fine. https://twitter.com/...
Saba Eitizaz / @sabaeitizaz: It's starting again. Help get people out. Merely announcing that Canada is taking in 20 k refugees while the situation on ground is completely different. Expand the conversation to more than just “Canadian staff”. Journalists, activists,diplomats were allies too. #Afghanistan https://twitter.com/...
Nighat Dad / @nighatdad: This says a lot about Pakistani policy enthusiasts calling press briefing of Taliban a progressive one just two days ago. Speechless! https://twitter.com/...
Ciaran Jenkins / @c4ciaran: Boris Johnson said the future of Afghanistan was not yet written, but it's already looking frighteningly like the past. https://www.dw.com/...
Gabriel Gatehouse / @ggatehouse: Deutsche Welle say the Taliban killed a relative of one of their reporters while searching for him. Keep this in mind when we hear UK/US leaders suggesting the Taliban of 2021 may be a more friendly sort of organisation than the one they've been fighting for 20 yrs https://twitter.com/...
@dwnews: UPDATE: Taliban fighters hunting one of our journalists have shot dead a member of his family in #Afghanistan and seriously injured another. The militants were conducting a house-to-house search to try and find him, but he is now safe in Germany. https://www.dw.com/...
@marigathoithi: While the world is still waiting to see whether the Taliban will keep their pinky promise about respecting human rights... https://twitter.com/...
Hillel Neuer / @hillelneuer: yes, but we need to wait and see if the taliban will respect our very strongly worded press statement requesting that they respect human rights and women's rights and geneva accords and humanitarian law, we expect them to and we will be watching closely https://twitter.com/...
Alessandra Bonomolo / @alesbon: The list of the Taliban revenge killings of journalists, activists, allies and their families is already long and heartbreaking. https://twitter.com/...
@frudbezhan: Taliban are hunting down journalists in #Kabul. Taliban fighters looking for a @dwnews reporter shot dead one member of his family and seriously injured another. Just two days ago, Taliban told the world it will protect the free press. https://amp.dw.com/...
Sam Freedman / @samfr: Hopefully all the “they'll be different this time the new Taliban are inclusive” pundits have decided to shut up now? https://twitter.com/...
Annette Dittert / @annettedittert: So much for it's a new sort of #taliban. https://twitter.com/...
Barry Malone / Proximities: Afghanistan, Syria, Ethiopia.
Mark Stenberg / Medialyte:
This year's media startups are better funded than last year's, yet are similar in their emphasis on subscriptions, newsletters, and relatively small staff — Puck, Off the Record, Confidential and Charter: What they kept and what they tweaked. — A song to read by: “It's My House,” by Diana Ross
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Memo: DC-based The Hill has been sold to Nexstar Media Group for $130M — The Hill, a Beltway-based print publication that receives significant national traffic to its digital website, has sold to Nextstar for $130 million, Axios has learned. — Why it matters: The Hill's owner …
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Sydney Bradley / Insider: The Hill is sold for $130 million to local news powerhouse Nexstar
@wsj: Nexstar Media Group on Friday said it acquired The Hill for $130 million, saying the political-news organization has 48 million average monthly users and is expected to immediately boost Nexstar's operating results https://www.wsj.com/...
@mediapost: Nexstar Acquires ‘The Hill’ For $130 Million: The purchase combines digital products used by one-third of all viewers, Nexstar says... https://www.mediapost.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: This is apparently the kind of behavior that makes you.... hugely attractive to buyers? https://www.propublica.org/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@robtvla: #BREAKING @thehill acquired by @NXSTMediaGroup which operates TV stations in 116 markets and 120 local websites, said its acquisition of The Hill would be immediately accretive to its operating results. https://variety.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Wow that's a lot of money for a shoddy, morally compromised clickbait factory. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: The Hill's numbers, per sources: — Last year the company brought in $40 million in revenue and $10 million in profit — Compare that to Politico, founded over a decade later, which has nearly $200m in revenue (including Europe) https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: NEW: Finkelstein just told me on the phone “I kept it probably longer than I would keep the property because I just really care about it ... I'm going to miss The Hill a lot.” What's next: He says he is “Looking for the right next media property” to buy. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Axios first reported talks to sell to Nexstar earlier this summer: https://www.axios.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Nexstar owns mostly local broadcast stations — not known as a major digital media player, though it does own a few small assets. https://twitter.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: $130 million to TV station group Nexstar ... looks like Jimmy finally got his exit ... (still lower than the $300mm he had been seeking few years ago) https://twitter.com/...
