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Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Biden names Jessica Rosenworcel to officially lead the FCC, nominates Gigi Sohn as third Democratic commissioner, but it's unclear if Senate will confirm soon — And progressive Gigi Sohn as a third Democratic commissioner — President Joe Biden named acting Federal Communications …
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Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times: White House to Name Rosenworcel as F.C.C.'s First Female Leader
Todd Spangler / Variety: Biden Names Jessica Rosenworcel Permanent FCC Chair, First Woman to Hold Role
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Biden to Name Jessica Rosenworcel FCC Chairwoman
Marguerite Reardon / CNET: Biden's FCC nominees, if confirmed, could lead to the return of net neutrality rules
Whitney Kimball / Gizmodo: Biden Nominates Net Neutrality Champion Jessica Rosenworcel to Head the FCC
Ben Brody / Protocol: 5 things to know about FCC nominee Gigi Sohn
DJ Patil / @dpatil: This is an absolute excellent choice for @JRosenworcelFCC as Chair for the FCC. She's stellar. https://www.theverge.com/...
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen / @senatorshaheen: .@JRosenworcelFCC has worked to close the digital divide, preserve net neutrality & leverage the power of broadband to increase access to opportunity in our communities. She's well-qualified to serve as permanent FCC Chair & I look forward to seeing her nom advance in the Senate. https://twitter.com/...
Dave Pell / Substack: I've Got the Power — I couldn't publish Monday's edition of NextDraft because I was in the midst …
@nprpolitics: President Biden is nominating Jessica Rosenworcel as the chair of the FCC and former FCC staffer Gigi Sohn to a second vacant seat on the commission. Both are expected to push for a return of Obama-era net neutrality rules. https://www.npr.org/...
Andrew Wyrich / The Daily Dot: ‘A dream team for the future of the internet’: Biden goes big on FCC, signals return of net neutrality
Alexander Macgillivray / @amac: Power trio of telecom and internet policy, law and just plain old advocacy on behalf of people nominated today by @POTUS: @JRosenworcel @gigibsohn & @abdavidson. Congratulations to the USA! And thank you to each of you. https://www.whitehouse.gov/...
@wgawest: WGAW applauds the naming of @JRosenworcel to chair the @FCC and the nomination of longtime consumer & competition advocate @gigibsohn to serve as FCC Commissioner. We urge the Senate to swiftly confirm these two exceptional nominees before the year's end. https://www.theverge.com/...
Sen. Maggie Hassan / @senatorhassan: This is great news — @JRosenworcelFCC has been a steadfast partner in the push to expand high-speed internet access in New Hampshire and across the country. I look forward to working swiftly to advance her nomination in the Senate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Rob Pegoraro / PCMag India: Biden Nominates Rosenworcel as FCC Chair
@bobbybigwheel: There's one family in my hometown that produced the FCC Chair and the drummer from Guster and all my mom can say at the grocery store is “yeah my son posts on Twitter a lot” https://twitter.com/...
@techcrunch: Jessica Rosenworcel becomes the first woman to chair the FCC, and Gigi Sohn is nominated for 5th spot https://techcrunch.com/... | by Devin Coldewey
Rep. Peter Welch / @peterwelch: Congratulations to my friend and partner in the fight for broadband access @JRosenworcel. Jessica is a progressive leader working to close the digital divide. I'm thrilled she'll be the first woman to serve as a permanent FCC chair. Let's get to work! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Christopher J. Lewis / @chrisj_lewis: The list is long on folks who can say this! https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Huge news. But such a late appointment and so much to do. https://www.theverge.com/...
Free Press / @freepress: BREAKING: President Biden will reportedly nominate Jessica Rosenworcel as FCC chair, Gigi Sohn as the fifth FCC commissioner and Alan Davidson to the NTIA. This is a dream team for anyone who cares about the future of media and tech. Our statement: https://www.freepress.net/...
Jake Kastrenakes / @jake_k: gigi's been a leading voice on net neutrality and internet privacy for a long time — huge move adding her to the commission https://www.theverge.com/...
Karl Bode / @karlbode: “Not having Sohn as chair is probably a bit of a relief for the big telecom providers who oppose virtually every plan to regulate the broadband and cable TV industries.” https://arstechnica.com/...
@cendemtech: 👏👏👏 @CenDemTech applauds the @WhiteHouse's moves today to restore the @FCC to its full strength & appoint a distinguished leader to @NTIAgov: * @GigiBSohnFCC * @JRosenworcelFCC * @abdavidson More info from the Administration: https://www.whitehouse.gov/...
John Bergmayer / @bergmayer: You can blame Gigi Sohn for getting me into tech policy, but other than that, she will be an excellent Commissioner https://www.whitehouse.gov/...
Dieter Bohn / @backlon: This appointment moved at the average speed of Amercian Broadband internet :/ https://www.theverge.com/...
Ron Wyden / @ronwyden: .@POTUS Biden is nominating two champions for consumers and smart tech policy in @JRosenworcel and @GigiBSohnFCC. They know what it takes to get all americans connected, and stop Big Cable from gouging American families. https://www.politico.com/...
Ed Markey / @senmarkey: Great to see the FCC will soon have a Democratic majority. The first order of business: revive net neutrality and reclassify broadband under Title II. https://www.politico.com/...
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Good Information Inc., funded by Reid Hoffman and others, launches to invest in media companies that tackle misinformation — A new public benefit corporation backed by billionaires Reid Hoffman, George Soros, and others is launching Tuesday to fund new media companies and efforts that tackle disinformation.
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Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Exclusive: Billionaires Reid Hoffman, George Soros and others back new media firm led by @taraemcg to combat disinformation — As part of its launch, “Good Information” will acquire @CourierNewsroom, a local news group with a progressive perspective. https://www.axios.com/...
