2023-05-12
fwiw: this would be my best guess too. She's carried a lot of water for Musk in ad world from the beginning. Also, if it turns out to be her, nbc should immediately investigate the expanded partnership that nbc just inked with Twitter for any potential conflicts. Sketchy. https://twitter.com/...
@elonmusk
Elon Musk says he hired a CEO for X/Twitter and “she will be starting in ~6 weeks”; Musk will become “exec chair & CTO” overseeing “product, software, & sysops”
fwiw: this would be my best guess too. She's carried a lot of water for Musk in ad world from the beginning. Also, if it turns out to be her, nbc should immediately investigate the expanded partnership that nbc just inked with Twitter for any potential conflicts. Sketchy. https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: NBCUniversal's head of advertising Linda Yaccarino is in talks to become the new CEO of Twitter
Twitter owner Elon Musk said earlier he had picked a new chief executive, without naming the person — NBCUniversal's head of advertising Linda Yaccarino is in talks to become …
2022-12-16
4/ Plenty other examples. Point is: the fear levels have increased and many are just hoping they can keep head down and make exit when moment arises. His conduct has slowed the bleeding a bit among ad world, but it's also calcified notion that Twitter is a bad advertising bet.
NBC News
Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”
Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
1/RE suspension of journalists. This latest action aligns with a general mood i've been getting from advertisers the past week. Specifically, concerns about retaliation by Musk. The angst about his brazenness has had a weird chilling effect.
NBC News
Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”
Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
2022-12-05
Amazon literally never stopped advertising. This is now the second story today about an advertiser supposedly coming back except it's about an advertiser that never stopped ads in the first place. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Elon Musk says Apple has “fully resumed” advertising on Twitter, after claiming on November 28 that Apple had “mostly stopped” ads on the social network
2022-11-07
This is why public pressure and in particular consumer and advertiser pressure matters. Doesn't make all the problems go away and much more to fix. But this prevents one big problem from manifesting before elections. Onward! https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Internal post and sources: Twitter delays rolling out verification checkmarks to Blue subscribers until November 9, the day after the US midterm elections
New York Times :
2022-11-05
7/ My point here is: It's actually worse than that I think a lot of people even appreciate all because Musk's conduct and commitments to roll back brand safety and community safeguards essentially obliterated Twitter's new front sales event that woulda secured 2023 revenue.
Wall Street Journal
Elon Musk says Twitter suffered “a massive drop in revenue” due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, despite doing “everything” to “appease the activists”
lets be honest—isn't any less “brand safe” than two weeks ago. But it's an unspoken rule of Serious Media that we report the weather, we don't make it. https://twitter.com/... @cab...
1/ There is some pretty substantial context about Twitter's 2023 revenue and advertisers that I think partly help explains why Musk is really losing it... And it involves upfront ad sales. Let me explain...
Wall Street Journal
Elon Musk says Twitter suffered “a massive drop in revenue” due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, despite doing “everything” to “appease the activists”
lets be honest—isn't any less “brand safe” than two weeks ago. But it's an unspoken rule of Serious Media that we report the weather, we don't make it. https://twitter.com/... @cab...
2022-11-02
1/ This is significant —> Today, more than 40 organizations signed a letter to Twitter's major advertisers urging them to commit to pulling ads if Musk follows through with promises to roll back community safeguards and scale back content moderation. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
New York Times
Twitter's Chief Customer Officer Sarah Personette “resigns”; sources say ad company IPG recommended that clients pause Twitter spending over moderation concerns
> Today, more than 40 organizations signed a letter to Twitter's major advertisers urging them to commit to pulling ads if Musk follows through with promises to roll back community...
2022-10-29
This is when advertisers should engage the most here. All the more reason for the major players to make it crystal clear that they will walk if Musk follows through with his promises to roll back brand safety and community safeguards. https://twitter.com/...
@elonmusk
Elon Musk says Twitter will form a content moderation council with “widely diverse viewpoints” for making major decisions about content and reinstating accounts
Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.
