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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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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
Brian Naylor / NPR: Biden makes 2 key, boundary-breaking FCC nominations
Whitney Kimball / Gizmodo: Biden Nominates Net Neutrality Champion Jessica Rosenworcel to Head the FCC
@nicolewong: Our path to the future demands that we ensure EVERYONE can access and afford modern communications technology. I'm thrilled that @JRosenworcel @gigibsohn and @abdavidson will be leading us into that future. https://www.whitehouse.gov/...
@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/...
@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/...
Dave Pell / Substack: I've Got the Power — I couldn't publish Monday's edition of NextDraft because I was in the midst …
Rob Pegoraro / PCMag India: Biden Nominates Rosenworcel as FCC Chair
@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/ ...
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/...
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/ ...
Carolyn B. Maloney / @repmaloney: Congrats @JRosenworcelFCC on your nomination! Acting Chair Rosenworcel has been a champion for net neutrality, reducing the “homework gap,” and expanded telehealth. She will be the first woman to be permanent chair in @FCC's history. #InspiredByHer https://www.nytimes.com/...
Christopher J. Lewis / @chrisj_lewis: The list is long on folks who can say this! https://twitter.com/...
Marguerite Reardon / CNET: Biden nominates FCC's acting chair Rosenworcel for permanent post
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Huge news. But such a late appointment and so much to do. https://www.theverge.com/...
DJ Patil / @dpatil: This is an absolute excellent choice for @JRosenworcelFCC as Chair for the FCC. She's stellar. https://www.theverge.com/...
@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/...
Michael Weinberg / @mweinberg2d: Great day for an open internet! @gigibsohn nominated to be FCC commissioner! https://www.whitehouse.gov/...
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/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: I always enjoy a good West Hartford media story: @JRosenworcel, Hall High grad, will be the first female chair of the FCC. Trivia: her brother Brian is the drummer of Guster. https://www.nytimes.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/...
Brian Rosenworcel / @bowl_of_worcel: This is well deserved! Congratulations Jessica. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dieter Bohn / @backlon: This appointment moved at the average speed of Amercian Broadband internet :/ https://www.theverge.com/...
Andrew Wyrich / The Daily Dot: ‘A dream team for the future of the internet’: Biden goes big on FCC, signals return of net neutrality
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/...
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/...
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/...
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 / Nieman Lab: I'm in the consortium possessing the leaked Facebook documents. Let's dissolve it.
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
Josh Elman / @joshelman: Really interesting thread and probably my favorite post on this current news cycle https://twitter.com/...
Nora Benavidez / @attorneynora: Judicious redaction & wide dissemination for public access. Most of the world is largely unaware of the Facebook Papers. Access for a handful of bespoke reporters does nothing other than provide experts like me a firehouse in which a lot gets lost trickling out to a wider public. https://twitter.com/...
@annia: The Facebook Papers consortium does not contain a single non-Western news outlet. Not one. https://twitter.com/...
Katie Drummond / @katiedrumm: I'm with @Kantrowitz — Release the documents! https://www.niemanlab.org/...
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/...
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: @mat Sort of has to be a collective effort because of poor redacting and liability issues. I'll publish what I can but it's gonna take everyone.
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: This fucking sucks. https://twitter.com/...
Bats Honan / @mat: “what I do have is a view into a trove of documents that I'm sure belong in the public's hands” So publish them, Alex? https://twitter.com/...
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: Mark Zuckerberg: Why Isn't Anyone Talking About Facebook's Many Achievements?
@blackamazon: It's so very telling how much of this is centered around perspectives of people who have the option of choosing this rhetoric .. not the ones endangered by it . https://twitter.com/...
Kim Zetter / @kimzetter: “they're available to us in a Google Drive...and we are able to download them. But instead of a consortium of reporters sorting through them and writing stories...we should expand our efforts to focus on the responsible redaction and wide release of these documents.” 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/...
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/...
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/ ...
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad: Everything Facebook: It's Worse Than You Thought
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/...
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/...
Antoinette Siu / The Wrap: The Facebook Papers: What We Know So Far — And What Else Is Coming
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
René Walter / GOOD INTERNET: [Links] The Facebook Papers / Propagandamaschine Social Media / Entertainment-Value of Conspiracies
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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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
Cam Wilson / Crikey: Facebook has hurt the US. The real scandal is how it treats the rest of the world.