Daniel Gritzer / @dgritzer: @mathewi Wow, I'm amazed you don't see the difference. It's not because “we are the good guys.” There's literally one side committed to disinformation and another that's trying to keep us grounded in some basis of fact. How in the world do you think that's the same?
Brian Flood / Fox News: Left-wing billionaires George Soros, Reid Hoffman reportedly bankroll new media firm to fight ‘disinformation’
Jordan Williams / The Hill: Billionaires Soros and Hoffman backing new effort to battle disinformation
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: If right-wing billionaires did this, I'm sure there would be a hue and cry. Why is it different because these are supposedly “progressive” news outlets? https://twitter.com/...
Nicole Gill / @nicolelgill: Fighting our disinformation crisis takes innovation, creativity, and grit. @taraemcg and @GoodInfoInc have that and more, and I'm excited to see what comes next after today's launch! https://twitter.com/...
Keya Vakil / @keyavakil: There's been a lot written about our mission and model. Some of that has been fair criticism, but some of it hasn't and it's contributed to an atmosphere that has been used to discredit our reporting, so I want to take a few minutes to talk about the work we do at Courier. 🧵 https://twitter.com/...
Chuck Ross / @chuckrossdc: When Reid Hoffman points a finger at online disinformation, 3 are pointing back at him https://twitter.com/...
Scary Dunleavy / @jerrydunleavy: it would be kind of funny if Reid Hoffman was backing an outlet to combat “disinformation” simply in order to change his Google search results (because this is still the top result when you search Reid Hoffman + disinformation). https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Scocca / @tomscocca: Every tweet I've seen in my feed about this has been castigating the project https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Interesting. @reidhoffman, Soros, others invest in news. News wasn't investable, except by hedgies buying up debt of dying dinos. Here we have investment in new entities that don't buy the old ethos of objectivity. I'll be eager to hear more. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: Last year @annamerlan and I reported on documents laying out the extensive disinformation-creating plans of the person heading this anti-disinformation venture: https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: “The information crisis we're in is so much bigger than politics.” I haven't reported on this group, but this obviously political org shrouded in the cloak of “fighting disinformation” is something. Fund local newsrooms for god's sake. https://www.axios.com/...
Malcolm Harris / @bigmeaninternet: Billionaires investing in TRUTH seems so silly. Just buy your local paper and pay the union like Patrick Soon-Shiong https://www.axios.com/...
Tom Bevan / @tombevanrcp: Not a Babylon Bee story, unfortunately. https://www.axios.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@arrington: Billionaires back new company that will absolutely spread disinformation and suppress reality. https://www.axios.com/...
Tara McGowan / @taraemcg: The broken, divisive information ecosystem in which we find ourselves today is an all-hands-on-deck challenge for American democracy. Excited to finally share what we've been building over the past few months to address it👇🧵 https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: Details are a bit sparse here: “invest in new businesses & solutions that tackle the disinformation crisis. That could mean funding new or existing companies that boost news from existing news outlets.” Like...public media? Or @propublica & @publicintegrity? Or marketing them? https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Severns / @maggieseverns: McGowan's new venture is buying Courier Newsroom, a network of progressive websites started by McGowan that aimed to boost Dem candidates in battleground states https://twitter.com/...
Shane Goldmacher / @shanegoldmacher: The news here is that Soros and Hoffman are behind this https://www.axios.com/... @teddyschleifer got the docs outlining the group back in February https://www.vox.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Right-wing billionaires already DO this. And these guys are saying they are anti-disinformation, for which there is a crying need, and by which standard they can be held to account. https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Some interesting replies to this, many of which amount to “but it's okay because we are the good guys” https://twitter.com/...
@moonbeamvotes: Right wing billionaires already do this, you hack. You never heard of Rupert Murdoch? https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Fowler / @stphnfwlr: What if - and hear me out here - we invested money into addressing a root cause (struggling local media outlets that people are more likely to trust to produce stories about issues and things that actually matter) instead of what is thinly-disguised progressive advocacy? https://twitter.com/...
Marisa Kabas / @marisakabas: how times are we gonna do this https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain:
Sources say Facebook Papers have no sharing restrictions, so media outlets should model transparency and make them publicly accessible — OK, STRAP IN, NERDS: — Charlie Warzel @cwarzel — legitimately don't know how to consume this much facebook news — October 25th 2021 — 32 Retweets397 Likes
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Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: New from me: I just joined the consortium with the leaked Facebook documents. Now I believe it should be dissolved. We need to make getting these documents out to the public the top priority. The people deserve to see them. https://www.niemanlab.org/... via @NiemanLab
Antoinette Siu / The Wrap: The Facebook Papers: What We Know So Far — And What Else Is Coming
Alex Kantrowitz / Nieman Lab: I'm in the consortium possessing the leaked Facebook documents. Let's dissolve it.
Katie Drummond / @katiedrumm: I'm with @Kantrowitz — Release the documents! https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Karissa Bell / @karissabe: Props to @Kantrowitz for this. Let's let everyone see all the docs (especiallythe researchers who have been trying to access internal research for years!) and end elitist media gatekeeping https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Ezra Kaplan / @ezranbc: As a member of this consortium, I agree, these documents belong in the hands of the public. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@seyitaylor: Alex makes the case that no news organizations in the countries that use FB's products the most have access to the documents. I'm going to keep my thoughts to myself on this one but... yeah... https://twitter.com/...
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: Mark Zuckerberg: Why Isn't Anyone Talking About Facebook's Many Achievements?
