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Victoria Traxler / Santa Fe New Mexican:
Sheriff's office: Alec Baldwin discharged a “prop firearm” that killed a cinematographer and injured the movie director of Rust, being filmed near Santa Fe, NM — Actor Alec Baldwin discharged a “prop firearm” that killed a cinematographer and injured the director of the movie Rust …
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Chris Lindahl / IndieWire: Prop Gun Fired by Alec Baldwin Contained Live Bullet, Says IATSE Local 44 — UPDATE
Leia Idliby / Mediaite: Alec Baldwin Releases Statement After Discharging Prop Gun That Killed Cinematographer on Set: ‘My Heart is Broken’
Ellise Shafer / Variety: Alec Baldwin on Halyna Hutchins Death: ‘There Are No Words to Convey My Shock and Sadness’
Marisa Dellatto / Forbes: Everything We Know So Far About The Alec Baldwin Fatal Prop Gun Shooting
Lex Briscuso / SlashFilm: Rust Director Released From Hospital After On-Set Death Of Halyna Hutchins
Sandra Gonzalez / CNN: ‘Rust’ crew member dead after shooting incident involving Alec Baldwin
Frank Thorp V / @frankthorp: Wow this pic of Alec Baldwin by Jim Weber at the @thenewmexican —> Article here: https://www.santafenewmexican.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Rahul Malhotra / Collider: Alec Baldwin Discharged Prop Gun That Caused Death of ‘Rust’ Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, Injured Director Joel Suza
Deadline: Alec Baldwin “Discharged” Prop Gun That Killed ‘Rust’ Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins & Injured Director On Set; Actor Questioned And Released - Update
Ayomikun Adekaiyero / Insider: Alec Baldwin deletes picture of himself wearing blood-stained costume posted before Halyna Hutchins' death
Louise Randell / Irish Mirror: Alec Baldwin doubles over in agony as he weeps outside sheriff's office after shooting
Andi Zeisler / @andizeisler: okay but how is it a prop if it's loaded with something that could kill someone?!?! https://twitter.com/...
Anthony Breznican / Vanity Fair: Alec Baldwin Discharged Gun That Killed Cinematographer, Sheriff's Department Says
Anthony Atamanuik / @tonyatamanuik: RIP Halyna, as Paul said, this is not supposed to happen on any set. I've worked with guns and they triple and quadruple check. I also can't imagine what Alec is going through. It's unimaginable that this happened. https://twitter.com/...
Dom Calicchio / Fox News: Alec Baldwin spotted ‘in tears’ after ‘Rust’ movie set shooting leaves 1 dead, 1 ‘critical’: report
Christopher Bouzy / @cbouzy: How did this happen? After Brandon Lee's accidental death, I thought there were safeguards put in place to prevent something like this from happening? https://twitter.com/...
John Boch / The Truth About Guns: Alec Baldwin Kills One Person, Wounds Another With a Prop Gun That ‘Misfired’ On a Movie Set
Alex Press / @alexnpress: this is horrible. there aren't many details as to how this happened, but it underlines what crew members have said for a long time: their safety needs to be taken more seriously https://twitter.com/...
Gigi Saul Guerrero / @horrorguerrero: Every headline I've seen has put Alec as the face to this tragic story. For those who don't know, any prop weapon on set goes through strict protocol before it lands on the actor's hands. Why aren't we talkin about the failed procedure here!? Im shook. My ❤️ goes to the families https://twitter.com/...
Philip Lewis / @phil_lewis_: “Investigators are still trying to determine if the incident was an accident. No charges have been filed, and the investigation is open.” https://www.santafenewmexican.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Sunny McSunnyface / @sunnyright: Maybe we don't need to spread a long distance photo of a guy anguishing over accidentally killing someone. https://twitter.com/...
@laurenashley087: They're still investigating, but I can't not think of Brandon Lee reading this...and how, in light of that tragedy *decades* ago, something like this could happen... https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Peters / NME: Alec Baldwin fired prop gun that killed cinematographer on film set of ‘Rust’, authorities say
Paul Scheer / @paulscheer: I'm gutted. This is beyond a tragedy and there are so many rules in place to make sure this can't happen. I can't even fathom how this is possible. So many people had to be negligent. This is a crime. Halyna was a tremendous talent. I'm sick to my stomach. https://twitter.com/...
Ogag / @theadamgoldberg: This is utterly horrifying. Just after Brandon Lee died I got pretend shot for the first time — and was terrified. Over the years I've been diligent in checking chambers as have prop depts/armorers with whom I've worked. There is absolutely no reason this should have happened. https://twitter.com/...
Joy Wang / @joykob: Sheriff's office identify two people shot on the set of Rust and say Alec Baldwin discharged the prop firearm. Halyna Hutchins, 42, director of photography, died after being airlifted to UNMH Joel Souza, 48, Director, is being treated for his injuries. https://twitter.com/...
Malvika Padin / Mirror: Who was Halyna Hutchins? Award-winning cinematographer shot dead on Alec Baldwin film
Rhys Muldoon / @rhysam: It's so hard to understand how this happened. Gun safety on set is always paramount. Having just done a film with lots of guns, I just can't imagine how horrible that must've been, or how it happened. So many questions. https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Nicole Black / @ashleyn1cole: This is so sad. A tragedy for friends and family that lost a loved one today, and a reminder to the rest of us that those “annoying” safety protocols on set are there for a reason: to get everyone home safe. https://twitter.com/...
