The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs and an object lesson in hubris for similarly unethical AI companies (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Mediagazer: The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs and an object lesson in hubris for similarly unethical AI companies (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

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Julian Assange pleads guilty to a conspiracy charge as part of a deal with the US, letting him go free after spending five years in a British prison— The WikiLeaks founder has been held in a prison outside London for the last five years and fought extradition to the United States.
Discussion: @wikileaks, The Guardian, CNN, New York Times, BBC, The Atlantic, @stella_assange, ScheerPost.com, CBS News, Associated Press, Ars Technica, Boing Boing, The i Paper, Al Jazeera, Fox News, Reason, Wired, @benburgis, @jimwaterson, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, @robertkennedyjr, NewsNation, Freedom of the Press …, ABC7, @stella_assange, @wikileaks, CAIR, @naughtfollowers@threads.net, @markcurtis30, Reporters Without Borders, @jamesrbuk, @mikebutcher, @naughtfollowers@threads.net, @jameeljaffer, Reuters, Press Association, @jack, @jamesrbuk, @sgurman, Engadget, Metro.co.uk, @jeffjarvis, @jeremyscahill, @autismcapital, @zcohencnn, @craigmokhiber, The Intercept, Financial Times, Mediaite, Rolling Stone, The Wrap, Deadline, The Daily Beast, The Register, Washington Examiner, @mbrauchli@threads.net, @lemonslayer.bsky.social, Deadline, @martinsfp@threads.net, Gizmodo, @joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org, Axios, New York Post, BBC, Politico, @lemonslayer.bsky.social, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Verge, Mumbrella, TechCrunch and Committee to Protect …

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@wikileaks: JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a CNN: Julian Assange agrees to plea deal with Biden administration that would allow him to avoid imprisonment in US

Charlie Savage /
New York Times: Assange's Plea Deal Sets a Chilling Precedent, but It Could Have Been Worse @stella_assange: Julian is free!!!! Words cannot express our immense gratitude to YOU- yes YOU, who have all mobilised for years and years to make this come true. THANK YOU. tHANK YOU. THANK YOU. Follow @WikiLeaks for more info soon... [video]

Diego Ramos /
ScheerPost.com: Julian Assange Is Free: Live Coverage Associated Press: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty in deal with US and return to Australia

Jon Brodkin /
Ars Technica: Julian Assange to plead guilty but is going home after long extradition fight

Kyriakos Petrakos /
The i Paper: ‘Rest, recreation and an autobiography’: Assange's former lawyer on what happens next

Srećko Horvat /
Al Jazeera: Julian Assange is on his way to freedom - but the fight is far from over

Liz Wolfe /
Reason: Julian Assange, a Free Man

Dell Cameron /
Wired: The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over

Ben Burgis /
@benburgis: Thank God. What's been done to this man is truly vile—an assault on press freedom certainly, but also just an obscenity in basic human terms.

Jim Waterson /
@jimwaterson: All international news stories eventually become Flight Radar stories. Looks as though news organisations still have a few hours to get someone to the Northern Mariana Islands. https://fr24.com/... [image]

Ben Lovejoy /
9to5Mac: Julian Assange freed after plea deal agreed with US DOJ

Katharine Gemmell /
Bloomberg: How Wikileaks Founder Assange Won Fight to Avoid Prison

Robert F. Kennedy Jr /
@robertkennedyjr: Julian Assange struck a plea deal and will go free! I am overjoyed. He's a generational hero. The bad news is that he had to plea guilty to conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense info. Which means the US security state succeeded in criminalizing journalism and NewsNation: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stops in Bangkok on his way to a US court and later freedom Freedom of the Press Foundation: Justice Dept. and Julian Assange reach plea deal in case that threatens press freedom ABC7: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's plane leaves Bangkok on his way to a US court and later freedom

@stella_assange:
Julian calling into Sydney from Stansted airport last night (his day time). #AssangeJet #AssangeFree [image]

Ibrahim Hooper /
CAIR: CAIR Welcomes Plea Deal to Set Julian Assange Free @naughtfollowers@threads.net: Questions for people? Whats the difference between Will Lewis and Julian Assange? 🤔

Mark Curtis /
@markcurtis30: Today I will be remembering all those British ‘journalists’ who failed to support Julian's release, and who showed themselves to be on the side of states committing crimes rather on the side of those revealing them. Next, we have to demolish the UK national media.

James Ball /
@jamesrbuk: The practical choice Assange faced after years in jail and years in the embassy before it was to take a ‘bad’ deal or face trial and detention in the USA. For the US, this was a chance to save face given Assange's sentence would likely be shorter than time served.

Mike Butcher /
@mikebutcher: It would appear the US has decided enough is enough. It's let Assange fly to Australia on a guilty plea for one charge and taken his years of incarceration in leu. https://www.bbc.com/...

@naughtfollowers@threads.net:
People have super weird blindspots over Assange. Even very smart people who supposedly believe in ethics and morals. Ethics don't mean sh*t if you're willing to jettison them in furtherance of what you think is a higher import. What Assange exposed was important in some instances. …

Jameel Jaffer /
@jameeljaffer: Good for Assange. Good for Biden. Bad for press freedom, but not the catastrophe it could have been. https://theintercept.com/...

James Ball /
@jamesrbuk: Absolutely *huge* development in the Assange case that could see him free from prison in the near future: he's on the cusp of a plea deal with US authorities. https://www.bbc.com/...

James Ball /
@jamesrbuk: Many journalists - myself included - and many who are no fans of Assange said the prosecution was a risk to press freedom. A plea deal doesn't change that, and is something Assange would only agree through sheer necessity.

Sadie Gurman /
@sgurman: NEW: Julian Assange is set to plead guilty in his espionage case, in an agreement that will allow the WikiLeaks founder to walk free after spending more than a decade holed up and imprisoned in London, largely to avoid being sent to the U.S. w/@aviswanatha https://www.wsj.com/...