Alex Howard / @digiphile: A year later, I'd say my “highly questionable set of assertions” holds up. What's missing is news outlets reporting out the #FacebookPapers to publish them, after scrubbing PII. @cwarzel is right about that bit: https://warzel.substack.com/ ... Outlets are holding back for self-interest. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@niemanlab: New from @Kantrowitz: “The more broadly available we can make them, the closer we can get to solving the problems they uncover. It's time for us to figure out a way to get these documents out.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Scott Nover / @scottnover: “Journalists do themselves a disservice by not just saying that... we are way more attuned to how information is presented + delivered than most people and that it can feel pretty damn personal when the ecosystem we work in is polluted by blatant garbage.” https://warzel.substack.com/ ...
René Walter / GOOD INTERNET: [Links] The Facebook Papers / Propagandamaschine Social Media / Entertainment-Value of Conspiracies
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad: Everything Facebook: It's Worse Than You Thought
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: the facebook papers are so clearly important but i also can't stop wondering what they're building toward and what comes next https://warzel.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Silverman / New York Magazine: No Amount of Whistleblowing Can Fix Facebook
bookforum.com: Charlie Warzel on the future after the Facebook Papers; Jocelyn Nicole Johnson will discuss her new book tonight
Diana Shi / Fast Company: Facebook Papers: Here's a list to help you keep track of the most eye-popping stories
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: It's Frances Haugen's world. We're all just living in it.
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More than 12 news outlets, including AP and Fox Business, form a consortium to sift leaked Facebook docs from Frances Haugen, reporting stories separately
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times: Will the SEC Add to Facebook's Woes?
Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: Facebook knew ads, microtargeting could be exploited by politicians. It accepted the risk.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: In the ocean's worth of new Facebook revelations out today, here are some of the most important drops
Tara Subramaniam / CNN: The big takeaways from the Facebook Papers
Alexandra S. Levine / Politico: Inside Facebook's struggle to contain insurrectionists' posts
Chris Stokel-Walker / The Guardian: Facebook cannot moderate itself - its problems have only just begun
Nishant Kauntia / MediaNama: Facebook's failure to check hate speech in India spurs demand for an investigation
Rat King / @mikeisaac: spent two weeks with other journalists reviewing thousands of Facebook documents It was striking how much of the self-scrutiny was aimed at the very core functions — Likes, Shares, Recommendations — that made Facebook into the colossus it is today https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bill Chappell / NPR: The Facebook Papers: What you need to know about the trove of insider documents
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: Under fire, Facebook announces a strong third quarter
Kieran Press-Reynolds / Insider: Facebook recommended QAnon groups to a new user within 2 days of joining the platform, according to a new whistleblower report
Nikki Main / The Sun: What do the Facebook papers allegedly say?
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: Top outlets (sort of) team up to make Facebook's awful month worse
Maria Ressa / @mariaressa: More evidence of what has been pointed out for years — How Facebook neglected the rest of the world, fueling hate speech and violence in India https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Amy Kroin / Free Press: A Friday News Dump Details Facebook Role in Coordinating a Coup Amy Kroin Mon, 10/25/2021 - 11:41
Ben Rhodes / @brhodes: Facebook is an existential danger to democracy and a global public safety hazard. Like previous products that endanger people, it necessitates aggressive government action with strong enforcement. https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Facebook knew they were radicalizing people and they did nothing to stop it https://www.nbcnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@pranavdixit: Not holding Facebook to account in India is one of the Indian press's most glaring failures (among many others). It's increasingly harder to take any tech journalism out of India seriously. https://twitter.com/...
@ap: Facebook in India has been selective in curbing hate speech, misinformation and inflammatory posts, particularly anti-Muslim content, according to leaked documents obtained by @AP. The files show that Facebook has been aware of the problems for years. https://apne.ws/2wAKWPc
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: By Nov. 9 2020, “As much as 1 out of every 50 views on Facebook in the United States, or 10 percent of all views of political material, was of content declaring the vote fraudulent, [a Facebook] researcher wrote” in internal documents disclosed this week. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Conor Friedersdorf / @conor64: This is way too close for my comfort to *the press is the enemy of the people and must be regulated like other dangerous products for the common good* https://twitter.com/...
@kaaashif: thank you @nytimes for highlighting this. we hope @Facebook do something about the fb and WhatsApp role in spreading hate in India. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Laurence Tribe / @tribelaw: To be clear: Facebook's radicalizing business model is NOT free speech. The obstacles to regulating FB's dangerous algorithms aren't constitutional or technical but political and economic. Don't let that Zuckerman dude hide behind the First Amendment. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Brian Riedl / @brian_riedl: Its funny to see Ben Rhodes criticizing irresponsible misinformation and propaganda, given that — when working in the Obama White House - he famously bragged about his ability to trick “know-nothing” reporters into publishing Obama White House propaganda as fact. https://twitter.com/...
Richard Stengel / @stengel: Algorithms are not neutral mathematical equations—they have biases like people do. Just as a bar can be held accountable for serving a drunk customer, the tech companies have to be held accountable for serving content that can lead to violence. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Aron Pilhofer / @pilhofer: I would bet my bottom dollar this is less collaboration than coordination: shared docs, reporting done independently. Been there many times, and it sucks. This always happens. Always. https://twitter.com/...