Christina Rodriguez / kob.com: Alec Baldwin fired prop gun that killed cinematographer, injured director on Santa Fe set
Revue:
Twitter now lets users subscribe to Revue newsletters directly from tweets in the timeline — Anna from Revue — I know you don't normally hear from me on a Friday, but I've got something pretty great to announce: … This is all part of our mission to help you grow.
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@revue: 📣 We've got big news. (You're really going to like this.) Starting today, your followers can subscribe to Revue newsletters directly from Tweets in their timeline. This is already enabled for all Revue writers on desktop and mobile web, with iOS and Android to follow soon. ✨ https://twitter.com/...
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Mike Park / @mep: May the record show that @hannahtchang is the PM behind this launch. She and the team nailed it 📝 https://twitter.com/...
Eric Holthaus / @ericholthaus: Twitter has enabled one-click subscribe for newsletters on @Revue! If you're not already, subscribe to @Currently for daily weather and climate justice updates. It's free. And now it only takes one click! https://www.getrevue.co/... https://twitter.com/...
Anna Kramer / Protocol:
Twitter says its research shows its algorithms amplify right-leaning content more than left-leaning content, but doesn't know what causes the amplification — Twitter is publicly sharing research findings today that show that the platform's algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians …
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Dan Milmo / The Guardian: Twitter admits bias in algorithm for rightwing politicians and news outlets
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: Twitter deserves credit for - again - leading on open self-examination and data-sharing, ahead of larger competitors, w/@ruchowdh et al's work https://blog.twitter.com/... Also, as e.g analysis of news coverage shows, Twitter is not alone in amplifying some voices more than others... https://twitter.com/...
Rumman Chowdhury / @ruchowdh: The latest from META — an analysis of algorithmic amplification of tweets from elected officials in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, UK, & US. The team: @fhuszar, @s0f1ra, Conor O'Brien, @__lucab, @sagemintblue @mrtz. 1/n https://blog.twitter.com/...
Anna Kramer / @anna_c_kramer: NEW: Twitter released its own research today that shows that the home feed amplifies right-wing political content more than left-leaning. I sat down with META team leader @ruchowdh to learn what Twitter will do with that information https://www.protocol.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: It's honestly amazing that people on the right keep pushing the “social media is biased against conservatives!!!” line even though every social media platform's algorithm is tilted *in their favor* https://twitter.com/...
@lat_cql: This is partly why constantly QRT'ing the Ben Shapiros of the world, or whatever insipid right-leaning op-ed the NYT published that day (to name two examples) just to dunk is imprudent. https://twitter.com/...
Robert / Transistori: Google alentaa Play Store maksuja, Snapin osake vajosi heikon tuloksen myötä ja Worldcoin on nyt yksisarvinen.
@marcybones64: again, algorithms serve one thing above all else and one thing only: the status quo as enforced by the dominant power in society https://twitter.com/...
Eric Feigl-Ding / @drericding: 2) Germany is the only exception. https://twitter.com/...
Morten Rand-Hendriksen / @mor10: This is an astoundingly honest statement about how social algorithms work and how they shape society: “When algorithms get put out into the world, what happens when people interact with it, we can't model for that.” https://www.protocol.com/...
@lolgop: There's a pretty simple reason propaganda works better for right-wingers: It's a right wing tactic. https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Like check this out. I set up an account that follows exactly zero people. Twitter is still like, “Hey, we are now emailing you tweets of far-right commentators even if you don't follow them.” like this. https://twitter.com/...
Amelia Ghoulpin / @entirelyamelia: It's good to create systems that you no longer understand or can control https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Cathy Curran / @cmcurran: Sentiment analysis, the right wing content has higher emotional value so it is amplified https://twitter.com/...
Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search: Auditing Algorithms: A Semi-Tough Task
Jody Serrano / Gizmodo: Twitter Doesn't Know Why Its Algorithms Amplify Right-Leaning Political Content
Christopher Bouzy / @cbouzy: These people don't know why their algorithms amplify certain content more than others, but they are expected to mitigate disinformation and targeted harassment which is significantly more difficult? This explains a lot. https://www.protocol.com/...
@_air_in: Probably because we can't help but engage content that pisses us off. Maybe? Idk. 🤷🏾♀ ️ https://twitter.com/...
Michael Knigge / @kniggem: Wow. Twitter's algorithms amplify tweets from the political right more than from the political left in six (US, UK, Canada, France, Spain, Japan) out of seven countries studied according to Twitter's own research published today. The outlier: 🇩🇪Germany https://blog.twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jordan / @jordanuhl: “Right-leaning news outlets, as defined by the independent organizations listed above, see greater algorithmic amplification on Twitter compared to left-leaning news outlets.” Weird, I was told they were shadow banned, censored, silenced, etc. https://blog.twitter.com/...
Stefano Zanero / @raistolo: The “we are not sure why” part is the most worrying one. https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Daniel, PhD / @sirdanielj: @mediagazer @anna_c_kramer Uh, algorithms are inherently biased because they are created by humans who are inherently biased. Easy lemon squeezy.