Gergana Krasteva /
Metro.co.uk: How Julian Assange went from facing stealth rape claims to private jet to freedom @jeffjarvis: A proper outcome involving a difficult case and person, I think: Julian Assange expected to plead guilty to US charge in deal that could end his imprisonment - court filing https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

Jeremy Scahill /
@jeremyscahill: Julian Assange has finally been freed. Until yesterday, there was a strong possibility he would have died in prison and this deal no doubt will anger some very powerful people. He shouldn't have had to plead to any charges but nonetheless his liberation is a moment to celebrate. @autismcapital: 🚨 BREAKING: Julian Assange strikes a plea deal with the US which sentences him to the time he already served in British prison. He is now free to return to Australia, where he was born. [image]

Zachary Cohen /
@zcohencnn: News: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge related to his alleged role in one of the largest US government breaches of classified material. Deal w/ DOJ will allow him to avoid imprisonment in US, per court docs. https://www.cnn.com/...

Craig Mokhiber /
@craigmokhiber: Political prisoner Julian Assange, persecuted for years for the crime of journalism, simply for telling the truth about U.S. war crimes, is free. A moment of light in an age of darkness .

Stefania Palma /
Financial Times: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange expected to be freed in US plea deal

Charisma Madarang /
Rolling Stone: Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange to Plead Guilty In Exchange for Release

Sharon Knolle /
The Wrap: Julian Assange Takes US Justice Department Deal, Avoids Additional Jail Time

Denise Petski /
Deadline: Julian Assange To Plead Guilty In Exchange For Release

Simon Sharwood /
The Register: Julian Assange to go free in guilty plea deal with US

Brady Knox /
Washington Examiner: Julian Assange reaches plea deal with DOJ that would grant him release from prison

Marcus Brauchli /
@mbrauchli@threads.net: Assange has many odious qualities . But the U.S. government's attempt to prosecute a foreign national for persuading a U.S. citizen to give up classified documents that never should have been in a low-level soldier's hands was plainly a failure of U.S. secrets handling more than a case of spying. … @lemonslayer.bsky.social: Seems that after the proceedings are complete Assange will then immediately fly to Australia. Guessing all of this was part of the deal. 👇 — storage.courtlistener.com/recap/ gov.us... [image]

Melanie Goodfellow /
Deadline: U.S. Authorities Drop Julian Assange Extradition Demand & Strike Plea Deal; Outcome Hailed As “Historic Victory” For Press Freedom @martinsfp@threads.net: Wow. “In return for pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Obtain and Disclose National Defence Information, Assange will be sentenced to time served, 62 months - the time he has already spent in a British prison. ” He will then be free to return to Australia, the country of his birth.

Joe Ortiz /
@joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org: I'm totally shocked that this is going to be all over soon. What the US did to #Assange (like him or hate him) is so cruel and vile not to mention that this was a major attack on human rights and press freedom. And he's going to walk free after all of the hell he's been through over the past decade (if you include his embassy stay). …

Natalie Daher /
Axios: Julian Assange strikes plea deal with U.S.

Allie Griffin /
New York Post: Julian Assange expected to be freed after 5 years in UK prison under US plea deal

Bernd Debusmann Jr /
BBC: Julian Assange to plead guilty in deal with US

@lemonslayer.bsky.social:
Here is the court document. 👇 — storage.courtlistener.com/recap/ gov.us...

Richard Lawler /
The Verge: Julian Assange is ‘free,’ will plead guilty to leaking national security secrets

Nathan Jolly /
Mumbrella: ‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks releases statement as Assange leaves UK prison

Anna Heim /
TechCrunch: Julian Assange is free

The Verge:

Q&A with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on updating the company's famous culture memo, its advertising ambitions, bundling, game streaming, AI use cases, and more— The co-CEO who replaced co-founder Reed Hastings details the company's new culture memo, its ad ambitions, and what's next for Netflix.

Discussion:
Business Insider, Next TV, Variety and New York Times, more at Techmeme »

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Jaures Yip /
Business Insider: Netflix co-CEO explains why the company keeps increasing prices for ad-free plans

Daniel Frankel /
Next TV: Netflix Releases Version 4.0 of Its ‘Culture Memo’: Shorter New Iteration Provides Some Boundaries to Abject Personal Freedom

Todd Spangler /
Variety: Netflix Updates Its Famous Culture Memo: ‘Netflix Sucks Today Compared to Where We Can Be Tomorrow’

Nicole Sperling /
New York Times: Responsibility Over Freedom: How Netflix's Culture Has Changed

TechCrunch:

The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs and an object lesson in hubris for similarly unethical AI companies— Like many AI companies, Udio and Suno relied on large-scale theft to create their generative AI models.

Discussion:
Shane Zammit on LinkedIn, Music Business Worldwide, CMU, Boing Boing and Rolling Stone, more at Techmeme »

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Shane Zammit /
Shane Zammit on LinkedIn: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has initiated lawsuits against generative music startups Udio and Suno, claiming large-scale copyright infringement. …

Daniel Tencer /
Music Business Worldwide: HOW THE MAJOR LABELS PLAN TO COST SUNO AND UDIO BILLIONS (AND WHY IT ALL RESTS ON MICHAEL BUBLÉ)

Mark Frauenfelder /
Boing Boing: RIAA sues AI music startups over copyright infringement claims

Ethan Millman /
Rolling Stone: AI's Most Ambitious Music Generators Accused of ‘Massive’ Infringement In New Lawsuit

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The Verge:
The RIAA files two copyright-infringement cases against the AI music services Suno and Udio; Udio was used to create the viral song BBL Drizzy

Discussion:
Plagiarism Today, Washington Examiner, Engadget, Vibe, Shelly Palmer, RIAA, Wired, @abelowrob, @robertfreundlaw, @riaa, @tb_num, @mitch_glazier, @komaniecki_r, ABC7, @future_of_music, @kerrymuzzey, @maximumadhd, @jess_miers, @riaa, @rachelmetz, @rahll, @rachelmetz, @emilylazar_sm, @ednewtonrex, @human_artistry, @dada_drummer, Inside Radio, @patrickmoorhead, @human_artistry, @mattbelloni, @justinebateman, @johnpstrohm, @dada_drummer, @rachelmetz, @riaa, @lucas_shaw, @jason_koebler, @carnage4life, Bloomberg, The Register, MediaPost, Music Technology Policy, Ars Technica, Quartz, Consequence, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @miasato.2@threads.net, @reckless1280@threads.net, 404 Media, Drew Thurlow on LinkedIn, Wall Street Journal, Digital Music News, CNN, @andybaio@xoxo.zone, Fast Company, Music Ally, CMU, Reuters, Music Business Worldwide, Billboard and Variety, more at Techmeme »