Tim Schwab / Columbia Journalism Review:
Individual journalists bear the onus for not disclosing conflicts of interest when sometimes it is newsrooms that fail to enforce their own ethics rules — Recently, the New York Times published a story profiling a welter of financial conflicts of interest in the work of former Times …
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Rocky Kistner / @therockyfiles: Important piece: “Having a NYT columnist who is funded by Gates who regularly hypes controversial Gates-funded projects...could be compared to running columns on the environment by someone who runs an organization funded by Exxon/Mobil.” https://www.cjr.org/... @TimothyWSchwab
Tim Schwab / @timothywschwab: So glad folks are pointing to this quote, which really makes the issue crystal clear. I tried like hell to get @leoniehaimson's voice into my original story on conflicts of interest in journalism (about the @gatesfoundation), which is here: https://www.cjr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@spj_tweets: “It's just the classic old thing....You just can't write about people that you take money from. Certainly not people that you're trying to go out and solicit money from. It makes it even worse,” @garyschwitzer said. https://www.cjr.org/...
Holly Michels / @hollykmichels: In local news when we talk about conflict it's “that's my landlord” or, mid-interview, “I think you're my husband's cousin.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Jim Naureckas / @jnaureckas: It's funny how journalists respond to questions about their journalism. “We're comfortable with where we have landed on this issue,” says the @NYTimes about not disclosing Gates funding conflicts. https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: “Through another lens, the Times appears to be making Brooks the fall guy for its own ethical lapses” https://www.cjr.org/...
Charles Seife / @cgseife: If you're covering the circus for the @nytimes, the saying goes, you can't sleep with the elephants. But the Times seems not to care all that much about other forms of clowning around.... https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: “The Times, like many news outlets, still struggles to manage journalists who have financial relationships with the subjects of their reporting.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Dr. Nancy Olivieri / @drnancyolivieri: “A #Gates-funded columnist regularly hyp[ing] Gates-funded projects w/out disclosure of conflict of interest is comparable to running columns on the environment by someone funded by Exxon/Mobil”: @leoniehaimson #NailedIt Great @TimothyWSchwab Ht @thackerpd https://www.cjr.org/...
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
OnlyFans shares new TOS for “sexually explicit conduct”: no intercourse, masturbation, exhibition of genitals; any such content must be removed before Dec. 1 — Sex and masturbation, whether simulated or real, aren't allowed — On Thursday the video and image sharing site …
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@bencompetence: This is misogyny and cruelty and awful. Please don't just “laugh at OnlyFans”. Speak out against a deliberate action that will knowingly hurt people. Sex workers are people, people who deserve protection and respect. Just like anyone. https://www.theverge.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl: Just like I predicted yesterday, the new OnlyFans TOS defines “nudes” as boobs. It's ironically even more restrictive than the Skinamax analogy I drew yesterday. Lol. Bye OF. You killed yourself. https://www.theverge.com/...
Nick Stylianou / @nmsonline: NEW: For the doubters that OnlyFans was abandoning its adult creators, an update to the Terms Of Service outline exactly what is now forbidden and defines “sexually explicit conduct”: https://twitter.com/...
Tabitha Lyons / @artyfakes: I too, just received the OnlyFans email with the new terms snd conditions. Yes my content is safe, but so many others will be hugely affected by this. My heart breaks 💔 ...and who knows when the terms will change again? Maybe it's time I upgrade my website?
Merrill Barr / @merrillbarr: Wait, it's retroactive too???? That's fucking insane. OnlyFans creators have until December to delete their porn https://www.theverge.com/...
