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Politico:

The recent crisis at The Washington Post suggests that CEO Will Lewis has no idea how the media operates, and his fast-growing credibility problem may undo him— The crisis at the newspaper suggests the publisher has no idea about how the media operates. — The oldest axiom in journalism …
Discussion:

David Folkenflik /
NPR: ‘Washington Post’ CEO tried to kill a story about himself. It wasn't the first time

Margaret Sullivan /
@sulliview: ‘Can he possibly be that dense?’ Here's @jackshafer in @politico: Growing Debacle for Will Lewis and the Washington Post. https://www.politico.com/...

Sally Jenkins /
@sallyjenx@threads.net: Matea Gold, Peter Wallsten, Phil Rucker, Krissah Thompson, Monica Norton, Mike Semel, Liz Seymour, Mark Smith, Craig Timberg, Scott Vance, David Shipley. These are some of the key editors of the @washingtonpost. Unassailable intelligence, unimpeachable integrity, round the clock work ethic, deep mutual loyalty. …

Ted Nesi /
@tednesi: “Attacking a reporter who has the goods also has a way of attracting additional reporters to the story, something Lewis must know.” https://www.politico.com/...

Matt McCleskey /
@mattsradio: “He can't very well put out the business fire that is consuming the Washington Post (it has lost $77 million in the past year) if his own pants are aflame.” https://www.politico.com/... @stevechapman13: “Nobody wants to work for an untrustworthy publisher.” https://www.politico.com/...

Alex Thompson /
@alexthomp: .@jackshafer: “If Bezos' hide is thick enough to endure the Post arrows, Lewis' should be, too.” https://www.politico.com/... @jbhavan: “Newsrooms are run by consent of the governed. You don't have to think your colleague is a good person in order to work effectively with them, but you must believe they are on the level with you.” https://www.politico.com/...

Farnaz Fassihi /
@farnazfassihi: The crisis at the Washington Post suggests the publisher Will Lewis has no idea about how the media operates. Will he be out before he ruins the Post, already he has lost all credibility with staff, readers & peers. https://www.politico.com/...

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: For Will Lewis “to imagine that the Post should not write about him is a pipe dream. This is a perk that not even the owner and his companies enjoy.” Indeed — owner Jeff Bezos has always said the Post should treat him just like anyone else https://www.politico.com/...

Dan Froomkin /
@froomkin: Even @jackshafer is skeptical of Will Lewis's longevity: “Depending on how the current crisis unwinds, Lewis' conduct and response may undo him. He can't very well put out the business fire that is consuming the Washington Post if his own pants are aflame.”

Sherrilyn Ifill /
@sherrilynifill@threads.net: Bezos needs to act quickly. It's unconscionable and irresponsible to trash the integrity of the Washington Post this way.

Mike Roe /
The Wrap: Washington Post Publisher Pitches His ‘Leadership’ and ‘Humility,’ Denies Pressuring Editor to Drop Story

Phillip Nieto /
Mediaite: NPR Media Reporter Accuses Washington Post CEO of Trying to Kill Negative Story By Dangling Exclusive Interview CNN: Washington Post publisher Will Lewis reportedly tried to kill story about his involvement in UK hacking scandal

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New York Times:

WaPo CEO Will Lewis and top editor Matt Murray send memos trying to reassure staff, and former CEO Patty Stonesifer visits the newsroom, after a week of tumult— Will Lewis, the chief executive, pledged to employees to ‘improve how well I listen,’ while Matt Murray, the new editor, tried to reassure staff members.

Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, New York Post, @normornstein, @karaswisher, @lion_tender, @aaschapiro, @jimwaterson, @dylanbyers, @michaelluo, @semaforben, @dkiesow@threads.net, @oliverdarcy@threads.net, @karlbode.bsky.social, @lionelbarber, @froomkin, @katie_robertson, @anneapplebaum2000@threads.net, @john_b_taylor@threads.net, @emilyreesnunn@threads.net, @profdaly@threads.net, Puck, The Daily Beast and The Wrap

Discussion:

Katherine Donlevy /
New York Post: Washington Post CEO Will Lewis running damage control after diversity hierarchy chaos: report

Norman Ornstein /
@normornstein: Anyone who knows or has followed @davidfolkenflik knows that he is a terrific, diligent and honorable reporter, among the best of the breed. That Lewis blew him off is or should be a firing offense. Smearing him? Compounding a serious felony.

Kara Swisher /
@karaswisher: Why a non fucked up and independent ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ matters: Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-constitutional’ vision for second term https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @lion_tender: @semaforben UK reporting too. Private Eye's last article on how phone hackers have cross-pollinated senior media leadership roles didn't bother to mention the Post at all — guess it's out of their coverage zone. [image]

Avi Asher-Schapiro /
@aaschapiro: @semaforben for a guy that seems to have actually served as an advisor to a British PM it's an interesting move to call another journalist an ‘activist,’ because you don't like his reporting.