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Jonathan Bailey /
Plagiarism Today: 3 Count: Artificial Music

Tim Collins /
Washington Examiner: RIAA and major music labels sue AI startups for ‘en masse’ infringement

Will Shanklin /
Engadget: Record labels sue AI music generators for ‘massive infringement of recorded music’ Shelly Palmer: Here We Go Again: Major Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators for Copyright Infringement RIAA: Record Companies Bring Landmark Cases for Responsible AI AgainstSuno and Udio in Boston and New York Federal Courts, Respectively

Kate Knibbs /
Wired: US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement

Rob Abelow /
@abelowrob: BREAKING: All 3 major labels are suing AI music generators Suno & Udio. The RIAA is coordinating the lawsuits on behalf of Sony, Warner & UMG. Hammer, dropped. Here's the details: Today, two federal copyright infringement lawsuits were filed: 1. against Suno in the District

Rob Freund /
@robertfreundlaw: Good news! Major record labels sued Suno and Udio today. The labels accuse both Plagiarism Machines of training their services on “copyrighted sound recording en masse.” Both services refused to disclose their training source materials, citing “trade secrets” and “public data” [image] @riaa: “Unlicensed services like Suno and Udio that claim it's ‘fair’ to copy an artist's life's work and exploit it for their own profit without consent or pay set back the promise of genuinely innovative AI for us all.” RIAA Chairman and CEO @mitch_glazier

Tommy Beringer /
@tb_num: The music industry is actually fine with AI believe it or not but they aren't fine with stealing. Before the dust settles new legal revenue streams will emerge from this AND/OR in a plot twist we might even see the record labels acquire Udio and Suno. I hear people compare

Mitch Glazier /
@mitch_glazier: (1/8) Today, a group of music companies filed important new lawsuits against two AI music companies, Suno and Udio. I explained why this case matters so much in Billboard today. https://www.billboard.com/...

Robert Komaniecki /
@komaniecki_r: This is good but “Major record labels” are not exactly the people we should be looking towards to define intellectual property, historically speaking @future_of_music: As expected, the major labels have sued two AI music companies, Suno and Udio, allleging copyright infringement with intent to “saturate the market with machine-generated content that will directly compete with, cheapen and ultimately drown out the genuine sound recordings.”

Kerry Muzzey /
@kerrymuzzey: Are we placing bets that the labels just want part ownership, Suno & Udio go public, labels sell their shares and make billions? I don't think labels are suing to stop it, I think labels are suing to get in on the action. Too cynical? @maximumadhd: Good, Generative AI usage needs to be dragged through the mud so it becomes too much of a liability to pursue these kinds of ventures. We need to focus on using AI technology for what it should be used for: as a tool to help accelerate dull monotonous work rather than completely

Jess Miers /
@jess_miers: Copyright infringement claim for making too much music and creating too much competition [image]

@riaa:
Name that tune 🎶! Sound familiar? That's because @suno_ai_ is training AI on copyrighted works... 🎧: https://suno.com/... 🎧: https://suno.com/... 🎧: https://suno.com/... Learn more about our legal action against Suno: https://www.riaa.com/... [image]

Rachel Metz /
@rachelmetz: A hot one at the intersection of music and AI from me and @ashleyrcarman: record labels including Sony, Warner, and UMG are suing music-generating startups Suno and Udio for training their AI models on the labels' songs. Gift link! https://www.bloomberg.com/...

Reid Southen /
@rahll: That was fast. Still waiting for the film studios to catch up. https://www.wired.com/... [image]

Rachel Metz /
@rachelmetz: The labels are asking for damages of as much as $150k per work infringed; considering how large datasets must be to train this kind of AI system, that could, potentially, mean the startups owe a LOT of money if a judge finds their practices don't amount to fair use. @emilylazar_sm: Hey big tech.... Love ya but please stop f*cking over the creatives. All 3 major labels are suing AI music generators Suno & Udio. The RIAA is coordinating the lawsuits on behalf of Sony, Warner & UMG claiming the generators trained their AI on copyrighted music. Music isn't

Ed Newton-Rex /
@ednewtonrex: The 3 major record labels are suing AI music companies Suno and Udio. Here are the two lawsuits in full. - They accuse Suno & Udio of “willful copyright infringement on an almost unimaginable scale” - They provide evidence that both companies trained on their music, including @human_artistry: Statement from HAC Senior Advisor, Dr. Moiya McTier, on the @RIAA lawsuit against AI giants Suno & Udio, which alleges widespread copyright infringement with damning evidence: [image]

Damon K /
@dada_drummer: Here we go... will they cut us a better deal than Napster-to-Apple-to-Spotify...?

Patrick Moorhead /
@patrickmoorhead: @rachelmetz @ashleyrcarman Amazing how closely this trend follows the early search days. (I worked at AltaVista, the losing search engine.)

@human_artistry:
🚨Huge news: @RIAA has filed suit against two AI giants for “mass infringement” of copyright, outlining damning evidence of widespread copying. This is a major step forward in the fight for responsible AI in creative spaces 👏

Matthew Belloni /
@mattbelloni: Your move, Hollywood...

Justine Bateman /
@justinebateman: Ironically, these are arms of two of the biggest film studios (one formerly and the other currently): Universal Music Group and Sony Music. The film studios, on the other hand, are desperate to use #AI, so they do nothing to stop their own copyright infringement.

John P. Strohm /
@johnpstrohm: This is great news. I'm skeptical that anyone in this space wants a federal appeals court ruling on Fair Use for AI training. But any platform that trains on music without permission to roll the dice on Fair Use is in bad faith and should not be in the music space at all.

Damon K /
@dada_drummer: What's crucial to me is for all of us to ask the major labels: are you acting here to protect artists? Or are you acting to protect your copyrights? Cause the history of major labels and streaming technology has proven that these two interests are not always the same...