David Pierce / Protocol: Here are all the Facebook Papers stories
Kayla Gogarty / Media Matters for America: New data shows Facebook's groups problem goes way beyond “Stop the Steal”
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: WSJ reporter Horwitz to write book on Facebook
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/...
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’
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
@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/...
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
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/...
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/...
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: Top outlets (sort of) team up to make Facebook's awful month worse
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/...
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: Someone Tell Mark Zuckerberg Not to Google Himself Today
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
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?
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/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: @jameshamblin i mean you just ruled out all of the available business models james
Patrick Thornton / @pwthornton: @jameshamblin The general answer is a freemium model like The New York Times. The ads could be done away with as subs take on more and more of the revenue pie. People who don't want to pay can do with there free number of articles per month. The general answer is that news needs paywalls.
Shoshana Wodinsky / @swodinsky: @jameshamblin in all seriousness (and speaking as someone who writes about The Economics of Online for a living), what you're describing is literally impossible under capitalism. sure, you could have nonprofits, but that kind of falls under the behest of some millionaires thumb sooner or later
Patrick Thornton / @pwthornton: @CaseyNewton @jameshamblin If you don't have a business model, what are your favorite ways of supporting your business? It's an odd question.
James Hamblin / @jameshamblin: Imagine people really do want journalism, from experienced writers and editors, and they want it to be free and available to all, and widely representative, and without ads or weird data tracking, and without the potential bias of any billionaire stakeholder. How would that work?
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D / @rvawonk: I want to be supportive, but a new initiative to combat disinformation that is made up of media insiders, politicos, and ad/tech experts — but not a single scientist who studies disinformation — seems to be a symptom of the problem, not a solution to it. https://www.axios.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/...
Tara McGowan / @taraemcg: Also live today: @CourierNewsroom's new website💥 My favorite page? Our mission + values statement - we understand that in order to build trust- esp in these mistrusting times, we need to be transparent about who we are, what we stand for + why: Democracy. https://couriernewsroom.com/ ...
Tom Scocca / @tomscocca: Every tweet I've seen in my feed about this has been castigating the project https://twitter.com/...
Maya Kosoff / @mekosoff: getting a billionaire to invest in your initiative for “fact-based information” seems like a good grift if you can make it happen! https://www.axios.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/...
Kyle Tharp / @kylewilsontharp: So much money is invested in navel-gazing in the disinformation space. It's time to counter the trash fueled by Facebook and inject a little good information into the mix. There's no one better than @taraemcg to do that. https://twitter.com/...
David Plouffe / @davidplouffe: Combatting destructive disinformation with factual and compelling information is the major front in the battle to save our Democracy. And across so many issues, as we are reminded daily. Good for @taraemcg and team for getting in the trenches. https://www.axios.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/...
Billy Ball / @billy_k_ball: It won't be perfect. We'll nail some things. We'll miss the mark on others. We're not perfect. But we're real people, real North Carolinians, real journos who won't silently abide the lying. Thanks for listening. Monologue over. Support @CardinalAndPine, @GoodInfoInc. ❤️ #ncpol
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/...
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/...
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/...
Brian Flood / Fox News: Left-wing billionaires George Soros, Reid Hoffman reportedly bankroll new media firm to fight ‘disinformation’
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/...
Meghan McCarthy / @meghanmccarthy_: @ShaneGoldmacher What is not getting high ad revenue now? Reaching people who don't care about politics day to day with accurate political info. @taraemcg is trying out a new model. She gave up her former career to do it. I'm proud to be helping build it. Our democracy truly is at stake. 5/5
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/...
NanBOOdles / @nandoodles: The accusations are finally true: I'm part of a George Soros-backed initiative! I'm joining the advisory board of @GoodInfoInc, an org with a systematic plan to counter disinformation — starting with boosting local journalism. 👇🏼 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/...
@moonbeamvotes: Right wing billionaires already do this, you hack. You never heard of Rupert Murdoch? https://twitter.com/...
@cardinalandpine: A 🧵 from our managing editor, @Billy_K_Ball. 👇We'll do our best every day to seek out the truth in #NorthCarolina, and not just for the cities. We're coming to rural NC too. Thanks for reading and following. Stay in touch, North Carolina. #ncpol 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/...
