Social•Feb 24, 2026
Great Discover Insights, but Google Removed Publisher Center
Really great information in here that aligns closely with the findings we see in our Discover clients' performance Except Google took away Publisher Center last year 😢 Nice work @metehan777
By Lily Ray
Social•Feb 24, 2026
MS Confirms NPR Report After Independent Forensic Investigation
MS Now also confirmed NPR’s report. And that stemmed from another independent journalist doing forensics. A free and plural press is likely all over this now. https://t.co/1VmPhN1wiv
By Jason Kint
Social•Feb 24, 2026
Bruin Capital Appoints MD to Target Fan and Media Opportunities
NEWS: Bruin Capital Hires Managing Director to Focus on Fan, Media Opportunities 👇https://t.co/PF2Kr0t9a4 via @sportico @LuisaRBeltran
By Scott Soshnick
Social•Feb 24, 2026
People Mistakenly Think Politico Mirrors Complex's Publishing Schedule
The fact that people honestly believe POLITICO coordinates their editorial calendar based off Complex’s web publishing schedule. I worry for our nation
By Taylor Lorenz
Social•Feb 24, 2026
Roy Wood Jr. Poised to Rival CNN’s Top Anchors
Roy Wood Jr. doesn’t sound like Jake Tapper, Anderson Cooper or Erin Burnett. And yet, his importance to CNN could start approaching that of those popular anchors as CNN keeps digging into comedy programming as much as it does the...
By Brian Steinberg
Social•Feb 24, 2026
YouTube Joins TV Giants, Yet Critics Dismiss Competition
State of the Union Tonight airing on ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, Fox News, MS Now & YouTube and yet people still say YouTube does not compete with TV...
By Rich Greenfield
Social•Feb 24, 2026
Grab Attention: Proven Thumbnails That Drive Clicks
Thumbnails that made us stop 👀 Tiger chaos, a “cheating?” reveal, and pure Red Bull adrenaline. Get our free YT Thumbnails Hack Pack with 100 more top thumbnails: https://t.co/H5zQZBPsBe https://t.co/fNTUlQxN3l
By Jon Youshaei
Social•Feb 24, 2026
WBD Pauses, Reviews Paramount Bid; Netflix May Renegotiate
After months of noisy fighting in public, these talks are once again quiet. WBD will take some time to assess the latest Paramount bid and Netflix will have a chance to amend its current agreement (if necessary).
By Lucas Shaw
Social•Feb 24, 2026
Morning Joe Turns Into Moral Panic O’Clock
Good morning, kids. What time is it? It's Moral Panic O'Clock again on Morning Joe. https://t.co/KVOhRj4T80
By Jeff Jarvis
Social•Feb 24, 2026
Investigations Weaponized to Silence Media Under Trump
Exactly. Strong and important from NYT Editorial Board: “The investigation becomes the punishment, forcing media companies to spend millions on legal defenses and deterring them from publishing material that the Trump administration does not like.” 1/2
By Jason Kint
Social•Feb 24, 2026
Policyband Roundup: Tech, Regulation, Media Headlines
Policyband Headlines ■ @elonmusk: @Starlink Price Cuts Have Nothing to Do with @Amazonleo ■ @gigibsohn: @StephenAtHome Colbert ‘Got Some Things Very Wrong’ ■ U.S. Chamber Opposed to Jamming Cell Phones in State Prisons ■ Fire Fighters Want @FCC Progress on Location Monitoring Inside...
By Ted Hearn
Social•Feb 24, 2026
Google Experiments With Date‑Less Articles in Discover
Google is testing removing dates from articles in the Google Discover feed https://t.co/TB90cdSZ4z via @AndellDam confirmed by Google's @rajanpatel https://t.co/khavzoWVeu
By Barry Schwartz
Social•Feb 24, 2026
Trump’s Plan Threatens Press Freedom, Editorial Board Reacts
...and then they came for the journalists, and The Times Editorial Board chooses to speak up. Legally Creative, Democratically Dangerous: Trump’s Plan to Twist the News https://t.co/Fg0GBHE3WB
By Jeff Jarvis
Social•Feb 24, 2026
First Daily Paper Halt Since 1872 Marks Historic Shift
“…The decision marks the first time that management has called off production of a daily paper since the organization’s founding in 1872.”
By Ben Mullin
Social•Feb 24, 2026
Senator Blumenthal Demands FCC Records Over Colbert Censorship Claim
Scoop: Sen. Richard Blumenthal has written a letter to David Ellison demanding answers and records pertaining to Stephen Colbert's claim of FCC censorship. Details in @get_status: https://www.status.news/p/stephen-colbert-blumenthal-letter-david-ellison-fcc
By Oliver Darcy
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Cyabra Mislabels Real Palestinian Accounts as Bots
If we want to talk about manipulation I think it's important to note Cyabra (company POLITICO's story is based on) is an Israeli AI startup that does not have a good record of identifying who is and who isn't bots....