Jim Waterson /
@jimwaterson: @semaforben Have people in the US noticed that Lewis was knighted because he was in Downing Street as some sort of informal adviser to Boris during 2022, trying to save the PM's career? In the room for most of the key decisions during final months.

Dylan Byers /
@dylanbyers: @jimwaterson @semaforben November '23: [image]

Michael Luo /
@michaelluo: Been wanting to inject a bit of context into the WaPo discussion this week. An important note is nearly every publisher has experienced similar precipitous declines in audience since 2020. No sugarcoating!

Ben Smith /
@semaforben: Remarkable how distant UK politics are from Washington. Boris Johnson got Lewis knighted — this isn't a huge secret. https://pressgazette.co.uk/...

Damon Kiesow /
@dkiesow@threads.net: Lost in the teeth-gnashing over the WaPo is that Jeff Bezos could absorb an annual $77 million loss for 129 years using just a single year's interest on his current fortune.

Oliver Darcy /
@oliverdarcy@threads.net: “He's really losing the newsroom on a large scale. People don't trust him, don't believe he has the same values and ethics as our journalists, and there are major concerns of how far he would go to censor or shut down coverage.” …

Karl Bode /
@karlbode.bsky.social: Lewis is 100% going to double down and unless Washington Post staff get very creative and very vocal (which self preservation incentivizes against) it's all going to get significantly worse [embedded post]

Lionel Barber /
@lionelbarber: Final thought post my Washington visit: by seeking to kill the phone hacking story, Will Lewis has now encouraged every US news organisation to nail him/the full story. A scoopmeister in his FT days, he may appreciate the irony. All this is a huge distraction as he tries to

Dan Froomkin /
@froomkin: This thing from Wil Lewis is not a “conciliatory” memo, as per NYT story. He's basically saying: I will engage in some performative listening and you will understand me better. There is no apology, no actual humility. Just a desire to move on. No dice. https://www.nytimes.com/...

Dan Froomkin /
@froomkin: Lewis quotes two kiss-ass emails, the “negative” one ending “we are rooting for you.” He has no idea how badly he has lost the newsroom. Also, self-congratulatory humility is not a thing. Also, you can't say “bygones” when you should be saying “bye”.

Katie Robertson /
@katie_robertson: More readable format of Will Lewis's memo to staff tonight here https://x.com/... [image]

Anne Applebaum /
@anneapplebaum2000@threads.net: Having worked on Fleet Street, at the Telegraph, and at the Washington Post, I am flabbergasted by the prospect of merging their cultures

John Taylor /
@john_b_taylor@threads.net: The @washingtonpost needs a new publisher. The current one should step down immediately. If the Graham family still owned this news organization they would have fired this publisher by now. I'm extremely disappointed, but not surprised that @jeffbezos hasn't taken that step himself. @profdaly@threads.net: As a former Postie, I can't help wondering: What would Kay Graham do? What would Ben Bradlee do? They were people who had character, guts, and a clear understanding of the meaning of journalism.

Dylan Byers /
Puck: License to Will — The latest anxieties and dueling narratives emanating from the expanding … Washington Post:

Will Lewis criticizes reports that he tried to suppress stories on his ties to a phone hacking case and calls David Folkenflik an activist, not a journalist— In a statement Thursday, William Lewis pushes back at media outlets' accounts of events leading up to Post editor Sally Buzbee's abrupt departure on Sunday.

Discussion:
@benmullin, The Guardian, Poynter, NewsLab, @loisbeckett, Politico, CNN, Slate, @maxwelltani, Politico, @bartongellman, @benmullin, @froomkin, @langfittnpr, @jackshafer, @wesleylowery, @jeremymbarr, @jayrosen_nyu, @freddydeknatel, @_cingraham, @edmundlee, @jbenton, @atrios, @bgrueskin, @arusbridger, @janinegibson, @claremalone, @dicktofel, New York Times, @jeffjarvis, @pressgazette, @dkiesow@threads.net, @digiphile@threads.net, @gbrockell@threads.net, The Handbasket, @dankennedy_nu@threads.net, @mattdpearce@threads.net, @sallyjenx@threads.net, Associated Press, @froomkin, @katie_robertson, @brianstelter, @jdawsey1, @ericuman, @wesleylowery, @davidfolkenflik, The Daily Beast, @davidgura@threads.net, @mollywoodpro@threads.net, HuffPost, Mediaite, Media Nation, @rationaldoge@hachyderm.io, Press Watch, @hoipollois.bsky.social, @juwanthecurator.bsky.social, The Wrap, Newser, SFGATE and Axios

Discussion:

Lois Beckett /
@loisbeckett: My @guardian colleagues report on the @washingtonpost's incoming British editor, and how the @telegraph changed during his time there: https://www.theguardian.com/ ... [image]

Oliver Darcy /
CNN: Morale plummets inside The Washington Post as staffers express alarm over publisher's attempts to squash story

Justin Peters /
Slate: The Baffling Disaster Unfolding at the Washington Post

Max Tani /
@maxwelltani: Matt Murray's email to WaPo staffers this evening congratulating staff on this week's coverage, including the Post's Lewis/Buzbee stories [image]

Barton Gellman /
@bartongellman: By the ineluctable force of the Streisand Effect, WP publisher Will Lewis, who tried to kill two stories about him, has dared investigative reporters to get to the bottom of his role (if any) in the UK phone hacking scandal. His newsroom should be first in line.