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, @elaheizadi, @alicedreger, @washingtonpost, @seamushughes, @mattdpearce, @danielnmiller, @ckrewson, @kyoshino, @serps, @lenfestinst, @jbweinz, @emilyasullivan, @ted_williams, @imtiazbaltnews, @scottshanenyt, @niemanlab, @mollymotoole, @ron_cassie, @helaineolen, @ckrewson, @benmathislilley, @davidlauter, @skamidi, @risabheller, @blakehounshell, @brynstole, @dlboardman, @ron_cassie, @jbflint, @davetroy, Los Angeles Times, @amancalledsrao, @jimfriedlich, @notrivia, @kyoshino, @samanthamvb and @lpolgreen
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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/...
@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/ ...
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.
Evan Serpick / @serps: We're starting a Baltimore-based news outlet and dropping a million names but zero Black people. 🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩 https://twitter.com/...
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/ ...
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/ ...
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/ ...
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/ ...
@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/ ...
Molly O'Toole / @mollymotoole: Wow! Congrats @kyoshino ! https://twitter.com/...
Ron Cassie / @ron_cassie: Rather than “The Banner”—referencing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” penned by slave-owning lawyer Francis Scott Key—"The Baltimore Star"—an homage to the anti-slavery newspaper “The North Star” published by Maryland & Baltimore's Frederick Douglass would've been helluva lot better. https://twitter.com/...
Helaine Olen / @helaineolen: Congratulations to Baltimore .. and to @kyoshino! https://twitter.com/...
Chris Krewson / @ckrewson: Also the second high-profile LA Times departure to run a big nonprofit newsroom... Sewell being the first. :) 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/...
Blake Hounshell / @blakehounshell: Rooting for these guys — so important that local news startups find new models that can work https://twitter.com/...
Bryn Stole / @brynstole: “The Banner is targeting a goal of 100,000 subscribers to break even” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
David Boardman / @dlboardman: Hugely excited about this initiative, about @kyoshino as its journalism leader, and about the @lenfestinst's role as an advisory partner. https://twitter.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/ ...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: Congrats Kimi. If this guy hands you a resume steer clear. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.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/ ...
Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen: Great news for the citizens of Baltimore! https://twitter.com/...
Tarpley Hitt / Gawker:
Sources: images in thousands of BuzzFeed posts were taken down in 2020 to ward off copyright claims; staffers can restore images if they're credited or licensed — In 2013, BuzzFeed ran a story about Bradley Cooper wearing a knit beanie so large it hid his entire hairline and fell down his neck …
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@sarahsholder, @annehelen, @adambvary, @jennaguillaume, @tarpleyhitt, @baekdal, @mediaevan, @radbrowndads, @aaronpcalvin, @jayshams, @azafar, @stacey_grant91, @kateaurthur, @benjamingoggin and @perpetua
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Sarah Holder / @sarahsholder: i noticed this when i pulled up “Trypophobia Is A Real, Terrifying Thing, And You Definitely Have It” as i have for the past ~6 years to show people images of tiny holes and all the holes had disappeared https://www.buzzfeed.com/... https://www.gawker.com/...
Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen: This has been really frustrating when it comes to my old BuzzFeed features, and it's not fair that the replacement labor falls on already under-resourced photo/design team: https://www.gawker.com/...
Adam B. Vary / @adambvary: I've been agitating about this behind-the-scenes and on Twitter for about a year. And now it seems that the images on almost all my pre-2015 BuzzFeed stories have been restored. Thank you, Gawker! (Now plz help restore all my vanished EW dot com stories!) https://www.gawker.com/...
Jenna Guillaume / @jennaguillaume: Lol yep so many of my old posts are broken https://twitter.com/...
Tarpley / @tarpleyhitt: tried to find out why so many photos are missing in buzzfeed posts, turns out they deleted thousands of them last year without telling anyone https://www.gawker.com/...
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: I agree that communication needs to be better, but publishers should not use pictures that they don't have the copyright too, licensed, or have permission to use. So... if this has been such a widespread problem, then yes. Delete all of them. https://twitter.com/...
Evan DeSimone / @mediaevan: Last minute housekeeping before they SPAC. It's actually surprising that so many copyrighted images were still on the site for this long. https://www.gawker.com/...