Rachel Metz /
@rachelmetz: UPDATE: Suno cofounder/ceo Mikey Shulman told us in a statement that Suno's technology is “transformative,” and “designed to generate completely new outputs, not to memorize and regurgitate pre-existing content” (he also noted that it doesn't let people prompt w/ artist names.)⤵️ [image]

@riaa:
We stand behind artists and their invaluable creations. The RIAA has filed two major copyright infringement lawsuits against @suno_ai_ and @udiomusic for using copyrighted sound recordings without permission.

@riaa:
Tell me you use copyrighted recordings without telling me you use copyrighted recordings... 🎵 Listen to these AI samples from @udiomusic... Oh wait, they took them down. But check out the prompts used to create the recordings. Find out more: https://www.riaa.com/... [image]

@riaa:
“These are straightforward cases of copyright infringement involving unlicensed copying of sound recordings on a massive scale,” RIAA chief legal officer Ken Doroshow

Lucas Shaw /
@lucas_shaw: 🚨 Record labels are suing two of the biggest music AI startups for violating their copyrights. @ashleyrcarman / @rachelmetz https://www.bloomberg.com/...

Jason Koebler /
@jason_koebler: Pretty amazing stuff from the Udio/Suno lawsuits. Record labels were able to basically recreate versions of very famous songs with highly specific prompts, then linked to them in the lawsuits. I made a short compilation here: https://www.404media.co/... [video]

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life: The major record labels are suing two AI music companies for training their LLMs on copyrighted music. The companies responded by saying the music they trained their AIs on are “confidential business information”. 🙃 [image]

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life: AI training data on copyrighted works then competing with those same workers is becoming a theme. We're already seeing in it happen with content marketers but it won't stop there. https://www.theverge.com/...

Matthew Connatser /
The Register: Record labels gang up to sue AI music generator duo into utter oblivion

Chris Castle /
Music Technology Policy: The Fire Next Time: Labels Bring the Heat against Suno and Udio for Responsible AI

Britney Nguyen /
Quartz: Record labels are suing AI music companies for ‘en masse’ copyright infringement

Kevin Beaumont /
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social: lol, not a surprise Suno are being sued. I used Suno via Microsoft Copilot (it's baked in) to make the Snowflake happy little cyber incident song - but while doing so realised they appear to have trained it on big songs, as it generates banger after banger. — https://www.404media.co/...

Mia Sato /
@miasato.2@threads.net: New: The biggest music labels are suing two AI companies — Udio, the tool behind the viral BBL Drizzy song, and Suno, which has a Microsoft partnership https://www.theverge.com/...

Nilay Patel /
@reckless1280@threads.net: The entire AI industry rests on a copyright house of cards, part 204349 https://www.theverge.com/...

Drew Thurlow /
Drew Thurlow on LinkedIn: In a surprise to no one, Suno & Udio are being sued by the Recording Industry Association of America® (RIAA) for copyright infringement. …

Paul Resnikoff /
Digital Music News: UMG, WMG, Sony Music File Litigation Against AI Music Services Suno and Udio for Massive Copyright Infringement

Samantha Murphy Kelly /
CNN: Viral ‘BBL Drizzy’ AI Drake diss track company gets sued

Andy Baio /
@andybaio@xoxo.zone: A coalition of major record labels, including UMG, Capitol, Atlantic, Rhino, and Warner, is suing the two biggest AI music startups, Suno and Udio, for mass copyright infringement. This is the most well-funded defendant so far to try to stop commercial services from training AI models on their work, and looking to set a precedent that it isn't fair use. https://www.theverge.com/...

Jessica Bursztynsky /
Fast Company: Record labels sue AI companies Suno and Uncharted Labs

Stuart Dredge /
Music Ally: Labels body RIAA sues AI music firms Suno and Udio for copyright infringement

Chris Cooke /
CMU: Suno and Udio's “lawless” behaviour cheapens human creativity with sound-a-likes and knock-offs says watershed RIAA lawsuit

Daniel Tencer /
Music Business Worldwide: MAJOR RECORD COMPANIES SUE AI MUSIC GENERATORS SUNO, UDIO FOR ‘MASS INFRINGEMENT’ OF COPYRIGHT

Kristin Robinson /
Billboard: Major Labels Sue AI Firms Suno and Udio for Alleged Copyright Infringement

Financial Times:

Polish state energy group Orlen plans to sell its media company Polska Press, acquired under the former right-wing government, to show political independence— Orlen's acquisition of newspaper business under former rightwing government has drawn criticism

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@raphaelminder, @j_jaraczewski, @cookcommunicat1, @bdstanley, Telewizja Polska S.A and @staunovo

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Raphael Minder /
@raphaelminder: Orlen, Poland's gas and oil company, will sell its “absolutely unnecessary” media company Polska Press. New CEO also pledges to resign if Tusk government interferes in his strategy. https://www.ft.com/... via @ft

Jakub Jaraczewski /
@j_jaraczewski: @BDStanley @pswidlicki I am old enough to remember Obajtek claiming that buying Polska Press will help Orlen leverage big data competences in a mutispectoral environment, or some other nonsense. @cookcommunicat1: Poland's Orlen must be the only oil and gas company in the free world to have owned its own media business...

Ben Stanley /
@bdstanley: Turns out an energy giant *doesn't* actually have a strictly commercial need for a large printing and distribution network that just so happens to make it possible to print and distribute pro-government propaganda.

David Kennedy /
Telewizja Polska S.A: Polish energy giant says its media group is for sale

Variety:

MTV appears to have fully pulled down MTV News website, scrubbing two decades' worth of content from its archives; Paramount Global shut down MTV News in 2023— Some two decades' worth of content published on MTVNews.com is no longer available after MTV appears to have fully pulled down the site.