Ben Mullin /
@benmullin: NEW: Leaders of The Washington Post Guild sends a letter to Matt Murray asking him “to publicly state in a note to the newsroom that you won't allow our journalistic work to be influenced by other pressures, whether they are external or come from within the company itself.” [image]

Dan Froomkin /
@froomkin: Yes, indeed. Kudos to Washington Post media reporters @sarahellison and @ElaheIzadi for their bold reporting in exceedingly difficult circumstances. https://www.mediaite.com/...

Frank Langfitt /
@langfittnpr: @WashPost CEO Will Lewis calls @davidfolkenflik an “activist, not a journalist,” after David exposed Lewis' attempts to kill an embarrassing story. I've worked w/ David for 3 decades. He's a GREAT journalist. This is just one more example that proves it. @MorningEdition @NPR

Jack Shafer /
@jackshafer: @jeremymbarr ... is an excellent media reporter and no activist. Will Lewis is dead wrong about him.

Wesley /
@wesleylowery: you know, all of this wapo drama makes me really interested in reading some fresh, deep reporting and sweeping writing about Will Lewis role in the UK phone hacking scandal.

Jeremy Barr /
@jeremymbarr: In a new story, Washington Post publisher Will Lewis calls NPR media reporter @davidfolkenflik “an activist, not a journalist,” for writing that Lewis offered him a deal to not run a story about the UK hacking scandal in exchange for an interview https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... [image]

Jay Rosen /
@jayrosen_nyu: Were he wiser, Will Lewis would be focusing on one thing right now: losing the newsroom, meaning the confidence Washington Post journanlists have in him. And before calling @davidfolkenflik an “activist, not a journalist,” he would know what the Post newsroom thinks about that. @freddydeknatel: Calling a reporter “an activist, not a journalist” for reporting something you don't like is... very on brand for a former Murdoch media exec. This also isn't a denial at all of what @davidfolkenflik reported. The Will Lewis era kicking off at The Post! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... [image]

Christopher Ingraham /
@_cingraham: Post publisher Will Lewis now attempting to denigrate NPR's David Folkenflik as “an activist, not a journalist.” Notably he doesn't deny anything. Deeply unserious, hackish stuff here. Will be a massive blow to the Post's credibility if he stays on. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... [image]

Edmund Lee /
@edmundlee: This comment from Will Lewis on @davidfolkenflik is completely off base. David is one of the best media reporters out there. Period. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Joshua Benton /
@jbenton: Anyone who declares @davidfolkenflik “an activist, not a journalist” because he wrote a story about you you didn't like is prima facie not the person to run the @washingtonpost https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Bill Grueskin /
@bgrueskin: Calling Folkenflik “an activist, not a journalist” is straight from the Murdoch/Fox playbook. Somewhere in the Afterlife, Roger Ailes is softly muttering, “Well done, my man. Well done.”

Alan Rusbridger /
@arusbridger: It's not v classy to smear ⁦@davidfolkenflik⁩ as an “activist” rather than a journalist for writing a story which appears to be true. Smacks of Murdoch rather than ⁦@washingtonpost⁩. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Janine Gibson /
@janinegibson: The after effects of phone hacking. Still! “It is not the first time that Lewis has engaged in intense efforts to head off coverage about him in ways that many U.S. journalists would consider deeply inappropriate” https://www.npr.org/...

Clare Malone /
@claremalone: I mean, first of all, ⁦@davidfolkenflik⁩ is a journalist not an activist. But this is pretty stunning rhetoric for Lewis to use, purposefully weaponizing the current right wing discourse about NPR against an individual reporter. Uh! Alarm bells! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... [image]

Richard Tofel /
@dicktofel: Very bad sign here that WaPo's publisher has chosen to attack the integrity of ⁦@davidfolkenflik⁩ of ⁦@nprnews⁩. People long familiar with the US press beat know Folkenflik as a straight shooter and fair reporter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @jeffjarvis: The Post is forced to cover its own journalistically dubious boss, who issues traditionalists' favorite slander against critics, calling @davidfolkenflik “an activist, not a journalist.” He projects. Gift link: Post publisher draws more scrutiny after newsroom shake-up... @pressgazette: Lewis has responded calling Folkenflik “an activist, not a journalist” and saying he “had an off the record conversation with him... and some six months later he has dusted it down, and made up some excuse to make a story of a non-story” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Damon Kiesow /
@dkiesow@threads.net: Remember when Jeff Bezos had his phone hacked in a case involving the National Enquirer and allegedly a Saudi Crown prince? And yet.

