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Matthew Gertz

@mattgertz
47 posts
2026-02-22
President Trump now corruptly threatening “consequences” for Netflix if it doesn't fire a board member over her political speech, putting a thumb on scale for Ellison-owned Paramount in bidding war for Warner Bros. (CNN's owner) www.mediamatters.org/cnn/paramoun...  [image]
2026-02-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Trump calls on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or face “consequences,” after she said corporations that “take a knee” to Trump would be held accountable

Donald Trump called on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or “pay the consequences,” …

2025-09-17
One Trump-aligned billionaire family could end up controlling CBS News, CNN, and TikTok.
2025-09-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: under the US-China framework, a US investor consortium that includes Oracle, Silver Lake, and a16z would hold an ~80% stake in TikTok's US business

Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz are part of consortium that would control 80% stake  —  TikTok's U.S. business …

2025-08-07
Five minutes after Maria Bartiromo covered Tom Cotton's criticism of Intel's CEO's “potential ties to communist China,” President Trump called for the CEO's removal. Left, Fox Business, 7:34 a.m. Right, Trump, 7:39 a.m. [image]
2025-08-07 View on X
Bloomberg

President Trump calls on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to “resign, immediately” and says he “is highly CONFLICTED”, after Senator Cotton asked about Tan's ties to China

President Donald Trump called on the chief executive officer of Intel Corp. to resign …

2025-07-08
“This is precisely why you shouldn't use Signal or other insecure channels for official government business.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2025-07-08 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: an impostor used AI to mimic Marco Rubio's voice and writing style and contacted foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress

The unknown individual contacted at least five government officials, including three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress, according to a State Department ca...

2025-04-02
using private email for government work you say? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2025-04-02 View on X
Washington Post

Sources and docs: White House National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and other NSC members have conducted government business via their personal Gmail accounts

Trump's national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis.  But new revelations about his team's operational security are piling up in the inbox.

2025-03-13
Donald Trump giving the founder of Binance a pardon while his family takes a financial stake in the company would be orders of magnitude worse than the Hunter Biden business affairs the right spent years trying to weaponize.
2025-03-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Trump family representatives have held talks to take a financial stake in Binance US, and Changpeng Zhao has been pushing for Trump to pardon him

Discussions for stake in Binance's U.S. arm come as founder Changpeng Zhao has pushed for the administration to pardon him for his own 2023 guilty plea

2025-02-04
A private... server?
2025-02-04 View on X
Musk Watch

An OPM staffer believes that a server Elon Musk's associates installed, with access to federal staff info like SSNs, has not had a Privacy Impact Assessment

www.wired.com/story/elon-m... Tim Marchman / @timmarchman : NEW: A 25-year-old who's worked for Elon Musk companies now has direct control over a Treasury system disbursements from...

Doesn't want the CFPB providing financial protections for consumers.
2025-02-04 View on X
Bloomberg Law

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent orders the CFPB to stop activities, like rulemaking, communications, and litigation; in November, Musk said to “delete CFPB”

Search by Topic  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has shut down a wide variety of operations inside …

A private... server?
2025-02-04 View on X
Bloomberg Law

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent orders the CFPB to stop activities, like rulemaking, communications, and litigation; in November, Musk said to “delete CFPB”

Search by Topic  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has shut down a wide variety of operations inside …

2025-01-30
About as explicit a quid pro quo as you could possibly get. [image]
2025-01-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Meta agrees to pay ~$25M to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg after the company suspended his accounts following the January 6 riot

The president had sued the social-media company after his accounts were suspended  —  President Trump has signed settlement papers …

Lot of powerful institutions writing big checks to the president to keep his boot off their necks, not great.
2025-01-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Meta agrees to pay ~$25M to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg after the company suspended his accounts following the January 6 riot

The president had sued the social-media company after his accounts were suspended  —  President Trump has signed settlement papers …