@maribrighe: I'd be willing to bet it has to do with the kinds of people who wrote the algorithm. Social scientists have been expressing concern for years about how the unconscious biases of software engineers (who definitely have skewed demographics) are getting baked into algorithms. https://twitter.com/...
Shaunna Thomas / @slthomas: Tell that to the countless experts and advocates screaming algorithmic bias at the top of their lungs for years. Unreal. https://twitter.com/...
@rupertvonripp: Lol what. When they shadowban anything remotely spicy into the dust? https://twitter.com/...
Kate Starbird / @katestarbird: In reality, political/media elites on the right likely know these systems are working for them, which is why they resist & problematize changes that the platforms make to reign in problematic content (like hate, harassment, and disinformaiton) which may be tied to this asymmetry.
Katie Harbath / @katieharbath: Good on Twitter for releasing this and being honest about what they do and don't know. https://twitter.com/...
@imaseawitch: This just reminded me that there have been a handful of times over ten years ago when ppl would create AIs that would learn via what's on the internet. They all turned racist and misogynist real quick and had to be shut down. Maybe there is a connection here. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Wootmaster / @woot_master: Everytime news like this comes off Twitter acts like its helpless to fix to algorithm THEY created. They could just shut it off! This is extremely fixable, but they keep acting like their hands are tied. https://twitter.com/...
@spotted_menace: Leftists and vulnerable peoples: We BEEN told you. RW'ers: “This is fake news because this political commentator I follow got banned for tweeting slurs and intentionally misgendering people to own the libs so that proves this place has an anti-right wing bias.” https://twitter.com/...
@ariakan79: @mediagazer @anna_c_kramer I bet the reason is the number of bots for right-leaning content. These create a consistency in the “eye” of the algorithms, that enables those neural networks an “easy way out”. Quite similar to humans prefering unreflective conclusions over reflective ones.
Zachary / @zacharyoffline: The real question, since Twitter engineers know these basic flaws of AI, is why they claim not to know why this is occurring. Although “we don't know” is probably better PR than “we built a system to deliberately spread inflammatory content to boost user retention and ad sales”..
Redoubt Antifascists / @redoubtafa: seeing this after spending the morning figuring out how to rework our website (among other things) to prevent antifascist content (about community safety) being blocked is a wild feeling https://twitter.com/...
@enuffsaidbihhh: Facebook amplifies the right, twitter amplifies the right, the MSM amplifies the right... who is exactly silencing conservatives??? They always say they're being silenced yet they never stfu. https://twitter.com/...
@double_clutcher: MONEY. There you go Twitter, I'll take my consultation fee now. https://twitter.com/...
Zachary / @zacharyoffline: Why do algorithms, designed to show users content, end up having bias? The answer, as ever, is because of humans. To explain, lets look at a common problem in, unconscious or inherent bias. #machinelearning 🤖 https://twitter.com/...
@sirhoodflakes: It deadass probably has something to do with right wing shit being easy for everyone to dunk on. Objectively that makes for high interactions; problem is the algorithm doesn't care about the context of the interactions it only cares that they're high https://twitter.com/...
@rosethornne: @mediagazer @anna_c_kramer “We don't know how the software we wrote does what we built it to do” ((shrugs))((gambols in piles of lucre)) https://twitter.com/...
Rumman Chowdhury / @ruchowdh: @anna_c_kramer Anna thank you so so much for this well written and balanced piece. It's always a pleasure speaking with you. 💕
@trumpfrederick: @mediagazer @anna_c_kramer The fake/bot accounts are manipulating the algorithm. I can guarantee that Twitter absolutely knows the cause of this.
Mark Little / @marklittlenews: Fair play to Twitter for this act of transparency. Troubling findings but a thoughtful approach to platform accountability. https://www.protocol.com/...
Eric Feigl-Ding / @drericding: Twitter's own research shows that it's a megaphone for the right-leaning content — its algorithms amplify right-leaning political content more than left-leaning, but they aren't sure why..... ummmm, maybe BOTS??? https://www.protocol.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: For real. Go sign up for a Twitter account. Look at the accounts it recommends for you to follow. And then watch what happens when you don't follow anyone. Within a couple weeks, Twitter will just start pushing right-wing “highlights” to you.
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Once again. Zero followers. Account created while using a VPN. And still, it's just sending these out in emails. With a handful of exceptions (Chris Hayes, NHJ), it's virtually all conservatives in there day in and day out https://twitter.com/...
Matt Ghoulbriele / @prof_gabriele: having met some computer scientists, i have some ideas... https://twitter.com/...
@denlesks: Lol, by “amplify” they mean push right-leaning replies to the very end of all replies and cover them with a warning https://twitter.com/...
Arieh Kovler / @ariehkovler: Twitter's done well to study what its algorithms are doing and to tell the world rather than burying it. Next step is to figure out why it's happening. https://twitter.com/...
Andrea Matranga / @andreamatranga: I suspect that part of this is that progressives just LOVE to hate RT. Guess what, all those ratios we are so smug about? That's ENGAGEMENT. As far as I can tell that French reactionary guy is propelled entirely by hate QTs. https://twitter.com/...