Ahmed Ali Akbar / @radbrowndads: The idea seems to be avoiding copyright infringement - but they also deleted original artwork made by BuzzFeed staff like on the cover art by @MaritsaPatrinos on one of my personal essays from 2016. Deleting with a fire hose! https://www.buzzfeed.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@aaronpcalvin: Tried to share the “which Friday night lights character are you?” quiz I made in 2014 with my current coworkers and all the copyrighted images I used for it had disappeared 🙁 https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Shamsian / @jayshams: kind of surprised those copyrighted images remained on the site for so long https://www.gawker.com/...
Aylin Zafar / @azafar: i could understand why *some* of the images from my old posts might have been missing, but all the original photos/art from our brilliant in-house team? and photos i shot myself? honestly been rly heartbroken over that. salt in the wound after everything. https://www.gawker.com/...
Stacey Grant / @stacey_grant91: Yep. All my work for them (hundreds of articles) now doesn't have photos. 🙃 https://www.gawker.com/...
Kate Aurthur / @kateaurthur: ...here are my Top 3 stories I'm sad are still missing images (very grateful for the ones that have been restored!). This story about Lisa Kudrow and “The Comeback,” for which we shot original art. https://www.buzzfeed.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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Ashley Carman / The Verge: YouTube gets serious about podcasting
@watchmojo: RT @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/...
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/...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube Q3 ad revenue rose to $7.2B, up 43% YoY and up from $7B in Q2; music and Premium subscribers surpassed 50M — YouTube kept raking in huge ad bucks in the third quarter of 2021 and now counts more than 50 million subscribers worldwide for its music and YouTube Premium services.
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Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost: Google Nearly Doubles Profit, Capitalizing On Omnichannel Advertising
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: YouTube ad sales grew more than 40%. That was considered a disappointment! https://www.bloomberg.com/...
New York Times:
Netflix will bid for a 289-acre chunk of former US Army post Fort Monmouth in NJ, to create its second-largest production complex, behind ABQ Studios in NM — The streaming service said it would bid for a nearly 300-acre chunk of Fort Monmouth and it has the support of Gov. Phil Murphy.
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The Wrap, @senatorlorettaw, The Hill, Bloomberg, @caro, @richlightshed, @thedavidrindexp, @ghelmy and @mariskreizman
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Loretta Weinberg / @senatorlorettaw: So happy to see this bill which I prime sponsored and became law creating jobs in New Jersey. Big film shoot right here in Teaneck https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Williams / The Hill: Netflix looking to make New Jersey Army base new production facility
@caro: The only thing I care about in this news story is that there is allegedly an upcoming Apple TV+ production called “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” and Bill Murray is in it. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: ⚡️ Jerseywood doesnt have the same ring to it as Hollywood BUT 300-acres is 3x-4x the size of the major Hollywood studio lots @Netflix is playing to WIN $NFLX https://twitter.com/...
David Rind / @thedavidrindexp: you can't just slip this in here and not expect me to have many questions https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
YouTube TV adds Fox Nation as an optional add-on for $5.99/month, offering primetime opinion shows a day after they air on Fox News and more — Fox Nation, the subscription-based streaming service from Fox News Media, has debuted as an optional add-on on YouTube TV, a sign …
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Cortney O'Brien / Fox News: FOX Nation to launch on YouTube TV as add-on option
Jess Barnes / Cord Cutters News: YouTube TV Adds Fox Nation Add-On
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/ ...
Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: In-Game Ad Startup Admix Snags $25 Million Series B To Woo Brands And Accelerate Growth
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
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/...
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.
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@chandrarsrikant, @tomwarren, @jasuja, @matt, ScreenRant, @chrismessina, @ashleyrcarman, RAIN News, TechCrunch and Protocol, more at Techmeme »
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Chandra R. Srikanth / @chandrarsrikant: Clubhouse competitor when Clubhouse only lost relevance 🤔 https://twitter.com/...
Monica Jasuja / @jasuja: Isn't this a very old idea that came to life and died in 2021 sometime? Clubhouse's a16z investment got it the head start audio social networking needed but hasn't lived up to the promise, now has it? https://twitter.com/...
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/...
Brad Hill / RAIN News: Rumor Fact(ory): Amazon building a live audio app to compete with ... everyone else
Nick Statt / Protocol: Even Amazon is building its own Clubhouse clone
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