Michael S. Smith II / @michaelssmithii: Now do countries in the Western Balkans. https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Ryan / @hannahd15: *rubs hands together gleefully* leaked slack messages https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / New York Times:
How Frances Haugen maximized the impact of her leaked Facebook documents, rolling them out first to WSJ and then broadening to a large group of outlets
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Isabella Simonetti / Observer: Facebook Knows It Facilitates Hate and Other Unsurprising Surprises From the Facebook Papers
David Pierce / Protocol: Here are all the Facebook Papers stories
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: WSJ reporter Horwitz to write book on Facebook
Kayla Gogarty / Media Matters for America: New data shows Facebook's groups problem goes way beyond “Stop the Steal”
Paul Farhi / Washington Post: The massive Facebook leak shows how investigative journalism is changing
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: Wall Street doesn't care about the Facebook leaks. Mark Zuckerberg does.
Emily Birnbaum / Politico: Facebook looking for its voice at a ‘watershed moment’
Hillary Clinton / @hillaryclinton: Facebook has privileged lies, damaged our democracy, and worsened divisions in our society... knowingly, for profit. https://www.cnn.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: It's striking that, according to this tracker from Protocol, it seems the only outlets that had access to & published on the Facebook docs are...English language & in the US/UK, even though much of the dump seems to relate to moderation in other languages https://www.protocol.com/...
Isobel Asher Hamilton / Insider: Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says it's cheaper to run ‘hateful’ ads on the platform than other kind of adverts. ‘We are literally subsidizing hate.’
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Also compelling reading is @benyt on the #FacebookFiles leak handling, which made me thing two things. One, as @IfeomaOzoma has often pointed out, whistleblowing requires strat comms. Two , where is the NYT Styles piece on the Puerto Rico crypto nomads? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Josh Kraushaar / @hotlinejosh: “The polished rollout, including Ms. Haugen's Oct. 3 appearance on ‘60 Minutes’ and congressional testimony days later, has led to dark hints from Facebook and its allies that there's something a little too good to be true about her.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: The consortium approach is powerful for whistleblowers and a mixed blessing for news orgs, writes @benyt. (From what I can tell it is also bewildering for lay readers.) https://www.nytimes.com/...
John Carney / @carney: Lots of good details from @benyt about this “consortium” that has been publishing stories based on documents Haugen and company are handing out to establishment media outlets. Inside the Big Facebook Leak https://www.nytimes.com/...
Adam Goldman / @adamgoldmannyt: She also got the impression that @JeffHorwitz would support her as a person, rather than as a mere source who could supply him with the inside information she had picked up during her nearly two years as a product manager at Facebook. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: AP's @bcarovillano: “It's remarkable to see these news organizations, large and small, set aside some of their competitive impulses and work together to report out a story that is unquestionably in the public interest” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alex Shephard / New Republic: Facebook Is Even Worse Than Anyone Imagined
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, raises trust and security questions over its e2e encryption
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Facebook whistleblower Haugen tells UK lawmakers the company refuses to take responsibility for its harms
@blackamazon: She may not need financial support but she's getting institutional and press support https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: This is yet another must read @benyt and it leaves me media nauseous: How Frances Haugen Became a Power Player in the Facebook Leaks https://www.nytimes.com/...
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: Lots of media intrigue in the latest @benyt on the massive Facebook leaks but please note that whistleblower is now in Puerto Rico with her “crypto friends” which is a signifier of a whole other horrible terrible thing happening to society https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: Interesting discussion about the power wielded by the Facebook whistleblower, how her approach to journalists and her media presence differs from Snowden's, and a quick aside about her personal wealth and “crypto friends” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Frank Bajak / @fbajak: The @AP's @bcarovillano on this public service effort by 17 U.S. news organizations he helped coordinate. There is also a smaller European group. https://twitter.com/...
@stmcneil: “It's remarkable to see these news organizations, large and small, set aside some of their competitive impulses and work together to report out a story that is unquestionably in the public interest,” said @bcarovillano, the head of investigations for @AP https://www.nytimes.com/...
@szhang_ds: In retrospect I should probably have done something similar. I liked @juliacarriew and the Guardian, but was probably too focused on ensuring that I retained control over my message to the exclusion of actually reaching people. Mea culpa. https://twitter.com/...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: @jayrosen_nyu @mehdirhasan Working with a single outlet was very clean and efficient.
Nicholas Jackson / @nbj914: This is great, and newsrooms should work together much more often, and the weird part, if there is a weird part, is that, even in 2021, it takes a project manager from Facebook to force these institutions to collaborate on something. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: Someone Tell Mark Zuckerberg Not to Google Himself Today
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: This Slack sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime rad chaotic moment. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: @BostonJoan I really really really hope you and other researchers get the docs soon, Joan!
@blackamazon: How media covered leaks when it was a white woman and tried to make it sound like it was a brilliant strategy not their own bias https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Facebook whistleblower: “First she handed her documents to The Journal for a boutique rollout. Then she opened the journalistic equivalent of an outlet store, allowing reporters on two continents to root through everything The Journal had left behind.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Maria Ressa / @mariaressa: Fascinating. Only way forward is collaboration. #CourageON https://twitter.com/...
Joan S. Pumpkins / @bostonjoan: Been waiting all weekend for this one https://twitter.com/...
Zombies LoveOfBrainsies / @kombiz: Oh no, she was such a compelling figure till i read this... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@pranavdixit: .@FrancesHaugen told @benyt she plans to share the documents with academic writers and publications in countries where she sees the greatest peril, including India and the Middle East. “The reason I wanted to do this project is because I think the global South is in danger.” https://twitter.com/...