Phil Kinzler / @philkinzler: Social media grew on the backs of an altruistic “build global communities and make the world a smaller, better place” idea but it really just a) serves as another vehicle for ads and b) amplifies the worst in everyone ... https://twitter.com/...
@scottwamplerbmd: my research shows that someone has been getting into the Halloween candy while my wife is at work, but doesn't know who's doing it https://twitter.com/...
Comfortably Numb / @ygalanter: We have reached singularity. https://twitter.com/...
@vagabending: I just find it hard to believe that Twitter and FB have paid their engineers, researchers, etc, literally tens of millions of dollars, and they all can't figure out this itty bitty problem where they all amplify crazy rightwingers. https://twitter.com/...
@hencough: oops! looks like the entire narrative about social media being left-leaning is a complete fucking lie! https://twitter.com/...
Steven Boyer / @steveboyer5000: Because right-leaning content is all fear based. Fear of the other, fear of being left behind. And fear sells. Fear gets amplified. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Winter / @winter: What could it be? One of the great mysteries of life... https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Oh https://twitter.com/...
Kate Starbird / @katestarbird: In contrast to the political talking points we often hear at the congressional hearings... Twitter researchers find that their algorithms amplify right-wing influencers and right-leaning new sites at much higher rates than content/influencers on the left: https://www.protocol.com/...
Sree Sreenivasan / @sree: More proof that the conservative talking point that Big Tech is always helping progressives is WRONG. https://twitter.com/...
Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp: Great to see a platform publishing, rather than burying, potentially embarrassing research findings. https://twitter.com/...
Katie Rosborough / @katieniederee: “When algorithms get put out into the world, what happens when people interact with it, we can't model for that. We can't model for how individuals or groups of people will use Twitter, what will happen in the world in a way that will impact how people use Twitter.” —@ruchowdh https://twitter.com/...
Gavin McCollum / @gavinmccollum: It's amazing how Conservatives whine about Twitter and Facebook censoring their content, when in both instances, their content is actually amplified over liberal content. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Grieve / @timgrieve: From the “interesting but not surprising” department. https://www.protocol.com/...
Lindsay Mccallum Rémy / @lindsmccallum: Today we're sharing our latest responsible ML research. It's not only important to be transparent about our work in this space, but to communicate about it in a way that moves the conversation forward. https://twitter.com/...
Rumman Chowdhury / @ruchowdh: Here's what's complex: The team did phenomenal work identifying *what* is happening. Establishing *why* these observed patterns occur is a significantly more difficult question to answer and something META will examine. 5/n
Rumman Chowdhury / @ruchowdh: Here's what we find (part 3): 4/n In 6 out of 7 countries, Tweets posted by political right elected officials are algorithmically amplified more than the political left. Right-leaning news outlets (defined by 3rd parties), see greater amplification compared to left-leaning.
Ethan Zuckerman / @ethanz: Twitter finds that right-wing news, politicians are disproportionately amplified on its news feed. While the bias is clear, the cause is not - Twitter is now working to study why this bias might exist: https://www.protocol.com/...
Ethan Zuckerman / @ethanz: “When algorithms get put out into the world, what happens when people interact with it, we can't model for that. We can't model for how individuals or groups of people will use Twitter, what will happen in the world in a way that will impact how people use Twitter...”
Ethan Zuckerman / @ethanz: That's... reasonable. Disturbing, but reasonable. It makes sense that Twitter's algorithms are now too complex to easily identify causes of these biases. And it's good that Twitter is acknowledging this bias even before they can balance/correct it.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Leaked recording: Axel Springer CEO told Politico staffers he made “a mistake” in saying he planned a paywall for Politico: “No decision has been made” — Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner told Politico staffers in a company-wide Q&A Thursday that it was …
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Columbia Journalism Review, @sarafischer, @sarafischer, @richardgrenell, @by_justin, The Fix, @annehelen, @annehelen, @benyt, @jakesherman, @benyt, @bristei, Mediaite and The Hill
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Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Have updated story with more details from leaked audio from the town hall. Dopfner also denied reporting from the New York Times about his negotiations earlier this year with Axios. An Axios spokesperson said they would not comment on private discussions. https://www.axios.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: NEW: In a town hall this AM, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner said it was “a mistake” to tell @WSJ that he planned to institute a paywall at @politico. “My answer honestly was very unfortunate,” he said in an audio recording obtained by @axios: https://www.axios.com/...
Richard Grenell / @richardgrenell: lol, Ben. Come clean. Your attacks are because you and your friend @JimVandeHei are pissed that Axel Springer didn't end up buying Axios. Sour grapes is not journalism. Your team didn't close the deal. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Ray / @by_justin: This @Jon_Allsop newsletter on @benyt and his recent journocides is the best analysis I've read so far https://www.cjr.org/...
Anton Protsiuk / The Fix: Weekly Digest: Axel Springer Troubles, Russian “Black Fridays”
Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen: This is an interesting look at the German press reckoning after the fallout at Axel Springer https://www.cjr.org/...
Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen: “Many media-watchers asked, meanwhile, why it had taken a major American news outlet to force action when much of Reichelt's conduct was already public knowledge in Germany, which is a very good question.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Funny that they wouldn't deny it to me on the record when I asked in great detail. https://twitter.com/...