Alex Howard /
@digiphile@threads.net: If Bezos wasn't reconsidering making William Lewis CEO & publisher of the @WashingtonPost because of his role in a phone hacking scandal & Sally Buzbee's resignation, he should now: calling @davidfolkenflik an “activist” will lose that newsroom. …

Gillian Brockell /
@gbrockell@threads.net: Even setting aside his editorial interference — which, let's be clear, that alone is disqualifying — his big idea to save the company is to create bigger newsroom silos and pivot to video??? That's the brilliant plan? Did no one tell him WaPo tried that a decade ago? (I was hired to edit video!) …

Gillian Brockell /
@gbrockell@threads.net: It seems like he wants to pivot to AI generated video? But like, laying off all my former video colleagues, who have won Pulitzers and Emmys galore, isn't gonna save you $70 million, bud. 🤷🏻 ♀️

Gillian Brockell /
@gbrockell@threads.net: Sincere congrats if he actually makes one-time payments happen, that could legit rake in some cash. But let's be honest: Hundreds of WaPo journalists and tens of thousands of WaPo readers have been asking for this for years. So like, anyone of us could be publisher?

Marisa Kabas /
The Handbasket: The Washington Post is in fascist-guided free fall

Dan Kennedy /
@dankennedy_nu@threads.net: Regarding the reported 70m drop in The Washington Post's audience, that's raw digital traffic, which really isn't worth all that much. At one time the Post had 3m paid subscribers, then it dropped to 2.5m. It would be very telling to know what it is today. JournalismThreads @mattdpearce@threads.net: The only real defense against what's happening at the Washington Post are my friends in the newsroom at the Post refusing to lower their ethical standards a millimeter. Let the culture eat the cronyism for lunch.

Sally Jenkins /
@sallyjenx@threads.net: Matt I share your sentiment but accuracy please: Matt Murray holds his position only because Sally Buzbee declined it, according to our own very good reporting. He is an excellent editor. It wasn't cronyism.

David Bauder /
Associated Press: After editor's departure, Washington Post's publisher faces questions about phone hacking stories

Dan Froomkin /
@froomkin: Lewis now giving his own reporters shit for their coverage of him. “On Wednesday, when a reporter approached him to follow up on scheduling an interview, he expressed his disapproval with The Post's recent reporting on its own leadership changes.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Fire him

Katie Robertson /
@katie_robertson: This story, by The Washington Post's @sarahellison and @ElaheIzadi about their own CEO and publisher, deserves to be read as well as applauded for the thorough way they have interrogated multiple claims https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter: The Washington Post's latest account of turmoil atop the Post is top-notch media reporting. By the time you finish reading, your eyebrows may be permanently raised. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Josh Dawsey /
@jdawsey1: I feel lucky to be colleagues with ⁦@sarahellison⁩ — a terrific reporter and person. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Eric Umansky /
@ericuman: Post CEO William Lewis does not like the Post's coverage of him. BTW, the Post's @sarahellison and @ElaheIzadi have been doing great coverage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... [image]

Wesley /
@wesleylowery: the criticism that someone is “an activist and not a journalist” has always been a nonsensical ad-hominem, as evidenced by the idea that it would ever apply to ⁦@davidfolkenflik⁩ of all people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

David Folkenflik /
@davidfolkenflik: Post publisher draws more scrutiny after newsroom shakeup — @washpost reports on firestorm, firewalls, and sometimes fiery chief exec https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

David Gura /
@davidgura@threads.net: Horsefeathers.

Molly Wood /
@mollywoodpro@threads.net: I can't get enough of this story for a lot of reasons, but one of them is how Lewis' behavior so obviously reveals the way Murdoch properties operate, which of course we already knew. Also, calling David Folkenflik an “activist” is such an anti-NPR right-wing tell. Like. Activist. *snort*

Marita Vlachou /
HuffPost: NPR Reporter Says WaPo CEO Offered Him Interview In Exchange For Killing Story

Colby Hall /
Mediaite: Washington Post Reporters Deliver Unflinching Piece on Claims Against New CEO Rattling Newsroom

Dan Kennedy /
Media Nation: Lewis keeps digging and demands a bigger shovel

Bruce MacDonald /
@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io: 'It is considered a third rail in journalism for business-side leaders to intervene or attempt to influence coverage in their own publications, particularly when it concerns them and their own interests, said Kathleen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. …

Dan Froomkin /
Press Watch: Will Lewis must go. The Washington Post publisher's actions cast doubt on his newsroom's credibility. @hoipollois.bsky.social: David Folkenflik is a beloved public radio journo who does the quirky stories that are fascinating. — It's a bad look for an incoming newspaper owner to get defensive and call journalists names, ESP one holding him to account. — It's like ... he opposes the mission of journalism. [embedded post] @juwanthecurator.bsky.social: Calling David Folkenflik an “activist” is like, to borrow a Brit for this analogy, calling Queen Elizabeth a “reformer” [embedded post]

Ross A. Lincoln /
The Wrap: Washington Post CEO Calls Reporter Who Exposed Quid Pro Quo Offer ‘an Activist, Not a Journalist’

Drew Magary /
SFGATE: The Washington Post is about to embrace the darkness

The Daily Beast:

A look at the methods future WaPo editor Robert Winnett used in the UK, including sending a reporter undercover to a government job and paying a source £100K+— RAT BOY'S TRAP — Rob Winnett, a U.K. journo vet is set to take over WaPo in the fall.