Kevin Shalvey / Insider: OnlyFans publishes updated policy, which adds specific details about the explicit content that will be banned from October
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: For all those people who questioned if the @OnlyFans policy change was real, here is a message they sent to creators today. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Morrison / @saramorrison: OnlyFans' new acceptable use policy basically turns the site into Playboy https://onlyfans.com/aup
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
OnlyFans says it will prohibit users from posting any “sexually explicit conduct” starting in October, but will allow nude photos and videos
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Ron Ecstasy / Ron Ecstasy News Network: The OnlyFans Situation Summarized
Nooruddean / @beardedgenius: This is like Instagram banning pictures of brunch https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Sarah Ditum / The Guardian: The idea of ethical porn is a nonsense. Only unregulated sites make money
Noel Titheradge / BBC: OnlyFans: How it handles illegal sex videos - BBC investigation
@quisitiveinvest: Supposedly OnlyFans free cash flow, per Axios article. Question: If OnlyFans is going to free cash flow over $1bn next year, why do they care about/need investors? https://www.axios.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Benedict Evans / @benedictevans: And people spent $6bn on Onlyfans in 2020, but were apparently on track to spend $12.5bn in 2021. That's similar to Netflix and Youtube's budgets. Nature abhors a vacuum. https://www.axios.com/...
Jasmine / @jasminericegirl: if you have the mental capacity for all of the details: https://www.bbc.com/...
Post-Culture / @postcultrev: OnlyFans isn't ditching porn and sex workers because it's trying to get new investments. It's ditching them because on October 1st of 2021 MasterCard is implementing new rules governing sites with adult content that use their payment processing systems.
Dan Primack / Axios: OnlyFans has tons of users, but can't find investors
Alexander Chee / @alexanderchee: Payment processors being allowed to dictate content is not going to end well for any publisher.
Brother Beastus / BROTHER BEASTUS 𖤐 GRIMOIRE: 5th Anniversary, OnlyFans Pornpocalypse & Real-Life Dragons
Ryan Mac / @rmac18: And here we thought OnlyFans did this because of financial troubles... https://www.bbc.com/...
@therocketcrypto: OnlyFans blocking NSFW content is a massive boost for @PAWGcoinbsc & @HoneyBabe_io Creators will flood to HoneyBabe where they can interact freely with their loyal followers while having zero intervention from a middle man or payment processor! https://bitly.ws/g7J7
Brian Kibler / @bmkibler: How to tank a business in 30 days https://twitter.com/...
Jason Parham / Wired: OnlyFans' Explicit Content Ban Betrays Its Creators
Owen Thomas / Protocol: No, OnlyFans can't just build its own payments system and solve all its problems
Justin Searls / @searls: This perverse idea that the only way for a software company to be successful is to raise massive amounts of funding is so pervasive that a business making obscene amounts of money would nevertheless destroy its entire business to assuage skittish investors https://www.axios.com/...
Nadine DeNinno / New York Post: OnlyFans creators feel screwed over by ‘sexually explicit content’ ban
@frmatthewlc: It seems that one way to get rid of a decent portion of pornography is for investors to refuse to support them, for banks & credit cards companies not to serve them. There is good news on this strategy today with OnlyFans banning some pornography. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Edward Snowden / @snowden: Bitcoin fixes this. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Stokel-Walker / @stokel: 16,000 people earn more than $50,000 a year on OnlyFans, and 300 make more than a million https://www.axios.com/...
Mike Stabile / @mikestabile: “OnlyFans is far from the only platform where adult content creators can sell videos and images. @Pornhub, @ManyVids , and @FanCentro are just some of the other internet platforms that offer similar services.” https://www.vice.com/...
Dr Ola Brown / @naijaflyingdr: Only fans net revenue: 2020: $375 million 2021: $1.2 billion 2022: $2.5 billion Sex sells, based on the company financials, but it also scares off venture capitalists. https://www.axios.com/...
Turbulent Princess / @nlrg_: OnlyFans' FY 2022 free cash flow is enough to buy Tumblr in 2013, or to buy Tumblr in 2019 four hundred times https://www.axios.com/...
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason: Why OnlyFans Is Double-Crossing Sex Workers
@thedailyshow: You misheard us. We said Big Tech should be held accountable for starting *insurrections* https://twitter.com/...
Chris Morris / @morrisatlarge: There have been plenty of Tumblr comparisons with this news - and they're not inaccurate. If the fans vanish, so will any potential investors, not to mention the celeb creators. It'll be real interesting to see how Leo is greeted at next year's AVN, assuming that happens. (18/18)
Todd Spangler / Variety: OnlyFans Creators React to Site's Porn Ban With Anger, Confusion
Jacob Cohen Donnelly / A Media Operator: OnlyFans Change Is Reminder To Own Platform
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: anyhow i'm sure the place will soon be a shell of its former self and full of d list celebs trying to sell behind the scenes content to hawk their cookbooks or whatever. bleak!