Discussion:
@patrickhosken, The Ankler, @jill_krajewski@threads.net, @alannabennett, Cord Cutters News, @annetdonahue, @crystalbell, Angela Matusik on LinkedIn, @stephentotilo, @sam_piroton, The Wrap, @lymoula, @jemaswad, @meelztv, @bloodravenlib@mas.to, @tirhakahlove, @hiattb, @brendonkleen14, @jhoffman, @film_girl, @kevdgrussing, TVNewsCheck, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, Consequence, The A.V. Club, @martinsfp@threads.net, @kalihays1@threads.net, @kashana.bsky.social, @lakewitchhouse.bsky.social, @jaytingle.bsky.social, @smi.bsky.social, @greene.haus, @mirrorman.bsky.social and The Verge

Discussion:

Patrick Hosken /
@patrickhosken: So, https://mtvnews.com/ no longer exists. Eight years of my life are gone without a trace. All because it didn't fit some executives' bottom lines. Infuriating is too small a word

Sean McNulty /
The Ankler: ☀️'Shrek' Revived at UNI Amid Streaming Animation Boom

Jill Krajewski /
@jill_krajewski@threads.net: this just happened to mtv and will happen to everyone 🙃 @alannabennett: Archives should never disappear. Full-stop. This is what they mean when they say we're in a digital dark age. There will be no evidence of the incredible cultural journalism that so many people contributed to. If this happens with BuzzFeed News...I STG https://x.com/...

Luke Bouma /
Cord Cutters News: Paramount Deletes 20 Years of MTV News Articles as It Shuts Down Its Website

Anne T Donahue /
@annetdonahue: shameful. and relatedly: mtv news never did get around to formally letting me go alongside everybody in 2017, so i still consider myself milton from office space, stuck somewhere in the basement.

Crystal Bell /
@crystalbell: sickening (derogatory) to see the entire @mtvnews archive wiped from the internet. decades of music history gone...including some very early k-pop stories.

Angela Matusik /
Angela Matusik on LinkedIn: Another vast chunk of cultural history gone because digital archives don't fit in shifting corporate culture. What is happening to us? …

Stephen Totilo /
@stephentotilo: Found some of my articles on the Wayback Machine, but this really sucks. My four years of games coverage—a who's who of interview subjects—more or less gone. And that's just my little gaming corner of a larger output of great coverage of music, movies, politics and more

Ross A. Lincoln /
The Wrap: MTV News Website Shuttered, Archives Deleted @lymoula: there was archived stuff on mtv news that was the only way i was able to verify certain key pieces of information throughout the nearly 5 years of doing @RapRankings. this is a massive loss. https://x.com/...

Jem Aswad /
@jemaswad: This is a travesty: Decades of https://mtvnews.com/ have disappeared from the internet, just like that. My heart goes out to my colleagues, especially @teamshaheem, whose years of Mixtape Mondays and beyond are such an important part of hip-hop history. @meelztv: We did an episode of Retro Diaries to talk about JAY-Z's 2002 and the primary resource for it was MTV News. The archived articles by Shaheem Reid and others were great first hand resources on how it all went down. They might as well pack MTV up as a whole at this point.

A. Rivera /
@bloodravenlib@mas.to: Another net loss. The CMT site is also gone. — >MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline — https://variety.com/... #MTv #CMT #preservation #archives #news #Internet #history @tirhakahlove: mtvnews was my first longish term gig. first place i had a consistent check and the first sign that i could do this for the long term. damn near everyone i worked with there is making big waves in media/art against all the odds. this shit stinks.

Brian Hiatt /
@hiattb: This is disgraceful. They've completely wiped the MTV News archive. Decades of pop culture history research material gone, and why? https://x.com/...

Brendon Kleen /
@brendonkleen14: The post-Grantland crew that went to MTV News did insane, awesome work and deserved way more time to build Paramount keeps taking Ls

Jordan Hoffman /
@jhoffman: Everything published at MTV News (or Film dot com) has been eliminated. My oral history of GALAXY QUEST lives only at the Wayback Machine archive now. https://web.archive.org/...

Christina Warren /
@film_girl: This whole trend of nuking archives or even delisting stuff from Google for SEO reasons that aren't even accurate is so bad for so many reasons. MTV News in the 2010s did some exceptional work and losing it all is so pointlessly dumb.

Kevin D. Grüssing /
@kevdgrussing: So the first act of the new 3 headed CEO is to wipe out MTV News' archive for pennies in the couch cushion. Cool stuff!

Todd Spangler /
TVNewsCheck: MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline

Dan Gillmor /
@dangillmor@mastodon.social: Anyone who creates media that third parties publish should always, always make a back-up of what appeared online. — I learned this the hard way when a former employer disappeared years worth of my blog from a major news organization's website. …

Alex Young /
Consequence: MTV News Takes Down 30-Year Digital Archive

Matt Schimkowitz /
The A.V. Club: MTV News website becomes the latest casualty of our Digital Dark Age

@martinsfp@threads.net:
I hope the FT never does this the 1000+ posts I published on TNW years ago. Yes, I know, I should scrape them....

Kali Hays /
@kalihays1@threads.net: remember when all those cool grantland (rip) writers landed there when mtvnews tried a little relaunch and then they got the chance to do basically nothing before that ended, too. @kashana.bsky.social: Thank goodness everybody's destroying information to keep us safe from the danger of knowing anything. [embedded post] @lakewitchhouse.bsky.social: gen x tuning into mtv to hear from kurt loder that kurt cobain died was our walter cronkite announcing the assassination of JFK moment. Walter Cronkurt [embedded post]

Jay Schiavone /
@jaytingle.bsky.social: Thank goodness they destroyed all that information. That's going to be a huge saving.

Stacy-Marie Ishmael /
@smi.bsky.social: every time this happens i am angry on behalf of everyone this has happened to, me included [embedded post]

Greg Greene /
@greene.haus: Was Paramount running out of room on the web, or something? Did it need to spare a server for ‘NCIS’ streams on Paramount+? Sheesh. [embedded post]

Jess /
@mirrorman.bsky.social: Gotta make room for nineteen seasons of “Real Douchebags of Summerhouse Beach”.

Andrew Liszewski /
The Verge: The MTV News archive has been taken offline

Axios:

The Associated Press is launching The AP Fund for Journalism, an independent 501(c)3 charitable organization to raise $100M+ to expand state and local news— - “It will help to sustain what we do, grow what we do, and add new and incremental journalism services for the industry," Veerasingham told Axios in an interview.

Discussion:

Adam Chitwood /
The Wrap: Associated Press to Launch Nonprofit to Help Fund Local News

Julie Pace /
Julie Pace on LinkedIn: So excited about this new initiative at AP - the next step in the commitment we've made to supporting state and local news across the U.S. since our founding nearly 200 years ago. …

Rep. Mike Collins /
@repmikecollins: Just in time for the November election! It's just philanthropy!