Jake Sherman / @jakesherman: hm. People would pay for Politico's reporting. I would! https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: The biggest issue for Politico staff has not been what happened in Germany, but a feeling Springer had misled them about a paywall, which Döpfner is trying to clean up here https://twitter.com/...
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: This new ‘CEO admits making a mistake so mess will go away’ strategy is fascinating... https://www.axios.com/...
Jackson Richman / Mediaite: Axel Springer CEO Walks Back Plans for Paywall at Politico
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Axel Springer CEO denies that the company planned to appoint Axios “top management” as EIC of Politico and says there is no intention now to buy Axios — With the German media giant under fire at home, billionaire CEO Mathias Döpfner—all six-foot-seven of him …
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Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: Great new details from @joepompeo on Axel Springer's purchase of Politico (and not Axios), along with reporting inside today's staff meeting with CEO Mathias Dopfner https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Philip Oltermann / The Guardian: Scandal rocks German media giant on brink of global expansion
Joe Pompeo / @joepompeo: “It Would Have Meant War”: The Inside Story of Axel Springer's Cutthroat Deal to Buy Politico https://www.vanityfair.com/... via @VanityFair
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Snap Q3: $1.07B revenue, up 57% YoY, vs. $1.10B est., DAUs up 23% to 306M, net loss down 64% to $72M, blames iOS ATT changes for revenue miss; stock down 20%+ — - Snap reported its third-quarter earnings on Thursday, missing revenue expectations after Apple's iPhone privacy changes disrupted its advertising business.
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Snap Inc., Reuters, TechCrunch, Ad Age, MediaPost, Fast Company, Variety, Axios, Stock Quest, Marketing Dive, @gil_rundmg, @cnbcnow, @carnage4life, AppleInsider and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
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Snap Inc.: Daily Active Users increased 23% year-over-year to 306 million Revenue increased 57% year …
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: Facebook's next chapter just might make sense
Garett Sloane / Ad Age: Snapchat says Apple data changes ‘disrupted’ its ad business
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost: Snap Warns Supply-Chain Bottleneck Causing Brands To Delay Spending
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: Why is Snap stock crashing? Blame Apple and the supply chain
Todd Spangler / Variety: Snapchat Tops 300 Million Daily Users in Q3, Snap Stock Crashes on Revenue Miss and Impact of iPhone Privacy Change
Sara Fischer / Axios: Snapchat stock sinks as it warns about Apple changes
Michael Spencer / Stock Quest: Snap Earnings and the Race to the Metaverse
Peter Adams / Marketing Dive: Snap's revenue miss highlights outsized impact of Apple's tracking changes
Gil David / @gil_rundmg: This is pretty scathing from @Snap calling the SKAN measurement that apple has forced on everyone ‘unreliable as a solution.’ https://twitter.com/...
@cnbcnow: Snap shares briefly fall as much as 30% after revenue miss due to iOS privacy changes; digital ad and other social stocks also dropping after-hours https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: Snapchat stock down 25% after Apple's privacy changes caused a revenue miss for their ads business. As I've stated in the past Apple unilaterally chose to decimate the mobile ads economy to grow their ads & subscriptions revenue under the guise of privacy https://www.cnbc.com/...
Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: Snap stock plunges as Apple privacy changes impact revenue
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Snap blames revenue hit on iOS ad tracking changes
Diana Tsui / New York Times:
Profile of Blacktag, a streaming service launched last week as a destination for Black audiences around the world with plans to share IP with creators — A new streaming platform wants to be a destination for Black audiences around the world. — When Ousman Sahko Sow and Akin Adebowale founded Blacktag …
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Zara Rahim / @zararahim: I get the honor to work with the geniuses at @blacktag. Please give their first profile in the @nytimes a read! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Washington Post:
China's Tencent removes live broadcasts of Boston Celtics games after the team's center, Enes Kanter, called Xi Jinping a “brutal dictator” on social media — The Boston Celtics are facing blowback in China after center Enes Kanter posted a video voicing his support for Tibetan independence.
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Gerry Doyle / @mgerrydoyle: every starter in the league has the ability to say stuff like this and easily weather the financial consequences https://twitter.com/...
Ken Gardner / @kengardner11: More of this, please. It's a prisoner's dilemma problem that requires everyone acting together as the solution. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Barro / @jbarro: The US government should find a way to maximally elevate pro-freedom comments from NBA players so China will ban the NBA and we'll no longer have the indignity of our pro sports league catering to communist party taboos. https://twitter.com/...
Ted Gioia / @tedgioia: “The NBA and the Celtics did not immediately respond to requests for comment.” https://twitter.com/...
@washingtonpost: The Boston Celtics are facing blowback in China after center Enes Kanter posted a video voicing his support for Tibetan independence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@yesnicksearcy: If the @nba had one ounce of integrity, it would pull all its games off the Chinese internet. It doesn't. https://twitter.com/...
Saagar Enjeti / @esaagar: This is what actual courage as an athlete looks like No brand deals to be had, no money to be made, no glowing media coverage Props to @EnesKanter https://twitter.com/...