By Taylor Lorenz
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Direct-to-Consumer Infrastructure Powers J. Cole’s Album Sales
Direct-to-consumer is still a big opportunity, even for the biggest artists in the world. That’s the opportunity EVEN saw. Build the infrastructure once, make it work at every scale, and help artists turn moments into sales. The company just powered J....
By Dan Runcie
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Paramount Submits Upgraded Offer to Acquire WBD
New: Paramount has made a new and improved offer for WBD. Expect WBD to respond soon. https://t.co/CW7caCn4xm
By Lucas Shaw
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Google's Proxy Attacks Meta, Shifts Child Safety Debate to Age‑Gating
Google proxy Chamber of Progress has really unleashed on Meta over its debate on the right and wrong way to protect children from harm. Playing out in LA, New Mexico and NdCal courts. Making it all about age-gating rather than...
By Jason Kint
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Online News Act: Game‑Changer for Press, Irritant to Tech Giants
Online News Act is a “trade irritant “to Google and Meta, and govt carrying its water, but it’s a “game changer” for a free and plural press living with a massive imbalance in bargaining power - now in the case...
By Jason Kint
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Online News Acts Force Google Deals, Meta Hostility
For all who moved on once Australia then Canada passed their Online News Act, “it’s been a gamechanger” as Google was brought to the table to do deals noting Meta took a different approach by going hostile on news. 1/3...
By Jason Kint
Social•Feb 23, 2026
CBS Highlights Ratings Competition, Undermining Netflix Antitrust Claim
Funny to see CBS promote Nielsen ratings showing robust competition for U.S. TV audiences that contradict its parent company’s antitrust narrative that Netflix is too dominant… https://t.co/z1adVe6D1T
By Matthew Belloni
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Exploring Media Theory: Ong, McLuhan, Gutenberg Parenthesis
Oh, how I'd love to nerd-out with Joe Wiesenthal and @DKThomp about Ong, McLuhan, and the Gutenberg Parenthesis. 1/ https://t.co/rdWwCs10Su
By Jeff Jarvis
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Peter Attia Removed as CBS News Contributor
…. And the shoe drops. Peter Attia out as Cbs News contributor. This was just waiting to happen. Story here: https://t.co/99esYUSIJH
By Sharon Waxman
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Netflix
Keep in mind in the Netflix vs. Paramount contest for Warner Bros... Netflix does not propose to absorb CNN, TNT, TBS. It would spin them off in a new company like Comcast did with MSNBC. Whereas the Ellisons want to show...
By Jay Rosen
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Hollywood Writers Deny AI Acceptance, Call It Misinformation
He’s just flat out lying. Hollywood writers hate AI and have been fighting against it. They want you guys to think this stuff is being normalized by the masses when it’s not
By Taylor Lorenz
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Duetti Secures $200M to Target Undervalued Music Rights
Duetti just raised $200 million. It built the infrastructure to invest in the music rights that other companies may overlook. My latest episode on Trapital sits down with Duetti CEO @ltibon to discuss. Check out our latest episode: "Follow The Money:...
By Dan Runcie
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Presidential Remarks Won’t Sway DOJ Approval, but May Affect Sale
The president's comments about Netflix/Susan Rice shouldn't have bearing over the approval of any WBD deal — a decision to sue to block would be made by the DOJ which would face an indp judge in court — BUT his...
By Sara Fischer
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Olympic Gold Skate Propels Donna Summer's Streaming Surge
Donna Summer is hot again thanks to Olympic ⛸️ Alysa Liu’s Olympic Gold Skate Sends Donna Summer Streams Soaring: https://t.co/awwuTGQRmj via @sportico @germanotes w/ data from @luminate_data
By Scott Soshnick
Social•Feb 23, 2026
NYT's AI-Driven Overhaul Saved Dying Newspaper Model
Left: what happened to newspaper stocks. Right: what NYT did about it. The product that survived looks nothing like the one that was dying. The software/AI playbook may already exist https://t.co/OL43xsRz6Q
By Deirdre Bosa
Social•Feb 23, 2026
AI Automates Personalized eBook Generation in Hours
More AI-coded fun things 📕 Yesterday I asked it to build an ePub and PDF generator for my book https://t.co/VEoyhFdCOd I still update and write on it, but every time I had to print the book (it's HTML) as a PDF, and...
By Pieter Levels
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Netflix Vs. Paramount: The Ongoing War for Warner Bros Discovery
Coming up on @SquawkCNBC talking neverending battle for $WBD btwn $NFLX and $PSKY with @andrewrsorkin @BeckyQuick @JoeSquawk
By Rich Greenfield
Social•Feb 23, 2026
AI Threatens Jobs, Forces Us to Rethink Food Allocation
Think you might be getting a bit ahead of yourself here... If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat? https://t.co/3kx7WjAcRC
By Jeff Jarvis
Social•Feb 22, 2026
Kristen Welker Fronts NBC's New Subscription Briefings
Kristen Welker is the face of a new pitch from NBC News for its recently launched subscription product, which touts 'exclusive briefings' for SOTU and 'regular video briefings from my expert colleagues' https://t.co/SMpEmiJZeo
By Brian Steinberg
Social•Feb 22, 2026
Pause Suggested Posts, Filter Content for Better Feeds
How to make your experience on Instagram + Threads infinitely better On Instagram, you can pause suggested content every 30 days so you stop getting random accounts in the Feed (it’s not chronological order but it’s the next best thing)...