Discussion:
The Daily Beast, @farhip, @shakeelhashim, @jeffjarvis@threads.net and @_eileenie_@threads.net

Discussion:

Corbin Bolies /
The Daily Beast: WaPo CEO Will Lewis: Ask Me Anything Except About That Phone Hack Cover-Up

Paul Farhi /
@farhip: Yes, quite an endorsement: “In an endorsement that would probably make @washingtonpost journalists blanch, Winnett's appointment was [applauded] by Steve Bannon, who said he was “a great pick to make the fucking thing more relevant and readable”. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

Shakeel /
@shakeelhashim: one might say this is a good example of the failures of American journalism...

Jeff Jarvis /
@jeffjarvis@threads.net: Attention must also be paid to Will Lewis' editor from the ever-more-execrable Telegraph: https://www.theguardian.com/ ... @_eileenie_@threads.net: Anxieties are growing about whether what happened at the Daily Telegraph could be in store for the Post. A trusted paper once considered on the center-right, the Telegraph has tacked ever further to the fringes, embracing populist leaders and their ideas while Robert Winnett, now at WaPo, was in a key role. …

Semafor:

Fox News edited an interview with Donald Trump to remove a section where he appeared to back off a promise to declassify Jeffrey Epstein-related federal files— Fox News edited an interview with Donald Trump to remove a section in which he appeared to back off a promise to declassify federal files related …

Discussion:
The Wrap

Discussion:

NOTUS:

X remains a popular destination for people highly engaged in politics, with DC insiders reluctantly buying blue checks and candidates paying for cheap ads— While former President Donald Trump was actively being convicted by a jury of his peers in New York City last week …

Discussion:
@joanwestenberg@threads.net, @estherschindler, @aseitzwald, @danielschuman, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @aaron.rupar@threads.net, @mollyjongfast, @evanmcs, @jmart, @taragolshan, @evanmcs, @alex_roarty, @misc@mastodon.social, @tomgara@threads.net, @brianstelter@threads.net, @nickdavis1095@threads.net, @dankennedy_nu@threads.net, @chaddie94@threads.net, @astroattorneyastroimaging …, @ikepigott@threads.net, @tomgara@threads.net, @pet_czar@threads.net, @kbode@threads.net, @charlotteahenry@threads.net, @rmilliken439@threads.net, @timfullerton@threads.net, @mollyjongfast@threads.net, @digiphile@threads.net, @dankennedy_nu@threads.net, @noellemitchell@mstdn.social, @BruceMirken@mas.to and NBC News, more at Techmeme »

Discussion:

Joan Westenberg /
@joanwestenberg@threads.net: When you have over 100,000 followers, complaining about not being able to grow your account on Threads is absolutely a damn choice

Joan Westenberg /
@joanwestenberg@threads.net: I deleted my Twitter account with 30k followers back when it was still called Twitter. As a journo and writer, I have no interest in supporting Musk's propaganda machine. I started again on Threads and Mastodon with zero followers. I have worked every day to grow my audience all over again. …

Esther Schindler /
@estherschindler: Paid ads for political candidates are all over the platform, and politics insiders are secretly buying blue checks. “Campaigns are seeing it pay off,” said a national Democratic strategist working on campaigns this year. https://www.notus.org/...

Alex Seitz-Wald /
@aseitzwald: We are so back, baby. @EvanMcS and @Alex_Roarty are right and anyone who disagrees...probably won't see this because they're on Bluemastathreads. https://www.notus.org/...

Daniel Schuman /
@danielschuman: In the most meta moment I can imagine, I've unblocked Twitter so I can post a story from @NOTUSreports by @EvanMcS & @Alex_Roarty about Twitter in which I'm quoting on its use and future alongside @ChrisMurphyCT @JohnFetterman @MollyJongFast @igorbobic https://www.notus.org/...

Dan Gillmor /
@dangillmor@mastodon.social: It is an ongoing disgrace that journalists continue to support Musk's evil business. If you know a reporter who's using Twitter, please tell him/her to stop disrespecting the audience, and the craft. — https://www.notus.org/...

Aaron Rupar /
@aaron.rupar@threads.net: Some real talk about this platform: It has become clear to me that as an account that posts about politics, it's impossible to grow an audience. I regularly post stuff that gets thousands of likes and hundreds of shares but my following has been stuck for a year. …

Molly Jong-Fast /
@mollyjongfast: In which I complain a lot https://www.notus.org/... [image]

Evan McMorris-Santoro /
@evanmcs: Why you are seeing so many political ads on X: because X won but politics doesn't want to admit it. A story about Twitter w/@Alex_Roarty https://www.notus.org/... [image]

Jonathan Martin /
@jmart: Grand Bargain: Acknowledge there's no Twitter replacement if Elon stops trying to make “X” happen https://www.notus.org/...