Roger McNamee / @moonalice: I have maximum admiration for @FrancesHaugen. She accepted huge risk to be a whistleblower. She organized and executed a masterful, revolutionary disclosure campaign. I do not agree with all of her recommendations, but so what? She is a hero. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jessica Lessin / @jessicalessin: The Facebook whistleblower says she doesn't need financial support because she bought “crypto at the right time.” She is in Puerto Rico in part to join her crypto friends, who are there seeking a tax shelter. Now I'm entertained. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: In a time of mega-leaks, journalists' sources have become power players. Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower who shared company documents, led a meticulous media rollout, our media columnist Ben Smith writes. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tyson Brody / @tysonbrody: So what's the deal with crypto tax arbitrage in Puerto Rico https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Paris Marx / @parismarx: My god, Haugen is also so deep into crypto she joined the crypto colonists and disaster capitalists who wanted to turn Puerto Rico into a technolibertarian utopia. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Drange / @mattdrange: It's 2021 and I, for one, find this enormously reassuring. Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen tells @benyt that she “auditioned” WSJ's @JeffHorwitz, “and one of the reasons I went with him is that he was less sensationalistic” than other reporters. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Seamus Hughes / @seamushughes: “But while a glance at Twitter shows that journalists on any beat can slip into a herd mentality, there's little evidence that this leak, with its trove of documentary detail, had deepened that tendency.” by @benyt https://www.nytimes.com/...
Paige Williams / @williams_paige: “Now that I've met so many journalists, and I've seen how hard Jeff works, I feel more grateful for the media than when I started.” At least that's something. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jacob Silverman / @silvermanjacob: Against anti-trust, mixed on encryption, so deep into crypto that she moved to a tax haven — a worldview is assembling itself. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Quinta Jurecic / @qjurecic: really striking difference between what's described here and Snowden's approach of “give it all to the journalists and let them figure out what to publish” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Gainor / @dangainor: This “leak” smells worse than a rendering plant. The left is manipulating an attack on Facebook to push government control of the internet. | Inside the Big Facebook Leak https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alex Thompson / @alexthomp: “We live in a time of mega-leaks...These leaks have given the leakers and their brokers a new kind of power over the news media, raising tricky questions about how their revelations should enter the public sphere.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: The Facebook Whistleblower Documents: What to Expect
Wall Street Journal:
Internal docs show frequent heated debates among Facebook staff and execs about how to rank, fact check, and moderate content of right-wing pubs like Breitbart
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Philip Bump / Washington Post: The right's effort to police Facebook worked
Alex Heath / The Verge: Inside Facebook's struggle to keep young people
Clare Duffy / CNN: Facebook has known it has a human trafficking problem for years. It still hasn't fully fixed it
Paul Bradley Carr / @paulbradleycarr: The idea that Facebook was somehow swayed by external right wing pressure makes sense if you ignore that the company is controlled by Thiel, Andreessen and Zuck. A Trump funder, a center right libertarian, and a robot who cares only about user growth. Pushing against an open door https://twitter.com/...
Lawrence O'Donnell / @lawrence: Zuckerberg is a politician. https://twitter.com/...
Philip Bump / @pbump: One of the details revealed in the Facebook leaks is that Zuckerberg balked at a Spanish-language voter-registration tool out of concern it would look partisan. The right's pressure on the company worked. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Philip Bump / @pbump: The right has long been deliberate about policing the media so that it self-censors. Its effort to do with Facebook was a success. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: The Facebook Papers fallout
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Media Matters for America: Tucker Carlson gives Breitbart's editor a friendly space to complain about nonexistent Facebook censorship
Hussain Nadim / @hnadim87: Been saying this for sometime & having personally experienced it @Twitter is no different in its policy on extremist content & hate speech. These social media platforms MUST do more on this grave issue. One way is to set up country offices, hire local staff to moderate content. https://twitter.com/...
Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan: Facebook features Breitbart on its platform due to external political pressure despite its own data showing it is low-quality and low trust https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Manfredi / Fox Business: Facebook employees claimed tactics were ‘hostile’, ‘disrespectful’ toward users, document shows
Ryan Mac / @rmac18: Good story from @keachhagey and @JeffHorwitz on the influence of the policy team & political considerations on Facebook's decision-making. It has new stuff, particularly on Breitbart, and builds off what @CraigSilverman and I reported on at BuzzFeed News. https://www.wsj.com/...
Didi Rankovic / Reclaim The Net: Facebook leaks reveal employees pushed for censorship of conservative news outlets
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: More details on what @MonikaBauerlein & I reported last Oct: Facebook put its thumb on scale for far-right (and, uh, not rigorously reported) sites for fear of blowback from conservatives, ref working—and, I'll posit to say, inclination of C-suiters: https://www.wsj.com/...
Zombies LoveOfBrainsies / @kombiz: I can't stress enough that the head of Facebook news last project before facebook, was starting an anti-union right-wing school choice news website. Facebook knew exactly what it was doing. https://twitter.com/...
@keachhagey: Breitbart was a source of constant consternation inside Facebook, internal docs show, with employees demanding “Get Breitbart out of News Tab” and begging Facebook to kick it out of Facebook Audience Network w/ @JeffHorwitz https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
@blackamazon: They were racist and they knew it . Clap your hands . They are racist and we know it Clap your hands They are racist and we know it How often did they show it They were racist and it screwed us CLAO YOUR HANDS https://twitter.com/...
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: Facebook Employees Reportedly Clashed Over Social Media Giant's Special Treatment of Breitbart
Alison Durkee / Forbes: Here Are The Biggest ‘Facebook Papers’ Charges: Zuckerberg Caves To Communist Government And Lets Celebrities Break The Rules, More
Ryan J. Reilly / @ryanjreilly: “We're scared of political backlash if we enforce our policies without exemptions.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Ryan J. Reilly / @ryanjreilly: “Various employees called Mr. Carlson a ‘white nationalist’ and ‘partisan hack’ who 'looks as though he's a Golden Retriever who has been consistently cheated out of a cache of treats.'” https://www.wsj.com/...