Chris Krewson /
@ckrewson: The Associated Press wants to raise one-fifth of a Press Forward to fund itself...

Paul Roetzer /
@paulroetzer: The frontier AI model companies (@Google, @OpenAI, @Anthropic, etc) should fund this. Save local journalism, which is necessary to a functioning democracy, and do licensing deals to infuse real-time news into AI systems.

Sara Fischer /
@sarafischer: NEW: @AP launching a nonprofit to raise philanthropy dollars for local news — Looking to raise at least $100M initially — The “AP Fund for Journalism” will be a 501(c)3 charitable organization with a separate board More on @axios https://www.axios.com/...

Matthew Foldi /
@matthewfoldi: This is a four alarm fire for Republicans The Associated Press—which shared office space with Palestinian terrorists for years—is going to launch an all out war on the GOP with fake news in your backyard @mattdpearce@threads.net: I say this with all the respect for AP in the world. It's the most successful American journalism cooperative in existence — but its durability has been its ability to spread costs around (by purchasing journalists' labor and disseminating their work), not from trying draw from the same philanthropic revenue pool as its members. https://www.cjr.org/...

Press Gazette:

Fact checkers at UK news agency PA Media and Full Fact say AI content has proved less problematic than expected so far during the country's general election— Fact checkers spending more time on verifying claims made by politicians than on fake AI-generated content.

Associated Press:

A US bankruptcy court trustee discloses plans to shut down Infowars and liquidate its assets to help pay the $1.5B in lawsuit judgments that Alex Jones owes— A U.S. bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars media platform and liquidate …

Discussion:
The Guardian, CNN, Boing Boing, HuffPost, @rpsagainsttrump, The Hill, Axios, Washington Examiner, The Daily Beast, New Republic and Mediaite

Discussion:

Kari Paul /
The Guardian: Alex Jones's bankruptcy trustee plans to liquidate far-right platform Infowars

Hadas Gold /
CNN: Alex Jones' court trustee plans to shut down his notorious conspiracy outlet Infowars

Mark Frauenfelder /
Boing Boing: Alex Jones' empire crumbles: Infowars faces shutdown over $1.5 billion debt

Nick Visser /
HuffPost: Alex Jones' Bankruptcy Trustee Plans To Shutter Infowars And ‘Liquidate Its Inventory’ @rpsagainsttrump: In an “emergency” motion filed Sunday in Houston, trustee Christopher Murray indicated publicly for the first time that he intends to “conduct an orderly wind-down” of the operations of Infowars' parent company and “liquidate its inventory.” https://apnews.com/...

Rebecca Falconer /
Axios: Bankruptcy trustee plans to shut down Alex Jones' Infowars site

Brady Knox /
Washington Examiner: Alex Jones's Infowars will be shut down and sold, court trustee says

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling /
New Republic: Alex Jones's Conspiracy Kingdom Just Got Closer to Crumbling

The Free Press:

Former NPR editor Uri Berliner, who wrote a Free Press essay criticizing NPR, is joining The Free Press as senior editor, after resigning from NPR in April— Is dropshipping a scam? Why did Niall Ferguson's debut Free Press column provoke so many responses? Why are Americans divided on foreign policy?

Discussion:
Fox News, Mediaite, The Wrap, @mikedrucker and @bariweiss

Discussion:
Fox News: NPR whistleblower finds new gig after exposing alleged liberal bias at taxpayer-funded outlet

David Gilmour /
Mediaite: Ex-NPR Editor Who Quit After Scorched Earth Essay Accusing Outlet of Liberal Bias Joins Bari Weiss' Free Press

Lucas Manfredi /
The Wrap: Uri Berliner, NPR Editor Who Wrote Free Press Essay Criticizing NPR Bias, Joins The Free Press

Mike Drucker /
@mikedrucker: Look, I get it. Working for the Free Press is like writing on easy mode. You can say whatever fact free shit you want and idiots will slap their hands together like trained baby seals given a nice treat.

Bari Weiss /
@bariweiss: Thrilled to welcome @uberliner to @TheFP. [image]

New York Times:

Sources: UK police saw Will Lewis as an impediment to their phone hacking investigation; plaintiffs say Lewis gave the “green light” to delete News Corp. emails— Will Lewis, now the publisher of the Washington Post, was in full crisis mode in 2011.

Discussion:
Vanity Fair, @lizzieohreally, @jbenton, @chrchristensen, @karaswisher, @jeffjarvis, @bgrueskin, @arusbridger, @edmundlee, @davidfolkenflik, @ericuman, @jo_becker, @jswatz_tx@threads.net, @harrymccracken@mastodon …, @obrien_kat@mastodon.world, @dangillmor@mastodon.social and @davidbeard@threads.net

Discussion:

Lizzie O'Leary /
@lizzieohreally: Great story but also “operation weeting” and “Barney Ratcliffe” are comically British

Joshua Benton /
@jbenton: We have reached Full Wambsgans, I repeat, FULL WAMBSGANS https://www.nytimes.com/...

Christian Christensen /
@chrchristensen: As the #Assange/#Wikileaks case appears to reach a conclusion with Assange's single guilty plea, this has been a circus from the start. Toxic mix of abuse of state power, attacks on journalism, legal inaction, disinformation, disrespect for potential victims & virulent misogyny.

@jeffjarvis:
Lewis said he was there to “drain the swamp.” Hmm. Where have we heard that before? Drip, drip, drip.... Washington Post Publisher Says He Aided Hack Inquiry. Scotland Yard Had Doubts. GIFT LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/...

Bill Grueskin /
@bgrueskin: Yet one more devastating piece about Will Lewis and his role, as a Murdoch henchman, in dealing with Scotland Yard over the tens of millions of deleted emails. Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/...

Alan Rusbridger /
@arusbridger: This new @nytimes⁩ investigation about Will Lewis's time as the Murdoch “clean up guy” after phone-hacking will surely not endear him to the ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ newsroom https://www.nytimes.com/...

Edmund Lee /
@edmundlee: Stellar reporting from @Jo_Becker and @ScheckNYTimes: “...during the crucial early period of the investigation,” Rupert Murdoch's UK company “was deleting data from its servers...” this is regarding the hacking investigation handled by Will Lewis: https://www.nytimes.com/...