Stefan Stevenson / @stevensonfwst: China is welcome to go have intimate relations with itself. https://twitter.com/...
Hugh Hewitt / @hughhewitt: Bravo Enes Kanter: “On...Weibo, a Celtics fan account declared that it would immediately stop posting... The account told its 615,000 Weibo followers: ‘Resolutely resist any behavior that damages national harmony and the dignity of the motherland!’” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rich Lowry / @richlowry: Enes Kanter has more courage than most of the NBA, Hollywood, and corporate America combined. Good for him https://twitter.com/...
Jonah Blank / @jonahblank: Big props to @EnesKanter, for risking his @nba career to defend #Tibetans (and risking his visa: the stakes for him are higher than most other athletes). And big props to the @celtics, for not trying to silence him (at least, not yet). https://twitter.com/...
Rep. Ken Buck / @repkenbuck: Yet again, China only condones free expression when it is convenient. If the NBA buckles under pressure from the CCP, they'll align themselves with one of the worst violators of human rights in the world. I applaud @EnesKanter for his courage to speak out https://www.axios.com/...
Kylie Atwood / @kylieatwood: “I say, ‘Shame on the Chinese government,’” Celtics player Enes Kanter said on social media, wearing a T-shirt with the image of the Dalai Lama, whom Beijing considers a criminal separatist. “The Chinese dictatorship is erasing Tibetan identity & culture.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Stephen Webber / @s_webber: China wants NBA teams to know signing @EnesKanter will lose them access to the Chinese TV market, costing them $$$. If they can make Kanter toxic they hope other NBA players, scared for their own careers, won't call out Chinese crimes in the future. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hugh Hewitt / @hughhewitt: The CCP aims to “Finlandize” everything they can. It's just that the NBA is the easiest to push around and thus is the most visible. Appeasement never works. https://twitter.com/...
Sopan Deb / @sopandeb: write up of enes kanter/china/nba dustup with @zhonggg https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Thompson / @alexthomp: Between this and marvel movies not making it past censors, lots of disruptions in China-US entertainment relationship https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Knutson / Axios: China pulls Celtics games after Enes Kanter criticizes Xi Jinping
Brandon Gillespie / Fox News: Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter praised for calling Xi Jinping ‘brutal dictator,’ demanding China free Tibet
Brandon Contes / Mediaite: Boston Celtics Games Banned by Chinese Media Outlet After Enes Kanter Rips Xi Jinping as ‘Brutal Dictator’
Paul Sacca / TheBlaze: China yanks Boston Celtics games from TV after Enes Kanter slams Xi Jinping as ‘brutal dictator’
Becky Sullivan / NPR: Celtics games have been turned off in China after one player's pro-Tibet tweet
Brendan Morrow / The Week: Celtics games wiped from Chinese internet after player's ‘Free Tibet’ video
Jay Rigdon / Awful Announcing: China not broadcasting Celtics games after Enes Kanter advocates Tibetan independence
John Haltiwanger / Insider: China stops airing Boston Celtics games after Enes Kanter called Xi Jinping a ‘brutal dictator’
Patrick Brzeski / Hollywood Reporter: Boston Celtics Games Pulled in China After Enes Kanter Calls Xi Jinping a “Brutal Dictator”
Nia Prater / New York Magazine: Boston Celtics Games Blocked in China After Kanter Calls for a ‘Free Tibet’
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Government-commissioned report finds UK radio broadcasters fear that smart speaker companies will hoard listener data and slip their own ads into broadcasts — Broadcasters fear Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant may gradually sideline UK content — Could Alexa kill the radio star?
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Joe Rogan's interview with CNN's Sanjay Gupta last week surfaced the network's mischaracterization of Rogan's ivermectin use; CNN's defense erodes its integrity — Podcaster Joe Rogan's three-hour interview with CNN's Sanjay Gupta last week was an amicable affair, though it got a bit tense …
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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News: CNN torched for ‘embarrassing’ statement on Joe Rogan: Sounds like an ‘advocacy group,’ not a news network
Josh Kurp / UPROXX: CNN Had A Prickly Response To Joe Rogan Insisting That The News Network Lied About Him Taking Horse Dewormer
Steve Krakauer / @stevekrak: Good for @ErikWemple in getting a CNN statement. Still think they get off easy. I broke down the lies and obfuscation in my last @FourthWatch newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: “CNN's statement sounds more like the work of an advocacy group than a journalism outfit,” writes @ErikWemple in the @washingtonpost, about the network's integrity-free refusal to own up to its lies about Rogan. That same phrase describes what CNN does every single day.
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Without saying it explicitly, this WashPost column by their media reporter documents that (a) CNN lied about Joe Rogan yet (b) defended its lies and refused to retract them or even correct them, which (c) conflicts with CNN's professed role as warriors against disinformation: https://twitter.com/...