2022-05-10
1/ This is bizarre and self destructive for the commission and goals of regulation passed. The deal isn't done yet and Musk mired in controversy. The EU basically ignores all evidence and instead gives musk a little stamp of approval. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Researchers: Elon Musk, who vowed to defeat Twitter's “spam bots or die trying”, has long benefited from “fanbots” boosting Tesla shares and deriding critics
official surveillance video of the states themselves—Facebook and YouTube would take them down as “misinformation.” You can see right away what they're terrified of—not misinformat...
2021-09-01
5/ In short, this will make the existing problem worse because: a) it punishes good information just as much as it punishes bad information; b) the asymmetry means the right-wing/junk sources will fill any gaps; c) calcifies an existing problem and makes harder to fix. great.
Axios
Facebook plans to downrank current events content and political posts in the News Feed, after users approved of tests that limited such content
1/ I'm not sure this is a good thing for a few reasons... a) For starters, FB isn't good at defining political. For example, daily wire has spent over 10M on ads this year alone. But FB political ad library says they have spent 800k on political/social ads since 2018. C'mon! https://twitter.com/...
Axios
Facebook plans to downrank current events content and political posts in the News Feed, after users approved of tests that limited such content
2021-03-23
4/ Separately, this action doesn't show that FB was effective at addressing this problem; it's proof of how ineffective and negligent they have been. 1.3 billion accounts were able to proliferate...before they acted? They waited until October? Not earlier. C'mon.
Reuters
Facebook says it took down 1.3B fake accounts from October-December and 12M pieces of COVID-19 misinformation; Facebook has 35,000 staff tackling misinformation
1/ Facebook announced today they deleted 1.3 billion fake accounts between Oct - Dec 2020. They're highlighting this as an example of them fighting disinformation effectively. Actually, it shows opposite and there's a big question about consumer fraud that needs to be asked.
Reuters
Facebook says it took down 1.3B fake accounts from October-December and 12M pieces of COVID-19 misinformation; Facebook has 35,000 staff tackling misinformation
2/ RE Fraud - 1.3 billion is *a lot* of accounts. Think of all the advertisers on the platform (political orgs, civic groups, corporations). Facebook took money from advertisers, then FB showed those ads to fake accounts they let proliferate on the platform unchecked. It's fraud
Reuters
Facebook says it took down 1.3B fake accounts from October-December and 12M pieces of COVID-19 misinformation; Facebook has 35,000 staff tackling misinformation
3/ RE Fraud (cont...) - Every FB advertiser should demand a refund for any money FB charged them to serve ads to these fake accounts. Only way Facebook will start addressing this on an ongoing basis and not once every few years is if it costs them money. A refund bare minimum.
Reuters
Facebook says it took down 1.3B fake accounts from October-December and 12M pieces of COVID-19 misinformation; Facebook has 35,000 staff tackling misinformation
2021-01-10
So here is the thing people on Twitter need to understand. If you screenshot Trump's parler posts and then share them on Twitter, you are serving as a horocrux for Trump. You are also defeating the purpose of having him removed in first place. Don't do that. https://twitter.com/...
Twitter
Twitter describes how it decided to suspend Trump's account, specifying how two tweets were in violation of its Glorification of Violence Policy
So here is the thing people on Twitter need to understand. If you screenshot Trump's parler posts and then share them on Twitter, you are serving as a horocrux for Trump. You are also defeating the purpose of having him removed in first place. Don't do that. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
As Trump searches for a new social network after his Twitter ban, a shift from mainstream platforms would mark a retreat to insular conservative communities
Twitter's decision to ban President Trump mere days before the end of his term sparked a fierce political backlash among …
2021-01-09
So here is the thing people on Twitter need to understand. If you screenshot Trump's parler posts and then share them on Twitter, you are serving as a horocrux for Trump. You are also defeating the purpose of having him removed in first place. Don't do that. https://twitter.com/...
Twitter
Twitter describes how it decided to suspend Trump's account, specifying how two tweets were in violation of its Glorification of Violence Policy
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received …