David Folkenflik /
@davidfolkenflik: This detailed NYT story drills deep on Scotland Yard's impressions of Will Lewis during hacking investigations in 2011. Lewis' sensitivity on this topic led him to pressure his own exec editor and me not to cover directly related accusations agst him. https://www.npr.org/...

Eric Umansky /
@ericuman: Never a good sign when you're publisher apparently ordered the deletion of 15.2 million emails. https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]

Jo Becker /
@jo_becker: My latest, with @schecknyt, on Washington Post publisher Will Lewis and the British phone hacking scandal. Our reporting builds on a decade- plus of coverage by @bynickdavies, who first broke the phone hacking scandal and has been out in front since. https://www.nytimes.com/...

John Schwartz /
@jswatz_tx@threads.net: “The new allegations brought forward in court suggest that executives who claimed they were doing the cleanup may have instead been engaged in a cover-up.” this story has more shoes to drop than Imelda Marcos's closet. https://www.nytimes.com/...

Harry McCracken /
@harrymccracken@mastodon.social: This guy's steadfast policy of refusing to answer questions about his past is really paying off. https://www.nytimes.com/... @obrien_kat@mastodon.world: The tabloidization of everything is terrible for society, and the Washington Post shouldn't go down that path. — By @anneapplebaum — https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... #journalism #democracy #washingtonpost — [image]

Dan Gillmor /
@dangillmor@mastodon.social: Bezos is ultimately (justly, since he's the owner) responsible for the ongoing mess at the Washington Post. — But it would be smart for some news organization to look deeply into the role of former Microsoft (and Gates foundation) senior executive Patty Stonesifer. …

Dave Beard /
@davidbeard@threads.net: “Whenever Lewis attempts to ignore the fire burning under him by stiffing the press, it only pours nitromethane on the story and encourages reporters to widen their search for answers. You don't have to be a PR executive to figure this out.” - Jack Shafer, @politico

VentureBeat:

ElevenLabs debuts its first iOS app, which turns any English-language text, including from PDFs and ePubs, into narrations by one of its “human-like voices”— If you've ever started reading an article on your iPhone only to have to drive somewhere, walk, bike, do chores …

New York Times:

CNN is in charge of every aspect of Thursday's Biden-Trump debate, a major shift from previous years; rival channels will leave CNN's on-air watermark untouched— One network is in charge of every aspect of the Biden-Trump debate, a major shift from previous years. Tens of millions of viewers are expected to be watching.

Discussion:
Fox Business, Axios, Reclaim The Net, The Hill, TVNewsCheck, @katierogers, Adweek, @matthewkeyslive, @bristei, @scarylawyerguy, @farhip, @markjacob16, @fcchambers, @jeremymbarr, @kairyssdal, @ronfilipkowski, @protecttruth@mastodon.online, Politico, Washington Examiner, Gizmodo, @nminow@c.im, New York Post, Poynter and Mediaite

Discussion:

Zachary Basu /
Axios: Trump claims debate ambush as expectations swing wildly

Mark K. Miller /
TVNewsCheck: This Week's Televised Debate Is Crucial For Biden And Trump — And For CNN As Well

Katie Rogers /
@katierogers: Scenes from Biden debate prep: A movie theater and a hangar at Camp David are morphing into mock debate stages. Brian Deese is returning for econ help. Some of prep will focus on avoiding incumbency traps. “The rust factor is real” says Axelrod. Etc. https://www.nytimes.com/...

Matthew Keys /
@matthewkeyslive: NEW: Fox News says it will air a simulcast of CNN's Presidential Debate on Thursday, June 27. The network will produce its own pre-debate and post-debate coverage.

Brian Steinberg /
@bristei: CNN's requirements to simulcast its 6/27 presidential debate are really onerous, says report in newspaper that declines to note it's controlled by the same family that owns Fox News.... https://nypost.com/... @scarylawyerguy: CNN could have fact checkers in Tapper's ear to do real time corrections or run a crawl at the bottom of the screen throughout the debate. Instead, they're fine letting Trump lie in real time knowing few people will stick around for the post-debate corrections. 🙃

Paul Farhi /
@farhip: Dunno which is the better rule in the @CNN presidential debate: the lack of a studio audience or the moderators' ability to cut off the microphone of whichever candidate doesn't have the floor.

Mark Jacob /
@markjacob16: CNN will fact-check the debate when it's over and everyone has switched to another channel. @fcchambers: @kairyssdal Sports commentators can pull up facts like “The last left-handed batter to score a double at home in the bottom of the third when down five runs against the Mets after a rain delay was Dave Lipschitz in 1972” in REAL TIME. And CNN can't fact-check in real time?

Jeremy Barr /
@jeremymbarr: Fox News announces it will be carrying CNN's presidential debate next Thursday, joining ABC News The official name for the presentation will be “FOX News Democracy 2024: CNN Presidential Debate,” which is kind of a mouthful.

Kai Ryssdal /
@kairyssdal: And herein lies the problem “David Chalian, CNN's political director, said that Thursday's live debate “is not the ideal arena for live fact-checking.” Instead, Ms. Bash and Mr. Tapper would focus on “facilitating the debate between these candidates, not being a participant in

Ron Filipkowski /
@ronfilipkowski: Trump agrees to a CNN debate and then his surrogates constantly whine that CNN is hosting the debate.

Eric Blair /
@protecttruth@mastodon.online: In sum: — CNN has been pushed to the right by its board members and executives. — And so it's really bad that CNN gets to control this extremely consequential debate. — /end — here's the NYT piece: — https://www.nytimes.com/...

Isabella Ramírez /
Politico: What to know about the first 2024 presidential debate — Unlike previous debates, there will be no studio audience.