Tara Golshan /
@taragolshan: Buying advertising on X is much cheaper, and the site remains a popular destination for people highly engaged in politics, many of whom are prime targets for donations. “Campaigns are seeing it pay off,” said a Dem strategist https://www.notus.org/...

Evan McMorris-Santoro /
@evanmcs: I started thinking about Twitter/X a lot after I heard some reporters freaking out that it might be exposed that they pay for the site — a site they see as so important to their lives that they actually pay for it! So we did a story about X's triumph https://www.notus.org/...

Alex Roarty /
@alex_roarty: It's 2024. Elon Musk Rules X. And the Political World Is Still Addicted. On Twitter's continued influence, with @EvanMcS https://www.notus.org/...

Jesse Baer /
@misc@mastodon.social: Seeing a lot of lamentation about this situation and, outside of tech projects, scant evidence of active efforts to change it — https://www.notus.org/...

Tom Gara /
@tomgara@threads.net: Threads, of course, was dead on arrival and then died again maybe a dozen times since. Twitter keeps dying. Facebook has been in a quantum superposition of both dead and dominant for Good knows how long now. I think Google was dying for a while there but it's domanint AI search results are about to kill the internet, so jury's still out on that one

Brian Stelter /
@brianstelter@threads.net: “The argument is over; the hellsite is back. It's a win for Musk, but one that people absolutely do not want to hand to him.”

Nick Davis /
@nickdavis1095@threads.net: As an alleged journalist, this guy's take is why our news media is by and large utter rubbish. It's not just the CEOs, it's the rank and file hacks that make the whole thing shite.

Dan Kennedy /
@dankennedy_nu@threads.net: There is some truth to this. In particular, folks who work in local news and the Mass. political community, two categories I need to follow, haven't budged.

Chad Smith /
@chaddie94@threads.net: Hey @mosseri , politics ( real news) is what people want. Stop throttling political posters

Linda Groezinger /
@astroattorneyastroimaging …: First there is no such thing as political conversation on Twitter. Second this is all about the egotistical little shitpile self-absorbed egotistical little reporters & journalists not following anyone else on threads but demanding that they have a big following.

Isaac Pigott /
@ikepigott@threads.net: Pretty pretty please come back to the site where my account has better traction

Tom Gara /
@tomgara@threads.net: This seems like a directionally correct take, Twitter is still extremely vibrant. But it's also rooted in the dumb media narrative obsession with places being either dead or dominant, dying or taking over. That's almost never true on the internet or in the economy in general @pet_czar@threads.net: I'll never understand why Threads didn't seize the opportunity to be the number one. It was theirs for the taking. People were begging for news, breaking events, and politics, and they ignored it. Go look at any comments under @mosseri posts, and you'll see the pleas. And all the money they would've made. @zuck

Karl Bode /
@kbode@threads.net: Twitter is now a right wing propaganda and spam mill run by an ignorant fascist, and I'm embarrassed for anybody (especially journalists) still using it, funding it, or helping lend it credibility

Charlotte Henry /
@charlotteahenry@threads.net: I wrote about this in my newsletter yesterday! Lack of news is stifling threads. https://newsletter.theaddition.net/ ...

Rebecca Milliken /
@rmilliken439@threads.net: I left twitter before I started on threads. It had become a shit show. I didn't see people I followed anymore. Nothing made sense. There was a bunch of right wing shit I don't want to see. It wasn't the same.

Tim Fullerton /
@timfullerton@threads.net: I simply do not understand spending all that time/resources to build a real-time app if you're not going to push news. That's what keeps platforms like this alive since it's always on. You cannot have a Twitter-like app when you deprioritize news. It simply will not work. …

Molly Jong-Fast /
@mollyjongfast@threads.net: I think I'm correct https://www.notus.org/...

Alex Howard /
@digiphile@threads.net: This report on who's using X/Twitter in DC by @evanmcs & @alex_roarty has human perspectives that reflect their arc, but is missing data on what % of “verifiedl journalists, politicians, nonprofits, officials, & federal agencies are paying-to-get-seen, for Tweetdeck, or for ads in 2024. …

Dan Kennedy /
@dankennedy_nu@threads.net: We don't need a news-friendly algorithm. We need lists so we can do it ourselves. @noellemitchell@mstdn.social: It's 2024. Elon Musk Rules X. And the Political World Is Still Addicted. — “Two years after words like Mastodon, BlueSky, Post and Threads became rallying cries and users declared war on the blue check, those who made Twitter what it was in the days before Musk have returned to using X.” …

Bruce Mirken /
@BruceMirken@mas.to: This is the most depressing article I've read in a while. I guess hanging out at the Nazi bar is just fine. #Twitter #ElonMusk — https://www.notus.org/...