By Lia Haberman
Social•Feb 22, 2026
Silence Reveals Society's Tolerance of Abhorrent Behavior
This entire NYT report puts so much together, but this section really adds a lot of context as to tolerance of abhorrent behavior. “What’s most shocking is no one said anything.” https://t.co/n0Ug9ow5fg
By Jason Kint
Social•Feb 22, 2026
Trump’s Brief Pledge to Avoid WB Sale Fizzles
Donald Trump’s vow to stay out of the WB sale lasted all of a couple weeks. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-21/trump-threatens-netflix-with-consequences-over-rice-board-seat?taid=699a45d18e21f400010da132&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
By Lucas Shaw
Social•Feb 21, 2026
Grok 4.20 Enables Personalized News From 300M Daily Posts
Grok 4.20 is starting to use lists. Here's my first attempt at getting it to read my lists and give me interesting posts from each: https://t.co/uKEszPmEsG This leads to a new kind of personalized news service. It still isn't close to...
By Robert Scoble
Social•Feb 21, 2026
AI Bot Overload Leaves Users Feeling Exhausted
When is the AI bot-calypse coming @nikitabier - all the AI bot replies and AI articles wearing me down 🫠 Accounts clearly labeled as bots are ok I think
By Peter Yang
Social•Feb 21, 2026
Alt‑right Moral Panic Threatens Reproductive and LGBTQ Internet Freedoms
Why are we listening to an alt right Christian fundamentalist, who thinks selfies are moral decay and women’s bodies should be regulated by the government, feed a moral panic that is being used to strip repro rights content, LGBTQ ppl...
By Taylor Lorenz
Social•Feb 21, 2026
Cynical Support Aims for Top‑Down Control of Speech
They do understand it, they just cynically support that mission because they want top down control over our information landscape and online speech.
By Taylor Lorenz
Social•Feb 21, 2026
Own Your Digital Space: Keep a Website in 2026
It's the digital form of "Renting vs. Owning" :) Yep, you own it, you can do what you want with it, you can monetize how you want to, and you won't wake up one morning to find some network removed...
By Glenn Gabe
Social•Feb 21, 2026
Billionaires and New Yorkers Finally Face New Tax
No, Fareed Zakaria, billionaires will pay for this, at last. New Yorkers will pay for this https://t.co/C2borEu7fx
By Jeff Jarvis
Social•Feb 21, 2026
Ro Khanna Pushes Censorship, Backs Heritage’s Section 230 Repeal
Once again @RoKhanna is calling for mass censorship and surveillance. Here he says a bunch of good sounding things abt big tech then ends w boosting Heritage Foundation tech policy of ending Section 230. Politicians need to be called out...
By Taylor Lorenz
Social•Feb 21, 2026
Support for Data Rights Contradicted by Backing KOSA
Would LOVE a data bill of rights. But if that’s what you actually believe in then why do u support surveillance legislation like KOSA that strips anonymity from the internet and forces companies to collect far MORE data, making it...
By Taylor Lorenz
Social•Feb 21, 2026
Privacy Experts Warned: Digital ID Age Checks Inevitable
This was inevitable and it’s what EVERY SINGLE PRIVACY advocate said would happen. Not even a week in and this is the norm. There is no safe and private digital ID system, ban age verification of the internet now
By Taylor Lorenz
Social•Feb 21, 2026
Journalists Shielded From Government Searches, Except When Investigated
“The Privacy Protection Act of 1980 is intended to protect journalists and newsrooms from government searches and seizures of a reporter’s work product materials unless the reporter is themself the subject of a criminal investigation or prosecution.”
By Jason Kint
Social•Feb 21, 2026
AdX Publishers Warned: No Action Needed Amid Google Probe
As we await Judge Brinkema's decision in US v Google whether to break up Google's adtech business, evidence continues to be unsealed in SDNY tonight. "NEVER USE THE WORD BERNANKE EXTERNALLY, EVER." "All AdX publisher will be impacted." "Publishers do not need to...
By Jason Kint
Social•Feb 20, 2026
American Media Must Highlight Unresisted Dictatorship Collapse
I asked @derspiegel to share this important interview with Robert Kagan in English. Rafaela von Bredow made it happen. This is how American media should be talking: "We Are Watching a Country Fall Under Dictatorship Almost Without Resistance" https://t.co/Ctij7ummvc
By Jeff Jarvis
Social•Feb 20, 2026
Predictive Rankings Aren’t Journalism, They Mislead Voters
Just fucking stop. Prediction is not journalism. It does nothing to inform the electorate. It is media self-indulgence. And it's usually wrong. The 2028 Democratic Presidential Contenders, Ranked by Nate Silver https://t.co/V3LGKnCvIs
By Jeff Jarvis