Steve Krakauer / @stevekrak: CNN has been on a path away from truth for awhile. This statement is the nail in the coffin. They got it wrong. They got caught. And they have chosen to dig their heels in rather than seek to correct the record, for their audience and their integrity. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jon Schwarz / @schwarz: I've always hated CNN as corporate media on principle, but their descent into Fox levels of snickering lies is depressing, especially because it distracts from Joe Rogan's unbelievable irresponsibility https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... by @ErikWemple
Josh Barro / @jbarro: CNN's position is that, because Joe Rogan dispensed irresponsible advice, they don't have an obligation to cover him accurately. That's pretty embarrassing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Zaid Jilani / @zaidjilani: This CNN statement is the ultimate encapsulation of Narrative over Facts. CNN is unbothered by the reality they put false information about Joe Rogan out there because they think they're on the right side of history, or something. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... ht: @SteveKrak https://twitter.com/...
Alex Thompson / @alexthomp: Rogan should be called out for his bullshit but Cnn should be too cause they said banana but it was an apple.
Jennifer Sey / @jennifersey: “...you don't have to endorse Rogan to abhor CNN's coverage of this topic.” That sums it up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Alex Thompson / @alexthomp: .@ErikWemple: “If we take Rogan's prescription claim at face value — and CNN hasn't challenged it — then the network's coverage was slanted in some cases and straight-up incorrect in others.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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Trump announces the Trump Media & Technology Group and TRUTH Social, a social network coming in Nov. to “stand up” to Big Tech, in the App Store for preorder — The former president has been banned from several platforms. — Silenced by many major platforms …
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Liz Harrington / @reallizusa: 🚨President Donald J. Trump Announces Trump Media & Technology Group🚨 “I created TRUTH Social and TMTG to stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech... I am excited to send out my first TRUTH on TRUTH Social very soon...” https://twitter.com/...
Caitlin Ostroff / Wall Street Journal: Trump Social-Media SPAC Poised for Second Day of Huge Gains
Leia Idliby / Mediaite: Trevor Noah Roasts Trump's ‘Lame’ Social Media Platform TRUTH: ‘I Shared My Truth, Now I Dare You to Hang Mike Pence’
Nancy Scola / Slow Build: Pivoting is failure — TRUMP'S TWITTER — Former President Donald Trump says he's launching …
John Santucci / @santucci: This press release reporters are getting is legit - confirmed to me by sources close to former President Trump. He is launching a media company with a social media platform called “TRUTH Social”. https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: Donald Trump Plans to Launch His Own Social Media Network Called ‘Truth Social’ and Subscription VOD Service With ‘Non-Woke’ Content
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Obviously Trump's newco will destroy Twitter and Facebook. And CNN. Disney *and* Netflix seems like a stretch goal but if that works then yeah. They can definitely go for Amazon, Microsoft and Google's cloud business. Ht @WilliamTurton https://twitter.com/...
Grace Dean / Insider: Hackers broke into Donald Trump's upcoming social media site, creating fake accounts for Trump and Steve Bannon and posting a photo of a defecating pig
Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan: “The site's code shows it runs a mostly unmodified version of Mastodon, the free, open-source software launched in 2016 that anyone can use to run a self-made social networking site.” has a real whiff of the Freedom Phone grift (a $120 Chinese phone marked up to $500) https://twitter.com/...
Brett Bachman / Raw Story: Inside the ‘weird’ world of DWAC — Trump's already soaring social media SPAC
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Key point here: It literally doesn't matter if Trump Media produces a single blog post, let alone a social network + TV + “tech stack” company. The SPAC is a securitized Trump fan club. (Again, wait for the NFTs). https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: The Trump SPAC was inevitable. Almost weird it didn't happen sooner. “It does feel a little bit like all of recent financial history has been leading up to this moment?” @matt_levine of course. https://urldefense.proof-point.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Gonna go ahead and confidently say that TechCrunch, the NYT, Variety, Chevy, Fox News, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution do not have accounts on Trump's new Twitter clone or agree to be used in its marketing materials https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: Former President Donald Trump said that he had lined up the investment money to create his own publicly traded media company. If finalized, the deal could give the new company access to nearly $300 million in cash. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Trump's Truth Social Media Platform Plans to Go Public via SPAC
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Love the attack on Big Tech WHILE using the Apple App Store — very truthy: TRUTH Social | Truth Social https://truthsocial.com/
Jack Jenkins / @jackmjenkins: Well, if this comes to fruition, a lot of the people I wrote about this week are gonna be super miffed. Chief among them might be MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a die hard Trump supporter who dumped (according to him) millions of his own money into a social media project this year. https://twitter.com/...
Quinta Jurecic / @qjurecic: Section 230, folks https://twitter.com/...
Quinta Jurecic / @qjurecic: Outrageous censorship https://twitter.com/...
Quinta Jurecic / @qjurecic: Was this an extremely easy dunk? Yes. Do I regret it? No. https://truthsocial.com/...
Donald J. Drumpf / @realdonaldrumpf: Truth Social will be the second biggest thing ever to come out of Wuhan, China! https://abcnews.go.com/...
@buzzerblog: Beyond the stupidity of this, it's very very disappointing to see Scott St. John attached to this. He's done Deal or No Deal, Card Sharks, 1 VS 100, and countless others. https://twitter.com/...
Randi Rhodes / @randirhodes: Trump says he's starting his own social media company Digital World Acquisition Group is merging with Trump. DWAG is an international “blank check” company incorporated in the Cayman Islands with headquarters in Wuhan, China WUHAN CHINA!!! https://abcnews.go.com/...