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: i should've realized only fans was gonna pull something like this in march when they kept asking me, a writer, to use the platform to sell blogs. i was like, ‘you guys know what you do...right?’ turns out...no?
Tom Dotan / @cityofthetown: @CaseyNewton @SpencerDailey It also is a massive profitable company already! It did the thing that all tech companies are supposed to do without slumming it with VCs.
@jaycodon: This is the risk of building on a platform. You build on rented land and one day they change their tune. I feel really bad for all the people who have built thriving businesses here. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Hardcastle / @dannerdcubed: I'm bad at business, but I'm not “long-term sustainability via banning the only thing our company is known for” bad. https://twitter.com/...
Katherine Krueger / @kath_krueger: as always, sex workers MADE the platform—both profitable and a household name—then are the first ones given the boot in a bid for “respectability"/aka more investor $$$ see also: instagram, youtube, now tiktok too https://twitter.com/...
Ej Dickson / @ejdickson: This happens all the time: platforms get big off the backs of SWs' labor, then ban them whenever they get big. Sex workers have been predicting this would happen for years. Listen to them. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl: Sure, the brand is synonymous with explicit sex and that's now off the table, but it's a brand. The people will stay. They certainly won't scatter to the shadows of Telegram groups or cam sites or anything. Trust us, this is going to be huge.
Nick Gillespie / @nickgillespie: This seems like a market failure. https://www.axios.com/...
@axios: Any other company with growth like OnlyFans would be able to raise big money in a matter of minutes. But the online creator platform known for its adult content is struggling to find outside investors, according to multiple sources. https://www.axios.com/...
@alex: what % of OF is porn? they brag here about $5B in payouts but ... what % of the biz will be left? https://twitter.com/...
Dan Primack / @danprimack: My story on OnlyFans included internal projections for 2022 revenue, etc. But from a pitchdeck that began circulating a couple mos ago. No clue how today's announcement impacts that. Also, it's got over $1b in net revenue. So Bberg might wanna update its valuation data.
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: Ignoring the sexual elements, but things like this make me tell people never to trust platforms to handle monetization. Onlyfans wasn't just a place where people could share pictures with fans. It's a monetization platform for people to build subscribers. https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: Walking away from a market it all but invented. Insane https://twitter.com/...
Janko Roettgers / @jank0: I imagine the number of creators who post too-racy-for-instagram content to Onlyfans that technically is not porn is a lot bigger than people think.
Christina Warren / @film_girl: And then OnlyFans died. https://twitter.com/...
Katiana Kay / @katianakayy: I told ya 😂 https://twitter.com/...
Emma Kelly / @toomanyemmas: Thus excluding the sex workers that built OnlyFans up to what it is now https://twitter.com/...
John Bull / @garius: So this is one of those “we're hoping we can sell ourselves based on our current market value, before anyone notices we fucked over our USP and they're buying a lemon” moments then? Cool. Cool. https://twitter.com/...
Night Freak / @bubblenoma: This will be devastating for a lot of people's income but also...who wants this? Who is the audience for a PG platform like this? https://twitter.com/...
Caspar Salmon / @casparsalmon: Ooh nice, the business model adopted by Tumblr, the company that is now bigger than ever https://twitter.com/...
Dave Schilling / @dave_schilling: This is quite literally taking money from the working class to enrich the investor class. https://twitter.com/...
Kim Kelly / @grimkim: OnlyFans would be nothing without the sex workers whose labor built it up into a major platform. Now it's tossing them aside, and removing a vital source of income from a population of workers who are disproportionately marginalized and have no protections under U.S. labor law https://twitter.com/...
Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson: Woah that OnlyFans story seems legit. Bloomberg says the site will “prohibit users from posting any sexually explicit conduct, starting in October” as it tries to go mainstream. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Seems like this might absolutely wreck a whole lot of people who use that site for that specific purpose https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: I see people don't know the difference between having sex on camera and posting nude photos... https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Browne / CNBC: Porn made OnlyFans a powerhouse. Now it's banning sexual content after pressure from banks
Alex Kirshner / Slate: The Indefensible Cruelty of OnlyFans' Porn Ban
Jen Steer / WGN-TV: OnlyFans to ban pornography starting in October
Sam Barsanti / The A.V. Club: OnlyFans to ban sexually explicit content
Awful Announcing:
Disney and National Cable Television Cooperative, representing 700+ cable operators, renew their carriage deal; all NCTC operators will offer the ACC Network — August is when a lot of carriage deals tend to expire and either get renewed or not (ahead of the college football and NFL seasons) …
Associated Press:
AP's incoming CEO wrote to FL Gov. Ron DeSantis protesting tweets by his press secretary targeting an AP reporter, saying “bullying of journalists” is dangerous — NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press called on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to end “harassing behavior” …
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Troy Kinsey / @troykinsey: The @AssociatedPress is writing @GovRonDeSantis today re: his press secretary, @ChristinaPushaw, and her “direct effort to activate an online mob to attack” a @FLPressCorps reporter. “We call on you to eliminate this attack strategy from your press office,” the AP's exec VP asks. https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Kennedy / @tomaskenn: Desantis' press secretary continues to make national headlines after threatening a reporter who got death threats as a result and being suspended from Twitter. This person makes $120,000 a year from tax payers to engage in this embarrassing behavior. https://apnews.com/...
Donovan Farley / @donovanfarley: And yet Andy Ngo continues on unhindered by suspensions or bans despite being responsible for dozens of journalists—and often their families—receiving torrents of threats and harassment. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Blanchet / New York Post: Twitter suspends DeSantis press secretary who urged followers to ‘light up’ reporter
@luannasheridan1: Gov DeSantis's press secretary, Pushaw, was suspended from Twitter 4 being abusive. She called 4 AP reporter to be drug down,(hard mocking), over Regeneron questions & DeSantis's top donor. Reporter was threatened online!👇 #OneV1 #OVArrow #DemCastFL https://apnews.com/...
Julia Shumway / @jmshumway: In which the AP turns to Urban Dictionary to define “dragging” for a story about a badly behaved press secretary because we live in the worst timeline https://apnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@hackingbutlegal: Gov of FL thinks it's OK for his press aide to sic a mob on an AP journalist (instruction: “drag them") for reporting he is opening state-funded centers for Regeneron & encouraging that treatment instead of prevention via vaccine - because a top donor is invested in that corp!🤡 https://twitter.com/...
Ron Filipkowski / @ronfilipkowski: Ron Desantis' spokesperson. Suspended for using her twitter account to sick followers on journalists who write mean things, or ask hard questions. Just a social media troll that the Governor of FL thinks is the best person to speak for him. https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Besides trying to keep kids from masking and fighting with cruise lines about vaccine passports, the desantis crew has been harassing a reporter because of course they have https://twitter.com/...
Michelle Tauber / @michelletauber: This is the @AP reporter who broke the story about @GovRonDeSantis + top donor + Regeneron. This veteran FL Capitol journalist was then harassed on Twitter by DeSantis spokesperson. Shameful. https://twitter.com/...
Gabriella Hoffman / @gabby_hoffman: Oh no, a Press Secretary does her job in defending her boss against obscene attacks?! How DARE @ChristinaPushaw do her job! You guys never condemn leftist reporters / PR flaks who *actually* sick online mobs — well coordinated ones, too— on their political opponents. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Gaetz / @mattgaetz: Snowflakes in the America Last Media think that a “Free Press” means a press free from criticism. It doesn't. https://twitter.com/...
Rep. Anna V. Eskamani / @annaforflorida: The Governor's press secretary is attacking reporters on the internet. Your state tax dollars at work folks.🤦♀️ https://twitter.com/...
Peter Schorsch / @peterschorschfl: The person who sent the letter to @GovRonDeSantis about @ChristinaPushaw's alarming, unprecedented behavior is Daisy Veerasingham, who is, by all accounts, a woman. https://twitter.com/...
@cernovich: Men in media are trying to bully and intimidate @ChristinaPushaw into silence, follow her! @ChristinaPushaw https://twitter.com/...
Christina Pushaw / @christinapushaw: I deleted it only because the deadline of 8am was no longer relevant after Brendan Farrington informed me at 10pm that he would not fix the misleading headline. At that point there was no reason to stay silent while his health misinformation flooded the country. https://twitter.com/...
Christina Pushaw / @christinapushaw: I can't believe this needs to be said, but nobody should be sending death threats to anyone else. Also, journalists shouldn't write stories to discourage COVID patients from getting lifesaving regeneron by politicizing a clinically proven treatment.