BleepingComputer:

The New York Times confirms its internal source code and data leaked on 4chan after being stolen using an exposed GitHub token in January 2024— Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company's GitHub repositories …

Discussion:
@0xorbs: Damn they're just ripping everybody, makes sense, the US economies internal infrastructure online is ages old. Major companies are using systems from the 70s still. Also 98% of banking/ATM systems in the world use only 1 coding language & its devs are all retired, old or dead.

Jacky Liang /
@jjackyliang@threads.net: exposed tokens strike again @igorbrigadir: Wonder if it's just code or article metadata too? Would be a super interesting dataset to dig through!

Jason Lefkowitz /
@jalefkowit@vmst.io: The New York Times accidentally leaked one GitHub token, and it resulted in their complete 273GB source code library getting stolen — https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ... @vxunderground: Today on 4chan someone leaked the source code (?) to the New York Times. They leaked 270GB of data They wrote that the New York Times has 5,000+ source code repositories, with less than 30 being encrypted (?). It is 3,600,000 files in total Note: We haven't reviewed the data @BleepingComputer@infosec.exchange: Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company's GitHub repositories in January 2024, The Times confirmed to BleepingComputer. — https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ...

Jessica Lyons /
The Register: ‘New York Times source code’ leaks online via 4chan

Emre Çıtak /
Dataconomy: How did the Disney Club Penguin hack happen?

New York Times:

A look at the appeal of British editors to US media owners, perhaps hoping to import the British tradition of hard-nosed, scrappy journalism on a budget— As a historic presidential election looms, several of America's largest and most powerful newsrooms are now being led by English journalists.

Discussion:
Eric Anderson on LinkedIn, @gerryshih, @reevesjw, Screen Rant, @jgibsondem.bsky.social and Financial Times

Discussion:

Eric Anderson /
Eric Anderson on LinkedIn: Lower standards, lower pay, scrappier coverage: Is British-style journalism the solution to revive struggling U.S. legacy media? …

Gerry Shih /
@gerryshih: Overrated quote: “The industry's in crisis, and Brits are unflappable in crises” Underrated: “The end of empire is a very familiar scenario for us” https://www.nytimes.com/...

John Reeves /
@reevesjw: Here's a curious NYT piece on the increasing numbers of Brits running American newsrooms. The writers try to explain why this is happening but then ask only Brits —Joanna Coles, Tina Brown, and Anna Wintour. How might an American explain this? https://www.nytimes.com/...

Mary Kassel /
Screen Rant: 10 Great British Remakes of American TV Shows

Justin Gibson /
@jgibsondem.bsky.social: Having right-wing editors-in-chief take charge of the Washington Post and The Daily Beast is a bad omen for trans rights coverage, as both those outlets tend to mostly cover the issue in a respectful way. — www.assignedmedia.org/breaking- new... [embedded post]

Associated Press:

Vietnamese authorities arrest Truong Huy San, aka Huy Duc, accusing the prominent journalist of violating a national security law for recent Facebook posts— Authorities in Vietnam announced Friday that they have charged prominent journalist and historian Truong Huy San with violating …

Discussion:
@mothermushroom: Police Regime Today, June 7, 2024, all online newspapers in Vietnam reported the arrest of journalist Truong Huy San (also known as blogger Osin Huy Duc) and lawyer Tran Dinh Trien. Both were detained under Article 331 for “abusing freedom and democratic rights.” In observing @penamerica: PEN America urges Vietnamese authorities to immediately release writer Truong Huy San and drop the charges against him. San's arrest for his writing adds to the growing list of writers unjustly jailed in Vietnam for their expression. https://apnews.com/...

@penamerica:
During 2023, Vietnamese authorities jailed at least 19 writers for their expression. We reiterate calls to release writer Truong Huy San from his unjust detention, alongside all other writers unjustly jailed by the Vietnamese government. Read more: https://pen.org/... [image]

Nga Pham /
@ngahpham: Political blogger Truong Huy San, or Osin Huy Duc, was arrested last night. An ex- journalist, he's well known and well connected. Duc authored a book on contemporary Vietnam called ‘The Winning Side’. He was a Hubert Humphrey fellow in 2006 and a Nieman fellow in 2012. [image]

Andreas Harsono /
@andreasharsono: Police in Hanoi detained Huy Duc (the pen name of Truong Huy San) on June 1, and charged him with “abusing the rights to democracy and freedom to infringe upon the interests of the state,” a broad law that the police frequently use against critics https://www.hrw.org/... [image] Reporters Without Borders: Vietnam: Independent journalist taken away by the regime according to RSF sources

Stephanie Kaloi /
The Wrap: Vietnam Arrests Journalist Truong Huy San for Articles Posted on Facebook

TechCrunch:

LinkedIn will no longer allow advertisers to target EU users based on data obtained from their participation in LinkedIn Groups, following a complaint to the EU— LinkedIn has confirmed it will no longer allow advertisers to target users based on data gleaned from their participation in LinkedIn Groups.