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: Uh, did they not line up any PIPE financing? Because if the SPAC shareholders withdraw... https://twitter.com/...
@compound248: The $DWAC CEO's Wuhan-based SPAC (you can't make this shit up), Yunhong International, just had a failed merger. Lol https://twitter.com/...
@compound248: Ok - this Trump : $DWAC SPAC is the greatest shit ever. The DWAC CEO has an address in Wuhan, Hubei 🇨🇳 ! (No joke) The CFO is a CURRENT congressman in Brazil.🇧🇷 The Trump TRUST Social product doesn't even exist. Wtf Can you imagine the insider selling when the lockup expires? https://twitter.com/...
Brendan Karet / @bad_takes: looking forward to this being the same level of boring dogshit that gab, parler and gettr were https://twitter.com/...
@quinnypig: Huge news for both of the brands that are willing to take the reputational hit of advertising on this thing. https://twitter.com/...
@nihil_ad_rem: Trump launching new social media platform... How many times is he going to try to do this? https://abcnews.go.com/...
Will Steakin / @wsteaks: Patrick Orlando, the CEO of DWAG that is merging with Trump's new media company, is also CEO of Yunhong International, which itself is an international blank check company incorporated in the Cayman Islands with headquarters in Wuhan, China, per Bloomberg. https://abcnews.go.com/...
@dreamweasel: Yes, I'm sure a site controlled by the Most Hated Man in America that will be populated exclusively by his supporters and no one else will bring its competitors to their knees https://twitter.com/...
Darlene McDonald / @votedarlene: Truth Social? This is a parody, right? It has to be, right? https://twitter.com/...
Dan Primack / @danprimack: Nothing yet filed with the SEC.
Dan Primack / @danprimack: This feels to me like when Trump says he's gonna sue someone, and doesn't.
Ian Sherr but spooky / @iansherr: Some not so subtle digging at @jack in the Truth Social promo info on the App Store. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Primack / @danprimack: Obviously there will be a ton of redemptions, meaning the $293m isn't real. Only chance it succeeds is if Trump fans plow in & bump price. But, even if so, not a word on who's running it, when it launches, etc. Maybe it's a backdoor way to kill SPAC biz.
Dan Primack / @danprimack: Trump SPAC deal. So. Many. Thoughts. But, just for starters: 22 page deck without a word of who's involved. Also: Just because SPAC deal announced, doesn't mean the deal closes. No PIPE mentioned.
Dan Primack / @danprimack: (dear media folks: please don't refer to this as a $1.7 billion company — that's a made up number, at least for now)
Mike Rothschild / @rothschildmd: Trump Malware Transfer Grift https://twitter.com/...
Frank Luntz / @frankluntz: Trump just launched a media company that has merged with the publicly traded $DWAC (currently at $9.96 a share). Their first product is a social media platform called TRUTH Social, which they plan to launch nationwide in Q1 of 2022. A beta release is coming next month. https://twitter.com/...
@spactrack: $DWAC will be merging with “Trump Media and Technology Group”, at an $875M valuation, according to a press release circulating. The company will be launching a social media platform, TRUTH Social. We'll see if DWAC confirms later tonight or tomorrow. http://abcnews.go.com/...
@killedbygoogle: “In the App Store” How soon we think this is gonna get hacked? https://abcnews.go.com/...
Glenn Kessler / @glennkesslerwp: I covered Wall Street for many years. SEC regs can be tough but even so I would be wary about stocks touting “TRUTH” when the management has this kind of track record. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jesper / @jandersen: Amazing that Trump leaked Facebook's new name like this. Always betrays his partners. https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Key here is as much about the social media possibilities as Trump connecting to an existing nasdaq company/getting a cash infusion https://twitter.com/...
Frank Luntz / @frankluntz: “Additionally, Trump Media & Technology Group intends to launch a subscription video on demand service (TMTG+). TMTG+ will feature ‘non-woke’ enterainment programming, news, podcasts, and more.” 👉🏻 https://tmtgcorp.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Trump SPAC is a delicious and exciting failure waiting to happen in full public view. So it will probably eclipse AAPL market cap within months. https://twitter.com/...
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: Trump Starts Subscription VOD Service, Social Media Platform Truth Social
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner: TRUTH Social: Trump announces social media alternative to Big Tech ‘tyranny’
Michael Luciano / Mediaite: Trump Announces His Own Social Network TRUTH and a ‘Non-Woke’ Streaming Service
Daniel Villarreal / Newsweek: Trump Announces ‘TRUTH Social’, New Social Network to ‘Stand Up to Tyranny of Big Tech’
Tyler Sonnemaker / Insider: Trump announces plans to launch new social media platform called TRUTH Social in 2022
Ronny Reyes / Daily Mail: Trump announces he is launching his own social media network called ‘TRUTH Social’ which will launch nationwide at the start of 2022
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
VideoAmp, which offers audience and ad measurement tools across digital platforms and traditional TV, raises a $275M Series F at a $1.4B valuation — The latest round of funding, led by Spruce House Partnership, values VideoAmp at $1.4 billion, the company said
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Eric Franchi / @ericfranchi: Big raise by VideoAmp. The measurement and analytics space is white hot. https://www.wsj.com/...
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