Jeff Horwitz / @jeffhorwitz: I'm hoping everyone can set aside their disagreements to agree that this is both an excellent burn and an excellent response. https://twitter.com/...
Damon Beres / @dlberes: Honestly I'd be embarrassed to work at a company that Diamond and Silk had this much leverage over https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bianna Golodryga / @biannagolodryga: “Employees allege content rules aren't enforced for Breitbart and other right-wing publishers for fear of public blowback, and management expresses wariness of appearing biased, according to internal documents” https://www.wsj.com/...
Amol Sharma / @asharma: Facebook had some interesting classifications of publishers as it evaluated the impact of its tools: Reuters was labeled “liberal,” along with the Washington Post, Politico, Axios and Apple News. CNN and the New York Post were labeled “moderate.” https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@keachhagey: Facebook says Breitbart is on News Tab because it only judges publications based on what they do on Facebook, not on what they do in the wider world, and Breitbart follows its rules
@keachhagey: More senior employees often pushed back against these calls, arguing that any steps aimed at removing Breitbart “would be a very difficult policy discussion.”
@keachhagey: After a Facebook engineer revealed that the company had a queue for prominent users to get white-glove assistance avoiding fact-checking strikes that was mostly full of conservative publishers like Breitbart and PragerU, Facebook employees were livid, internal chats show.
@keachhagey: In 2019, Facebook studied what would happen if it removed two key anti-misinfo tools: Breitbart traffic would go up 20%. “We could face significant backlash for having ‘experimented’ with distribution at the expense of conservative publishers,” a researcher wrote. It removed one.
@keachhagey: One researcher suggested there might be a fair way to get Breitbart out of News Tab by removing any publisher that had seen a drop in trust; another researcher said that wouldn't work because Breitbart was already the least trusted news org, per Facebook research
@keachhagey: “We are apparently providing hate-speech-policy-consulting and consequence-mitigation services to select partners,” one Facebook employee wrote. Another added: “Leadership is scared of being accused of bias.”
@keachhagey: One advertiser wrote Facebook complaining about Breitbart's inclusion in the Facebook Audience Network, saying Facebook's block lists didn't work when it came to Breitbart. “Breitbart tries to work around every control we put in place.” (Breitbart it doesn't work around controls)
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Stewart Bainum's Baltimore Banner will be led by LAT's Kimi Yoshino, with a $15M budget for its first year and plans to hire roughly 50 reporters — The Maryland hotel magnate tried but failed to buy the Baltimore Sun. Now he's trying to demonstrate a new business model for local news.
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@kyoshino, @sewellchan, @blakehounshell, @elaheizadi, @jbflint, @serps, @scottshanenyt, @lpolgreen, @niemanlab, @ted_williams, Los Angeles Times, @alicedreger, @washingtonpost, @seamushughes, @mattdpearce, @danielnmiller, @ckrewson, @kyoshino, @lenfestinst, @jbweinz, @emilyasullivan, @imtiazbaltnews, @mollymotoole, @helaineolen, @benmathislilley, @davidlauter, @skamidi, @risabheller, @brynstole, @ron_cassie, @davetroy, @amancalledsrao, @jimfriedlich, @notrivia, @kyoshino and @samanthamvb
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Kimi Yoshino / @kyoshino: Some news from me! I'm leaving the @latimes and taking on a new challenge in Baltimore. I'm excited to join Stewart Bainum as editor-in-chief of The Baltimore Banner, a digital, nonprofit news start-up. https://twitter.com/...
Sewell Chan / @sewellchan: In my 3 years at @latimes, one of my favorite colleagues was @kyoshino. A fellow @aaja member and a fantastic leader, Kimi will run the new Baltimore Bulletin. This is great news for Charm City and the growing world of nonprofit journalism. https://twitter.com/...
Blake Hounshell / @blakehounshell: Rooting for these guys — so important that local news startups find new models that can work https://twitter.com/...
@elaheizadi: EXCLUSIVE via @sarahellison: Stewart Bainum unveils plans for new ‘Baltimore Banner’ news site — and hires Kimi Yoshino, a top L.A. Times editor, to run it https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: Congrats Kimi. If this guy hands you a resume steer clear. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Evan Serpick / @serps: We're starting a Baltimore-based news outlet and dropping a million names but zero Black people. 🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩 https://twitter.com/...
Scott Shane / @scottshanenyt: The announcement of The Baltimore Banner is the best news for Baltimoreans and for local journalism in a while. Stewart Bainum has gone about building this venture with patience and care. I especially like his shoutout to The Sun's stalwart journalists. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen: Great news for the citizens of Baltimore! https://twitter.com/...
@niemanlab: The plan isn't to compete with The Baltimore Sun, according to Bainum, who also believes there is room for more than one outlet in the Maryland city. “There's a lot of damn talent there. And we just want to add to it.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ted Williams / @ted_williams: I respect how BIG Bainum is thinking. 50 reporters. $15M annual budget. $50M personal commitment. Love that the team is clear eyed about the challenge and not too romantic. It's doable. Very cool to see this. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Alice Dreger, Ph.D. / @alicedreger: This is certainly going to be interesting to watch. Plan is for a nonprofit news operation, but the budget is big. Doesn't feel realistic to me, frankly, as a successful local news nonprofit publisher of 7+ years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@washingtonpost: The Maryland hotel magnate tried but failed to buy the Baltimore Sun. Now he's trying to demonstrate a new business model for local news. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Seamus Hughes / @seamushughes: “David Simon, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who created the HBO hit “The Wire.” Simon has committed to write a monthly column for the Banner.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: Local journalism needs digital projects Baltimore Banner under @kyoshino to succeed so that we can find the model that will work in more communities and help us climb out of this Wall Street hell. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Miller / @danielnmiller: Congratulations to @kyoshino, who after 21 years at the Los Angeles Times is taking on a big new job. Kimi is a wonderful journalist — Baltimore is lucky to get her. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Chris Krewson / @ckrewson: The organization has focused first on building its business operation — earliest hires were in marketing, subscriptions and technology. Many other media start-ups are “a bunch of journalists trying to figure out what to do with subscriptions.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kimi Yoshino / @kyoshino: I'm starting in Baltimore next month. Stealing this idea from @sewellchan: Tell me what I should read, who I should follow, what I can't miss in Maryland.