Discussion:
European Commission and Reuters

The Canadian Press:

Google signs a deal with The Canadian Journalism Collective to distribute the CA$100M the company has promised to Canadian news companies in 2023— Google names group to dole out $100M to news — OTTAWA - Google announced which organization it has selected to distribute the $100 million …

Discussion: Google
Andrea Nemtin on LinkedIn, @hermida,

Discussion:

Andrea Nemtin /
Andrea Nemtin on LinkedIn: A huge win for community based journalism and our country. Thank you Erin Millar Sadia Zaman Christopher Lee and the many more folks who made this happen. …

Alfred Hermida /
@hermida: Here's the full list of Canadian news organisations applying for Google funding. The list runs to 24 pages and more than 500 entries. https://storage.googleapis.com/ ...

Alfred Hermida /
@hermida: Google is closing down its Google News Showcase program in Canada. Instead its only monetary contribution to journalism will be the CAD$100m per year agreed under the Bill C-18 exemption. https://blog.google/... Jaffer Zaidi / Google: How we're moving forward with the Canadian news ecosystem

Forbes:

AI search engine Perplexity is republishing parts of stories by Forbes and others, with nearly identical words and inadequate attribution, on its Pages feature— The startup, hailed as an AI-focused Google challenger, is republishing parts of exclusive stories from multiple publications …

Discussion:
Bloomberg, @johnpaczkowski, @carnage4life, @karaswisher, @crumbler@threads.net, Rashi Shrivastava on LinkedIn, @aravsrinivas, @iplayguitarbad, @eerkeboiten, @johnpaczkowski, @codemonkey_frfr, @johnpaczkowski and @ebakerwhite@threads.net, more at Techmeme »

Discussion:

Shirin Ghaffary /
Bloomberg: AI Startup Perplexity Says News Summary Tool Has ‘Rough Edges’

John Paczkowski /
@johnpaczkowski: Btw @AravSrinivas and @perplexity_ai, the two investigative stories you copied were behind our paywall. Is scraping and republishing premium stories another “rough edge” you're working on? That @markgurman Apple scoop was also paywalled.

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life: This is the fundamental challenge of news based business models. There are no IP laws protecting facts so your expensive reporting can always be coopted by a less scrupulous player. https://www.forbes.com/...

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life: Artificial intelligence or plagiarism as a service? Given you can't copyright facts, these AI aggregators can do simple rewrites that say “Forbes reported that <X>” which is what Business Insider has done for years to avoid plagiarism. This is likely how they'll “fix” this bug. [image]

Kara Swisher /
@karaswisher: Product feature sound nice, but us media types call it plagiarism @AravSrinivas

Casey Newton /
@crumbler@threads.net: This is a very good preview of what every AI company plans to do (and are often already doing) to the journalism industry

Rashi Shrivastava /
Rashi Shrivastava on LinkedIn: In April Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told me that “The web is free to crawl for anybody.” Now through its latest feature, Perplexity Pages …

Aravind Srinivas /
@aravsrinivas: @JohnPaczkowski @perplexity_ai Thanks for flagging this. The screenshot you shared is of a new product feature we released two weeks ago called “Perplexity Pages”. It has rough edges, and we are improving it with more feedback. The core Perplexity product has, from day one, had appropriate source attribution [image]

Marty McBecker /
@iplayguitarbad: @CodeMonkey_frfr ... No, you don't get to release a product and be like “oopsie!” They know exactly what their products are doing, they just do not care. If they cared, they'd test. They don't get to say “we intend to improve” when called out and expect to be taken in good faith. Losers. @eerkeboiten: @CodeMonkey_frfr ... You have to be kidding. Letting out tools that don't behave as intended out into the wild with flaccid assurances that there is every intention to fix the problems ....

John Paczkowski /
@johnpaczkowski: @AravSrinivas @perplexity_ai The screenshot you shared that has prominent sourcing at the top is not what I'm talking about. This page, which reads like an original news article, does not have appropriate attribution. https://www.perplexity.ai/...

John Paczkowski /
@johnpaczkowski: @AravSrinivas @perplexity_ai I didn't comment on your core product, or what others are doing. But this story, which you pushed to users, is little more than plagiarism. There is no clear attribution, just tiny logos where our work is treated with the same weight as reblogs. It's not “rough” it's theft

John Paczkowski /
@johnpaczkowski: @AravSrinivas @perplexity_ai You scraped and repurposed investigative reporting gathered over months, fleshed it out with re-blogs of the same story by other outlets, and do not even bother to name us in your regurgitated post beyond a"Sources" link, which is click to expand. [image] @codemonkey_frfr: @JohnPaczkowski ... I think the point @AravSrinivas was making was that this is not intended behavior and they have every intent of improving attribution. It would be akin to a reporter releasing an article on a new story and accidentally providing “misinformation” simply because the story is new.

John Paczkowski /
@johnpaczkowski: Our reporting on Eric Schmidt's stealth drone project was posted this AM by @perplexity_ai . It rips off most of our reporting. It cites us, and a few that reblogged us, as sources in the most easily ignored way possible. Note the views. #zeroclick https://www.forbes.com/... [image]

Emily Baker-White /