Scott Powers / @scottfist: AP's @bsfarrington is one of the best, respected journalists in Florida, and a good man. If @GovRonDeSantis's press sec @ChristinaPushaw wants to spend 7 hours calling him names & rallying trolls to attack, it reflects all on her character & credibility, not his. #SupportBrendan.
Christina Pushaw / @christinapushaw: Brendan Farrington reminded me that I have to find a way to work with him, because he's an AP reporter in Tallahassee. I did try my best. I was super responsive and gave him all the facts. He still published a hit piece he knows is baseless. I gave him hours to fix it. He didn't.
Christina Pushaw / @christinapushaw: Thank you ❤️ The corporate media is upset because @GovRonDeSantis isn't a pushover and doesn't play their games. https://twitter.com/...
Jackson Peel / @jaxpeel: @ChristinaPushaw @GovRonDeSantis I think they're upset because your actions contributed to a reporter getting death threats. Every Comms person in the world has at least 1 “that's not how the story should have been written” experience, but we don't all react the way you did.
Max Steele / @maxasteele: Even if you could believably claim to not know you were inciting your followers to send death threats to a reporter, continuing the harassment campaign *after* that has become clear makes the reality quite clear here. https://twitter.com/...
Julie Delegal / @julieinjax: “While we can disagree about stories, it is unacceptable and dangerous for a public official to encourage the systemic bullying of journalists,” Veerasingham wrote. (It's also a move right out of the autocrats' playbook.) https://twitter.com/...
Adam Kealoha Causey / @akcausey: AP has called on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to stop harassing tweets aimed at a reporter. The journalist wrote about one of DeSantis' top donors investing in a COVID drug he promotes. https://apnews.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: “Pushaw said she did not mean her “drag them” comment to be taken as a threat, and she deleted it because she realized not everyone would know what it means.” https://apnews.com/...
Ben Sharpe / @iamsharpe: “While we can disagree about stories, it is unacceptable and dangerous for a public official to encourage the systemic bullying of journalists.” https://apnews.com/...
Meryl Kornfield / @merylkornfield: AP called on Gov. DeSantis to end “harassing behavior” by press secretary Christina Pushaw against an AP reporter who received threats and other online abuse after she wrote on Twitter “drag them.” https://apnews.com/...
Natalie Prieb / The Hill: AP tells DeSantis to stop aide's ‘harassing behavior’
Fox News: DeSantis press secretary fires back after Associated Press accuses her of ‘harassing’ reporter
Pew Research Center:
Survey of 11,178 US adults: 48% say the government should restrict false info online, up from 39% in 2018; 59% think tech companies should, up from 56% in 2018 — Amid rising concerns over misinformation online - including surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, especially vaccines …
Discussion:
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Discussion:
Allie Beth Stuckey / @conservmillen: Half the country either never read 1984 or already has pledged allegiance to Big Brother. Or both 🤷🏼♀ ️ https://twitter.com/...
Alex Gladstein / @gladstein: We're doing it to ourselves. https://twitter.com/...
Nick Gillespie / @nickgillespie: If @twitter sucks now, wait til @SpeakerPelosi @LeaderMcConnell @JoeBiden are in charge. ‘Roughly half of U.S. adults...say the government should take steps to restrict false information, even if it means losing some freedom to access and publish content.’ https://www.pewresearch.org/ ...
Mike Solana / @micsolana: 2% away from china https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Mercieca / @jenmercieca: Do Americans also think about what they can do to stop false information online? More Americans now say government should take steps to restrict false information online than in 2018 https://www.pewresearch.org/ ...
Kevin Bass / @kevinnbass: Just because power always carries risk of abuse does not mean it should never be exercised. If it did, then we would never have government, or medicine. “It could be abused” or “it could be harmful” justifies caution or care, not necessarily inaction. https://twitter.com/...
John Robb / @johnrobb: People want tech companies to determine was is truth and to censor anything they consider false content. Moreover, they want the government to give them a mandate to do it. How could that go wrong? https://twitter.com/...
@pewjournalism: Roughly half of U.S. adults (48%) now say the government should take steps to restrict false information online, even if it means losing some freedom to access and publish content. That is up from 39% in 2018. https://www.pewresearch.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
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