Lenfest Institute / @lenfestinst: We're proud to support and advise @VenetoulisInst and The Baltimore Banner as they launch an ambitious plan to reinvent local journalism in Baltimore. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jillian Weinberger / @jbweinz: I just really, really want this work and be a model for other cities, please and thank you. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Emily Sullivan / @emilyasullivan: Stewart Bainum says he's committed $50 million toward the Baltimore Banner, his planned news site that will allegedly hire roughly 50 reporters. His first hire: Kimi Yoshino, a top L.A. Times editor. She'll help launch the nonprofit digital site https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Imtiaz Patel / @imtiazbaltnews: Exciting news. I'm thrilled to lead @VenetoulisInst as CEO and welcome @kyoshino as Editor in Chief. Together we will work on creating a sustainable local news operation https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Molly O'Toole / @mollymotoole: Wow! Congrats @kyoshino ! https://twitter.com/...
Helaine Olen / @helaineolen: Congratulations to Baltimore .. and to @kyoshino! https://twitter.com/...
Ben Mathis-Lilley / @benmathislilley: Nonprofit model https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
David Lauter / @davidlauter: I've watched @kyoshino for more than 2 decades as her career has blossomed & she's developed into a smart, dedicated & tenacious editor. Bainum's decision to hire her is really good news for his new Baltimore venture. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sanya Kamidi / @skamidi: (personally I think a membership model would go a long way vs subscriptions/paywall if you're trying to build up name recognition + trust in a city) https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Risa Heller / @risabheller: This is awesome - hope it works- and hope it can be replicated. https://twitter.com/...
Bryn Stole / @brynstole: “The Banner is targeting a goal of 100,000 subscribers to break even” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ron Cassie / @ron_cassie: Stewart Bainum and deputy @WSJ Imtiaz Patel unveil plans for “Baltimore Banner” news site—hire Kimi Yoshino, top @latimes editor, to run it. David Simon to do a monthly column. Billionaire publisher, ex-NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg has been consulting... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dave Troy / @davetroy: Glad to see this moving forward. I'm always nervous about how to set culture in an effort like this; journalists don't get product, product people don't get journalism. Hoping they strike a good balance here and create something special. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sameer K Rao / @amancalledsrao: Looks like whatever happens with The Baltimore Banner, a chunk of its leaders are APIA, which is currently more than can be said for a lot of publications, local and otherwise https://twitter.com/...
Jim Friedlich / @jimfriedlich: Long may it wave! Welcome to the world to new digital local news non-profit Baltimore Banner and Ventoulis Institute for Local Journalism @ventoulisinst Congratulations to new Banner EIC @PulitzerPrizes winner @kyoshino and CEO, @wsj alum @ImtiazBaltNews https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Soderberg / @notrivia: Takoma Park, MD-born rich guy with non-local high-level hires (so far) and taking advice from Michael “Stop and Frisk” Bloomberg, why is Baltimore in the name of this news site exactly https://twitter.com/...
Kimi Yoshino / @kyoshino: Every city deserves better than what ‘vulture’ hedge fun Alden Capital is doing to its newspapers across the country. From this @mckaycoppins piece: “A vulture doesn't hold a wounded animal's head underwater. This is predatory.” https://www.theatlantic .com/ ...
Samantha Melbourneweaver / @samanthamvb: This is an incredible gain for the city of Baltimore. I can't say enough good things about @kyoshino as a manager, strategist and as a human. She's the best. She really is. I cannot wait to see her take on this amazing role. Meanwhile I'm...😭😭😭 😭 https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
YouTube names Kai Chuk “Podcast Lead”, a new role that will involve managing “the large volume of existing podcasts and relationships” — Following a report earlier this month that YouTube was looking to add a podcast-focused executive, it seems the company has found that person.
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: Kai Chuk is one of the many @youtube soldiers who have helped me stay sane while building @WatchMojo. If you are a podcaster & on the fence about betting on @google's podcast initiative, I assure you he will be a strong ally & fair partner! Well deserved! https://www.mediagazer.com/...
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Admix, which serves ads in games, e-sports, VR, and AR, raises a $25M Series B co-led by Elefund and DIP Capital — Last year we covered Adtech startup Admix's $7 million Series A funding. The London-based company brings ads to games, e-sports, virtual reality, and augmented reality.
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Sam Huber / @samhuber: Proud to announce our Series B🔥just the beginning🚀https://techcrunch.co m/ ...
Mathias Ockenfels / @ockenrock: Too many (good) news, hard to keep track & stay on top - crazy times! Next up: @admixplay and their Series B. Kudos to @SamHuber & the entire team for achieving this major milestones - well done! @speedinvest led the seed & invested in every round since! https://techcrunch.com/...
ExchangeWire PressBox / ExchangeWire.com: Admix Raises $25m Series B to Monetise the Metaverse with In-Play
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Internal presentation details Amazon's “Project Mic”, a live audio app that lets users host radio shows, complete with music, focused on the US initially — A new app is in the works — Amazon is next on the list of companies getting into the live audio game.