Ross O'Keefe /
Washington Examiner: RFK Jr. team promises alternate programming to counter ‘CNN fake debate’

Matt Novak /
Gizmodo: How to Watch the Presidential Debate Between Donald Trump and Joe Biden This Week

NellMinow /
@nminow@c.im: The writer Nell Minow, a daughter of Newton N. Minow, who devised the first televised events in 1960, noted in an interview that TV networks are ultimately commercial enterprises. “Let's face it: they have shareholders, and they operate as a business,” she said. …

Emily Crane /
New York Post: CNN abruptly takes Trump campaign spokeswoman off the air mid-interview as network is set to host first presidential debate

David Gilmour /
Mediaite: Ex-Clinton Advisor: If ‘Really Old’ Candidates Are A Problem ‘Everyone Is Out of Luck’ No Matter Who Wins Election

RELATED:

Wired:
Some TikTok creators are hosting their own town halls with third-party candidates like RFK Jr., bypassing mainstream media and often platforming conspiracies

Discussion:
@kellymakena

Variety:

Prices of ad-free Paramount+ With Showtime plan will rise by $1 to $12.99/month, and of Paramount+ Essential plan with ads by $2 to $7.99, starting August 20— As Paramount Global looks to push its streaming business into the black, it's hiking the prices for most Paramount+ plans later this summer.

Discussion:
The Streamable, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, Comic Book, Fox Business, Reuters, Bloomberg, Engadget, BGR, CNBC, ComingSoon.net, Adweek, TVLine, The Wrap, IndieWire, Deadline and Quartz

Discussion:

David Satin /
The Streamable: Amazon Prime Day Preview: Big Savings on Crunchyroll, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, Other Streamers

Charles Pulliam-Moore /
The Verge: Paramount Plus is getting yet another price hike

Ryan Faughnder /
Los Angeles Times: ‘Inside Out 2’ is a blockbuster. It doesn't solve the animation business' biggest problem

Russ Burlingame /
Comic Book: Paramount+ Price Increase Coming This Summer

Lawrence Bonk /
Engadget: Paramount+ is raising prices again for all of the Tulsa King fans out there

Jacob Siegal /
BGR: Paramount+ will increase the price of most plans in August

Lillian Rizzo /
CNBC: Paramount+ to increase prices for its streaming plans

Brandon Schreur /
ComingSoon.net: Paramount+ Price Increase Set for Ad and Showtime Tiers

Bill Bradley /
Adweek: Paramount+ Price Increase Continues Streaming Trend of Pushing Subscribers to Ad Tier

Ryan Schwartz /
TVLine: Paramount+ Announces Price Hikes — Here's How Much It'll Cost You to Stream Without Ads

Lucas Manfredi /
The Wrap: Paramount+ Joins Max, Peacock in Raising Prices

Tony Maglio /
IndieWire: Paramount+ Is Raising Prices

Jill Goldsmith /
Deadline: Paramount+ Prices To Rise For Most Tiers Starting In August

Miranda Neubauer /
Quartz: Paramount+ is getting on the streaming price hike bandwagon

Axios:

Filing: Vivek Ramaswamy's BuzzFeed stake grew to 8.9%; sources: Ramaswamy recently met Jonah Peretti and wants Patrick Bet-David and two others on the board— - Ramaswamy has continued to increase his stake, this morning disclosing that it's risen to 8.9%.

Discussion:
@theclubmember04, @claytravis, @danprimack, Fox Business, New York Post and Business Insider

Discussion:
@theclubmember04: It will be interesting to see what @VivekGRamaswamy does with his Activist stake in $BZFD @BuzzFeed Why such interest in a media company? https://www.axios.com/...

Clay Travis /
@claytravis: Impressed with @VivekGRamaswamy's ideas on BuzzFeed. We need more of a marketplace of ideas in media. Appreciate him putting forward @patrickbetdavid @cbalfe & me as board nominees. PBD and Chris are both super successful media guys and great dudes too: https://www.axios.com/...

Dan Primack /
@danprimack: Scoop: @VivekGRamaswamy last week met w/ BuzzFeed CEO @peretti, and today increased his BuzzFeed stake to 8.9%. Also, Ramswamy wants @ClayTravis, @patrickbetdavid, and @cbalfe on the BuzzFeed board. https://www.axios.com/...

Ariel Zilber /
New York Post: Vivek Ramaswamy pushes conservatives for BuzzFeed board — including Clay Travis — raises stake in site: report

Peter Kafka /
Business Insider: BuzzFeed really needs a ‘Hot Ones’ deal

RELATED:
Bloomberg: Sources: BuzzFeed is struggling to sell Hot Ones owner First We Feast, which is profitable and has ~$30M revenue per year; interested parties balk at $70M price

Discussion:

Foster Kamer /
@weareyourfek: Have seen three takes on Hot Ones/BuzzFeed and First We Feast, and everyone keeps getting it wrong. The debt notes on BuzzFeed aren't why it's not selling — it's because Sean, Chris, and everyone else at First We Feast can walk, and render First We Feast valueless overnight.

Rosey /
@thechosenberg: Buzzfeed is delusional lol Hot Ones is not worth $70 million people are already bored of it, the most press this guy's gotten recently was for dating a porn star for like two days [image]

Sean O'Kane /
@sokane1: the Hot Ones team is mad they aren't getting the resources to invest in a hit video show, meaning they are now truly BuzzFeed employees https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]

Kristin /
@kristineberth: buzzfeed is trying to unload Hot Ones, which does ~$30M/yr sounds like it could easily be many multiples of that tho [image]

Tom Gara /
@tomgara: Vivek can reboot Hot Ones as a debate show and each time the sauce gets spicier the guests have to change his mind about an increasingly conservative opinion

Peter Kafka /
@pkafka: Hot Ones is a hit for BuzzFeed. But BuzzFeed needs $120 million by December, so make an offer. Next q: Where does BuzzFeed get the rest of the cash it needs? https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... @webbarr: seems like a no brainer... what am I missing here? Netflix / Beast (expand demos) / a24 / Fox (Tubi) / hmmm

Simon Owens /
@simondowens@threads.net: It's a testament to how bad things are for BuzzFeed that it's in such a hurry to sell a successful media property like Hot Ones. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

Kevin D. Grüssing /
@kevdgrussing: So Buzzfeed might actually kill Hot Ones just as it gets popular by either killing it off because it asked for too much or to sell it to someone who'll replace Sean Evans which thus will kill the brand.

Lucas Shaw /
@lucas_shaw: Trouble behind the scenes at Hot Ones, the internet's favorite talk show. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

Tony /
@drinksthethings.bsky.social: amazing that a website that gets $30 million in revenue per year can't be sold for a little over 2x that price. great media landscape we have here [embedded post]

Ernie Smith /