After the death of Charlie Kirk Wall Street Journal ran with an unverified law enforcement bulletin and amplified a right-wing narrative. I wrote about what they did wrong and why it matters for @objectivejournos.bsky.social. objectivejournalism.org/2025/09/wall...

It's such a VIBE to see your product used in the way you envisioned, by people you admire. @kattenbarge.bsky.social hopped on @katelynburns.com podcast. In the shownotes? A simple link that lets you stay connected to both. They're closing the loop on a collab and helping each other grow.

New Cancel Me Daddy now out on YouTube! We were lonmg overdue in getting @kattenbarge.bsky.social on the show but we had a really thoughtful discussion about the free speech threats of this last week.

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If you have forgotten that homophobia is real. Being gay cost Pete Buttigieg a promotion.

So proud to have a colleague as wonderful as @eduardosuarez.bsky.social on our team now taking on the role of Director of Editorial. I hope our engagement continues to grow under his able leadership. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/eduardo...

Talent is leaving legacy journalism companies in droves. Marketing talent, product talent, reporting talent, engineering talent, writing talent, producing talent. I don't know what to do about it but transform how these companies pay, respect, and grow their talent.

🧵 There’s a deeper divide at work in how people talk about “censorship” and disinformation. It’s the clash between negative freedom extremists and positive freedom practitioners.

The best opponents of misinformation are not political journalists because they see it as part of a power game. It takes expert journalists to expose the lies and also how dangerous they are.

Luckily most people aren’t avoiding the news, they’re avoiding legacy media. At @trustfnd.com we’re building a way for independent journalists in the creator economy to band together and build a stronger, more resilient, and less platform-dependent ecosystem. Reserve your username: trustfnd.com

Hey, @thr.com, can we talk about this chart?

[The longest longest sigh of my life] TACO tuesday www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

Obvious copy pasta from bots pushing propaganda getting millions of views is the norm on X. It’s now a right wing propaganda platform and it’s likely the same will happen to TikTok once it’s owned by the Murdochs. I note that the media doesn’t even criticize X’s non-existent content moderation.

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New: We have just sued ICE to demand it turns over a secretive spyware contract that it refuses to release: www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

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A letter from the editor

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TikTok algorithm to be ‘retrained’ by Oracle in Trump deal on.ft.com/3KiS1xM

✊🏿 Paid opportunities for Black LGBTQIA+ writers and journalists! The @thelovetankcic.bsky.social Phil Samba @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social is joining @WeAreQueerAF.com as our Black History Month UK guest editor Details in 🧵 or apply now 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/black-histor...

we have done it folks, we have entirely rewritten reality

Are Americans into their free speech? Asked and answered

Just saying you can house a tech worker in London for a whole year for far less than $100k. Europe should start quietly operating visa systems for these companies who have workers that frankly may not want to return to the US right now.

Trust in news is at an all time low. But it's too hard to support creators we *do* trust. @trustfnd.com makes it easy for trustworthy creators to enter into Collaborations so audiences can support multiple creators in one go. If you post to inform, not to sell, claim your username: trustfnd.com

The FT did some math on those pricey visas. Whew.

If I had to name one thing that really terrified me in the normalization of fascist laws, it’s the attack on trans rights. Too many welcome these laws. But even more just stay silent because they see it as a problem that is confined to this small group. It isn’t. Speak up.

In the first seven days since I launched this new game, almost ten thousand people from 82 countries have played it. (Top cities so far: New York City, Zurich, Toronto, Chicago, Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm) What topics would you like me to add next? dataguessr.com

I thought I already debunked this ridiculously ignorant take last week? www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s...

This letter is truly so unhinged. @karenattiah.bsky.social has a very good conversation up with @wajali.bsky.social talking about her firing, the (muted) reaction, and how she was the only (!!!) Black editor in the Opinion section left. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz8l...

The termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social is insane. They’re claiming that white men are a protected marginalized group

“We are living through fascism and the primary way we connect with and inform and organize w/ each other is under lethal attack. No one is coming to protect the internet for us, and people won’t even have a clue how catastrophic this can become until it’s over” @kattenbarge.bsky.social

My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com

This us the episode the @theverge.com was born to do, the Vergecast on Brendan Carr youtu.be/NSymehINBgY

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“As an independent journalist, I’m trying to see a glimmer of opportunity on this scorched Earth. Maybe this move has blown the hinges off the doors at long last. Maybe, after years of layoffs, restructures and mergers, a greater swath of people will understand that we must try something different.”

"My colleagues and I have spent more than a year studying the anti-press playbook used in places like Hungary, India, Brazil and Turkey. Today, we’re seeing these same tactics deployed in the United States, a country long synonymous with press freedom." More from a new AG Sulzberger speech ↓

High quality journalism on U.S. politics will come from unexpected places. This one is less unexpected if you’ve been following The Verge. But the way @reckless.bsky.social explains the Kimmel situation in a clear, accessible for a non expert audience is 👌🏻

Labour being Labour. Hard to see a difference to what’s happening in the U.S.

The Wørd is back and ready to meet the moment. Stephen Colbert is a treasure.

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

this is the shit i want to see

Best legacy newsroom in the world

+100 I can’t help with the journalism itself (I was a very mediocre reporter). But I can help with a platform where independent journalists can help each other grow and earn. Across platforms, anywhere journalism is consumed. That’s why I founded trustfnd.com — check it out.

Amazing conversation of two of my favorite journalists. @nhannahjones.bsky.social + Wesley Morris on the lasting impact of the 1690 project.

Currently watching Comet browser unsubscribe from all promotional email for me. Had to intervene so it doesn't unsubscribe from all your newsletters...

Falls ich euch im ÖV anstarre bis zum 28.9... yes that's me.😄 Wer noch nicht hat, testet doch die @republik.ch. Unsere Haltung: Uns ist es nicht egal. Und mir vor allem nicht, was Big Tech gerade mit der Welt anstellt.

Unfortunately likely

The right wing billionaires are soon going to control almost every single major media outlet.

Not only would this social media app be owned and run by close allies of the government but the government would have *direct* input into how it's run.