2025-01-20
A lesson from the TikTok Affair should be that bipartisan efforts to preserve U.S. national security are vulnerable to the incoming president getting bought off and switching sides for his own personal and political benefit. Not great!
2025-01-20 View on X
The Verge

TikTok restores its service in the US, thanking Donald Trump for “the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties”

The company said this afternoon that it is “in the process of restoring service” and thanked President-elect Trump for …

After all the years of GOP complaints about the Biden administration getting involved in social media moderation the solution here is for the federal government to **own** half of a platform alongside a Chinese company?
2025-01-20 View on X
The Verge

TikTok restores its service in the US, thanking Donald Trump for “the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties”

The company said this afternoon that it is “in the process of restoring service” and thanked President-elect Trump for …

After all the years of GOP complaints about the Biden administration getting involved in social media moderation the solution here is for the federal government to **own** half of a platform alongside a Chinese company?
2025-01-20 View on X
Axios

Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order on January 20 to delay enforcing the TikTok US ban and argues for a TikTok joint venture with 50% US ownership

Yes, Trump said he's “most likely” to give #TikTok 90-day extension.  —  No, that's not a legally available option.  —  The 270 days lapsed.  An extension is no longer available (e...

A lesson from the TikTok Affair should be that bipartisan efforts to preserve U.S. national security are vulnerable to the incoming president getting bought off and switching sides for his own personal and political benefit. Not great!
2025-01-20 View on X
Axios

Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order on January 20 to delay enforcing the TikTok US ban and argues for a TikTok joint venture with 50% US ownership

Yes, Trump said he's “most likely” to give #TikTok 90-day extension.  —  No, that's not a legally available option.  —  The 270 days lapsed.  An extension is no longer available (e...

2025-01-19
After all the years of GOP complaints about the Biden administration getting involved in social media moderation the solution here is for the federal government to **own** half of a platform alongside a Chinese company?
2025-01-19 View on X
Axios

Donald Trump says he will sign an EO on Monday to delay enforcing the TikTok ban and argues for a TikTok JV with 50% US ownership

President-elect Trump said he will sign an executive order Monday to delay enforcing the U.S. ban on TikTok, just hours after the popular app went dark,

2024-05-30
Could be nothing, could be the engine of a plot to overturn the results of the 2024 election if Trump loses. https://www.wsj.com/... [image]
2024-05-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Elon Musk and Trump talk many times a month on topics like a government role, action on “voter fraud”, and X; Musk is organizing friends against Biden

2023-11-17
Elon Musk — a GOP hero of phenomenal wealth and power, the recipient of major U.S. government contracts who effectively conducts his own foreign policy, and the owner of a major social media hub — seems to share the views of a garden-variety neo-Nazi. https://www.mediamatters.org/ ...
2023-11-17 View on X
Financial Times

IBM suspends its advertising on X globally after Media Matters said X has been placing ads for IBM, Apple, Oracle, and others alongside pro-Nazi material

Tech company's move is the latest setback to Linda Yaccarino's efforts to convince brands Elon Musk's platform is safe

Elon Musk's latest remarks hammer home that he's not turning his platform into a haven for white nationalists because of a principled belief in free speech or a desire for more revenue — he's doing it because he agrees their views are “the actual truth.” https://www.mediamatters.org/ ... [image]
2023-11-17 View on X
Financial Times

IBM suspends its advertising on X globally after Media Matters said X has been placing ads for IBM, Apple, Oracle, and others alongside pro-Nazi material

Tech company's move is the latest setback to Linda Yaccarino's efforts to convince brands Elon Musk's platform is safe

Ma'am, your boss is describing posts that reference “hordes of minorities” as “the actual truth” and criticizing “Jewish communities” for promoting “hatred towards whites.” https://www.mediamatters.org/ ...
2023-11-17 View on X
Financial Times

IBM suspends its advertising on X globally after Media Matters said X has been placing ads for IBM, Apple, Oracle, and others alongside pro-Nazi material

Tech company's move is the latest setback to Linda Yaccarino's efforts to convince brands Elon Musk's platform is safe