Discussion:
RAIN News, TechCrunch, @chandrarsrikant, @tomwarren, hotpodnews.com, Protocol, @matt, @chrismessina and @ashleyrcarman, more at Techmeme »
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Brad Hill / RAIN News: Rumor Fact(ory): Amazon building a live audio app to compete with ... everyone else
Chandra R. Srikanth / @chandrarsrikant: Clubhouse competitor when Clubhouse only lost relevance 🤔 https://twitter.com/...
Ashleycarman / hotpodnews.com: Amazon is building a live audio app
Nick Statt / Protocol: Even Amazon is building its own Clubhouse clone
Matt Deegan / @matt: The problem with all this stuff isn't the tech or even the idea, it's that it ends up being lots of poor quality hosts, bad production and a lack of understanding about listener behaviour. The participants do shows for themselves, not the audience. https://twitter.com/...
@chrismessina: Finally, a use case for Echo devices besides asking @Alexa99 what time it is, how's the weather, and setting kitchen timers! Also, I assume “reinventing radio” is really about audio advertising. #SocialAudio #VoiceComputing https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Carman / @ashleyrcarman: SCOOP: amazon is building a live audio app, codenamed project mic. listeners can interact with what they're hearing through alexa, and the key feature is mixing music and talk — so everyone can host a radio show. the idea is to reinvent radio. https://www.theverge.com/...
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
A look at IMDb TV, as Amazon hopes attracting Judge Judy and other stars, alongside a possible name change, will boost the free, ad-supported service — The company hopes a new court show starring the straight-talking judge will help turbocharge its free, ad-supported streaming platform, IMDb TV.
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@nytimesbusiness: Amazon has more than one streaming service, and hopes Judge Judy will help more people discover IMDb TV, its free, ad-supported platform https://www.nytimes.com/...
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Twitter reports Q3 revenue of $1.28B, up 37% YoY, monetizable DAUs of 211M, up 13% YoY, and says impact of Apple's ATT was less than expected — - Twitter reported revenue growth of 37% in the third quarter to $1.284 billion. — The company said Apple's privacy changes to iOS 14 had less of an impact than expected.
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Todd Spangler / Variety: Twitter Gains 5 Million Users in Q3, Misses Earnings Expectations on Litigation-Settlement Charge
Barbara Ortutay / Daily Herald: Twitter posts Q3 net loss due to lawsuit settlement
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Samantha Melbourneweaver, head of LAT's audience team, on the growing importance of such teams within newsrooms, plans for a “meme team”, and more — The Los Angeles Times announced a major expansion of its audience team earlier this month, saying they'll add …
Conor Clark / Gay Times:
BBC faces backlash for an article by staffer Caroline Lowbridge, partly based on a small social media survey, with critics calling the story transphobic — The BBC is facing backlash for publishing an article about lesbian women allegedly “being pressured into sex by some trans women.”
Discussion:
Trans Activism UK / @transactivismuk: We have written an open letter to the @BBC, regarding an article published on 26/10. We'd like to invite everyone, trans and cis, to take a moment to read through this letter, and sign it to show solidarity to those affected by the BBC's transmisogyny. https://openletter.earth/...
Ann Coates / @setoacnna: I've cited this in my complaint. Inaccuracy,- makes an assertion that has not been factually proved Bias- presents opinions of anti trans groups and individuals as evidence.
Ann Coates / @setoacnna: Harm and offence. Wil cause harm and offence trans people and their friends and relatives and an increase in hostility to trans women. Consent - The piece refers to individual trans women's writing, tweets /You tube output without their consent despite them declining to comment
Ann Coates / @setoacnna: Jesus H F*cking christ BBC. Please COMPLAIN about this, on the grounds it's terrible journalism. https://www.bbc.com/...
Jaimie / @jaimiealexkay: This is a properly disgraceful piece, it's damaging, poorly sourced and categorically wrong. https://www.google.com/...
Rachel Moss / @menysnoweballes: This BBC article is nonsense. There is no widespread movement to pressurise lesbians into sex with trans women. The “survey” this is based on was put out by someone who is actively seeking to create this narrative & was responded to by only 80 people whose... https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Moss / @menysnoweballes: identities can't be verified. Shock news: ANYONE can fill in an anonymous survey on twitter and claim to be a lesbian! That the BBC would commission 1000s of words on something framed as investigative journalism with such a thin evidence base is extremely troubling.
Ann Coates / @setoacnna: And by ‘warned’ she was warned that she was writing about an anti trans conspiracy theory, since no doubt someone will try to spin this as a threat.
Conor Clark / @conorclark: I read *that* BBC article in its entirety so you don't have to - here's my piece for GAY TIMES. ⬇️ https://twitter.com/...
Ann Coates / @setoacnna: Caroline Lowbridge was warned about her BBC piece today in 2020. She went ahead anyway. https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/... https://twitter.com/...
GAY / @gaytimes: The BBC is facing backlash for publishing an article about lesbian women allegedly “being pressured into sex by some trans women”. https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/...
Izzy Kamikaze / @izzykamikaze: “An article based on a social media poll by a group hostile to trans people with a headline that will drum up hatred is despicable.” https://twitter.com/...
Euan Yours / @euanyours: Caroline Lowbridge, the author of the horrendous BBC article today, is no longer on Twitter. But cached tweets show that she's been working on the article for over a year. Despite this, the article itself only speaks to three people who are supposedly affected by the issue. https://twitter.com/...
@novaramedia:
YouTube reinstates UK left-wing news outlet Novara Media's channel after deleting it without warning — Novara Media statement following the reinstatement of our YouTube channel. https://twitter.com/...
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